Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts: Urban Perspectives in 2020

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Technology: general issues; 15-minute city; behaviour change; building thermal performance; carbon footprint: citizen motivation; centralized energy systems; climate-neutral cities; distributed energy sources; distributed generation; district heating systems; doughnuts; downsizing district; electric buses; energy demand in buildings; energy flexibility; energy modelling; factsheets; GIS; governance; greenhouse gas emissions; I funding; low carbon energy public transport; multivariable evaluation; PED Booklet; photovoltaic systems; Poland; Polish city; positive energy district; Positive Energy District; Positive Energy District (PED); positive energy districts; positive energy districts labs; post-COVID-19 scenario for RD& public transport; refurbishment potential; renewable energy; SET-Plan; smart city; smart city deployment; statistical studies; sustainability; sustainable development; sustainable energy; sustainable urban areas; testing facilities; transition; TRNSYS; urban policy
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 Since their creation eight years ago, the EERA Joint Programmes and their participating institutions have accumulated important knowledge on specific topics of the programmes they carried out. This includes Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts, which are not only crucial topics tackled by EERA Joint Programme in the Smart Cities Workplan, but also in H2020 as well as Horizon Europe or national calls, focusing on innovative solutions based on interdisciplinary approaches, which are needed to face the highly complex challenges in coming years, from sustainable urban development to emergencies in cities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The foreword of EERA JP in SC Special Issue 1|2018 highlighted the aim of the Special Issues series, which was, and still is, to support the growth of research networks in the EC framework. According to this, our ambition is to publish the most promising research and innovation projects which EERA JPonSC partners, and others, set up in the framework of H2020 Programme, to drive the attention to the fact that EERA JP on SC is one of the strong voices in research in Europe, capable of highlighting and integrating different solutions and points of view.