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| Title | Understanding Sustainable Energy In The Context Of Smart Cities: A Prisma Review |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 59509 |
| Authors | Cortese T.T.P.; de Almeida J.F.S.; Batista G.Q.; Storopoli J.E.; Liu A.; Yigitcanlar T. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | Energies, 15, 7 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15072382 |
| Abstract | In the context of smart cities, sustainability is an essential dimension. One of the ways to achieve sustainability and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in smart cities is through the promotion of sustainable energy. The demand for affordable and reliable electrical energy requires different energy sources, where the cost of production often outweighs the environmental factor. This paper aims to investigate the ways smart cities promote sustainability in the electricity sector. For this, a systematic literature review using the PRISMA protocol was employed as the methodological approach. In this review, 154 journal articles were thoroughly analyzed. The results were grouped according to the themes and categorized into energy efficiency, renewable energies, and energy and urban planning. The study findings revealed the following: (a) global academic publication landscape for smart city and energy sustainability research; (b) unbalanced publications when critically evaluating geographical continents’ energy use intensity vs. smart cities’ energy sustainability research outcomes; (c) there is a heavy concentration on the technology dimension of energy sustainability and efficiency, and renewables topics in the literature, but much less attention is paid to the energy and urban planning issues. The insights generated inform urban and energy authorities and provide scholars with directions for prospective research. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
| Author Keywords | climate change; energy efficiency; renewable energy; smart building; smart city; smart grid; sustainable development goals; sustainable energy; urban planning; urban policy |
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