Publications related to European Union energy label

Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Matteo Barsanti, Selin Yilmaz

To support the decarbonisation of the power sector and offset the volatility of a system with high levels of renewables, there is growing interest in residential Demand-Side Management (DSM) solutions. Traditional DSM strategies require consumers to active ...

2024

Endogenous Energy Efficiency Improvement in Housing and Cement Sectors in Switzerland

Sergey Arzoyan

The reduction of energy consumption in the residential building stock and cement industry is a substantial component of the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050. Therefore, it is vital to identify the potential for EEI in these two sectors. In this study, a new meth ...

EPFL2023

Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980). Architectural study and retrofitting proposals

Giuseppe Galbiati

Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...

EPFL2023

Experimental data-driven model predictive control of a hospital HVAC system during regular use

Colin Neil Jones, Christophe Salzmann, Emilio Maddalena

Herein we report a multi-zone, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) control case study of an industrial plant responsible for cooling a hospital surgery center. The adopted approach to guaranteeing thermal comfort and reducing electrical energy ...

2022

Adaptive R-Peak Detection on Wearable ECG Sensors for High-Intensity Exercise

David Atienza Alonso, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Grégoire Millet

Objective: Continuous monitoring of biosignals via wearable sensors has quickly expanded in the medical and wellness fields. At rest, automatic detection of vital parameters is generally accurate. However, in conditions such as high-intensity exercise, sud ...

2022

Methodology for energy retrofitting of Modern Architecture. The case study of the Olivetti office building in the UNESCO site of Ivrea

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino, Giuseppe Galbiati

Latest European Union programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, which are responsible for 40% of EU total energy consumption. Accounting for almost 45% of the existing building stock, the architecture of ...

2021

Gate energy efficiency and negative capacitance in ferroelectric 2D/2D TFET from cryogenic to high temperatures

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Teodor Rosca, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi, Luca Capua, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

We report the fabrication process and performance characterization of a fully integrated ferroelectric gate stack in a WSe2/SnSe2 Tunnel FETs (TFETs). The energy behavior of the gate stack during charging and discharging, together with the energy loss of a ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Real-World Implementation of an ICT-Based Platform to Promote Energy Efficiency

Nicolas Würsch, Marina Dorokhova

The energy efficiency requirements of most energy-consuming sectors have increased recently in response to climate change. For buildings, this means targeting both facility managers and building users with the aim of identifying potential energy savings an ...

2021

Do energy performance certificates allow reliable predictions of actual energy consumption and savings? Learning from the Swiss national database

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Stefano Cozza, Arno Schlueter

The thermal performance gap in buildings is defined as the difference between the theoretical and the actual energy consumption for heating, and is known to undermine energy retrofit strategies and policies. This study examines the performance gap in retro ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Assessing the gap between a normative and a reality-based model of building LCA

Didier Albert Simon Vuarnoz, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Stefano Cozza

Recognized as a powerful methodology for the evaluation of environmental burdens, life cycle assessment (LCA) must be performed with close-to-reality inputs to be robust and accurate. However, the necessary real-world data is hardly available at the design ...

2020

Active renovation strategies with building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV). Application on an early 20th century multi-family building

Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Emmanuel Rey

Tomorrow's cities are already largely built, as much of the existing building stock – with a low level of energy performance – will still be standing in 2050. Urban renewal processes therefore play an essential role towards the sustainable transition of Eu ...

2020

Tailoring Triple-Anion Perovskite Material for Indoor Light Harvesting with Restrained Halide Segregation and Record High Efficiency Beyond 36%

Hong Zhang, Zhiwen Zhou, Fangzhou Liu

Indoor photovoltaics are promising to enable self-powered electronic devices for the Internet of Things. Here, reported is a triple-anion CH3NH3PbI2-xBrClx perovskite film, of which the bandgap is specially designed for indoor light harvesting to achieve a ...

2019

Elucidating the role of the InGaN UL in the efficiency of InGaN based light-emitting diodes

Camille Haller

Blue III-nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used nowadays in solid-state lighting, as white light can be produced by combining yellow phosphors and blue LEDs. This technology has the advantage to have a higher luminous efficiency than incandes ...

EPFL2019

Endogenous energy efficiency improvements in large-scale retrofits to Swiss residential building stock

Sergey Arzoyan

In standard analyses of Swiss energy and climate policies, the speed and extent of energy efficiency improvements (EEI) are usually assumed to be unaffected, even by policies designed to foster innovation. This project introduces endogenous EEI and barrier ...

IOP Science2019

Improving self-consumption of on-site PV generation through deploying flexibility in building thermal mass

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Piotr De Silva

As PV is considered prospective for decarbonizing the building sector, the self-consumption of on-site PV generation, which is susceptible to the temporal mismatch between solar radiation and energy demand, greatly affects the overall performance of improv ...

IOP2019

Multi-Objective System-Level Management of Modern Green Data Centers

Ali Pahlevan

In our modern society, the average citizen has turned into a daily cloud user. Despite being virtually transparent for the user, internet services require data centers behind the scenes. Data centers burn several megawatts of power and their electricity bi ...

EPFL2019

AdaptHD: Adaptive Efficient Training for Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing

Giovanni De Micheli, Samuel Bosch, Mohsen Imani

Brain-inspired Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is a promising solution for energy-efficient classification. However, the existing HD computing algorithms have a lack of controllability on the training iterations which often results in slow training or dive ...

2019

Endogenous Energy Efficiency Improvement of Large-Scale Refurbishment in the Swiss Residential Building Stock

Marc Vielle, Sergey Arzoyan, Michel Zimmermann

In Switzerland, according to Swiss Federal Office of Energy around 50% of primary energy consumption is attributable to buildings: 30% for heating, air-conditioning and hot water, 14% for electricity and around 6% for construction and maintenance. However, ...

2018

Endogenous Energy Efficiency Improvement of Large-Scale Refurbishment in the Swiss Residential Building Stock

Marc Vielle, Sergey Arzoyan, Michel Zimmermann

In Switzerland, according to Swiss Federal Office of Energy around 50% of primary energy consumption is attributable to buildings: 30% for heating, air-conditioning and hot water, 14% for electricity and around 6% for construction and maintenance. However, ...

2018

Fluorescent Benzothiazinone Analogues Efficiently and Selectively Label Dpre1 in Mycobacteria and Actinobacteria

Paul Joseph Dyson, Stewart Cole, John McKinney, Neeraj Dhar, Thierry Laroche, Jérémie Piton, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Raphael Christopher Sommer, Raju Mukherjee

Benzothiazinones (BTZ) are highly potent bactericidal inhibitors of mycobacteria and the lead compound, BTZ043, and the optimized drug candidate, PBTZ169, have potential for the treatment of tuberculosis. Here, we exploited the tractability of the BTZ scaf ...

2018