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Photovoltaics and the Built Environment in Brazil
In Brazil, hydroelectricity has been the major and lowest-cost electricity source and currently accounts for ~62% of the electric-power market. With...
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Sustainable solar power from wall mounted photovoltaics
The plausibility of wall-mounting of photovoltaics in inaccessible or restricted rooftops to generate power necessitated this study. Meeting energy...
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Intelligent and Self-Sufficient Control for Time Controllable Consumers in Low-Voltage Grids
The increasing number of decentralized power generation plants, such as wind turbines or photovoltaics (PV), causes more and more fluctuating...
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First-Generation Photovoltaics: History and Conventional Manufacturing
The conversion of solar energy into electricity has been sought since the 1800s. The augmentation of the once electrochemical system as a solid state...
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Energy Efficiency First in the power sector: incentivising consumers and network companies
Energy Efficiency First (EE1st) is an important concept that, if implemented, will minimise the cost of the energy transition by exploiting the...
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Photovoltaics in agricultural landscapes: “Industrial land use” or a “real compromise” between renewable energy and biodiversity? Perspectives of German nature conservation associations
BackgroundOne common renewable energy source for substituting fossil sources is photovoltaic (PV) systems. However, installing PV systems in...
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Photovoltaics Versus Fossil Fuel: Financial Feasibility Model for Expansion of Access to Electricity in Off-Grid Regions
Access to clean and affordable electricity is crucial to reduce global poverty. Yet, for many in develo** countries, electricity continues to be...
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Empowering Photovoltaics with Smart Light Management Technologies
The daily Sun supplies the continents of the Earth with four times more energy than humanity consumes in a year. This enormous potential of solar...
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Not all homeowners are alike: a segmentation model based on a quantitative analysis of Dutch adopters of residential photovoltaics
The implementation of residential photovoltaics must increase more rapidly to combat climate change and its impacts. This challenge is addressed in...
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Feedbacks among electric vehicle adoption, charging, and the cost and installation of rooftop solar photovoltaics
Identifying feedback loops in consumer behaviours is important to develop policies to accentuate desired behaviour. Here, we use Granger causality to...
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P2P Energy Trading in a Community of Individual Consumers with the Presence of Central Shared Battery Energy Storage
The increasing penetration of emerging renewable energies plays an undeniable and important role in the development of power systems, and the world...
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Empowering Photovoltaics with Smart Light Management Technologies
The daily Sun supplies the continents of the Earth with four times more energy than humanity consumes in a year. This enormous potential of solar...
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Photovoltaic Breakthrough in Architecture: Integration and Innovation Best Practice
In the new context of the trialling and the development of the materials, buildings systems and innovative processes required to meet new challenges...
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Photovoltaic Systems: A Challenge or an Opportunity for the Polish Energy Sector During Its Transformation
The paper presents briefly the present state of the Polish energy sector and its transformation into a zero-emission sector based on renewable...
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The Energy Mix: An Emerging Trend in Distribution System
Decentralization of the power sector is currently gaining attention by power system planners to satisfy the growing energy demand of the society. Due...
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A Review of the Significance and Challenges of Building Integrated Photovoltaics
The rise of innovative technologies in the built environment has witnessed a significant leap thanks to breakthroughs in research and development,...
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Efficiency of the Decentralized Energy Supply
The integration of renewable energy sources into the distribution grids transforms them from passive to active networks. Customers convert from...
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“Zero-Carbon World”: Opportunities and Threats for New and Old National Economies Because of Energy and Industry Transition
First a rationale is given why we need a “Zero-Carbon world” and why this will cause an energy as well as an industry transition. Second it is...
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Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in India: A Framework for TRIZ-Based Parametric Design
This paper aims to highlight the design parameters concerning building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) in the Indian context. With the...
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Massive Growth of PV Capacity as a Major Cornerstone of Germany’s Energy Security and Climate Policies
Germany was among the pioneers of solar energy development and deployment. Early pioneers installed first practically operating solar panels – solar...