Interoperable, Smart, and Sustainable Urban Energy Systems

Raúl Pastor (), Anabel Fraga and Luis López-Cózar
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Raúl Pastor: Seam, 28030 Madrid, Spain
Anabel Fraga: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenue Universidad 30, Leganés, 28911 Madrid, Spain
Luis López-Cózar: Azentúa, Claudio Coello, 78, 28001 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 18, 1-12

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.

Keywords: systems engineering (SE); interoperability; sustainability; urban energy model; smart city; urban energy systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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