Toward comprehensive zero energy building definitions: a literature review and recommendations

Taherahmadi, Javad; Noorollahi, Younes; Panahi, Mostafa

doi:10.1080/14786451.2020.1796664

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“…In the United States, it is a building in which the energy used per year and the energy produced are the same; similarly, in Japan, ZEB is defined as a building in which the total annual energy consumption is zero [38][39][40][41]. Although ZEB is a simple concept, there is no internationally agreed definition [42]. While many studies have been conducted, the detailed differences are still under discussion; in particular, there should be a common agreement on the category of zero and the definition of energy-efficient building.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Plan for the Sustainability of Public Buildings through the Energy Efficiency Certification System: Case Study of Public Sports Facilities, Korea

Baek¹

2021

Buildings

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This study examines strategies for energy efficiency in public buildings in Korea and the implementation of certification systems. It also identifies the actual plan status and discusses improvements at the institutional level. The target is the national sports centers, where the discussion on energy efficiency has been assiduous, as they have recently expanded regionally in Korea. Among the 541 national sports centers in Korea, 90 facilities for which a preliminary review was performed on the plan by the National Public Building Center were analyzed. The energy efficiency plan is realized through Building Energy Efficiency, Zero Energy Building, and Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design certifications. As a result of analyzing the plan status, omissions or errors in certification were confirmed in about 10% of each, even though more than 80% of the facilities were subject to mandatory application. In Korea’s condition, to revitalize the practice of the system, it is necessary to expand the government’s publicity and support initiatives, use differential application of evaluation items, and strengthen incentives. This study provides meaningful results and suggestions for implementing an energy efficiency system at the national level under similar conditions in the future.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Plan for the Sustainability of Public Buildings through the Energy Efficiency Certification System: Case Study of Public Sports Facilities, Korea

Baek¹

2021

Buildings

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“…The number of works in this field is vast, but most of them are slightly related to recommender systems and human behavior. So we suggest readers to consult a few survey works in this domain [26,27].…”

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A survey of recommender systems for energy efficiency in buildings: Principles, challenges and prospects

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Alsalemi²,

Al‐Kababji³

et al. 2021

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Recommender systems have significantly developed in recent years in parallel with the witnessed advancements in both internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Accordingly, as a consequence of IoT and AI, multiple forms of data are incorporated in these systems, e.g. social, implicit, local and personal information, which can help in improving recommender systems' performance and widen their applicability to traverse different disciplines. On the other side, energy efficiency in the building sector is becoming a hot research topic, in which recommender systems play a major role by promoting energy saving behavior and reducing carbon emissions. However, the deployment of the recommendation frameworks in buildings still needs more investigations to identify the current challenges and issues, where their solutions are the keys to enable the pervasiveness of research findings, and therefore, ensure a large-scale adoption of this technology. Accordingly, this paper presents, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the first timely and comprehensive reference for energy-efficiency recommendation systems through (i) surveying existing recommender systems for energy saving in buildings; (ii) discussing their evolution; (iii) providing an original taxonomy of these systems based on specified criteria, including the nature of the recommender engine, its objective, computing platforms, evaluation metrics and incentive measures; and (iv) conducting an in-depth, critical analysis to identify their limitations and unsolved issues. The derived challenges and areas of future implementation could effectively guide the energy research community to improve the energy-efficiency in buildings and reduce the cost of developed recommender systems-based solutions.

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“…Also, from the view of the energy dilemma, the comparative analysis between the transition towards renewable energy sources and prioritizing fossil fuels as reliable supplies is investigated (Taherahmadi et al 2021 ; Mabea 2020 ; Pérez et al 2019 ; Novikau 2019 ; Gillessen et al 2019 ; Lu et al 2019 ; Zaman and Brudermann 2018 ; Jun et al 2009 ). They conclude that focusing on renewables lowers the import dependence of the economy, while reliable supplies through transmission and storage capability can mitigate the volatility and costs of the energy environment.…”

Section: Literature and Theorymentioning

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Energy security: the role of shale technology

Shirazi

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Sustainable energy systems are sensitive to the countries’ energy portfolio decisions, shaping geopolitics and contributing to the global energy security (ES). Accordingly, this paper applies the “Markov regime-switching” method to explore the impact of “the North American shale technology” (NAST) on behavioral regimes of the US energy security measurements (ESM), e.g., diversity of primary energy demand ($${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{I}}$$ ESI I ), net energy import dependence ($${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{II}}$$ ESI II ), non-fossil fuel resource portfolio ($${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{III}}$$ ESI III ), and crude oil import dependency ($${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{IV}}$$ ESI IV ). The findings confirm time-varying and asymmetric behavior of the US ESM before and after the NAST. Specifically, the overall interaction of substitution effect and scale effect of NAST strengthens the US energy systems through $${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{I}}$$ ESI I , $${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{III}}$$ ESI III , and $${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{IV}}$$ ESI IV , while $${\mathrm{ESI}}_{\mathrm{II}}$$ ESI II leads to higher risks of the US energy supply security. Consequently, the shale reserves development, diversification of primary energy demand and import supply, and advanced energy transport and trading policies, are suggested to overcome the barriers in achieving (i) availability, (ii) accessibility, (iii) affordability, and (iv) acceptability aspects of ES and vulnerability reduction of the US energy systems in respect of risk and resilience.

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Toward comprehensive zero energy building definitions: a literature review and recommendations

Cited by 56 publications

References 77 publications

Plan for the Sustainability of Public Buildings through the Energy Efficiency Certification System: Case Study of Public Sports Facilities, Korea

Plan for the Sustainability of Public Buildings through the Energy Efficiency Certification System: Case Study of Public Sports Facilities, Korea

A survey of recommender systems for energy efficiency in buildings: Principles, challenges and prospects

Energy security: the role of shale technology

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