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Photovoltaic panels diffusion in Switzerland: understanding adopters profiles using clustering methods

Pablo Francisco Martinez Alcaraz, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Gloria Serra Coch, Maria Anna Hecher

The adoption of photovoltaic panels (PV) by households is essential to meet residential Swiss energy transition targets. While previous studies have mostly focused on the factors influencing PV adoption by comparing adopters with non-adopters, few have ack ...

2025

A Combined Approach to Measurement-system-design and System Identification in Building Energy Retrofits

Ian Smith

Effective building-energy retrofits are needed to enhance the energy efficiency of existing buildings. However, discrepancies between predicted and actual energy demand, known as the performance gap, undermine retrofit effectiveness. This work addresses th ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2025

Re-defining Non-tracking Solar Cell Efficiency Limits with Directional Spectral Filters

Giulia Tagliabue, Alan Richard Bowman

Optical filters that respond to the wavelength and direction of incident light can be used to increase the efficiency of tracking solar cells. However, as tracking solar cells are more expensive to install and maintain, it is likely that nontracking solar ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Influence of convection on the thermal storage performance of energy tunnels

Lyesse Laloui

The decarbonization of the built environment requires rapid growth in energy storage solutions due to the intermittent nature of most renewable energy sources. This paper focuses on the efficacy of so-called energy tunnels (i.e., tunnels equipped with pipe ...

2024

Probabilistic Techno-Economic Assessment of Medium-Scale Photoelectrochemical Fuel Generation Plants

Sophia Haussener, Alexandre Dominique M. Cattry

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) systems are promising approaches for sustainable fuel processing. PEC devices, like conventional photovoltaic-electrolyzer (PV-EC) systems, utilize solar energy for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. Contrary to PV-EC syst ...

2024

Evaluating the role of inkjet printing in perovskite solar modules manufacturing using mathematical modeling

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, François Maréchal, Naveen Bhati

Given the solution-phase processability and low energy intensity of several techniques, many techniques have been explored to manufacture these cells and modules. Among them, inkjet printing has shown potential for fabricating all the active layers while a ...

2024

Continuous production prototype for scaling up of graphene oxide/carbon nanotube composite synthesis towards efficient hydrogen storage

Andreas Züttel, Yudong Xue, Yunting Wang

A continuous production prototype for scaling up the synthesis of a graphene oxide/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (GO/MWCNTs) composite as a hydrogen storage material has been proposed in this study. This prototype consists of an automatic feeding and mixin ...

2024

Colouring solutions for building integrated photovoltaic modules: A review

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes, Alejandro Borja Block, Umang Bhupatrai Desai, Marie Amélie Camille Courtant

The conflict between PV installations and other land uses, such as forestry or agriculture, highlights the urgency for alternative solutions. Integrating PV technology into the built environment is a compelling strategy to mitigate these challenges, enabli ...

2024

Blade-Coating of High Crystallinity Cesium-Formamidinium Perovskite Formulations

Anaël Morgane Jaffrès, Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Christian Michael Wolff, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman

Up-scalable coating processes need to be developed to manufacture efficient and stable perovskite-based solar modules. In this work, we combine two Lewis base additives (N,N′-dimethylpropyleneurea and thiourea) to fabricate high-quality Cs0.15FA0.85PbI3 pe ...

2024

Corrigendum to "Geographic network effects to engage people in the energy transition: The case of PV in Switzerland" (vol 9, e17800, 2023)

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Gloria Serra Coch

With the energy transition and CO2 emissions reduction as a priority on the international policy agenda, governments worldwide are trying to engage the population in investing in renewable energies. In this paper, we study the role of information access an ...

2023

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Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

Raw experimental data sorted by tool ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Precious metal-free (photo)electrochemistry for green hydrogen production

Hannah Elizabeth Johnson

Climate change caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions necessitates a transition from fossil resources to greener fuels and chemicals. Hydrogen is a promising green energy vector due to its high gravimetric energy density, its potential use in fue ...

EPFL2023

Ink-Based CuIn0.3Ga0.7S2 Nanocrystal Thin Films as Photocathodes for Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Nestor Guijarro Carratala

One of the promising methods to solve the current energyand environmentissues is photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting and CO2 reduction reaction. Chalcopyrite copper indium gallium sulfide (CIGS)and CuIn0.3Ga0.7S2 nanocrystal thinfilms have been cons ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Performances studies of a basket-based solar cooker for humanitarian aid in Uganda

David Notzon, Juliette Loan Dutheil, Andreas Schueler, Luc Burnier, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury, Krishna Manwani, Romain Schindelholz, Chiara Ongaro

This study explores the suitability of a basket -based solar cooker for cooking in Uganda, an equatorial country. The solar cooker is designed to be easily constructed and based on recycled and locally available materials. Its performance in terms of cooki ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Future Swiss Energy Economy: The Challenge of Storing Renewable Energy

Paul Joseph Dyson, Andreas Züttel, Noris André Gallandat

Fossil fuels and materials on Earth are a finite resource and the disposal of waste into the air, on land, and into water has an impact on our environment on a global level. Using Switzerland as an example, the energy demand and the technical challenges, a ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Comparing thermal performance of standard humanitarian tents

Dusan Licina, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Paolo Tombesi, Shen Yang, Riccardo Vannucci, André Ullal

Humanitarian tents provide emergency shelter for people displaced by conflict and disaster in diverse climatic conditions. This article compares the thermal performance of two standard humanitarian tents – the Standard Family Tent (SFT) and the Geodesic Fa ...

2022

Multiple roles of negative thermal expansion material for high-performance fully-air processed perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Bin Ding

For fully-air-processed perovskite solar cells (PSCs), high-quality perovskite films and improved intrinsic stability are critical for high photovoltaic performance. However, strain, as a critical factor of perovskite instability, not only harms the effici ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Choice-driven dial-a-ride problem for demand responsive mobility service

Michel Bierlaire, Mohammad Yousef Maknoon, Shadi Sharif Azadeh

Urban mobility services face the challenge of planning their operations efficiently while complying with user preferences. In this paper, we introduce a new mathematical model called a choice-driven dial-a-ride problem (CD-DARP) which is a generalization o ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

A performance-driven simulation workflow for PV integration into the design process: application on an innovative building project in Switzerland

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

In the construction sector, the integration of active elements functioning both as building envelope material and on-site electricity generator is identified as a key measure to achieve the 2050 targets and carbon neutrality (Aguacil Moreno, 2019; Aguacil ...

2021

Reversible solid-oxide cell stack based power-to-x-to-power systems: Economic potential evaluated via plant capital-cost target

Jan Van Herle

Electrical energy storage systems are indispensable for the electrical grid with high penetration renewables. Reversible solid-oxide cell stack based power-to-x-to-power systems, which can switch between power generation and power storage, can achieve a hi ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021