Positioning Positive Energy Districts in European Cities

Lindholm, Oscar; Rehman, Hassam ur; Reda, Francesco

doi:10.3390/buildings11010019

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“…Also, the integrated view of urban planning proposed in PEDs literature, where multiple energy uses are considered simultaneously (e.g., households, public luminaires, commercial, etc. ), and the importance of context-specific trajectories to PEDs is at the core of our territorial framework (Ala-Juusela et al, 2016;Lindholm et al, 2021;Moreno et al, 2021). An analysis based on TEV framework can facilitate the implementation of a just energy transition based on context-specific guidelines and policies coherent with existing concepts of energy poverty and decarbonization pathways (such as PEDs).…”

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confidence: 99%

Territorial Energy Vulnerability Assessment to Enhance Just Energy Transition of Cities

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Front. Sustain. Cities

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Energy poverty is a crucial concept in current global energy policy, both for the importance of securing equitable access to high-quality energy services to all human populations and to advance toward a just energy transition to a decarbonized economy. Nonetheless, one of the limitations of this concept due to its focus at the household scale, it has tended to omit relevant energy conditions at a territorial scale, which can also be a dimension of significant deprivation (e.g., transportation, schools, hospitals, public services, industrial uses among others.). On the other hand, energy services are highly dependent on context: on the geographic, ecological, technical, economic, and sociocultural conditions. This context-dependency determines the range of energy and technological alternatives available in a territory. Hence, a conceptual framework is required to better understand the starting point to a just energy transition, capable of integrating the complexity of socio-techno-ecological systems. To fill this gap, we present a framework based on the concept of Territorial Energy Vulnerability (TEV), defined as the propensity of a territory to not guarantee equitable access—in quantity and quality—to resilient energy services that allow the sustainable human and economic development of its population. That is a greater probability of inequity in access to energy services or a significant impacts derived from socio-natural risks that make it incapable of guaranteeing a sustainable and resilient provision of these services. Built on state-of-the-art conceptualizations of risk, we develop an indicator-based framework on vulnerability understood as the combination of sensitivity and resilience characteristics of socio-techno-ecological systems. Sensitivity relates to economic, demographic, infrastructure, technology, culture, and knowledge characteristics of socio-techno-ecological components. Meanwhile, resilience is presented in a three-dimensional framework based on flexibility, register, and self-transformation capacity of socio-techno-ecological systems. An application of this framework is developed using three case studies: Arica, Los Andes and Coyhaique, all Chilean cities with diverse ecological, technical, economic, and sociocultural conditions that shape territorial vulnerability. Using this framework as a diagnostic tool, the development of a just energy transition could adapt existing concepts of energy poverty and decarbonization pathways into context-specific guidelines and policies.

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Territorial Energy Vulnerability Assessment to Enhance Just Energy Transition of Cities

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Amigo

Billi

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…A PED can be generally described as a district within a city that generates more energy than it consumes on an annual basis [39]. The aim of PED is not only to generate surplus energy, but rather to minimize the impact on the centralized grid by promoting higher self-consumption and self-sufficiency.…”

Section: Positive Energy District (Ped) Concepts Aims and Connection With Zero Energy Concepts And International Energy Agency Energy In mentioning

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IEA EBC Annex83 Positive Energy Districts

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At a global level, the need for energy efficiency and an increased share of renewable energy sources is evident, as is the crucial role of cities due to the rapid urbanization rate. As a consequence of this, the research work related to Positive Energy Districts (PED) has accelerated in recent years. A common shared definition, as well as technological approaches or methodological issues related to PEDs are still unclear in this development and a global scientific discussion is needed. The International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (IEA EBC) Annex 83 is the main platform for this international scientific debate and research. This paper describes the challenges of PEDs and the issues that are open for discussions and how the Annex 83 is planned and organized to facilitate this and to actively steer the development of PEDs major leaps forward. The main topics of discussion in the PED context are the role and importance of definitions of PEDs, virtual and geographical boundaries in PEDs, the role of different stakeholders, evaluation approaches, and the learnings of realized PED projects.

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“…This underlines the ambition of PEDs as a process of growth and transition. Recent work has also initially analyzed overall PED implementation approaches in Europe and discusses their operational focus areas [12]. Technical definitions are also made available by related projects (e.g., https://cityxchange.eu/knowledge-base/positive-energy-districts-ped/) (accessed on 19 May 2021).…”

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Approaches to Social Innovation in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs)—A Comparison of Norwegian Projects

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The Positive Energy District (PED) concept is a localized city and district level response to the challenges of greenhouse gas emission reduction and energy transition. With the Strategic Energy Transition (SET) Plan aiming to establish 100 PEDs by 2025 in Europe, a number of PED projects are emerging in the EU member states. While the energy transition is mainly focusing on technical innovations, social innovation is crucial to guarantee the uptake and deployment of PEDs in the built environment. We set the spotlight on Norway, which, to date, has three PED projects encompassing 12 PED demo sites in planning and early implementation stages, from which we extract approaches for social innovations and discuss how these learnings can contribute to further PED planning and implementation. We describe the respective approaches and learnings for social innovation of the three PED projects, ZEN, +CityxChange and syn.ikia, in a multiple case study approach. Through the comparison of these projects, we start to identify social innovation approaches with different scopes regarding citizen involvement, stakeholder interaction and capacity building. These insights are also expected to contribute to further planning and design of PED projects within local and regional networks (PEDs in Nordic countries) and contribute to international PED concept development.

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Positioning Positive Energy Districts in European Cities

Cited by 103 publications

References 58 publications

Territorial Energy Vulnerability Assessment to Enhance Just Energy Transition of Cities

Territorial Energy Vulnerability Assessment to Enhance Just Energy Transition of Cities

IEA EBC Annex83 Positive Energy Districts

Approaches to Social Innovation in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs)—A Comparison of Norwegian Projects

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