Sustainable heating, cooling and ventilation of a plus-energy house via photovoltaic/thermal panels

Beyond nearly-zero energy buildings: Experimental investigation of the thermal indoor environment and energy performance of a single-family house designed for plus-energy targets

“…The monthly electricity production from the PV/T panels is given in Table 10. TABLE 10 The annual electricity production from the PV/T panels (4043.9 kWh) was lower than had been predicted by the simulations, 7434.3 kWh (Kazanci et al 2014). This difference could have occurred for several reasons: it was observed during the competition period in Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 (17 th -28 th of September 2012) that the output of the PV/T panels was lower than the expected values (Kazanci and Olesen 2014b), the climate could have differed from the weather files used in simulations and the location was different.…”

“…Further details of the components and the system can be found in Kazanci et al (2014), Skrupskelis and Kazanci (2012), Kazanci and Olesen (2014b).…”

“…The thermal part of the PV/T panels was not operational until the summer of 2014 and only limited data are available from this period; therefore they are not further described in this study. Detailed information regarding the performance of the thermal part and its effects on the electricity production of the PV cells were reported by Kazanci et al (2014).…”

“…The house was insulated with a combination of 200 mm mineral wool (between the boards of the structural elements) and 80 mm compressed stone wool fibers (40 mm on each side, outside the boards of the structural elements). A drawing of the structural element is given in Kazanci et al (2014). The walls, roof and floor structures were formed by installing prefabricated elements in a sequential order and the joints were sealed.…”

“…In this context, a detached, one-story, single family house, which was initially designed to be a plus-energy house (Kazanci et al 2014), was operated from 26/09/2013 to 1/10/2014 to compare a number of different heating and cooling strategies (Kazanci and Olesen 2014a;Kazanci and Olesen 2015a). The thermal indoor environment and energy performance of the house were monitored during this period.…”