All urban areas’ energy use data across 640 districts in India for the year 2011

AbstractIndia is the third-largest contributor to global energy-use and anthropogenic carbon emissions. India’s urban energy transitions are critical to meet its climate goals due to the country’s rapid urbanization. However, no baseline urban energy-use dataset covers all Indian urban districts in ways that align with national totals and integrate social-economic-infrastructural attributes to inform such transitions. This paper develops a novel bottom-up plus top-down approach, comprehensively integrating multiple field surveys and utilizing machine learning, to model All Urban areas’ Energy-use (AllUrE) across all 640 districts in India, merged with social-economic-infrastructural data. Energy use estimates in this AllUrE-India dataset are evaluated by comparing with reported energy-use at three scales: nation-wide, state-wide, and city-level. Spatially granular AllUrE data aggregated nationally show good agreement with national totals (<2% difference). The goodness-of-fit ranged from 0.78–0.95 for comparison with state-level totals, and 0.90–0.99 with city-level data for different sectors. The relatively strong alignment at all three spatial scales demonstrates the value of AllUrE-India data for modelling urban energy transitions consistent with national energy and climate goals.

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A method for energy efficiency assessment during urban energy planning

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment ◽

10.1108/sasbe-12-2013-0056 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 132-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

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.

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Urban Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in East Asia and Pacific

Energizing Green Cities in Southeast Asia ◽

10.1596/9780821398371_ch01 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 25-46

Author(s):

Dejan R. Ostojic ◽

Ranjan K. Bose ◽

Holly Krambeck ◽

Jeanette Lim ◽

Yabei Zhang

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Energy Use ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Urban Energy Use ◽

Urban Energy

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Drivers of urban energy use and main policy leverages xuemei bai, shobhakar dhakal, julia steinberger, and helga weisz

Energizing Sustainable Cities ◽

10.4324/9780203110126-21 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 129-144

Keyword(s):

Energy Use ◽

Urban Energy Use ◽

Urban Energy

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The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11123246 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 3246 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yves Bettignies ◽

Joao Meirelles ◽

Gabriela Fernandez ◽

Franziska Meinherz ◽

Paul Hoekman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Use ◽

Industrial Ecology ◽

Power Laws ◽

Urban Systems ◽

World Population ◽

Urban Energy Use ◽

Urban Energy ◽

Urban Territories ◽

Driver Analysis ◽

Energy Use Intensity

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a major nexus of global sustainability. Various studies have tried to pinpoint urban energy use drivers in order to find actionable levers to mitigate consumption and its associated environmental effects. Some of the approaches, mainly coming from complexity science and industrial ecology disciplines, use city-scale data to find power-laws relating to different types of energy use metrics with urban features at a city-scale. By doing so, cities’ internal complexity and heterogeneity are not explicitly addressed. Moreover, to our knowledge, no studies have yet explicitly addressed the potential scale dependency of such drivers. Drivers might not be transferable to other scales and yield undesired effects. In the present study, power-law relations are examined for 10 cities worldwide at city scale and infra-city scale, and the results are compared across scales. Relations are made across three urban features for three energy use intensity metrics. The results show that energy use drivers are in fact scale-dependent and are city-dependent for intra-urban territories.

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