Advanced concept of energy system for space heating, hot water preparation in new family buildings has been developed. Energy system consists of innovative heat pump (5.5 kW) extracting the heat from two environments: ground and ambient air. Heat pump is coupled with simple seasonal ground...

The World Energy Council releases the Energy Trilemma Index (ETI) report annually primarily to assess the energy performance of countries worldwide. Nevertheless, the varying preferences of the dimensions in the ETI between the countries are debatable. The objective of this study is weight...

One of the most important mechanisms to improve the sustainability of each country are monitoring the performance of the industries not only in the energy perspective but also the environmental point of view and setting the improvement goal. This study presents an indicator that can reflect both...

Rapid growth of energy consumption in last decades, made the world persuaded to energy optimization and management. Therefore, producers and prosumers should be equipped with the automation infrastructures to perform the management programs, like demand response. Office buildings are considering...