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Home Energy Production
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language : en
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Release Date : 2014
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Home Energy Production
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Home Energy Production
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language : en
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Release Date : 2012
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Small Scale Renewable Energy Systems
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Author : Sven Ruin
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-10-16
Small Scale Renewable Energy Systems written by Sven Ruin and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-16 with Science categories.
A revolution is ongoing in the field of small-scale energy solutions, which can enable lower impact on the environment, more robust supply and self-determination. Solar power and other forms of renewable energy sources, which you can implement to generate your own electricity, are growing quickly. Electromobility is transforming the car industry and transportation systems and can also play a role in your energy system. Electricity can be used much more efficiently than before, for example by using LED light, variable speed motor drives and efficient home appliances. Smart controls are available, sometimes with free open source software. All this opens up tremendous opportunities for energy independence, which is the focus of this book. The book introduces the reader to a number of renewable energy sources, to different options for storing electricity and to smart use of electricity, particularly in the context of small isolated systems. This is important because many renewable energy sources are weather- and season-dependent and usually require storage and smart control, in order to obtain a system that is completely independent of the electricity grid. In the book, overall system design is explained, including how to combine different sources in a hybrid system. Different system sizes and architectures are also covered. A number of real cases are described, where homes, businesses and communities have achieved a high level of energy independence or are on their way to achieving it. This book will prove useful in university education in renewable energy at bachelor and master level, and also for companies and private individuals, who want to start or expand activities in the area of renewable energy.
Home Energy Production
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language : en
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Release Date : 2012
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Generating Free Electricity At Home With Solar Energy
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Author : A. Guna
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-08-07
Generating Free Electricity At Home With Solar Energy written by A. Guna and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Education categories.
Accelerated human activity since the 1950s have led to the current instability and damage to the world's ecological systems. Although significant technological progress has been made, mistakes have also been made. In the early twenty first century, we are experiencing the consequences of some of our mistakes in the form of global warming and climate change. It is now time to put right that which has gone wrong. The former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, launched the Save Our Selves (SOS) campaign with 24-hour Live Earth concerts across seven continents on 7th July 2007 to raise public awareness and mobilise global action to address global warming and climate change. In 1993, Al Gore initiated and funded the program that has enabled the benefits of the internet to be available to everyone. Sir Richard Branson of Virgin, has pledged US$3 billion over 10 years to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. The aim of this book is to raise public awareness of the risks of not addressing global warming and climate change together with the potential solutions and the benefits of change. The objective is to motivate readers to implement solutions that will reduce reliance on fossil fuel energy sources - the main causes for global warming and climate change. By providing essential information on the alternative technologies available, the intention is to empower governments, academics, private organisations and individuals to develop alternative technologies and implement the necessary infrastructures needed to generate the ever increasing amounts of energy required by the ever expaning global population without conpounding the concerns related to greenhouse gases emissions. As more homes use these grid connected microgeneration technologies, the human benefits of generating and sharing electrical energy generated from renewable energy sources will be similar to the benefits experienced by sharing information over the internet.
Home Fuel Cell
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Author : Fouad Sabry
language : en
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Release Date : 2022-10-13
Home Fuel Cell written by Fouad Sabry and has been published by One Billion Knowledgeable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-13 with Science categories.
What Is Home Fuel Cell An electrochemical cell may be used for either main or backup power production, and a house fuel cell or residential fuel cell is one such cell. They are comparable to the bigger industrial stationary fuel cells, however they are constructed on a more modest size for usage in domestic settings. In most cases, the technology behind these fuel cells is known as combined heat and power (CHP) or micro combined heat and power (Micro-CHP), and it allows them to produce not just electricity but also warm water or air. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Home fuel cell Chapter 2: Electricity generation Chapter 3: Distributed generation Chapter 4: Photovoltaics Chapter 5: Cogeneration Chapter 6: Micro combined heat and power Chapter 7: Thermophotovoltaic Chapter 8: Microgeneration Chapter 9: Renewable heat Chapter 10: Ground source heat pump Chapter 11: Financial incentives for photovoltaics Chapter 12: Feed-in tariff Chapter 13: Solar power Chapter 14: Solar power in the United States Chapter 15: Energy recycling Chapter 16: Photovoltaic system Chapter 17: Electrical energy efficiency on United States farms Chapter 18: Energy in Malta Chapter 19: Business Energy Investment Tax Credit Chapter 20: Renewable energy in Denmark Chapter 21: Net metering in New Mexico (II) Answering the public top questions about home fuel cell. (III) Real world examples for the usage of home fuel cell in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of home fuel cell' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of home fuel cell.
Optimal Residential Energy Consumption Prediction And Analysis
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Author : Joshua Daniel Rhodes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Optimal Residential Energy Consumption Prediction And Analysis written by Joshua Daniel Rhodes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
In the United States, buildings are responsible for 40.36 Quads (40.36 x 1015 BTU) of total primary energy consumption per year, 22.15 of which are used in residential buildings (reference year 2010). Also, the United States residential sector is responsible for about 20% of United States carbon emissions or about 4% of the world's total. While there are over 130 million residential units in the United States, only 0.1% of R&D is spent in the residential sector. This means the residential sector represents an underinvested opportunity for energy savings. Tackling that problem, this dissertation presents work that is focused on assessing, analyzing, and optimizing how residential buildings use and generate energy. This work presents an analysis of a unique dataset of 4971 energy audits performed on homes in Austin, Texas in 2009 - 2010. The analysis quantifies the prevalence of typical air-conditioner design and installation issues such as low efficiency, oversizing, duct leakage, and low measured capacity, then estimates the impacts that resolving these issues would have on peak power demand and cooling energy consumption. It is estimated that air-conditioner use in single-family residences currently accounts for 17 - 18% of peak demand in Austin, and that improving equipment efficiency alone could save up to 205 MW, or 8%, of peak demand. It was also found that 31% of systems in this study were oversized, leading to up to 41 MW of excess peak demand. Replacing oversized systems with correctly sized higher efficiency units has the potential for further savings of up to 81 MW. Also, the mean system could achieve 18% and 20% in cooling energy savings by sealing duct leaks and servicing air-conditioning units to achieve 100% of nominal capacity, respectively. A different dataset of measured whole-home electricity consumption from 103 homes in Austin, TX was analyzed to 1) determine the shape of seasonally-resolved residential demand profiles, 2) determine the optimal number of normalized representative residential electricity use profiles within each season, and 3) draw correlations to the different profiles based on survey data from the occupants of the 103 homes. Within each season, homes with similar hourly electricity use patterns were clustered into groups using the k-means clustering algorithm. The number of groups within each season was determined by comparing 30 different optimal clustering criteria. Then probit regression was performed to determine if homeowner survey responses could serve as explanatory variables for the clustering results. This analysis found that Austin homes typically fall into one of two seasonal groups. Because these groups differ in temporal energy use and the wholesale electricity price is temporal, homes in one group use more expensive electricity than others. The probit regression results indicated that variables such as whether or not someone worked from home, the number of hours of television watched per week, and level of education have significant correlation with average profile shape, but that significant indicators of profile shape can vary across seasons. Also, these results point to markers of households that might be more impacted by time-of-use (TOU) or real time price (RTP) electricity rates and can act as predictors as to how changing local demographics can change local electricity demand patterns. This work also considers the effect of the placement (azimuth and tilt) of fixed solar PV systems on their total energy production, peak power production, and economic value given local solar radiation, weather, and electricity market prices and rate structures. This model was then used to calculate the output of solar PV systems across a range of azimuths and tilts to find the energetically and economically optimal placement. The result of this method, which concludes that the optimal placement can vary with a multitude of conditions, challenges the default due-south placement that is conventional for typical installations. For Austin, TX the optimal azimuth to maximize energy production is about 187 - 188°, or 7 - 8° west of south, while the optimal azimuth to maximize economic output based on the value of the solar energy produced is about 200 - 230° or 20 - 50° west of south. The differences between due south (which is the conventional orientation) and the optimal placement were on the order of 1 - 7%. For the rest of the US and for most locations the energetically optimal solar PV azimuth is within 10° of south. Considering the temporal value of the solar energy produced from spatially-resolved market conditions derived from local time-of-use rates, the optimal placement shifts to a west-of-south azimuth in attempt to align solar energy production with higher afternoon prices and higher grid stress times. There are some locations particularly on the west coast that have west-of-south energy optimal placements, possibly due to typical morning clouds or fog. These results have the potential to be significant for solar PV installations: utilities might alter rate structures to encourage solar generation that is more coincident with peak demand, utilities might also use west-of-south solar placements as a hedge against future wholesale electricity price volatility, building codes might encourage buildings to match roof azimuths with local optimal solar PV generation placements, and calculations of the true value of solar in optimal and non-optimal placements can be more accurate. This analysis also uses a dataset of whole home electricity consumption to consider the role of small distributed fuel cells in managing energy and thermal flows in the home. The analysis determines that the average home in Austin, TX could utilize a 5.5 kW fuel cell either for total generation or backup, and the average home could operate as its own micro-grid while not sacrificing core functionality. Matching the thermal output of a possibly smaller fuel cell, used in combined heat and power mode (CHP), to an absorption refrigeration system in place of traditional space cooling further reduces the needed capacity. Lastly, it is estimated that the system efficiency could possibly double by transporting natural gas to the end user to be converted into electricity and heat as compared with traditional methods of using natural gas for power generation followed by electricity delivery. Results from two regression analyses of total energy use and energy use reductions following energy efficiency retrofits are also presented. The first model shows that home size and age were positively correlated with total yearly energy use, but there is significant correlation of reduced yearly energy use with increased energy and water knowledge. This result might lend some support for increased energy and water education campaigns. The second model (retrofit analysis) also provided results that utilities can use to assess the value of residential retrofit rebates as compared to the cost of acquiring energy on the wholesale market. The second model indicates that the current level of rebates is cost effective for the utility (on a $ per kWh offset basis) for all three considered retrofits (air-sealing, attic insulation, and air-conditioner replacement) and the rebates could be increased while still being below the cost of acquiring electricity on the wholesale market. Considering an average of $0.113/kWh for residential electric service, both the air-sealing and increased attic insulation seem to make economic sense for the homeowner given current rebate structures.
Empowered Homes
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Author : Barrett Williams
language : en
Publisher: Barrett Williams
Release Date : 2024-04-30
Empowered Homes written by Barrett Williams and has been published by Barrett Williams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-30 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Illuminate Your Home's Future with "Empowered Homes"! Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey towards self-sufficiency and sustainable living? "Empowered Homes" is your encompassing guide to embracing the solar revolution and harnessing the power of the sun to fuel your home and your life. Whether you're intrigued by the history and advancement of home solar power, or you're ready to take the plunge and retrofit your own abode, this comprehensive eBook offers an immersive experience into the world of renewable energy. Dive into "Empowered Homes" and unravel the myriad benefits solar energy brings to the table. Discover how you can debunk prevalent myths and shine light on the facts with confidence and clarity. Our sections on Solar Energy 101 elucidate the technical wizardry that turns humble sunlight into electricity and detail the pros and cons of grid-tied versus off-grid systems. Explore the feasibility of solar energy for your dwelling in a focused chapter that guides you through assessing your energy needs and calculating the financial payoff. We provide the tools to meticulously plan your solar setup, considering factors like optimal panel types, orientation, and the complex dance with local building codes and homeowner association dynamics. Financing a solar project can be daunting, but "Empowered Homes" breaks down every available option, helping you navigate incentives, loans, leases, and returns on investment. Select the perfect solar provider with our tips, and gain confidence as you understand warranties and service agreements all before a single panel graces your roof. When you're ready for installation, this eBook is right there with you. From the anticipation of installation day to the exhilaration of DIY projects for the handy homeowner, our step-by-step guidance ensures a smooth transition to solar power. But the journey doesn't end there; "Empowered Homes" delves into system monitoring, maintenance, and integrating solar with smart home technology. We address larger community initiatives, policy advocacy, and the vital role solar plays in emergency preparedness. Finally, envision a brighter future as we explore upcoming technological leaps, and connect with a like-minded community ready to champion solar energy. "Empowered Homes" is more than a read—it's a repertoire of robust resources and real-life stories illustrating the transformative journey of homeowners like you, who decided to turn towards the sun. Don't wait to take the reins of your energy future. The age of solar is here, and with "Empowered Homes," it's at your fingertips. Welcome to your well-illuminated life!
Sustainable And Clean Energy Production Technologies
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Author : Dan Bahadur Pal
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-06-30
Sustainable And Clean Energy Production Technologies written by Dan Bahadur Pal and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Science categories.
This edited book is a comprehensive collection of chapters on various clean energy technology such as solar energy, waste biomass as energy, hydro-electricity generation, biodiesel production from biomass and strategies to cater the demand of clean renewable energy. Clean energy technologies also enhance economic growth by increasing the supply of energy demand and tackling environmental challenges and their impacts due to the use of other conventional sources of energy. The conventional/non-conventional energy production methods are efficient but it has adverse effects on environment and human health. As environmental concerns are not avoidable therefore the necessity of clean energy production comes in to the picture. The clean energy can be produced by different wastes which are caused for the environmental pollution. This book covers various aspects of new and renewable clean energy production technology and its utilization in different fields. This is a useful reading material for students and researchers involved in clean energy study.