PhD student Jeonghun Song from Prof. Seung Jin Song’s lab received Best Paper Award from the Korean Society for New and Renewable Energy for his research titled “Effect of Building-integrated Renewable Energy Obligation on District-scale Building Energy Portfolio and Energy Supply from the Grid to the District.” It was presented during the 2018 Spring Conference, held from April 19^th to 20^th in Seoul. The award ceremony was held on December 27^th. <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The paper utilized the district-scale simulator of policies for building-integrated renewable energy, presented at the 2017 Fall Conference by the same research team, to analyze a single district with similar land-to-building ratio to Seoul. It predicted and analyzed the capacity and energy mix, as well as changes in energy flow from the grid upon the diffusion of building-integrated renewable energy (photovoltaic energy, solar thermal energy, geothermal heat pump, fuel cells).