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    Qualitative Assessment Methodology for Positive Energy District Planning Guidelines

    Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) have recently become an important concept for urban development. However, the number of publications on the transfer of the PED concept to practice is still very limited. This ...

    Hans-Martin Neumann, Sergio Díaz Garayo in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 202… (2022)

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    Definitions of Positive Energy Districts: A Review of the Status Quo and Challenges

    This paper presents an overview of PED definitions used in five prominent EU programmes and nine PED-relevant projects across Europe. By drawing similarities and finding discrepancies between them, the paper a...

    Vicky Albert-Seifried, Lina Murauskaite in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 202… (2022)

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    A Systematic Approach Towards Map** Stakeholders in Different Phases of PED Development—Extending the PED Toolbox

    The development of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) is arguably the development of an innovation embedded in a community of organisations and individuals (occupants, inhabitants, citizens) who can affect or ar...

    Caroline Cheng, Vicky Albert-Seifried in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 202… (2022)

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    Integrated Photovoltaics: An Opportunity for Urban Decarbonization

    The need for shifting to urban renewable energy integration and use is critical when the goal is decarbonizing the global energy system. Due to cities’ integrating framework, the energy transition in urban env...

    Laura Aelenei, Alessandra Scognamiglio in Holistic Approach for Decision Making Towa… (2021)

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    Refurbishment Solutions for Public Buildings Towards Nearly Zero Energy Performance

    This study presents some results of an recent closed European Project, RePublic_ZEB [1], where an extensive analysis was conducted for identifying cost-optimal refurbishment solution an sets of solutions applied ...

    Laura Aelenei, Helder Gonçalves in Nearly Zero Energy Communities (2018)

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    Sustainable Energy in Buildings: Academy Massive Open Online Courses

    According with the Research and Markets [1] analysis, the growing demand of reliable online learning solutions and technologies is the driving force of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) market. The industry forec...

    Carlos Silva, Laura Aelenei in Nearly Zero Energy Communities (2018)

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    Zero Energy Homes

    In the last 50 years a fifth of the planet’s inhabitants had a strong development that deeply changed their habits and their life quality. For this enhancement, the people of the developed areas paid a high pr...

    Laura Aelenei, Antonio Frattari in ZEMCH: Toward the Delivery of Zero Energy … (2016)