Home energy retrofit has been a publicly-funded policy in many countries since the 1990s.
Government motivations have spanned from combating energy poverty to climate action and …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to achieve a more inclusive,
resilient, safe and sustainable society. Policy makers, together with entrepreneurs and …

With the serious challenge of persistently high carbon emissions in China, the construction
of low-carbon cities is poised to become a trend in future development. However, there has …

The concept of retrofitting is an important milestone in the evolutionary development toward
upgrading the energy efficiency of residential buildings. Various policy instruments have …

The shadow prices, or marginal abatement cost, of pollutants is a useful measure of
environmental performance. Unlike much of the previous studies focusing on only one kind …

Introduction The target of universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy
services—key for individual, social, and economic well-being—is unlikely to be achieved by …

Economic production is often accompanied by the depletion of natural resources and
amplified environmental concerns. Mainstream economic models usually disregard such …

Sustainable urbanism involves a wide range of issues, starting with the building unit and
leading up to the city scale under the discourse of sustainability, including the four main …

Distributed energy resources (DERs), recently introduced into distribution systems, are
mainly inverter-based distributed generations (IBDGs), which have different short-circuit …

Energy systems are often socio-technical complex systems that are facing new challenges
regarding technological and environmental changes. Because of their complex nature, they …