Enhanced Sizing Methodology for the Renewable Energy Sources and the Battery Storage System in a Nearly Zero Energy Building

What Americas Cup and a heritage building have in common? They both aim at innovative technologies and cutting-edge solutions. The owner of the project, an ex-crew member of the most famous sailing match race in the world, pushed the planning team to develop extraordinary solutions for his house. The house, Villa Castelli, is an historical listed building located on the Como lake. During its history, it has been transformed many times, giving as results a non-uniform structure composed by different construction technologies. The aims of the owner were: an overall refurbishment particularly focused on energy efficiency, the exploitation of renewable energy sources based on-site production and a fixed budget. To reach these goals, the energy needs have been reduced improving the performance of the thermal envelope. Then, the building's technical systems have been re-developed in order to exploit as much as possible available renewable energy sources. From the very beginning, it was clear that, for finding optimal solutions, a multidisciplinary approach was necessary. The design approach should be the result of a shared approach integrating different fields, such as creative design, technology, knowledge of material properties, building physics. The great synergy among building envelope retrofitting, innovative technological solutions and the deployment of renewable energy sources allows the transformation of this historical listed building into an outstanding example of a nearly zero energy building (nZEB).

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Energy Sharing for Interconnected Microgrids with a Battery Storage System and Renewable Energy Sources Based on the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app8040590 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 590 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Nian Liu ◽

Jie Wang

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Storage System ◽

Alternating Direction Method ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Method Of Multipliers ◽

Battery Storage ◽

Alternating Direction ◽

Energy Sharing

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FEASIBILITY OF NEARLY-ZERO ENERGY BUILDING RETROFITS BY USING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IN AN EDUCATIONAL BUILDING

Journal of Scientific Perspectives ◽

10.26900/jsp.3.032 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 311-318

Author(s):

Cihan TURHAN ◽

Filiz BAL KOÇYİĞİT ◽

Merter Acar ZİNKÇİ ◽

Miromid SAYESTHNOM

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Zero Energy ◽

Zero Energy Building

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Zero-Energy Buildings-A Review

SAMRIDDHI A Journal of Physical Sciences Engineering and Technology ◽

10.18090/samriddhi.v5i2.1532 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Pawan Singh ◽

Rakesh Verma

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Hot Water ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Zero Energy ◽

Zero Energy Building ◽

Efficiency Measures ◽

Renewable Energy Generation ◽

Zero Energy Buildings

A zero-energy building (ZEB), which is an autonomous building energy option, is defined as a building that produces as much energy as it uses from renewable energy sources at the site. Zero-energy buildings can exchange energy with the power grid as long as the net energy balance is zero on an annual basis.In terms of the thermal energy transfer and storage, zero-energy buildings can achieve annual energy consumption levels down to 0 kWh per square metre through the use of renewable energy sources, which compares favourably with the passive house energy criteria per square metre. Energy plus houses, in contrast with both the passive houses and zero-energy buildings, focus on producing more energy per year than they consume, which can lead to an annual energy performance of -25 kWh per square metre. Zero-energy buildings should have features like: i) Enable building owners to be isolated from fluctuating energy prices through the on or off-grid renewable energy supply ii) Help reduce peak electrical demand by self-supplying energy demands on site iii) Go hand in hand with the transformation of energy infrastructure and market. Zero-energy buildings can be achieved by incorporating energy efficiency measures and on-site renewable energy generation technologies and its energy efficiency measures include: creating a high-performance building envelope, installing energy efficient appliances and lights, increasing the use of passive solar cooling and heating techniques and installing high-efficiency mechanical systems that match the lower energy requirements of the home. On-site renewable energy generation systems can be available within a building's footprint by using PVs, solar hot water and wind located on the building or at the site by means of PVs, solar hot water, low impact hydro and wind located on-site not on the building. Zero-energy building is still in the conceptual stage in the Asia-Pacific region. A few pilot projects have been applied to public buildings, such as research institutes, for demonstration purpose e.g., Sustainable Energy Technology Centre in China, Pusat Tenaga Malaysia's Zero Energy Office (ZEO) Building and National Institution of Environmental Research in Republic of Korea.

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A Review of Battery Charging - Discharging Management Controller: A Proposed Conceptual Battery Storage Charging – Discharging Centralized Controller

Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research ◽

10.48084/etasr.4217 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 7515-7521

Author(s):

N. A. Zainurin ◽

S. A. B. Anas ◽

R. S. S. Singh

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Storage System ◽

State Of Charge ◽

System Level ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Battery Storage ◽

Switching Characteristic ◽

Battery Energy ◽

Centralized Controller

This paper describes the development of a centralized controller to charge or discharge the battery storages that are connected to renewable energy sources. The centralized controller is able to assist, control, and manage the battery storage charging when excessive power is available from renewable energy sources. At the same time, the centralized controller also performs battery storage discharging when the connected load requires a power source, especially when the renewable energy sources are unavailable. Background studies regarding battery storage charging-discharging are presented in the introduction section. Also, generally developed charging-discharging methods or techniques were applied at the system level and not specifically to the battery storage system level. Due to the limited study on battery storage system charging-discharging, this paper reviews some of the similar studies in order to understand the battery storage charging–discharging characteristics as well as to propose a new conceptual methodology for the proposed centralized controller. The battery storage State-of-Charge (SoC) is used as the criterion to develop the conceptual centralized controller, which is also used as a switching characteristic between charging or discharging when only the battery energy storages are supplying the output power to the connected load. Therefore, this paper mainly focuses on the conceptual methodology as well as explaining the functionality and operationality of the proposed centralized controller. A summarized comparison based on the studied charging–discharging systems with the proposed centralized controller is presented to indicate the validity of the proposed centralized controller.

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Analysis of a Multilevel Voltage-Based Coordinating Controller for Solar-Wind Energy Generator: A Simulation, Development and Validation Approach

Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research ◽

10.48084/etasr.4489 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 7793-7799

Author(s):

T. Lachumanan ◽

R. Singh ◽

M. I. Shapiai ◽

T. J. S. Anand

Keyword(s):

Solar Wind ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Wind Energy ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Storage System ◽

Energy System ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Battery Storage ◽

Development And Validation ◽

Solar Wind Energy

This paper presents the development and the performance analysis of the developed model of a voltage-based coordinating controller. This model is developed to perform activities such as sensing, measuring, switching, coordinating, and effectively managing the output voltages produced by the solar-wind renewable energy sources in order to supply the connected load or/and charge the battery storage system. The developed model has different tasks to perform when solar-wind energy sources both produce output voltages simultaneously, also contributing to solving the requirements of different synchronization algorithms for a multi-agent renewable energy system. The sensed and measured output voltages of the solar-wind energy sources are used as directive information to allow the developed model’s controller to supply the available power to the connected load or/and charge the battery storage system. Also, the produced information at the model’s controller input is used to individually control the other sub-system, which directly assists in achieving the aim of simultaneous operation when both solar and wind energy sources produce output voltages. The model is developed and simulated in Matlab/Simulink. The simulation results are used to validate the developed methodology and the aims of the developed model.

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The Possibility Analysis of Adapting a Public Building to the Standard of a Building with a Zero Energy Balance

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13236389 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 6389

Author(s):

Karolina Dec ◽

Elżbieta Broniewicz ◽

Mirosław Broniewicz

Keyword(s):

Energy Storage ◽

Energy Balance ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Storage System ◽

Energy Storage System ◽

Energy Sources ◽

School Building ◽

Zero Energy ◽

Zero Energy Building ◽

The Right

The paper aims to examine the possibility of adapting an existing school building to the standard of a zero energy building. The school building is a specific case of a building in which the energy consumption is periodic, except for the months with the most sunshine. Therefore, it is necessary to look for a solution that will allow storing the energy obtained, for example, from solar collectors. Based on the analysis of the literature, it was concluded that the use of borehole thermal energy storage might be the right solution to the problem. The article presents the energy balance of the building with and without the use of renewable energy sources and the benefits of using an energy storage system.

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Modeling an Energy Storage System Based on a Hybrid Renewable Energy System in Stand-alone Applications

Revista de Chimie ◽

10.37358/rc.17.11.5945 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 68 (11) ◽

pp. 2641-2645

Author(s):

Alexandru Ciocan ◽

Ovidiu Mihai Balan ◽

Mihaela Ramona Buga ◽

Tudor Prisecaru ◽

Mohand Tazerout

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Energy Storage ◽

Storage Systems ◽

Renewable Energy Sources ◽

Storage System ◽

Energy Storage System ◽

Compressed Air ◽

Energy Sources ◽

Energy Storage Systems ◽

Hybrid Renewable Energy System

The current paper presents an energy storage system that stores the excessive energy, provided by a hybrid system of renewable energy sources, in the form of compressed air and thermal heat. Using energy storage systems together with renewable energy sources represents a major challenge that could ensure the transition to a viable economic future and a decarbonized economy. Thermodynamic calculations are conducted to investigate the performance of such systems by using Matlab simulation tools. The results indicate the values of primary and global efficiencies for various operating scenarios for the energy storage systems which use compressed air as medium storage, and shows that these could be very effective systems, proving the possibility to supply to the final user three types of energy: electricity, heat and cold function of his needs.

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