Solar Energy Solutions for Sustainable Urban and Built Environment

Xingxing Zhang is Professor of Energy Engineering at Dalarna University, in Sweden. He has multidisciplinary research experience, especially in energy systems, energy data analytics, and positive energy district for a sustainable transition. He is active in EU research networks, working on Swedish national projects, a Nordic research project, JPI Urban Europe/DUT, CETP, H2020 projects, EU cost action and IEA tasks. Prof. Zhang has led or participated in 38 research projects, supervised 8 PhD students and 5 post-doctoral research fellows, and has published 4 books, 10 chapters, 140 papers, and 10 patents.André Augusto is a Professor of Energy Engineering at Dalarna University, in Sweden. He has expertise in photovoltaics (PV), including manufacturing, prototyping, integration, and sustainability. Presently, he is the Director of the Sustainable Energy Research Centre (SERC) at Dalarna University, and is representing Sweden at the International Energy Agency Task 12 on PV Sustainability. Before joining Dalarna University, he was leading a team at Arizona State University in the USA, working on high efficiency solar cells and modules, and he was the industry liaison for the PV Foundry, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to support startups working on PV technology.

• 1. The rising role of solar energy for sustainable urban infrastructure and buildingsSection I: Small-scale solar energy systems and technologies2. Perception of PV in the built environment - a survey3. An optimization model of global tilted irradiance separation in high latitudes for building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) applications4. A compact Solar Thermal Facade (STF) for building integration5. Evaluation of IDA ICE 5.0 PV modelling with measured data6. Radio interference by photovoltaic systems in the built environment7. Lifecycle Assessment of PV systems in the built environmentSection II: Large-scale energy systems with solar resource8. Coherence of strategies to optimize photovoltaic systems within the built environment9. A multi-objective analysis for transitioning building clusters into positive energy districts with solar energy resources10. Multi-objective optimization of a hybrid energy system integrated with solar-wind-PEMFC and energy storage in a university campus11. Distributed energy systems with PV optimization for building decarbonization12. Unlocking the nexus between industrial heat and district heating using solar thermal collector, high temperature heat pump and thermal storage13. Exhaust air heat pump systems assisted by unglazed transpired solar collectors for a residential cluster14. Digital mapping of techno-economic performance of a water-based solar photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) system for buildings over large geographical citiesSection III: Solar assisted energy-efficient buildings15. Multi-objective optimization of building integrated PV windows in office buildings16. A dynamic test method for solar thermal and biomass heating systems: test results from ten pellet and solar heating systems17. Six-day test results for exhaust air heat pump systems with PV, thermal and electric storages compared to annual simulation results18. PV and churches - a qualitative interview study on the integration of solar energy technology in heritage buildings19. Demand control and constant flow ventilation compared in an exhaust ventilated bedroom in a cold-climate single-family house with a PV system20. Greenhouse gas payback in renovating Nordic district-heated multifamily buildings with a PV solution21. Design concepts for nearly zero-energy container buildings (NZECBs) in different climates including both passive and active solar energy systems

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