Creating Comparability among European Neighbourhoods to Enable the Transition of District Energy Infrastructures towards Positive Energy Districts

Axel Bruck, Luca Casamassima, Ardak Akhatova, Lukas Kranzl and Kostas Galanakis
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Axel Bruck: Departamento Energías Renovables, Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias, Playa de Pozo Izquierdo s/n, 35119 Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Spain
Luca Casamassima: Energy Economics Group, Technische Universität Wien, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Ardak Akhatova: Energy Economics Group, Technische Universität Wien, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Lukas Kranzl: Energy Economics Group, Technische Universität Wien, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Kostas Galanakis: Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, 50 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham NG1 4QU, UK

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-21

Abstract: Planning the required energy infrastructure for the energy transition is a crucial task for various neighbourhood concepts, such as positive energy districts. However, energy planning often comes with the challenges of data shortages and a lack of comparability among solutions for different districts. This work aims to enable this comparability by introducing an approach for categorising districts according to parameters that are relevant for the planning of neighbourhood energy infrastructures. Four parameters (climate, floor space index, heating demand and share of residential buildings) and their respective ranges (bands) were derived from the literature. Additionally, this work visualised the combination of all parameter bands across Europe to conveniently showcase districts that are comparable according to the selected parameters. This approach and its visualisation could be used in urban planning to share knowledge from existing energy district projects with those planned in comparable districts.

Keywords: positive energy district; district energy infrastructure; decarbonisation of neighbourhoods; GIS; energy transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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