Optimization Models for Planning Future Energy Systems in Urban Areas

2003 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Kiichiro Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Optimization Models

Identifying land cover suitability factors for photovoltaic installations with focus on cropland and urban areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhura Yeligeti ◽  
Wenxuan Hu ◽  
Yvonne Scholz ◽  
Kai von Krbek
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
System Modelling ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Land Cover Types ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Settlements

<p>Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems will foreseeably be an integral part of future energy systems. Land cover area analysis has a large influence on estimatiin of long-term solar photovoltaic potential of the world in high spatial detail. In this regard, it is often seen in contemporary works, that the suitability of various land cover categories for PV installation is considered in a yes/no binary response. While some areas like natural parks, sanctuaries, forests are usually completely exempted from PV potential calculations, other land over categories like urban settlements, bare, sparsely vegetated areas, and even cropland can principally support PV installations to varying degrees. This depends on the specific land use competition, social, economic and climatic conditions, etc. In this study, we attempt to evaluate these ‘factors of suitability’ of different land cover types for PV installations.</p><p>As a basis, the openly available global land cover datasets from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service were used to identify major land cover types like cropland, shrubland, bare, wetlands, urban settlements, forests, moss and snow etc. For open area PV installations, with a focus on cropland, we incorporated the promising technology of ‘Agri-voltaics’ in our investigation. Different crops have shown to respond positively or negatively, so far, to growing under PV panels according to various experimental and commercial sources. Hence, we considered 18 major crops of the world (covering 85% of world cropland) individually and consequently, evaluated a weighted overall suitability factor of cropland cover for PV, for three acceptance scenarios of future.</p><p>For rooftop PV installations in urban areas, various socio-economic and geographical influences come in play. The rooftop area available and further usable for PV depends on housing patterns (roof type, housing density) which vary with climate, population density and socio-economic lifestyle. We classified global urban areas into several clusters based on combinations of these factors. For each cluster, rooftop area suitability is evaluated at a representative location using the land cover maps, the Open Street Map and specific characteristics of the cluster.</p><p>Overall, we present an interdisciplinary approach to integrate technological, social and economic aspects in land cover analysis to estimate PV potentials. While the intricacies may still be insufficient for planning small localized energy systems, this can reasonably benefit energy system modelling from a regional to international scale.</p>

Complex networks for the integration of distributed energy systems in urban areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 336-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Fichera ◽  
Mattia Frasca ◽  
Rosaria Volpe
Keyword(s):  
Complex Networks ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Distributed Energy

Integration of behavioral effects from vehicle choice models into long-term energy systems optimization models

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 663-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalai Ramea ◽  
David S. Bunch ◽  
Christopher Yang ◽  
Sonia Yeh ◽  
Joan M. Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Energy Systems ◽  
Choice Models ◽  
Behavioral Effects ◽  
Optimization Models ◽  
Vehicle Choice ◽  
Term Energy

scholarly journals Electronic and ICT Solutions for Smart Buildings and Urban Areas

2017 ◽  
pp. 1776-1804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Tamburini ◽  
Maurizio Rossi ◽  
Davide Brunelli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Peak Shaving ◽  
Hybrid Energy ◽  
Hybrid Energy Systems ◽  
The City ◽  
Balancing Services

Nowadays, residential hybrid energy systems are moving from being a pure theoretical exercise to real applications for new urban areas. The growing interest related to the needs of reducing pollution, the phasing out of fossil fuel resources and the need to safeguard the environment, have led to a large number of studies and solutions to reduce fuel consumption and to manage energy sources in a better way, leading to an innovative concept of the city where smart infrastructures are in place. In this chapter we introduce the concept of hybrid energy systems, namely buildings that can exploit both renewable energy sources and the grid. On top of it, a system manager schedules the usage of electrical appliances to minimize the electricity bill while providing peak shaving and load balancing services to utilities and service providers.

Building Stock Energy Models and ICT Solutions for Urban Energy Systems

2021 ◽  
pp. 490-514
Author(s):  
Ilaria Ballarini ◽  
Vincenzo Corrado ◽  
Matteo Piro
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Energy Savings ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Energy Flows ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
The Right

The existing building stock presents a high potential of energy savings and CO2 emissions reductions. To this purpose, literature provides novel city-scale building-oriented studies, aimed at developing suitable tools for stakeholders, city planners, and decision-makers. To achieve an effective urban energy planning, urban energy systems (UES) models are developed; they employ a multi-domain approach, embracing the complex interactions in urban areas, such as energy flows, environmental indicators, social and economic factors. To perform an advanced modelling and to simulate the complexity of the UES, ICT (information and communications technology) represents nowadays the right answer to the needs of integration of data, tools, and actors in different domains. The chapter investigates the current studies in the field of building stock energy modeling and the application of advanced technologies to develop UES models. As an exemplification, the technological approach followed in the SEMANCO project to support urban scale energy modelling is presented.

scholarly journals Recent Advances in Technology, Strategy and Application of Sustainable Energy Systems

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 5229
Author(s):  
Wenxiao Chu ◽  
Francesco Calise ◽  
Neven Duić ◽  
Poul Alberg Østergaard ◽  
Maria Vicidomini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Sustainable Energy Systems

The global COVID-19 pandemic has had strong impacts on national and international freight, construction and tourism industry, supply chains, and has resulted in a rapid decline in the demand for traditional energy sources. In fact, research has outlined that urban areas depend on global supply chains for their day-to-day basic functions, including energy supplies, food and safe access to potable water. The disruption of global supply chains can leave many urban areas in a very vulnerable position, in which their citizens may struggle to obtain their basic supplies, as the COVID-19 crisis has recently shown. Therefore, solutions aiming to enhance local food, water and energy production systems, even in urban environments, have to be pursued. The COVID-19 crisis has also highlighted in the scientific community the problem of people’s exposure to outdoor and indoor pollution, confirmed as a key element for the increase both in the transmission and severity of the contagion, on top of involving health risks on their own. In this context, most nations are going to adopt new preferential policies to stimulate the development of relevant sustainable energy industries, based on the electrification of the systems supplied by renewable energy sources as confirmed by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Thus, while there is ongoing research focusing on a COVID 19 vaccine, there is also a need for researchers to work cooperatively on novel strategies for world economic recovery incorporating renewable energy policy, technology and management. In this framework, the Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) conference provides a good platform for researchers and other experts to exchange their academic thoughts, promoting the development and improvements on the renewable energy technologies as well as their role in systems and in the transition towards sustainable energy systems. The 14th SDEWES Conference was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It brought together around 570 researchers from 55 countries in the field of sustainable development. The present Special Issue of Energies, specifically dedicated to the 14th SDEWES Conference, focuses on four main fields: energy policy for sustainable development, biomass energy application, building energy saving, and power plant and electric systems.

scholarly journals Eco-Sim: A Parametric Tool to Evaluate the Environmental and Economic Feasibility of Decentralized Energy Systems

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karni Siraganyan ◽  
Amarasinghage Perera ◽  
Jean-Louis Scartezzini ◽  
Dasaraden Mauree
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Thermal Storage ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Solar Thermal ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Levelized Cost Of Electricity

Due to climate change and the need to decrease the carbon footprint of urban areas, there is an increasing pressure to integrate renewable energy and other components in urban energy systems. Most of the models or available tools do not provide both an economic and environmental assessment of the energy systems and thus lead to the design of systems that are sub-optimal. A flexible and modular simulation tool, Eco-Sim, is thus developed in the current study to conduct a comprehensive techno-economic and environmental assessment of a distributed energy system considering different configuration scenarios. Subsequently, an intermodel comparison is conducted with the Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER) Pro as well as with a state-of-the-art industrial tool. Eco-Sim is then extended by including the heating demand, thermal conversion (by using heat pumps and solar thermal) methods and thermal storage. A parametric analysis is conducted by considering different capacities of solar photovoltaics (PV), solar thermal panels and energy storage technologies. The levelized cost of electricity, the autonomy level and the CO 2 emissions are used as the key performance indicators. Based on the analysis of a study case conducted in a neighbourhood in Geneva, Switzerland, the study reveals that, with the present market prices for batteries and seasonal changes in solar energy potential, the combination of solar PV with battery storage doesn’t bring a significant autonomy to the system and increases the CO 2 emissions of the system. However, the integration of thermal storage and solar thermal generation is shown to considerably increase the autonomy of the neighbourhood. Finally, multiple scenarios are also run in order to evaluate the sensitivity of economic parameters on the performance indicators of the system. Under the assumptions of the model, to foster investments in solar PV and battery installations, falling installation costs or stronger policies in favor of renewable energy seem necessary for the future.

scholarly journals Simulation models to study development of the coal industry as energy sector component

2019 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 02004
Author(s):  
Liudmila Takaishvili
Keyword(s):  
Energy Systems ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Optimization Models ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Its Regions ◽  
Study Development

This paper presents simulation models constructed at Melentiev Energy Systems Institute of SB RAS to study prospects of the coal industry development in Russia and its regions. The models are implemented within the information and model software COAL, which includes four types of models: three types of balance models and a model intended to assess investment projects of enterprises and their groups. The balance models differ in the level of detail of representing the coal industry in regions. The presented models may be applied both jointly with the existing optimization models and independently.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document