Interoperable, Smart, and Sustainable Urban Energy Systems

Abstract

The decarbonization of cities is a priority for the European Union (EU). Fossil fuel and gas supplies need to be replaced with local renewable energy sources with a relevant increase in efficiency within 20 years in order to cap environmental, social, and economic negative impacts, and this cannot do significant harm. In this context, smart city development frameworks focused on mitigation, adaptation, and measurement not only collaborate in providing governance for sustainability but also facilitate the materialization of such sustainability along lifecycle engineering processes for decarbonization solutions. To achieve these goals, we must face the interoperability challenge and make information accessible for engineering and sustainability governance systematically. A starting point is to validate the models, data, and harmonized metadata. In this paper, the authors provide results that validate the utility of a conceptual model for interoperable smart and sustainable urban energy systems (ISSUESs). The validation is carried out for an urban energy system with a high potential for decarbonizing southern European smart cities and integrating several commercial solar technologies using academic bibliography and natural language processing (NLP) techniques.

i-ISSUES—Industrial-Interoperable Safe and Secure Urban Energy Systems

“…The questions must be converted into textual alerts in documents obtained from search portals. Textual alerts have been defined previously in [6] as represented in Figure 2. The main difference here is that the research topic is not an urban energy system (UES) but the potential to build resilience and reduce GHG (greenhouse gases) and other emissions:…”

“…As advanced in [6], urban planners are involved in designing future urban energy systems as a part of their path toward decarbonization or Net Zero targets before 2050. The Making-city project and other current research works [7][8][9] provide carbon-free energy solutions for Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) and the potential to create sustainable and energy-positive communities.…”

Charting the path of sustainability discourse research: A systematic review of applied linguistic studies

“…The journal "Sustainability" welcomes studies on sustainability in different fields. In the journal, linguistic methods are increasingly used by non-linguist scholars to explore diverse topics, from business (Nielsen & Villadsen 2023;Oppong-Tawiah & Webster 2023) to urban development (Pastor et al, 2023). However, in searching for studies published by linguistics scholars, the list shrinks and leads to a special issue (Eds.…”