{"id":242740,"date":"2026-08-15T01:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/hybrid-energy-system-one-roof-for-electricity-heating-and-cooling"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:18:27","slug":"hybrid-energy-system-one-roof-for-electricity-heating-and-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/hybrid-energy-system-one-roof-for-electricity-heating-and-cooling","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid energy system: One roof for electricity, heating and cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hybrid-energy-system-one-roof-for-electricity-heating-and-cooling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photovoltaic panels generate electricity, solar thermal collectors provide heat, while cooling is usually supplied by air conditioning systems that themselves consume electricity. As a result, buildings require different technologies competing for the limited space available on roofs and facades.<\/p>\n<p>A solution developed by a team led by Dr. Gan Huang at KIT\u2019s Institute of Microstructure Technology, by contrast, simultaneously provides cooling, electricity and heating from a single surface. This hybrid PDRC-solar system combines photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies with passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC). The researchers see applications wherever cooling and energy are required simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S266638642600398X\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photovoltaic panels generate electricity, solar thermal collectors provide heat, while cooling is usually supplied by air conditioning systems that themselves consume electricity. As a result, buildings require different technologies competing for the limited space available on roofs and facades. A solution developed by a team led by Dr. Gan Huang at KIT\u2019s Institute of Microstructure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}