Smart Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems and Near Zero Energy Districts for Sustainable Urban Development

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers addressing the modelling of zero energy districts (nZEDs) for the energy, economic, and environmental analysis of sustainable urban development. Municipalities play a key role in the achievement of the international energy and climate aims. To date, most of the literature has regarded net-zero energy buildings (nZEBs).

From the energy-saving point of view, the promotion of a process of technological renewal of existing urban realities can be carried out in the development of decarbonization, applied where it can be more effective. In such a contest, a renewable hybrid system composed by a photovoltaic generator, wind micro-generator, and electric battery storage seems to be very promising in terms of costs end technical efficiency.

Problems of waste management, electrical blackouts, and traffic or water blockage will be managed not at the municipal, but district, level, highlighting the specific problems of the site and reducing the complexity of the problem, providing support to the logic of the Smart Grid.

Finally, this Special Issue has the ambition to propose innovative solutions for social housing districts, where the limited access to energy resources represents a critical condition to guarantee enough comfort to anyone.

References:

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2. Sinha, S.S. Chandel, Review of recent trends in optimization techniques for solar photovoltaic–wind based hybrid energy systems, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 50, 2015, Pages 755-769, ISSN 1364-0321, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.05.040.
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Dr. Domenico Mazzeo
Prof. Giuseppe Oliveti
Dr. Nicoletta Matera
Dr. Cristina Baglivo
Dr. Paolo Maria Congedo
Guest Editors

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• district
• hybrid system
• urban scale
• wind energy
• solar energy
• energy storage
• battery
• geothermal energy
• waste management
• water management
• social housing