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Clean Energy Capability Portfolio | Empowering Consumers

Supporting Net zero

and Climate-Positive
Communities

Designing procedures and developing technologies to optimise energy conservation and renewable energies in communities on a global level .

Competitive Advantage

• Expertise in using systems that deliver advanced community-based renewable energy , energyconservation , and innovative integrated controls
• Specialists in producing zero- or negative-energy requirements , minimising carbon emissions , and optimising thermal and visual comfort
• Proven ability to reduce total energy needs by up to 100 %

Impact

• Zero-energy communities provide sustainable , healthy environments with a reduced need for capital investment and lower running costs

Successful Applications

• Design and implementation of technologies for four zero-energy communities in Cyprus , Italy , France , and the UK

Capabilities and Facilities

• Laboratory capable of performing a wide range of energy and environmental measurements in buildings for the development and testing of mitigation technologies
• Mobile energy bus with thermal cameras , tracer gas equipment , IAQ sensors and analysers , light and daylight measuring equipment , and a drone for performing aerial measurements
• A wide range of environmental simulation tools for different cities and building projects

Our Collaborators

• OPAC 38
• British Gas
• ABB
• FIBRAN

More Information

Professor Mattheos Santamouris
School of Built Environment
T + 61 2 9385 0729
E : m . santamouris @ unsw . edu . au

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