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Organic solar powered greenhouse performance optimization and global economic opportunity

Published:2022 Issue:4 Volume:15 Page:1659-1671
ISSN:1754-5692
Container-title:Energy & Environmental Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Energy Environ. Sci.

Author:

Ravishankar Eshwar¹^ORCID,Booth Ronald E.¹^ORCID,Hollingsworth Joseph A.²,Ade Harald³^ORCID,Sederoff Heike⁴^ORCID,DeCarolis Joseph F.²^ORCID,O'Connor Brendan T.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories (ORaCEL), NC State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

2. Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

3. Department of Physics, and ORaCEL, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

4. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, 27607, USA

Abstract

This work integrates greenhouse energy demand, solar power production, and plant growth modeling to assess the economic opportunity of organic solar powered greenhouses. Results show these systems have positive economic outlook across broad climates.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Nuclear Energy and Engineering,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/EE/D1EE03474J

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