Selection of Renewable Energy Sources for Buildings

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Author(s): Hanna Irena Jędrzejuk (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 29
Source title: Design Solutions for nZEB Retrofit Buildings
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Elzbieta Rynska (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), Urszula Kozminska (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), Kinga Zinowiec-Cieplik (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland), Joanna Rucinska (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)and Barbara Szybinska-Matusiak (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4105-9.ch003

Keywords: Civil Engineering / Engineering Science Reference / Science & Engineering

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This chapter describes a general issue of selecting renewable energy sources (RES) and technical systems. To achieve the nearly zero-energy building (nZEB) standard, application of an RES (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and biomass energy) is necessary. Each type of RES has specific characteristics and can be used to produce electricity and/or heat in certain systems. A short review of various systems using renewable energy sources is presented. To find the required and satisfactory solution that guaranties meeting the nZEB standard, an analysis must be carried out considering a number of aspects: local availability, structure and time-dependence of energy demand, building construction, economic conditions, legal regulations, and specific requirements. Finally, two examples of modernisation towards the nZEB standard are included.

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