EcoVillage: A Net Zero Energy Ready Community

Arena, Lois; Faakye, Omari

doi:10.2172/1220427

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“…This approach is naturally prone to simulation bias, since it is often extremely difficult to mimic the complexity of human behaviour. This paper joins a small but steadily growing body of literature [52,53] to provide real world evidence of how such neighborhood operate in practice, and the close interconnections between energy balances, heat demand and comfort.…”

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confidence: 97%

Energy balances, thermal performance, and heat stress: Disentangling occupant behaviour and weather influences in a Dutch net-zero energy neighborhood

Kazmi

Keijsers

Mehmood

et al. 2022

Energy and Buildings

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Section: Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Energy balances, thermal performance, and heat stress: Disentangling occupant behaviour and weather influences in a Dutch net-zero energy neighborhood

Kazmi

Keijsers

Mehmood

et al. 2022

Energy and Buildings

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“…The literature noted that in building scale, the performance indicators are standard and straightforward to compare with other low energy building concepts, such as passive and zero-energy buildings, by following energy use intensity (EUI) [204][205][206][207]. Unlike PEB, comparing PEC with other low energy communities are confusing because of the nonuniformity of the indicators; some projects follow EUI, and others follow net annual energy imported from the grid (MWh/a) [208][209][210][211][212][213][214]. PEBs are quantitatively compared with the traditional buildings, passive buildings, and zero energy buildings in Figure 8.…”

Section: Renewable Energy System Between Peb and Pecmentioning

confidence: 99%

State-of-the-Art Review of Positive Energy Building and Community Systems

Kumar

Cao

2021

Energies

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A positive energy system that produces more renewable energy than its demand while ensuring appropriate comfort levels is an excellent path towards increasing the portion of renewable energy, reducing carbon emission, and increasing the energy system’s overall performance. In particular, it has been believed as step forward towards zero energy systems. Recent progress in positive energy building and community levels is gaining interest among different stakeholders. However, an inadequate understanding of the positive energy system is widely noticed in many projects, and a shortage of standard details on the positive energy system still prevails in the research community. Therefore, a state-of-the-art review of positive energy building and community is conducted in this paper. Firstly, this paper begins with the definitions and concepts of positive energy buildings and communities. Secondly, it comprehensively describes the energy supplies, demands, indicators, storage, energy management, roles of stakeholders, and bottlenecks of positive energy systems. Thirdly, the main differences between positive energy buildings and communities are summarized. Fourthly, the impact of smart energy grids and new energy vehicles on the positive energy buildings and communities is derived. As a conclusion, this paper shows that even though all the energy-efficient buildings such as passive buildings, nearly zero energy buildings, zero energy buildings, positive energy buildings look like an up-trending scale of renewable penetration, considerable differences are visible among all, and the same thing applies to the community level. Furthermore, considerable differences exist when comparing between positive buildings and communities regarding both the technical and economic perspectives.

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“…The review shows a lack of agreement on how to define a zero energy community, which urban services to include and where to put the boundaries, especially when it comes to communities that include existing buildings and infrastructures. A zero--energy community can be defined as a zero carbon or low carbon or a carbon neutral urban development by proposing hierarchical emissions categories [61]. The energy balance considered in the identified projects is generally expressed in primary energy and includes only the energy consumption of buildings in the use phase.…”

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“…They all adopted a three--pronged energy approach based on; first, implementing energy sufficiency measures to reduce energy needs; second, using the best available technologies to reduce the energy demand; and third, using renewable energies, preferably produced locally or nearby. Literature on the hierarchical approach argues that this enables the smooth implementation of the zero energy concept at the community level [61,62]. However, review of the four projects also shows the challenges confronted during the implementation of this approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Zero Energy concept: making the whole greater than the sum of the parts to meet the Paris Climate Agreement's objectives

Saheb¹,

Sophie²,

Johnson

2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Urban areas, which are expected to host more than two--thirds of the world's population by 2050, provide unique opportunities for the implementation of the radical policies needed to meet the Paris Climate objectives. Pioneer municipalities in Europe are leading the transformation needed to achieve zero energy and/or zero carbon communities by integrating policies across different sectors (buildings, transport, waste, water and energy supply). Critical factors identified through the analysis of existing initiatives include first, having clearly defined long--term targets, community boundaries and values, second, linking targets to community priorities such as economic development and urban renewal, and third, transposing long--term goals into milestones and short--term objectives to avoid discouraging the community. Challenges identified include first, capacity building, second, citizen participation and third, adequate project documentation as well as monitoring of the achievements. This paper focuses on the zero energy target at a com--munity level, but some of the projects analysed aim at zero carbon and not necessarily at zero energy. The discussion on the differences between the zero energy and the zero carbon concepts is out of the scope of this paper. However,

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EcoVillage: A Net Zero Energy Ready Community

Cited by 5 publications

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Energy balances, thermal performance, and heat stress: Disentangling occupant behaviour and weather influences in a Dutch net-zero energy neighborhood

Energy balances, thermal performance, and heat stress: Disentangling occupant behaviour and weather influences in a Dutch net-zero energy neighborhood

State-of-the-Art Review of Positive Energy Building and Community Systems

The Zero Energy concept: making the whole greater than the sum of the parts to meet the Paris Climate Agreement's objectives

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