scholarly journals Assessing Buildings Hourly Energy Needs for Urban Energy Planning in Southern European Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 783-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Ferrari ◽  
Federica Zagarella
Keyword(s):  
Energy Planning ◽  
European Context ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Urban Energy

A method for energy efficiency assessment during urban energy planning

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Regina de Casas Castro Marins
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Urban Energy

Purpose – Energy use in urban areas has turned a subject of local and worldwide interest over the last few years, especially emphasized by the correlated greenhouse gases emissions. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the overall energy efficiency potential and emissions resulting from integrated solutions in urban energy planning, in the scale of districts and neighbourhoods in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on the description and the application of a method to analyse energy performance of urban areas and support their planning. It is a quantitative bottom-up method and involves urban morphology, urban mobility, buildings and energy supply systems. Procedures are applied to the case study of Agua Branca urban development area, located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Findings – In the case of Agua Branca area, energy efficiency measures in buildings have shown to be very important mostly for the buildings economies themselves. For the area as a whole, strategies in promoting public transport are more effective in terms of energy efficiency and also to decrease pollutant emissions. Originality/value – Literature review has shown there is a lack of approaches and procedures able to support urban energy planning at a community scale. The bottom-up method presented in this paper integrates a plenty of disaggregated and multisectoral parameters at the same stage in urban planning and shows that is possible to identify the most promising actions by building overall performance indexes.

scholarly journals A new clustering and visualization method to evaluate urban energy planning scenarios

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Torabi Moghadam ◽  
Silvia Coccolo ◽  
Guglielmina Mutani ◽  
Patrizia Lombardi ◽  
Jean Louis Scartezzini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Transition Strategies ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
The City

The spatial visualization is a very useful tool to help decision-makers in the urban planning process to create future energy transition strategies, implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in the context of sustainable cities. Statistical methods are often used to understand the driving parameters of energy consumption but rarely used to evaluate future urban renovation scenarios. Simulating whole cities using energy demand softwares can be very extensive in terms of computer resources and data collection. A new methodology, using city archetypes is proposed, here, to simulate the energy consumption of urban areas including urban energy planning scenarios. The objective of this paper is to present an innovative solution for the computation and visualization of energy saving at the city scale.The energy demand of cities, as well as the micro-climatic conditions, are calculated by using a simplified 3D model designed as function of the city urban geometrical and physical characteristics. Data are extracted from a GIS database that was used in a previous study. In this paper, we showed how the number of buildings to be simulated can be drastically reduced without affecting the accuracy of the results. This model is then used to evaluate the influence of two set of renovation solutions. The energy consumption are then integrated back in the GIS to identify the areas in the city where refurbishment works are needed more rapidly. The city of Settimo Torinese (Italy) is used as a demonstrator for the proposed methodology, which can be applied to all cities worldwide with limited amount of information.

scholarly journals Urban energy performance calculation based on EPBD standards. GIS4ENER tool

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Hernandez-Moral ◽  
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Víctor Iván Serna-Gonzalez ◽  
Francisco Javier Miguel Herrero ◽  
César Valmaseda-Tranque
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
Performance Calculation

Climate change will have a strong impact on urban settings, which will also represent one of the major challenges (world’s urban population is expected to double by 2050, EU buildings consume 40% final energy and generate 36% CO2 emissions). A plethora of initiatives address this challenge by stressing the underlying necessity of thinking globally but acting locally. This entails the inclusion of a varied set of decision-makers acting at different scales and needing robust, comprehensive and comparable information that can support them in their energy planning process. To this end, this paper presents the GIS4ENER tool to support energy planners at different scales by proposing a bottom-up approach towards the calculation of energy demand and consumption at local scale that can be aggregated to support other decision-making scales. It is based on three main pillars: the exploitation of publicly available data (such as Open Street Maps, Building Stock Observatory or TABULA), the implementation of standardised methods to calculate energy (in particular the ISO52000 family) and the use of Geographic Information Systems to represent and facilitate the understanding of results, and their aggregation. The paper presents the context, main differences with other approaches and results of the tool in Osimo (IT).

Integrated Urban-Energy Planning for the Redevelopment of the Berlin-Tegel Airport

2016 ◽  
pp. 407-419
Author(s):  
Jean-Marie Bahu ◽  
Christoph Hoja ◽  
Diane Petillon ◽  
Enrique Kremers ◽  
Xiubei Ge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Planning ◽  
Urban Energy

Research on the Integration of Energy Economic Model and Urban Energy Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Yaozhong Zu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Energy Models ◽  
Energy Needs ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
Energy Economic Model ◽  
High Level ◽  
Building Level

In order to explore the strategy on urban energy and reduction of greenhouse gas, a large number of energy models have been developed by interdisciplinary studies. Mixed patterns are particularly useful as a result that they incorporate more dynamics to simulate the relevant high-level decisions and the provided actual results by building-level factors. However, space and spatial energy models are not often linked, which ignores the spatial impact of energy and emission policies in urban environments. The application of this method shows how it can be used to assess how different policies interact with other and affect building energy needs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Urban energy planning procedure for sustainable development in the built environment: A review of available spatial approaches

2017 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 811-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Torabi Moghadam ◽  
Chiara Delmastro ◽  
Stefano Paolo Corgnati ◽  
Patrizia Lombardi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Planning Procedure ◽  
Urban Energy
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