Aged Care Energy Use and Peak Demand Change in the COVID-19 Year: Empirical Evidence from Australia

Liu, Aaron; Miller, Wendy; Chiou, James; Zedan, Sherif; Yiğitcanlar, Tan; Ding, Yuemin

doi:10.3390/buildings11120570

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“…The trend of rapidly increasing human population creates a high demand on energy, particularly in large metropolitan cities, which poses a major threat to our future energy security [90][91][92][93]. Given that this trend is already coupled with anthropogenic climate change externalities, the magnitude of this problem is colossal, which makes it a serious challenge for the authorities to tackle [94].…”

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Understanding Sustainable Energy in the Context of Smart Cities: A PRISMA Review

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In the context of smart cities, sustainability is an essential dimension. One of the ways to achieve sustainability and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in smart cities is through the promotion of sustainable energy. The demand for affordable and reliable electrical energy requires different energy sources, where the cost of production often outweighs the environmental factor. This paper aims to investigate the ways smart cities promote sustainability in the electricity sector. For this, a systematic literature review using the PRISMA protocol was employed as the methodological approach. In this review, 154 journal articles were thoroughly analyzed. The results were grouped according to the themes and categorized into energy efficiency, renewable energies, and energy and urban planning. The study findings revealed the following: (a) global academic publication landscape for smart city and energy sustainability research; (b) unbalanced publications when critically evaluating geographical continents’ energy use intensity vs. smart cities’ energy sustainability research outcomes; (c) there is a heavy concentration on the technology dimension of energy sustainability and efficiency, and renewables topics in the literature, but much less attention is paid to the energy and urban planning issues. The insights generated inform urban and energy authorities and provide scholars with directions for prospective research.

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“…Simulations Field measurement [61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68] Literature review [69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82] Other methodologies [83][84][85][86][87][88] survey [89] coding [90][91][92] analysis [93] comparison…”

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“…Analysis of the main aim of the research in reviewed articles. Improve/measure sustainability[22,[24][25][26][34][35][36]38,40,41,43,45,46,[51][52][53][56][57][58][59]61,62,66,70,71,74,75,80,83,87,[89][90][91][92][93] …”

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Reviewing the Role of Key Performance Indicators in Architectural and Urban Design Practices

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2022

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Energy use and relative CO2 emissions drive climate change that affects both the environment and human health. Extreme events caused by climate change, such as heat waves, flooding, and droughts are increasingly frequent and dangerous and the quality of life in cities is progressively decreasing. The building sector is among the most energy intensive sectors and mitigation and adaptation strategies are needed to reduce the emissions and impacts of climate change. This article presents a literature review created using the SCOPUS database on 515 articles setup to investigate the role of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in architectural and urban design processes and to understand how KPIs can be used to improve sustainability in the design of buildings and cities. Findings from the literature review highlights the potentiality of KPIs as a tool for managing complexity and for measure performances starting from the early design stages up to the lifetime of buildings and, in general, design. In parallel, the analysis of results showed that KPIs are commonly used to evaluate performance at a very different scale, but the building scale is the most considered. The use of KPIs in architecture, focusing on sustainability, should be implemented more in the future to allow for a better control of architectural performances.

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“…Furthermore, budget constraints may be an issue for many sectors, including the aged care sector [11]. At the same time, healthcare and aged care communities often have high energy needs during daytime hours [12,13], which may well coincide with the daytime solar profile. Therefore, it makes sense to have renewable energy from solar photovoltaic systems (PV) to offset those sites' electricity needs.…”

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A Fairer Renewable Energy Policy for Aged Care Communities: Data Driven Insights across Climate Zones

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Communal living for older people exists in many different forms, such as suburban communities, lifestyle communities, retirement villages and residential aged care communities (RAC) where electricity is supplied via a main gate meter to the whole community. Australia’s Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme incentivizes individuals and businesses to install renewable energy systems up to 100 kW peak. A system of this size, however, may not meet a community’s energy needs or sustainability goals. In contrast, other residential dwellings are allowed to install a minimum solar inverter of 5 kW. Therefore, this paper investigates small-scale renewable energy targets on a per bed basis for RACs and the impact of a change from the current 100 kWpeak small-scale renewable energy policy. A data driven clustering-based method has been implemented to identify financially optimal photovoltaic (PV) system ratings for ten RACs across four climate zones. Explored are 100 kWpeak PV and net zero electricity scenarios. Results show RACs with 5 kW PV per bed can move closer to a net zero electricity goal and generate 800 to 1400 GWh of renewable electricity each year with significant financial savings. A fairer renewable policy, based on kilowatts per bed, is advocated to improve communities’ energy resilience, financial sustainability, and environmental sustainability.

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Aged Care Energy Use and Peak Demand Change in the COVID-19 Year: Empirical Evidence from Australia

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Understanding Sustainable Energy in the Context of Smart Cities: A PRISMA Review

Understanding Sustainable Energy in the Context of Smart Cities: A PRISMA Review

Reviewing the Role of Key Performance Indicators in Architectural and Urban Design Practices

A Fairer Renewable Energy Policy for Aged Care Communities: Data Driven Insights across Climate Zones

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