Solar PV Potential at Urban Scale: From Buildings to Cities

Dear Colleagues,

The integration of photovoltaic electricity in distribution grids is nowadays a reality worldwide, as a result of longstanding efforts from technological, economic, political, and social perspectives done in the last 40 years. However, an effective energy transition requires transforming our cities from being large energy sinks into energy-efficient and self-sufficient systems.

Solar photovoltaics is ready to be incorporated into buildings and urban spaces, and different tools already exist to address urban integration at all spatial resolutions, from urban to building levels. With the increasing cost-effectiveness of PV electricity in already mature and novel markets and the progressive electrification of economies, new topics have become increasingly relevant such as demanding the supply possibilities of PV at different scales (from individual buildings to blocks and districts) combined with load management and distributed storage (fixed and mobile, i.e., electric mobility; and individual and community-shared), building retrofit strategies with embedded PV solutions, 3D urban modelling for dynamic assessment of PV multi-functional properties, etc.

With these aspects in mind, this Special Issue of Energies journal entitled "Solar PV Potential at Urban Scale: From Buildings to Cities" aims to collect outstanding research and development outcomes and experiences from all over the world that will contribute to making PV potential a quantifiable reality in our cities in the near future. Please join!

Prof. Dr. Estefanía Caamaño-Martín
Prof. Dr. Miguel Centeno Brito
Guest Editors

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