Methods and tools for community energy planning: A review

Z Huang, H Yu, Z Peng, M Zhao - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
High consumption of fossil fuels in urban area leads to environmental pollution and energy
shortages, which threaten to reverse human progress. Community energy system planning …

Review on performance aspects of nearly zero-energy districts

AR Amaral, E Rodrigues, AR Gaspar… - Sustainable cities and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The nearly zero-energy concept aims to achieve a significant reduction of energy
consumption in the buildings' sector, while promoting the renewable energy dissemination …

Urban energy planning procedure for sustainable development in the built environment: A review of available spatial approaches

ST Moghadam, C Delmastro, SP Corgnati… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Urban and Regional Integrated Energy Planning is crucial to define transition
strategies toward sustainable development and post-carbon cities; particularly, in the built …

Towards an energy sustainable community: An energy system analysis for a village in Switzerland

K Orehounig, G Mavromatidis, R Evins, V Dorer… - Energy and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper aims to integrate decentralized energy systems in a village in Switzerland, which
has the goal to phase out fossil fuels and rely on local renewable energy sources. To reach …

Planning community energy system in the industry 4.0 era: Achievements, challenges and a potential solution

Z Huang, H Yu, Z Peng, Y Feng - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Many industries have undergone a transformation in today's highly developed information
technology era. In this study, we descript a future community energy system perspective …

An intelligent planning model for the development and utilization of urban underground space with an application to the Luohu District in Shenzhen

Y Zhang, J Zhu, Z Liao, J Guo, H Xie, Q Peng - … and Underground Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Development and utilization of Urban underground space (UUS) is one of the key
ways for developing sustainable cities. However, the development and utilization of UUS is …

Review of district-scale energy performance analysis: Outlooks towards holistic urban frameworks

R Aghamolaei, MH Shamsi, M Tahsildoost… - Sustainable cities and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a major population shift towards
urban areas resulting in environmental degradation and increased energy consumption. To …

The role of nearly-zero energy buildings in the transition towards Post-Carbon Cities

C Becchio, SP Corgnati, C Delmastro, V Fabi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Nowadays about 50% of global population lives in cities, responsible for about 70% of GHG
emissions and by 2030 the urbanization rate will increase to over 75%. The paper analyses …

Formation and continuation of thermal energy community systems: An explorative agent-based model for the netherlands

J Fouladvand, N Mouter, A Ghorbani, P Herder - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Energy communities are key elements in the energy transition at the local level as they aim
to generate and distribute energy based on renewable energy technologies locally. The …

A goal programming based model system for community energy plan

Z Huang, H Yu, X Chu, Z Peng - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Community energy system optimization model has great contribution to formulate community
energy planning indexes. But an inappropriate response of uncertainty always makes such …