Effects of urban compactness on solar energy potential

Renewable Energy

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 469-482

  Mohajeri, Nahid ^a   Upadhyay, Govinda ^a   Gudmundsson, Agust ^b   Assouline, Dan ^a   Kämpf, Jérôme ^a   Scartezzini, Jean Louis ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entropy; Photovoltaics; Renewable energy; Solar thermal collectors; Sustainability; Urban density

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; FACADES; IRRADIATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; ROOFS; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR RADIATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BUILDING RETROFITTING; BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; ENERGY OPTIMISATION; PASSIVE SOLAR SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SOLAR THERMAL COLLECTOR; URBAN DENSITY;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BUILDING; ENTROPY; INSTRUMENTATION; IRRADIATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; ROOF; SOLAR POWER; SUSTAINABILITY;

GENEVA [SWITZERLAND]; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84960493065     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.02.053     Document Type: Article

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