Yiyi Zhang

Mar 26, 2024 | propertyweek.com | Yiyi Zhang

Contributing to this, 30% of the total energy used by building service systems is wasted due to inefficiency. Following recent energy crises, there is both an economic and a sustainability need to monitor building energy performance in a more standardised way. Monitoring systems are vital tools that should be seamlessly integrated into long-term energy strategies. Currently, passive energy monitoring systems only monitor and record; they are incapable of controlling system components.

Jun 22, 2023 | nature.com | Yiyi Zhang |Kuishuang Feng

AbstractThe globally booming renewable power industry has stimulated an unprecedented interest in metals as key infrastructure components. Many economies with different endowments and levels of technology participate in various production stages and cultivate value in global renewable power industry production networks, known as global renewable power value chains (RPVCs), complicating the identification of metal supply for the subsequent low-carbon power generation and demand.

May 30, 2023 | nature.com | Kuishuang Feng |Yuli Shan |Ning Zhang |Kai Fang |Yanchao Bai |Wendong Wei | +1 more

AbstractThe low-carbon power transition, which is key to combatting climate change, has far-reaching effects on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of issues such as resource use, environmental emissions, employment, and many more. Here, we assess the potential impacts of the power transition on progress toward achieving multiple SDGs (covering 18 targets across the 17 goals) across 49 economies under nine socioeconomic and climate scenarios.