Energy infrastructure planning for positive energy city districts: the sector-coupling pathways for the new city district of Dietenbach in Freiburg, Germany

Arian Mahzouni

Chapter 12 in Are Low-Carbon Futures Decentralised?, 2025, pp 145-155 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter addresses key opportunities and challenges of sector coupling aimed at gaining cross-sector complementary and synergies for low-carbon electric systems. It undertakes a socio-technical approach to sector coupling strategies, as part of the ongoing planning process to create a new positive energy city district on the greenfield site of Dietenbach in Freiburg. The key potential in Dietenbach has been identified by coupling emission-free waste heat, renewable heat and the production of green hydrogen. However, the need for organisational and institutional capacities for implanting a highly complex multi-energy system appears less addressed. Sector coupling might bring about iterative actions and process among many sectors, actors, regulations and artefacts, which calls for a mix of centralised and decentralised energy governance systems. Future research might focus on how to create a solid plan to support coordination and negotiation among different systems and sectors that helps to gain synergies for sustainable energy transition.

Keywords: Socio-Technical Approach; Integrated Energy System; Energy Governance System; Sector Coupling; Institutional Coordination; Dietenbach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035355181
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035355198.00019 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:24265_12

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().