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Energy-resilient climate adaptation using a tailored life-cycle integrative design approach for national carbon abatement

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Greenhouse gas escalation and global warming impose substantial challenges for adapting to and mitigating climate change while ensuring energy resilience. However, uncertainties in supply-demand dynamics and climate-adaptive resilience remain unclear for electrified and integrative photovoltaic (PV)-battery-building systems. Here, following zero-energy building design principles and a U-value/M-value battery sizing method based on maximum marginal benefits, a tailored “kWp-kWh-m2” design approach is applied with intrinsic relationships of prosumer-storage to achieve renewable self-sufficiency and avoid battery oversizing in both centralized and distributed forms. Economic-environmental assessments for zero-energy transformations with the integrative PV-battery systems are conducted across diverse climate-change conditions and geographic areas in China, in terms of levelized costs of storage, net present values, decarbonization potentials, and policy incentives. This research provides guidelines for zero-energy transitions from optimal system design, provincial-level system configurations, and performance evaluation, aiming to guide strategic investment and targeted policy interventions.

Source: Cell Reports Physical Science

DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.102306

Authors: Lu Zhou, Yuekuan Zhou

Institutions: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Integrated Energy Systems Optimization

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Affordable and clean energy, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Climate action, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $5,460