Ten questions concerning positive energy districts

Sareen, Siddharth; Albert-Seifried, Vicky; Aelenei, Laura; Reda, Francesco; Etminan, Ghazal; Andreucci, Maria-Beatrice; Kuzmic, Michal; Maas, Nienke; Seco, Oscar; Civiero, Paolo; Gohari, Savis; Hukkalainen, Mari; Neumann, Hans-Martin

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109017

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“…As highlighted in the first study of the five cities [53], it is unfair to expect cities will tackle all of their local challenges during the project. Nonetheless, as claimed by several earlier studies, most city challenges circle around governance, technology, funding and community interest [7,64,65,68,69].…”

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Positive Energy Districts: The 10 Replicated Solutions in Maia, Reykjavik, Kifissia, Kladno and Lviv

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Cities have an undoubted significant role in climate change mitigation. Several cities across the globe have made commitments to sustainability transitions through green strategies. In the recent past, Europe has witnessed a surge in the development of smart cities and advancement towards creating more sustainable cities. At the moment, the concept of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) further encourages districts and cities to change their business-as-usual ways to be more carbon neutral. This paper looks at the five cities of Maia, Reykjavik, Kifissia, Kladno, and Lviv that are a part of an ongoing Horizon 2020 project. The purpose of the paper was to understand the steps the cities have taken to select the 10 solutions for replication. The information was collected through discussions, interviews and implementation plans developed by each city. It must be highlighted that each city’s circumstances differ in terms of political support, finances, technical expertise, and stakeholders’ interest, and this applies to all world cities when discussing the implementation of new efficient solutions. Cities across Europe and beyond may find themselves in a similar situation, and therefore, this paper also provides a story of the five Fellow Cities as they transition towards PEDs.

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Positive Energy Districts: The 10 Replicated Solutions in Maia, Reykjavik, Kifissia, Kladno and Lviv

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“…Then, moving on to the neighborhood scale, within the concept of positive energy districts (PEDs) [51], highly energy-efficient buildings, smart grid technologies, and other sustainable practices are promoted to produce more renewable energy than they consume, resulting in zero net greenhouse gas emissions and a reduction in the carbon footprint [52]. Norway and Italy are among the European countries with the largest number of PED projects [53].…”

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Achieving Net Zero Condominiums through Energy Community Sharing

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The European energy transition process is geared toward improving the economic viability of the energy sector through its democratization, which includes enabling citizens to generate, share, and sell energy produced by renewable sources. The current directives have led to the creation of energy communities and collective self-consumption groups to engage and raise awareness among citizens, with the goal of achieving social, economic, and environmental benefits through shared renewable energy generation and consumption. In the near future, more and more of these initiatives are anticipated; therefore, innovative technological tools are necessary to assist their growth path. This research introduces a multi-criteria techno-economic simulation framework that enables the evaluation of several investment scenarios for various plant sizes and energy prices. The findings are useful during the investment planning phase as they help guide decision-making toward the objectives of economic, energy, and environmental sustainability. To evaluate the methodology, a case study of a collective self-consumption group located in a smart building in Italy is proposed. The results are discussed from statistical, technical, economic, and financial standpoints, demonstrating how the proposed approach can contribute to the development of collective self-consumption groups, risk hedging, and the goal of developing energy self-sufficiency based on the net-zero energy building concept.

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“…Of these, three domains of social innovation are identified: stakeholder interaction, citizen participation, and capacity building (European Commission, 2018). Given the coordinated research agendas for ZEN and PED deployment in Europe, a valuable literature on experimentation has emerged that considers both technological and social aspects (Baer et al, 2021;Brozovsky et al, 2021;Derkenbaeva et al, 2022;Sareen et al, 2022).…”

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From Social Barriers to Transformative Planning in Energy Transitions: Learning from Norwegian Planners’ Perspectives

Loewen

2024

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This study investigates social barriers in Norwegian urban energy projects from the planner’s perspective, bridging institutional and reflexive approaches in the field of planning. Compared to technological barriers encountered in the energy transition, social barriers have received relatively little attention. While the former implies a need for hard technological fixes, social barriers cross sectoral dimensions and can potentially be transformed through strategic action during the life of a project. When planning energy transitions under the popular guise of smart and sustainable cities, social barriers arise in the context of urban experimentation, which challenges institutional constructs, participatory planning principles, and knowledge. These aspects are addressed from the planner’s perspective through analysis of planners’ experiences in seven energy pilot and demonstration sites in Norway. The results identify categories of social barriers related to the understanding of a shared vision amongst stakeholders, lowered ambitions over the course of a project, lack of user involvement, and structural constraints to planning. A framework for a deeper understanding of social barriers is proposed, extending to the notion of planners’ transformative agency to support sustainability transitions, which has the potential for future enrichment through the addition of cases and application in other fields of sustainability transitions.

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Ten questions concerning positive energy districts

Cited by 30 publications

References 55 publications

Positive Energy Districts: The 10 Replicated Solutions in Maia, Reykjavik, Kifissia, Kladno and Lviv

Positive Energy Districts: The 10 Replicated Solutions in Maia, Reykjavik, Kifissia, Kladno and Lviv

Achieving Net Zero Condominiums through Energy Community Sharing

From Social Barriers to Transformative Planning in Energy Transitions: Learning from Norwegian Planners’ Perspectives

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