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Agrivoltaic systems are characterized by the co-existence of photovoltaic panels on agricultural land, allowing simultaneous solar energy and food production without need for further land. Agrivoltaic installations alter the local microclimatic conditions ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2025

Identification of typical district configurations: A two-step global sensitivity analysis framework

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The recent geopolitical conflicts in Europe have underscored the vulnerability of the current energy system to the volatility of energy carrier prices. In the prospect of defining robust energy systems ensuring sustainable energy supply in the future, the ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Exploiting Representation Similarities in Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Tasks

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Recent progress in computer vision has been driven by a simple yet transformative observation: the potential of 30-year-old neural networks can be unlocked by massively scaling their parameters and the amount of human-labeled training data. This breakthrou ...

EPFL2025

Explainable modeling for wind power forecasting: A Glass-Box model with high accuracy

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Machine learning models (e.g., neural networks) achieve high accuracy in wind power forecasting, but they are usually regarded as black boxes that lack interpretability. To address this issue, the paper proposes a glass-box model that combines high accurac ...

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Overcoming Distribution Shifts and Imbalance Challenges in Representation Learning for Deep Regression Models

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Deep learning has shown remarkable potential for industrial applications, particularly in predictive maintenance and condition monitoring. A key challenge in this domain is prognostics, specifically predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of assets - a ...

EPFL2025

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

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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

Localized Tunneling 1D Perovskitoid Passivated Contacts for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Modules

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yong Ding, Kai Zhang

Interface engineering has proven to be an effective approach for passivating interfacial imperfections to mitigate non-radiative recombination, but the subpar interface quality between the perovskite and the charge transport layer has hindered advancements ...

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From PV to EV: Mapping the Potential for Electric Vehicle Charging with Solar Energy in Europe

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

The electrification of the transport sector is a key element in decarbonizing our societies. However, energy systems will have to cope with additional electricity demand due to the charging needs of electric vehicles (EVs) together with the integration of ...

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Reliability and Long-term Performance of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Modules

Ebrar Özkalay

Solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most competitive renewable energy technologies in order to meet the increasing global energy demand and decrease CO2 emissions by competing effectively with fossil fuels. One of the important applications of PV energy ...

EPFL2024

Optimization of hybrid sensible-latent seasonal heat storage systems

William Orlando Delgado Díaz, Sophia Haussener

This study presents a coupled techno-economic and environmental model of hybrid sensible-latent thermal energy storage (TES) systems, integrating phase change material (PCM) macro-capsules to enhance storage capacity and performance. The multi-scale model ...

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Modelleyen: Continual Learning and Planning via Structured Modelling of Environment Dynamics

Boi Faltings, Zeki Doruk Erden

The current machine learning paradigm relies on continuous representations and fixed neural network architectures to approximate environmental structures, leading to challenges with continual learning, internal structure design, and goal-directed behavior ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

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

LIONHEART: A Layer-based Mapping Framework for Heterogeneous Systems with Analog In-Memory Computing Tiles

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Marina Zapater Sancho, Irem Boybat Kara, Flavio Ponzina, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein, Yuxuan Wang, Abu Sebastian

When arranged in a crossbar configuration, resistive memory devices can be used to execute Matrix-Vector Multiplications (MVMs), the most dominant operation of many Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, in constant time complexity. Nonetheless, when performing ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

Green hydrogen production using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 bioanode and cuprous oxide-based photocathode

Michele Morgante

In recent years, many efforts have been made to find alternative renewable energy sources that can ideally replace the use of fossil fuels in all aspects. One of the new emerging energy technologies is the bioelectrochemical system, of which two types are ...

EPFL2024

Advanced Manufacturing and Characterization of Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Modules

Alejandro Borja Block

Photovoltaic (PV) technology is necessary for global decarbonization. However, one of the challenges of the technology is that its land use may conflict with other space demands. Building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is a solution to efficiently use the ...

EPFL2024

Computational design of complex protein folds and soluble analogs of membrane proteins

Casper Alexander Goverde

Proteins are the molecular machines of life, driving essential biological processes such as enzymatic catalysis, cellular signaling, and immune responses. The ability to design entirely new proteins with desired structures and functions has immense implica ...

EPFL2025

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

Selin Yilmaz, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Matteo Barsanti

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 ...

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Bulk measurement of membrane permeability for random cyclic peptides in living cells to guide drug development

Nathan Moïse De Sadeleer, Christian Heinis, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Anne Sofie Luise Zarda, Rebecca Manuela Neeser

Cyclic peptides are attractive for drug discovery due to their excellent binding properties and the potential to cross cell membranes. However, by far not all cyclic peptides are cell permeable, and measuring or predicting their membrane permeability is no ...

Wiley2025

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

Optical assessment of lignin-containing nanocellulose films under extended sunlight exposure

Tiffany Abitbol

This study investigates the stability and UV-blocking properties of cellulose nanofibril (CNF) and TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofibril (TOCNF) films, with and without lignin, under 1000 h of artificial sunlight. The literature to date provides no quantitat ...

SPRINGER2025