Solar Energy Solutions for Sustainable Urban and Built Environment
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Xingxing Zhang, André Augusto
- Language: English
Solar Energy Solutions for Sustainable Urban and Built Environment provides a single comprehensive source of the latest solar energy systems, both solar thermal and electr… Read more
Description
Description
The second part of the book examines large-scale energy systems with solar resources, exploring the development of flexible energy systems to integrate more solar resources in cities, while improving our planning and design of energy infrastructure to handle the increasing demand for both electricity and heating. Finally, the third section highlights various innovative topics related to solar assisted energy-efficient buildings. This is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in solar energy, energy systems, built environment, and urban planning, including researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, industry professionals, consultants, and policy makers.
Key features
Key features
- Reveals the principles of the latest solar energy systems and related technologies and components
- Offers systematic guidance on the development of solar energy systems from design/planning to implementation and monitoring, as well as replication at different scales
- Investigates energy efficiency, flexibility, and production in complex systems, covering key domains in built and urban environments, energy supply, and mobility to create added value
- Filters available information to map practical needs for the development of solar energy systems in the built and urban environment
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section I: Small-scale solar energy systems and technologies
2. Perception of PV in the built environment - a survey
3. An optimization model of global tilted irradiance separation in high latitudes for building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) applications
4. A compact Solar Thermal Facade (STF) for building integration
5. Evaluation of IDA ICE 5.0 PV modelling with measured data
6. Radio interference by photovoltaic systems in the built environment
7. Lifecycle Assessment of PV systems in the built environment
Section II: Large-scale energy systems with solar resource
8. Coherence of strategies to optimize photovoltaic systems within the built environment
9. A multi-objective analysis for transitioning building clusters into positive energy districts with solar energy resources
10. Multi-objective optimization of a hybrid energy system integrated with solar-wind-PEMFC and energy storage in a university campus
11. Distributed energy systems with PV optimization for building decarbonization
12. Unlocking the nexus between industrial heat and district heating using solar thermal collector, high temperature heat pump and thermal storage
13. Exhaust air heat pump systems assisted by unglazed transpired solar collectors for a residential cluster
14. Digital mapping of techno-economic performance of a water-based solar photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) system for buildings over large geographical cities
Section III: Solar assisted energy-efficient buildings
15. Multi-objective optimization of building integrated PV windows in office buildings
16. A dynamic test method for solar thermal and biomass heating systems: test results from ten pellet and solar heating systems
17. Six-day test results for exhaust air heat pump systems with PV, thermal and electric storages compared to annual simulation results
18. PV and churches - a qualitative interview study on the integration of solar energy technology in heritage buildings
19. Demand control and constant flow ventilation compared in an exhaust ventilated bedroom in a cold-climate single-family house with a PV system
20. Greenhouse gas payback in renovating Nordic district-heated multifamily buildings with a PV solution
21. Design concepts for nearly zero-energy container buildings (NZECBs) in different climates including both passive and active solar energy systems
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Xingxing Zhang
Xingxing Zhang is Professor of Energy Engineering at Dalarna University, in Sweden. He has multidisciplinary research experience, especially in energy systems, energy data analytics, and positive energy district for a sustainable transition. He is active in EU research networks, working on Swedish national projects, a Nordic research project, JPI Urban Europe/DUT, CETP, H2020 projects, EU cost action and IEA tasks. Prof. Zhang has led or participated in 38 research projects, supervised 8 PhD students and 5 post-doctoral research fellows, and has published 4 books, 10 chapters, 140 papers, and 10 patents.
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André Augusto
André Augusto is a Professor of Energy Engineering at Dalarna University, in Sweden. He has expertise in photovoltaics (PV), including manufacturing, prototyping, integration, and sustainability. Presently, he is the Director of the Sustainable Energy Research Centre (SERC) at Dalarna University, and is representing Sweden at the International Energy Agency Task 12 on PV Sustainability. Before joining Dalarna University, he was leading a team at Arizona State University in the USA, working on high efficiency solar cells and modules, and he was the industry liaison for the PV Foundry, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to support startups working on PV technology.