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Energy Planning of Circular and Energy Positive Cities and Communities
Towards climate-neutral “green’’ economy by 2050, it is not enough to be just energy-efficient. We need to be holistically resource-effective, where our limited resources including materials, water, land and indoor spaces, time and human, as well as energy generation, storage and distribution are optimally utilized in a holistic sustainable manner while minimizing impacts ‘’CO2-eq’’ on the environment. Energy planning of buildings has been done with different tools and sometimes even segmented due to the segmented nature of the process. Due to the development of digital tools and a higher focus on the utilization of high quality and high-resolution data for buildings, it is becoming feasible to perform more comprehensive studies related to energy planning of future cities and communities towards a climate-neutral economy.
This collection is inviting researchers to submit their work related to urban energy planning focusing on the following topics: utilization of advantages of digitalization for better energy planning of buildings, consideration of life-cycle analysis and cost in building retrofitting, integrated simulation tools for building energy planning, analysis of case studies on circular and energy positive cities, and implementation of cost-effective energy efficiency measures in buildings towards the climate-neutral economy. Any similar work focusing only on energy supply planning, fast implementation of technologies or energy-efficiency measures in buildings, and evaluation of life-cycle impact and circularity in building retrofitting are welcome.
Keywords:Cost-effective energy efficiency measures, building retrofitting, building energy supply, life-cycle analysis, urban energy planning.
Editors
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Natasa Nord
Prof. Natasa Nord, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is a Professor at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She has strong background in district heating, energy planning, building energy monitoring, building simulation, optimization, and fault detection. She has been a project leader for two research projects, two Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF, several collaboration and industry related projects, and a project on innovative teaching.
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Yantong Li
Assoc. Prof. Yantong Li, Dongguan University of Technology in Dongguan, China. Yantong Li is an Associate Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Energy Technology at the Dongguan University of Technology in Dongguan, China. He has performed investigations including simulation, optimal design and control of building energy systems, simulation and experimental studies of heat pumps, and mechanism studies of thermal energy storage systems. He received his PhD degree from the City University of Hong Kong. After PhD graduation, he continued his research work in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
