Urban Energy Systems for Low-Carbon Cities

With an increase of global energy demand arising in urban settlements, the key challenges for the urban energy transition include analysis of energy efficiency options and the potential of renewable energy systems within the existing building stock, making cities a key actor in the transition success.

In Urban Energy Systems for Low Carbon Cities, indicators to evaluate urban energy performance are introduced and the status quo of monitoring and efficiency valuation schemes are discussed.

The book discusses advances on the state-of-the-art of research in a number of key areas:

• Energy demand and consumption mapping and monitoring
• Optimization of design and operation of urban supply and distribution systems
• Integration of renewable energy and urban energy network models
• Demand side management strategies to better match renewable supply and demand and increase flexibilities

With innovative modelling methods this book gives a real bottom-up modelling approach used for the simulation of energy consumption, energy conversion systems and distribution networks using engineering methods.

• Provides support and guidance on the energy transition issues relating to energy demand, consumption mapping and monitoring
• Includes examples from case study cities, including Vienna, Geneva, New York and Stuttgart
• Analyzes the potential of energy management strategies in urban areas

Researchers, engineers and scientists working with renewable energy; power engineers, systems designers, planners and operators, engineering consultants; Energy supply companies; research institutions; graduate and postgraduate students in engineering, energy, physics, architecture

1. Urban energy system planning: Overview and main challenges
Sebastien Cajot, Nils Schüler

2 A planning support system using interactive optimization
Nils Schüler, Sebastien Cajot

3 Building energy demand modelingFrom individual buildings to urban scale

4 Load management in buildings
Solene Goy, Ana Sancho-Tomás

5 Multimodal networks and decentralized renewable generation: Network modeling and energy/exergy performance evaluation
Mario Potente, Nina Solomakhina, Pilar Monsalvete

6 Open data-modeling standards for city-wide energy simulations
Giorgio Agugiaro

7 Uncertainty assessment of building performance simulation An insight into suitability of methods and their applications
Parag Wate, Volker Coors, Marco Iglesias, Darren Robinson

8 Model integration: An SOA approach
Preston Rodrigues

9 The case study cities of Geneva and Vienna
Jean-Loup Robineau, Giorgio Agugiaro

10 Applying modeling and optimization tools to existing city quarters
Mario Potente Prieto, Pilar Monsalvete Alvarez de Uribarri, Giovanni Tardioli

11 Use of interactive optimization for the planning of new and existing neighborhoods
Nils Schüler, Sebastien Cajot