Publications associées à Future Swiss Energy Economy: The Challenge of Storing Renewable Energy

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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

Bayesian Optimization with Constraints, Structure and Human Feedback

Wenjie Xu

Performance tuning is a pervasive challenge in science and engineering, involving optimization of expensive black-box functions to achieve desired outcomes. This thesis focuses on Bayesian optimization (BO) as a promising solution for addressing the comple ...

EPFL2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enhancement of electrocatalysis through magnetic field effects on mass transport

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Yunchang Liang

Magnetic field effects on electrocatalysis have recently gained attention due to the substantial enhancement of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) on ferromagnetic catalysts. When detecting an enhanced catalytic activity, the effect of magnetic fields on ...

Nature Portfolio2024

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

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

Spectro

Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

Raw experimental data sorted by tool ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

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

Decentralized ICT integration in residential buildings

François Maréchal, Dorsan Alexis A. Lepour

To answer the growing demand for data computing, data storage and data transmission, the current trend is to construct centralized hyperscale data centers, whose power usage effectiveness (PUE) has substantially improved in recent years. Still, the operati ...

Technical University of Denmark2022

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

Design of Frustrated Lewis Pair Catalysts for Direct Hydrogenation of CO2

Paul Joseph Dyson, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Shubhajit Das, Roland Christopher Turnell-Ritson

Despite recent progress in the chemistry of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs), direct FLP-catalyzed hydrogenation of CO2 remains elusive. From a near-infinite array of plausible Lewis pairs, it is challenging to identify individual combinations that are approp ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Incentive-based electric vehicle charging for managing bottleneck congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Patrick Stefan Adriaan Stokkink

We propose an incentive-based traffic demand management policy to alleviate traffic congestion on a road stretch that creates a bottleneck for the commuters. The incentive targets electric vehicles owners by proposing a discount on the energy price they us ...

ELSEVIER2022