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Using air con to heat your home in winter can side step planning red tape – but make sure you know the rules first

Under The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, the legislation that states what ...
pv magazine International

Clivet debuts indoor heat pump for residential use

The Italian manufacturer said that its new monobloc propane heat pump can produce hot water at temperatures of up to 70 C, with a coefficient of performance of up to 5.31.
IEEE

Hybrid Modulation and Control for Multi-Objective Optimized Active Power Decoupling Circuit in AC-to-DC Converter

Abstract: Single-phase AC-DC power converters face the challenge of twice-grid frequency power ripple (TGFPR) caused by power imbalance, requiring the use of large DC-side capacitors. Active power ...
The Cool Down

Researchers invent new-age AC unit that can slash household energy costs: 'It's a complete rethinking'

The Energy Storing and Efficient Air Conditioner (ESEAC), designed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Blue Frontier Inc., incorporates energy storage into the air cooling and ...
IEEE

A Discrete-Event Supervisory Control for the AC Microgrid

Abstract: Based on Supervisory Control Theory, this paper introduces a systematic and bottom-up approach to the development and synthesis of a microgrid supervisory control (SC) to formalize a ...