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| Title | Distributed Energy In Smart Cities And The Infrastructure |
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| ID_Doc | 20634 |
| Authors | Khalil E.E. |
| Year | 2020 |
| Published | Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies: Handbook on Planning, Design, Development, and Regulation |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816816-5.00012-7 |
| Abstract | A smart city is an energy efficient and sustainable urban center that supplies a high-quality life for its users and dwellers. This is achieved through optimum management of its available and affordable resources. A smart city is defined as a city equipped with intelligent services and infrastructure that assure an improved quality of life with sustainable smart built environment solutions. Smart cities aim to attain a reliable, energy efficient, and high-quality power and thus smart grid becomes imperative. Energy management in smart cities would be one of the most demanding issues due to the complexity of the energy systems and their vital role. Significant attention and effort need to be focused directed and dedicated to efficiently solve this problem. Mathematical modeling and simulation are among the major tools commonly utilized to assess the technological and policy impacts of smart solutions, as well as to plan the best directions of shifting from current cities to smarter ones. Distributed energy systems, likely in the form of microgrids and combined heat and power—small, local energy system comprised of single or multiple entities that generate electric and thermal, energy and operate autonomously from or are integrated into the power grid. Energy and access to smart cities will become an even more integral part of modern living in cities. In other words, on top of addressing an unsustainable demand for energy, new energy systems must also be increasingly more reliable and resilient. Broad agreement among energy experts is that solar and wind remain to be the best candidates in terms of new major energy sources in smart cities, and should be considered as the backbone of future energy systems. Solar panels have made such substantial leaps since their inception a few years ago that prices have dropped drastically with the expansion of their utilization in the United States, Europe, and Middle East. However, the transition to hybrid solar-wind energy systems comes with its own set of challenges, limitations including current inefficiencies in present energy storage capabilities. This is quite apparent in the transportation sector, which exhibits the most trouble when anticipating its energy transition. Given the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy, it is also necessary to consider the present focus on traditional centralized power production and distribution, which if neither unchanged, nor developed will become harder to maintain. Evidently, hybrid wind and solar integration into our energy system implies significant investment in research, as well as improvement of equipment and deployment. © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| Author Keywords | connectivity; EER; energy efficiency; energy label; Energy management; energy storage; ICT; microgrids; smart city; strategy; sustainability |
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