Ammonia as Fuel for Transportation to Mitigate Zero Carbon Impact

: The urban water industry is a very energy intensive industry. Higher water quality standards are driving a level of energy growth that is threatening to move it to the top rank. Climate change is further exacerbating this situation: Growing aridity is variously imposing an enhanced carbon burden through water recycling, trans-regional pipelines and desalination plants. Natural disasters too can often affect water quality requiring energy hungry mitigations. There’s clear evidence that a failure to appropriately weight energy considerations in water infrastructure is commonplace and that this is an unsustainable position for the industry and is prejudicial to working towards zero carbon cities. Real time tracking of CO2e emissions is an important starting point in raising operator consciousness and introducing rivalry between utilities in attaining abatement. So too is reaching out to the resource and manufacturing sectors to form strategic alliances as well as seeking to enter into closer relationships with the energy sector.

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Neighborhood Energy Modeling and Monitoring: A Case Study

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14123716 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (12) ◽

pp. 3716

Author(s):

Francesco Causone ◽

Rossano Scoccia ◽

Martina Pelle ◽

Paola Colombo ◽

Mario Motta ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Performance ◽

High Efficiency ◽

Early Stage ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Monitoring Plan ◽

Performance Targets ◽

Carrier Energy ◽

Zero Carbon ◽

Energy Grid

Cities and nations worldwide are pledging to energy and carbon neutral objectives that imply a huge contribution from buildings. High-performance targets, either zero energy or zero carbon, are typically difficult to be reached by single buildings, but groups of properly-managed buildings might reach these ambitious goals. For this purpose we need tools and experiences to model, monitor, manage and optimize buildings and their neighborhood-level systems. The paper describes the activities pursued for the deployment of an advanced energy management system for a multi-carrier energy grid of an existing neighborhood in the area of Milan. The activities included: (i) development of a detailed monitoring plan, (ii) deployment of the monitoring plan, (iii) development of a virtual model of the neighborhood and simulation of the energy performance. Comparisons against early-stage energy monitoring data proved promising and the generation system showed high efficiency (EER equal to 5.84), to be further exploited.

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Saving energy in residential buildings: the role of energy pricing

Climatic Change ◽

10.1007/s10584-021-03164-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 167 (1-2) ◽

Author(s):

Jens Ewald ◽

Thomas Sterner ◽

Eoin Ó Broin ◽

Érika Mata

Keyword(s):

Energy Demand ◽

Income Elasticity ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Energy Prices ◽

Residential Energy ◽

Residential Energy Demand ◽

Long Run ◽

Zero Carbon

AbstractA zero-carbon society requires dramatic change everywhere including in buildings, a large and politically sensitive sector. Technical possibilities exist but implementation is slow. Policies include many hard-to-evaluate regulations and may suffer from rebound mechanisms. We use dynamic econometric analysis of European macro data for the period 1990–2018 to systematically examine the importance of changes in energy prices and income on residential energy demand. We find a long-run price elasticity of −0.5. The total long-run income elasticity is around 0.9, but if we control for the increase in income that goes towards larger homes and other factors, the income elasticity is 0.2. These findings have practical implications for climate policy and the EU buildings and energy policy framework.

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Leadership for a climate resilient, net-zero health system: Transforming supply chains to the circular economy

Healthcare Management Forum ◽

10.1177/08404704211003610 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 084047042110036

Author(s):

Neil H. Ritchie

Keyword(s):

Supply Chains ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Multiple Stakeholders ◽

Natural Systems ◽

Climate Resilience ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Net Zero ◽

Climate Action ◽

Zero Carbon ◽

Single Use

The global pandemic has taught us that we can focus the attention of the healthcare system on a clear intention when there is a looming threat. Climate action is required from multiple stakeholders particularly private sector suppliers in order to achieve the net-zero carbon emission by 2050 goal established by the Canadian government. Also building climate resilience among healthcare institutions and their supply chains is urgently needed, as they are already affected by a changing climate. By adopting a circular economy framework, the industry can move away from the current damaging take, make waste economic model and adopt a more sustainable model characterized by designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. Health leaders can adopt sharing platforms, product as a service, reduce single use products, encourage extended producer responsibility, and value-based procurement in order to further these aims.

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