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Energy Policy Act (2005)

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Bottom-up method for potential estimation of energy saving measures

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Anna Sophia Wallerand

Technology and energy saving potentials in the industrial sector are key data that policy-makers rely on to drive decision-making. A literature review reveals a distinct discrepancy between general potential estimation and detailed design studies. The form ...

Elsevier2019

Automated ‘Eye-sight’ Venetian blinds based on an embedded photometric device with real-time daylighting computing

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Yujie Wu

Optimal shading control can improve occupants’ visual comfort and increase energy savings on artificial lighting and cooling loads during warm seasons. A highly integrated automated shading system is presented in this paper. Designed to regulate daylightin ...

2019

Hardware/Software Co-Design and Reliability Analysis of Ultra-Low Power Biomedical Devices

Soumya Subhra Basu

Smart health monitoring devices, known as Wireless Body Sensor Nodes (WBSN) are transforming today's health-care landscape, shifting it from traditional hospital-based methods toward more personalized approaches. Their demand is ever-increasing in the mode ...

EPFL2019

Photocatalytic ammonia production enhanced by a plasmonic near-field and hot electrons originating from aluminium nanostructures

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Madasamy Thangamuthu

Ammonia production at room temperature and atmospheric pressure is in high demand to assist in energy saving and the protection of the environment worldwide, as well as to help reduce CO2 emissions. Recently, plasmonic nanomaterials have been frequently us ...

2019

SCCER-FURIES - Design of Sizes for Buildings Energy Systems as a Function of the Grid Evolution - Deliverable 1.4.1a

Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler, Luise Middelhauve, Jordan Holweger, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Hervé Tommasi

The increasing use of renewable energy is a deep going trend mainly supported by the sustained annual growth rate of solar photovoltaic, wind power and biogases. The expansion and evolution of the distribution grids is therefore a key issue to ensure a sec ...

2018

Assessment of the Building‐Integrated Photovoltaic potential in urban renewal processes in the Swiss context: Complementarity of urban‐ and architectural‐scale analyses

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Giuseppe Peronato

This paper presents two different approaches to deal with the assessment of the BIPV potential in building renovation projects in urban areas, taking Neuchâtel as a representative middle‐size city of the Swiss plateau. 1) A building‐scale analysis aiming t ...

Edward Ng, Square Fong, Chao Ren2018

Post-P&R Performance and Power Analysis for RRAM-based FPGAs

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Xifan Tang, Edouard Giacomin

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)-based FPGAs are predicted to outperform conventional FPGAs architectures in area, delay and power over a wide range of voltage operations, allowing novel energy-quality trade-offs for reconfigurable computing. The oppo ...

2018