Energy Systems & Sustainable Design

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Abstractions that are loosely connected by energy production, use, and sustainability, including energy-output measurement (capacity factor), market mechanisms for grid management (local flexibility markets), a plasma-physics phenomenon (runaway electrons), and sustainable building and cooling technologies (solar air conditioning, sustainable architecture).

5 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Capacity factor — The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period.
• Local flexibility markets — As changes in regulation always take their time, system operators are not incentivized currently to use Local Flexibility Markets as a measure for congestion management by now.
• Runaway electrons — The term runaway electrons (RE) is used to denote electrons that undergo free fall acceleration into the realm of relativistic particles.
• Solar Air Conditioning — Solar air conditioning, or "solar-powered air conditioning", refers to any air conditioning (cooling) system that uses solar power.
• Sustainable architecture — Sustainable architecture is a branch of architecture that focuses on the design and construction of buildings according to environmental sustainability criteria, with the aim of minimizing their negative environmental impact by enhancing efficiency, reducing material and energy consumption, and minimizing the disturbance to the surrounding ecosystem.