Development of a GIS-based platform for the allocation and optimisation of distributed storage in urban energy systems

Alaa Alhamwi, Wided Medjroubi, Thomas Vogt and Carsten Agert

Applied Energy, 2019, vol. 251, issue C, -

Abstract: As the world is already highly urbanised, energy systems in cities are already responsible for significant amount of the global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, climate change mitigation demands a fundamental transformation in the Urban Energy Systems (UES), energy markets and energy policies. In this context, the large shift to micro-generation from renewable energy sources and their integration in the current energy system are a technical challenge for future energy systems design and operation. This will be further exacerbated if flexibilisation technologies such as storage are not efficiently integrated. For this purpose, an accurate modelling and representation of UES requires the characterisation of different urban energy requirements. These requirements, along with the urban fabric of cities, should be adequately incorporated in a spatial-temporal framework including both static and dynamic datasets. In this context, urban energy models provide policymakers with qualitative and quantitative insights for the planning of future UES. Within this framework, urban energy models integrated in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will play an important role due to their multi-layer approach.

Keywords: Urban Energy Systems (UES); Geographic Information Systems (GIS); OpenStreetMap (OSM); Open source data; Flexibility options; FlexiGIS platform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113360

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