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A Spatiotemporal analysis of photovoltaic electricity storage potential in electric vehicles

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Jérémy Dumoulin

Decarbonizing mobility and integrating more renewable sources in electricity production are necessary levers to meet the climate targets. Coupling electric vehicle (EV) charging with photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation could help to provide clean elec ...

Aalborg University2025

Self-dispatching a renewable energy community by means of battery energy storage systems

Mario Paolone, Francesco Gerini, Matthieu Benoit C. Jacobs

Renewable energy communities, where citizens, businesses, and institutions produce, consume, store, and share energy, are increasingly pivotal in energy markets. The use of shared community batteries introduces the challenge of adapting control strategies ...

2025

Reversible solid oxide electrolyser for energy storage: levelized cost of storage estimation

Jingjing Liang, François Maréchal, Du Wen

Reversible Solid Oxide electrolyser (rSOE) is a promising solution for long-duration energy storage due to its exceptional features such as inherent reversibility, co-electrolysis capability in electrolysis mode, high efficiency, adaptability to multiple f ...

2025

Enhancing lifetime, forecasting, and economic benefits of photovoltaic technologies undergoing UV-induced degradation with optical filtering

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Christian Michael Wolff, Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez

Ultraviolet-induced degradation (UV-ID) of various PV cell types was analyzed under optical UV filters with different cutoff wavelengths. Cell types studied included interdigitated back contact (IBC), passivated emitter and rear totally diffused (PERT), an ...

2025

Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction

Jiaming Tian, Xile Hu, Jeremy Luterbacher, Wenhao Ren, Wenchao Ma, Seongmin Jin

Electrochemical CO 2 reduction into chemicals and fuels holds great promise for renewable energy storage and carbon recycling 1–3 . Although high-temperature CO 2 electroreduction in solid oxide electrolysis cells is industrially relevant, current catalyst ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

A systemic study for decarbonizing secondary aluminium production via waste heat recovery, carbon management and renewable energy integration

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Manuele Domenico Margni, Dareen Zuhir Omar Dardor

Secondary aluminium production relies on natural gas to transform both primary and recycled aluminium into semi-fabricated products, leading to significant atmospheric emissions, energy losses, and resource consumption. Despite the potential for waste heat ...

Elsevier2025

Sub-2W tunable laser based on silicon photonics power amplifier

Joao Carlos Menezes Carreira, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

High-power tunable lasers are intensely pursued due to their vast application potential such as in telecom, ranging, and molecular sensing. Integrated photonics, however, is usually considered not suitable for high-power applications mainly due to its smal ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Unraveling the Role of Electron-Withdrawing Molecules for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Likai Zheng, Mingyang Wei

Electron-withdrawing molecules (EWMs) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in boosting the performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the underneath mechanisms governing their positive attributes remain inadequately understood. Herein, we conduct ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2025

Machine-learning-empowered FDTD/FEM simulations for predictive solar energy absorption in plasmonic metamaterial nanocavity arrays

Amir Jafargholi

FDTD/FEM simulations, strengthened by machine learning, achieve 95.44% optical absorption efficiency in TiO 2 /TiN plasmonic nanocavities for solar energy harvesting. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

CMOS-Compatible Antiferroelectric-Dielectric Capacitors for Multifunctional Energy Storage and Tunable Electronics

Hung-Wei Li, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Niccolò Martinolli, Cyrille Masserey

This work presents a CMOS-compatible multilayer platform integrating energy storage and tunable varactor functionality within a compact system. By co-integrating antiferroelectric (AFE) and dielectric (DE) layers, the design achieves tunability up to 28%, ...

IEEE2025

Decarbonizing the aluminium industry: A comprehensive review of pathways and process integration perspectives

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Dareen Zuhir Omar Dardor

Aluminium is recognized as an essential material for the global energy transition. However, its production is extremely energy-intensive and largely dependent on fossil fuels. The aluminium industry emits more than 1.11 Gt CO2-eq annually. Multiple obstacl ...

Elsevier BV2025

Role and Opportunities of Gas bearing supported Turbomachinery in small-scale SOFC-CHP systems

Victoria Xu Hong He

Fuel cells are considered one of the most efficient and environmental-friendly technologies available for converting chemical energy into electricity and heat, and considered a key technology to close the hydrogen cycle. In particular, combined heat and po ...

EPFL2025

Harnessing modular approaches in the study of crystalline sorbents

Balázs Álmos Novotny

Sorbent are the workhorses of most contemporary separation processes. Crystalline sorbents boast descript structures that facilitate in silico study. Their diversity is matched by their varied applications. At the forefront of their currently researched ap ...

EPFL2025

Renewable energy integration and waste heat valorization in aluminum remelting for co-producing kerosene and methanol

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The aluminium sector relies on natural gas for the conversion of recycled scrap into new feedstock, which results in substantial atmospheric emissions. Hydric resources are also impacted, as they serve as heat sinks for the waste heat generated during the ...

Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica2024

Functional-Basis Analysis of Non-Stationary Signals in Modern Power Grids: Theory and Implementation in Embedded Systems

Alexandra Cameron Karpilow

Situational awareness strategies are essential for the reliable and secure operation of the electric power grid which represents critical infrastructure in modern society. With the rise of converter-interfaced renewable generation and the consequent shift ...

EPFL2024

An Asymmetric Perturbation Signal for Enhanced Perturbation Injection Capabilities of a Grid-Connected Converter

Drazen Dujic, Andrea Cervone, Jules Christian Georges Macé

Impedance estimation is an important tool for grid- converter interaction evaluation. Using existing grid-connected converters for perturbation injection enables grid impedance estimation during operation without additional hardware (namely dedicated pertu ...

2024

Network time series forecasting in photovoltaics power production

Jelena Simeunovic

Accurate forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) power production is crucial for the integration of more renewable energy sources into the power grid. PV power production is highly intermittent, due to the stochastic cloud behaviour and cloud dynamics. Previous w ...

EPFL2024

Advanced control strategies to exploit the hydropower potential enhancing ancillary services provision to the power system

Francesco Gerini

The European Union's Green Deal aims for a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. To reach this goal, a massive integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) into the power grid is necessary. As RES become a large part of the electricity genera ...

EPFL2024

Unified Harmonic Power-Flow and Stability Analysis of Power Grids with Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources

Johanna Kristin Maria Becker

Modern power distribution systems are experiencing a large-scale integration of Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources (CIDERs). Their presence complicates the analysis and mitigation of harmonics, whose creation and propagation may be amplified ...

EPFL2024

On the prediction of the induced damage by the start-up sequence of Francis turbines: On operational resilience framework

Mario Paolone, Christophe Nicolet, Elena Vagnoni, Martin Seydoux

The number of transient operations in hydraulic machinery connected to power grid, notably start-ups and shut-downs, has observed a substantial increase in recent decades, primarily driven by the global shift toward intermittent renewable energy sources. S ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024