Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Potential for Improving Electricity Availability for the Residential Area of the Future

The EU and national regulations regarding carbon emissions reduction and renewable energies adoption focus on finding new ways on accelerating the development of new facilities installations and integration in existing grids but also on identifying new energy sources to cover the gaps left by the other existing solutions. This paper discusses about an alternative solution based primarily on local resources availability proposed mainly for high peak power demand coverage and, in the same time, for providing supplemental thermal energy for heating or cooling in civil applications. The main investigation tries to characterise the potential of solar-thermal energy, phase change materials, local materials with thermal storage capacity and low power electricity generation based on ORC cycle that operates on high efficiency refrigerants. The study concludes on opportunity and current challenges in designing, implementation and deployment of such solutions.