scholarly journals Multi-resource Optimized Smart Management of Urban Energy Infrastructures for Improving Smart City Energy Efficiency

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Bertoncini
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
Energy Infrastructures

scholarly journals Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110059
Author(s):  
Leslie Quitzow ◽  
Friederike Rohde
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Futures ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
The City

Current imaginaries of urban smart grid technologies are painting attractive pictures of the kinds of energy futures that are desirable and attainable in cities. Making claims about the future city, the socio-technical imaginaries related to smart grid developments unfold the power to guide urban energy policymaking and implementation practices. This paper analyses how urban smart grid futures are being imagined and co-produced in the city of Berlin, Germany. It explores these imaginaries to show how the politics of Berlin’s urban energy transition are being driven by techno-optimistic visions of the city’s digital modernisation and its ambitions to become a ‘smart city’. The analysis is based on a discourse analysis of relevant urban policy and other documents, as well as interviews with key stakeholders from Berlin’s energy, ICT and urban development sectors, including key experts from three urban laboratories for smart grid development and implementation in the city. It identifies three dominant imaginaries that depict urban smart grid technologies as (a) environmental solution, (b) economic imperative and (c) exciting experimental challenge. The paper concludes that dominant imaginaries of smart grid technologies in the city are grounded in a techno-optimistic approach to urban development that are foreclosing more subtle alternatives or perhaps more radical change towards low-carbon energy systems.

Influence of Social and Environmental Responsibility in Energy Efficiency Management for Smart City

2021 ◽  
pp. 2141002
Author(s):  
Zang Huiyi ◽  
C Chandru Vignesh ◽  
J Alfred Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Social Competencies ◽  
Matching Criteria

Sustainability is becoming one of the organizational plans of intelligent communities. They represent the critical approach to a prosperous future. In another direction, the smart city is aimed at tackling renewable energy challenges. This research explores energy conservation’s impact from a labour market viewpoint of the Efficient Smart Cities model. The study meets the study divide on developing the power manager career in cities environmentally urban paradigm. This research’s primary purpose is to establish a current detailed approach to certification bodies’ skills that focus on new technology. The proposed Social and environmental responsibility in energy efficiency management for the Smart City (SER-EEM) framework represents the convergence between the conceptual and functional methods. For the presentation of labour market scientific studies, qualitative data were shown. The conclusion is that conservation and cloud computing are the central components of the Sustainable Smart City model. Work market analysis divided energy executives into developing nation’s expertise in terms of quantity and composition of production, and matching criteria for qualification were identified. The power management’s capability model comprises many core categories related to particular expertise, social competencies and behavioural competencies. By incorporating this study of resource management skills in industrial and non-commercial companies such as educational institutions and training classes, current research results will lead to development and awareness.

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 IMPROVING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF SMART CITIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 229 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
MAKSIM D. PUSHKAREV ◽  
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DMITRY A. PROKOFIEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Smart city technologies make the functioning of urban infrastructure more efficient, and the lives of citizens more comfortable and safe. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they were very popular, and this could not but affect the energy efficiency of high-tech megacities around the world. This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on smart cities, and also offers a solution to the problem of energy efficiency of smart cities.

scholarly journals Are smart city projects catalyzing urban energy sustainability?

Energy Policy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 918-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Håvard Haarstad ◽  
Marikken W. Wathne
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Energy Sustainability ◽  
Urban Energy

scholarly journals Supporting Urban Energy Efficiency with Volunteered Roof Information and the Google Maps API

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 9691-9711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilal Abdulkarim ◽  
Rustam Kamberov ◽  
Geoffrey Hay
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Google Maps ◽  
Urban Energy

scholarly journals CONCEPTED QUALITY CATEGORY IN THE CONCEPT OF SMART CITIES AND SUPPLY CHAINS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ostrovskaya ◽  
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S. Barykin ◽  
K. Borodina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
Energy Services ◽  
Quality Category ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In the article, the authors consider the main provisions of the concept of «quality». Make a connection between quality and safety, which is important for smart city projects and energy conservation. The article discusses the relationship of quality management with energy conservation, energy efficiency and energy services

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