Techniques of Improving Infrastructure and Energy Resilience in Urban Setting

Kuljeet Singh () and Caroline Hachem-Vermette ()
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Kuljeet Singh: Future Urban Energy Lab for Sustainability (FUEL-S), Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Ave, Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3, Canada
Caroline Hachem-Vermette: Solar Energy and Community Design Lab, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL), University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 17, 1-24

Abstract: The work proposes a technique to improve the infrastructure and energy resilience of new developments during the planning stage. Several resilience-related parameters are developed in this paper that can be used to quantify resilience. To apply these parameters, the work assumes various energy outage scenarios varying from less than 24 h to 3 weeks. During these scenarios, a neighborhood population can be relocated to several public buildings promoting better utilization of onsite energy resources. The technique is applied to four representative neighborhoods encompassing various sustainability measures including clean energy. Further, this paper demonstrates an urban scale improvement technique for greater energy and infrastructure resilience. The results indicate a significant improvement in infrastructure resilience by relocating public shelter buildings on the main street intersections so that these can be easily accessible during energy outages or disaster events. Energy resilience can be achieved by the appropriate design of onsite energy resources to eliminate vulnerabilities. For instance, 8.8% to 15.4% of additional land for solar thermal collectors can eliminate thermal energy vulnerabilities. When surplus generation from onsite resources is twice or more as compared to demand during their unavailability, the electrical vulnerability can be eliminated by employing suitable battery banks in various buildings.

Keywords: energy resilience; infrastructure resilience; energy security; disaster response; improvement techniques; clean energy (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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