An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Buildings
The building sector accounts for a significant proportion of global energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions. It is important to explore technological advances to curtail building energy usage to support the transition to a sustainable energy future. This study provides an overview of emerging and...
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| author | Zhenjun Ma Muhammad Bilal Awan Menglong Lu Shengteng Li Muhammad Shahbaz Aziz Xinlei Zhou Han Du Xinyi Sha Yixuan Li |
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| description | The building sector accounts for a significant proportion of global energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions. It is important to explore technological advances to curtail building energy usage to support the transition to a sustainable energy future. This study provides an overview of emerging and sustainable technologies and strategies that can assist in achieving building decarbonization. The main technologies reviewed include uncertainty-based design, renewable integration in buildings, thermal energy storage, heat pump technologies, thermal energy sharing, building retrofits, demand flexibility, data-driven modeling, improved control, and grid-buildings integrated control. The review results indicated that these emerging and sustainable technologies showed great potential in reducing building operating costs and carbon footprint. The synergy among these technologies is an important area that should be explored. An appropriate combination of these technologies can help achieve grid-responsive net-zero energy buildings, which is anticipated to be one of the best options to simultaneously reduce building emissions, energy consumption, and operating costs, as well as support dynamic supply conditions of the renewable energy-powered grids. However, to unlock the full potential of these technologies, collaborative efforts between different stakeholders are needed to facilitate their integration and deployment on a larger and wider scale. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b04b008a8d754865a52cf75f3a9f6cdf2023-11-19T15:57:33ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092023-10-011310265810.3390/buildings13102658An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in BuildingsZhenjun Ma0Muhammad Bilal Awan1Menglong Lu2Shengteng Li3Muhammad Shahbaz Aziz4Xinlei Zhou5Han Du6Xinyi Sha7Yixuan Li8Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaThe building sector accounts for a significant proportion of global energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions. It is important to explore technological advances to curtail building energy usage to support the transition to a sustainable energy future. This study provides an overview of emerging and sustainable technologies and strategies that can assist in achieving building decarbonization. The main technologies reviewed include uncertainty-based design, renewable integration in buildings, thermal energy storage, heat pump technologies, thermal energy sharing, building retrofits, demand flexibility, data-driven modeling, improved control, and grid-buildings integrated control. The review results indicated that these emerging and sustainable technologies showed great potential in reducing building operating costs and carbon footprint. The synergy among these technologies is an important area that should be explored. An appropriate combination of these technologies can help achieve grid-responsive net-zero energy buildings, which is anticipated to be one of the best options to simultaneously reduce building emissions, energy consumption, and operating costs, as well as support dynamic supply conditions of the renewable energy-powered grids. However, to unlock the full potential of these technologies, collaborative efforts between different stakeholders are needed to facilitate their integration and deployment on a larger and wider scale.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/10/2658energy savingsbuilding decarbonizationdata-drivenenergy sharingoptimal controlgrid-buildings integrated control |
| spellingShingle | Zhenjun Ma Muhammad Bilal Awan Menglong Lu Shengteng Li Muhammad Shahbaz Aziz Xinlei Zhou Han Du Xinyi Sha Yixuan Li An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Buildings Buildings energy savings building decarbonization data-driven energy sharing optimal control grid-buildings integrated control |
| title | An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Buildings |
| title_full | An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Buildings |
| title_fullStr | An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Buildings |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Buildings |
| title_short | An Overview of Emerging and Sustainable Technologies for Increased Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emission Mitigation in Buildings |
| title_sort | overview of emerging and sustainable technologies for increased energy efficiency and carbon emission mitigation in buildings |
| topic | energy savings building decarbonization data-driven energy sharing optimal control grid-buildings integrated control |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/10/2658 |
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