Urban Energy Transition : Cities and Regions for a Stable Climate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Droege, Peter.

Contributor:

Droege, Peter

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (812 pages)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chantilly : Elsevier, 2025.

Summary:

Urban Energy Transition, Third Edition: Cities and Regions for a stable climate is the most current scientific and practice-based compendium on energy transformations in the global urban system.

Contents:

Front Cover

Urban Energy Transition: Cities and Regions for a Stable Climate

Copyright Page

Contents

List of contributors

About the authors

1 Introduction: from cities of waste to climate-stabilizing communities

1.1 City and uncity

1.2 Greenhouse gas emissions pose only part of the climate challenge

1.3 The challenge and future of the urban energy dimension

1.4 Urban energy transition: quo vadis

1.5 Urban energy transitions meet a failure of global climate policy and practice

1.6 This volume in a nutshell: an ecosystem of change

References

2 Smart solar integration insights from four pioneers: Masdar City, Stockholm, Freiburg, and San Diego

2.1 Background and setting

2.2 Case description

2.2.1 Masdar City, Abu Dabi, UAE

2.2.2 Stockholm, Sweden

2.2.3 Freiburg, Germany

2.2.4 San Diego

2.3 Empirical insights from four cities

2.3.1 Environmental performance and decarbonization pathways

2.3.2 Technology and infrastructure

2.3.3 Building design, urban form, and spatial planning

2.3.4 Financing mechanisms and marketing models

2.3.5 Social inclusion and justice considerations

2.3.6 Governance and institutional frameworks

2.4 Cross-case synthesis and lessons learned

2.5 Outlook

Appendix A

3 Refurbish suburbs to regenerate cities: energy, architecture, and technology for housing

3.1 Why regenerate urban peripheries?

3.2 Energy strategies to regenerate urban areas

3.2.1 Energy performance of buildings

3.2.2 Renewable energy communities and energy transition

3.2.3 Renewable energy communities in Italy

3.2.4 Renewable energy communities and public residential housing

3.3 Recovery of mass housing: three case studies

3.3.1 Le Lignon | Vernier, Switzerland

3.3.2 Park Hill | Sheffield, United Kingdom.

3.3.3 De Flat Kleiburg | Amsterdam, the Netherlands

3.4 Regeneration of Tor Bella Monaca district

3.4.1 National Innovative Program for Housing Quality, Integrated Urban Plans, and Renewable Energy Communities programs

3.4.2 The recovery project

3.4.3 Le Torri Solar Park

3.5 Conclusions

4 Enabling embedded generation uptake in South African cities

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The drivers of embedded generation uptake

4.2.1 Increasing grid electricity prices

4.2.2 Load-shedding/rolling blackouts

4.2.3 Declining cost of solar and storage technologies

4.2.4 Increased climate consciousness

4.2.5 Changes in regulations to support embedded generation

4.2.5.1 The integrated resource plan

4.2.5.2 Amendments to Electricity Regulation Act

4.3 Reflecting on municipal progress

4.3.1 Embedded generation readiness

4.3.1.1 Institutional readiness

4.3.1.2 Operational readiness

4.3.1.3 Staff readiness

4.4 Reflecting on customer perceptions

4.4.1 Bottlenecks and frustrations in the approval process

4.4.2 Improving customer centricity

4.4.2.1 Fast-tracking applications

4.4.2.2 Incentivizing customers to feed into the grid

4.5 Conclusion

5 Toward a climate-positive world: the dramatic shift to net zero, then climate-positive cities

5.1 Introduction

5.2 What is net zero

5.3 "Productivity Requirement 1: Reduce the cost of meeting carbon targets

5.3.1 The solar, battery, and EV transition

5.3.2 Firming

5.3.3 Smart technology

5.3.4 Health

5.3.5 The harder bits of net zero

5.4 Productivity Requirement 2: "Speed up approvals for new energy infrastructure

5.4.1 Transit planning

5.4.2 Benefit cost ratios

5.4.3 Modeling value outcomes

5.4.4 Partnerships.

5.5 Productivity Requirement 3: Encourage adaptation by addressing barriers to private investment

5.5.1 Building innovations

5.5.2 Closed canopy greening

5.5.3 Transit/land partnerships

5.6 Case study: enhancement of local energy productivity through peer-to-peer trading

5.7 Conclusions

Further reading

6 Learning from Fairwater Living Laboratory-toward a precinct-based approach for decarbonization and regeneration

6.1 Background and setting

6.2 Fairwater case study

6.3 Discussion of findings

6.3.1 Energy

6.3.1.1 Reduced peak demand and energy consumption from geothermal air-conditioning

6.3.1.2 The importance of designing for sustainable practices

6.3.2 Health and well-being

6.3.3 Urban heat

6.3.4 Implementation and commercial viability

6.4 Summary and outlook

6.4.1 Toward a precinct-based approach for decarbonization and regeneration with ambitious targets

6.4.2 Harnessing renewable energy

6.4.3 The role of house size, building design, and fabric

6.4.4 Design that drives sustainable practice

6.4.5 User engagement through education and feedback

6.4.6 Planetary and public health considerations

6.5 Conclusion

Competing interests

Ethical consent

Funding and acknowledgment

7 Transition from the oil economy to postoil cities

7.1 Background and setting

7.2 Oil-related inputs to residential development

7.3 Building case study

7.4 Building embodied energy comparisons

7.4.1 Low-rise apartment building comparison

7.4.2 Medium-rise apartment building comparison

7.4.3 High-rise apartment building comparison

7.4.4 Embodied energy cross-case comparison

7.5 A paradigm shift toward sustainable regenerative cities

7.5.1 Urban fabric and city form to reduce dependence on oil.

7.5.2 Urban built environment structure for efficient urban metabolism

7.5.3 Mobility, transport, and function in sustainable cities

7.5.4 Characteristics of oil-constrained sustainable cities

7.5.5 Summary of tabulated data resulting from theoretical analysis

7.6 Findings of the research

7.6.1 Oil restrictions will gradually affect all types of urban residential buildings at the site scale

7.6.2 Adaptive design is needed for sustainable urban residential form at the precinct scale

7.6.3 Oil restrictions will increasingly affect urban communities at middle-outer city scales

7.6.4 Transformative planning system policies and programs are essential at city-wide and regional scales

7.6.5 Integrated strategic framework

7.7 Conclusions and outlook

8 Electric vehicle adoption in Kenya: a review of the quality infrastructure

8.1 Introduction

8.2 E-mobility landscape in Kenya

8.3 Systematic review of quality infrastructure in Kenya

8.3.1 Standardization of electric vehicles

8.3.2 Conformity assessment of electric vehicles

8.3.3 Charging infrastructure

8.3.3.1 Charging infrastructure guidelines

8.3.3.2 Battery swapping guidelines

8.3.4 National Electric Mobility Policy

8.4 The role of metrology in supporting e-mobility

8.5 Challenges and Opportunities

8.6 Summary and Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Funding statement

9 Designing a safe and cost-efficient photovoltaic energy system for the city of Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia

9.1 Background

9.2 2 Methodology

9.3 3 Results

9.3.1 Spatial prototypes

9.3.2 Demand estimation

9.3.2.1 Current demand estimation

9.3.2.2 Future demand forecast

9.3.3 Solar photovoltaic system design

9.3.4 Solar photovoltaic potential

9.3.5 System installation planning

9.4 Discussion.

9.4.1 Demand, electricity access, and photovoltaic potential estimation

9.4.2 Implementation planning

9.4.3 Reduction in carbon emissions

9.4.4 Job impacts

9.4.5 Policy recommendations

9.5 Conclusion

10 Energy conservation effects on air conditioning due to urban heat island countermeasures: a simulation at a city-block scale

10.1 Introduction

10.2 CO2 reduction effect of rooftop greening in office buildings

10.2.1 Heat balance of rooftop greening

10.2.2 CO2 reduction effect simulation by rooftop greening

10.3 Observation of heat balance of high-albedo paint

10.4 Evaluation of deployment of urban heat island mitigation measures for various city blocks

10.4.1 Calculation conditions and standard cases

10.4.2 Effects of countermeasures for each countermeasure introduction site

10.4.3 Evaluation of wider area in central Tokyo

10.5 Summary

11 Resistant architecture for bushfire zones

11.1 Resistant architecture for bushfire zones

11.1.1 Inspirations

11.1.2 The architecture

11.2 Fire resistance

11.3 Conclusion

12 Net zero buildings: exploring the complexity of sector-wide transition in the new buildings sector in South African cities

12.1 Introduction

12.1.1 Buildings represent the "gateway" sector for city carbon emission reduction

12.1.2 SA context and The SA Buildings Program

12.1.3 A roadmap to Net Zero Carbon

12.1.4 The policy pathway: setting the high-level goal and establishing the mechanism through which to achieve this

12.1.4.1 The legal mandate

12.1.4.2 Measurable targets and detailed policy design

12.1.4.3 Performance versus prescription

12.1.5 Developing an evidence base

12.1.5.1 The buildings emissions baseline and policy impact model

12.1.5.2 Financial feasibility model.

12.1.6 Stakeholders.

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ISBN:

0-323-99437-7

0-323-99438-5

9780323994385

OCLC:

1564374304