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EnergiesBuilding renovation is a key initiative to promote energy efficiency, the integration of renewable energy sources (RESs), and a reduction in CO2 emissions.
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Positive Energy Districts: Identifying Challenges and Interdependencies [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Positive Energy Districts (PED) are areas within cities that generate more renewable energy than they consume, contributing to cities’ energy system transformation toward carbon neutrality. Since PED is a novel concept, the implementation is very challenging.
Krangsas, Savis +9 more
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Editorial: Urban Energy Poverty and Positive Energy Districts [PDF]
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 Cities are important actors in low-carbon energy transitions. They matter as front-runners, trend-setters and decision-makers. They matter as daily settings for over half of humanity. As cities continue to evolve, urban form is changing and the effects on consumption and climate change are the focus of political debate, governance and urban ...
Sareen, Siddharth +3 more
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Positioning Positive Energy Districts in European Cities [PDF]
Buildings, 2021 There are many concepts for buildings with integrated renewable energy systems that have received increased attention during the last few years. However, these concepts only strive to streamline building-level renewable energy solutions. In order to improve the flexibility of decentralized energy generation, individual buildings and energy systems ...
Rehman, Hassam +3 more
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The Impact of e-Mobility in Positive Energy Districts [PDF]
The 9th Annual Edition of Sustainable Places (SP 2021), 2021 This article presents preliminary results that assess the effect of electromobility in an archetype Positive Energy District (PED). We present a PED modelling approach that represents renewable energy generation, an energy storage system, the consumption of residential and non-residential buildings, smart lighting services, and the inclusion of ...
Tony Castillo-Calzadilla +3 more
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Citizens and Positive Energy Districts: Are Espoo and Leipzig Ready for PEDs? [PDF]
Buildings, 2021 In urban transformation, no solution works without citizen support. With increasing numbers of building technologies and large-scale urban development on its way across cities, it has become vital to keep citizens informed, engaged, and content with the new changes. This paper looks at citizen engagement in Espoo (Finland) and Leipzig (Germany), and it
Pollmer, Uta +5 more
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Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2020
Energies, 2021 This Special Issue of Energies “Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2020” introduce contemporary research on Smart Cities and on Positive Energy Districts. The topic highlights the variety of research within this field: from
Paola Clerici Maestosi
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Energies, 2022 A Positive Energy District (PED) is a portion of urban area with defined boundaries that can produce energy in excess of its own consumption. The aim of this study is to analyse design variations among the six projects (12 case studies) of PED belonging ...
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Energies, 2021 Cities generate about 85% of the EU’s GDP. As such, they are key players in shaping and providing technological and social innovations but also environmental impact.
Paola Clerici Maestosi +2 more
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Buildings, 2023 To achieve the ambitious CO2 emission reduction targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals, it is crucial to act on cities. Indeed, cities are responsible for 67% of the world’s primary energy consumption and about 70% of energy-related CO2 ...
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