About this Research Topic
In our rapidly urbanizing world, adopting smart urban energy solutions holds the potential to transform cities and steer them toward sustainability. These solutions encompass innovative technologies, policies, and practices to revolutionise energy production, distribution, and consumption within urban landscapes. By exploring the multifaceted dimensions of transformation, we aim to elucidate how smart urban energy solutions can drive significant shifts across various sectors, including technological innovation, socio-economic development, environmental stewardship, and urban resilience.
This special issue aims to delve deeper into the transformative role of smart urban energy solutions in fostering sustainable cities. We strive to expand on the concept of transformation by exploring different types and dimensions, ranging from technological advancements to societal shifts. Specifically, we seek to examine how these solutions can catalyze transformations such as: technological innovation: advancements in smart grid technologies, renewable energy integration, and energy-efficient infrastructure. Socio-economic development: opportunities for job creation, economic growth, and social empowerment through the adoption of smart energy solutions. Environmental stewardship: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, preservation of natural resources, and mitigation of ecological degradation. Urban resilience: enhancements in the resilience of cities to climate change impacts, natural disasters, and other external shocks.
This topic seeks contributions from various domains employing varied methodological lenses to comprehensively examine sustainable energy innovation and urban transformation catalyzed by smart solutions. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, policy analysis, perspective pieces, case studies and other contribution types that explicitly link proposed smart urban energy solutions to the advancement of environmental sustainability (reducing emissions, enhancing resilience), economic sustainability (enabling green growth, new business models) and social sustainability (energy access, affordability, equity) of cities.
Themes and topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Innovative smart grid, renewable energy, energy storage and efficiency technologies for urban areas
- Business models, financing and market mechanisms for scaling smart energy solutions
- Processes for integrated smart urban energy and climate action planning. Digital technologies for energy management, monitoring and public engagement Integrated sustainable energy planning and policymaking for cities
- Decentralized and community-cantered energy solutions like urban microgrids, peer-to-peer trading. Urban climate action plans, emissions monitoring and management using smart technologies
- Analysis of socioeconomic, environmental and health impacts of smart energy transitions
- Case Studies Evaluating Successful and failed examples of Urban smart energy transformation.
We welcome contributions spanning technical, economic, political, environmental, social and policy dimensions surrounding smart solutions for sustainable urban energy and climate action. However, purely technical submissions needing an explicit link to sustainable development objectives for cities will be considered the outside scope for this collection.
The cross-disciplinary expertise of the Topic Editors encompasses renewable energy engineering, smart grid technologies, energy policy and regulation, climate change mitigation, urban sustainability transitions, socio-technical systems analysis, stakeholder engagement and other relevant areas. This allows for a comprehensive framing of the Research Topic that bridges scientific, policy and practice perspectives on catalyzing sustainable urban transformation through smart energy solutions.By synthesizing insights across multiple disciplines, sectors, technologies and geographies, this collection will illuminate pathways for accelerating innovation and transformation of urban energy systems to underpin sustainable cities' environmental, economic and social dimensions. We invite contributions that explore the diverse dimensions of transformation enabled by smart urban energy solutions.
Authors are encouraged to delve into specific examples and case studies that illustrate the transformative potential of these solutions across different sectors and geographical contexts. By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and showcasing innovative approaches, we aim to advance our understanding of how smart urban energy solutions can contribute to the sustainable development of cities.
This special issue aims to delve deeper into the transformative role of smart urban energy solutions in fostering sustainable cities. We strive to expand on the concept of transformation by exploring different types and dimensions, ranging from technological advancements to societal shifts. Specifically, we seek to examine how these solutions can catalyze transformations such as: technological innovation: advancements in smart grid technologies, renewable energy integration, and energy-efficient infrastructure. Socio-economic development: opportunities for job creation, economic growth, and social empowerment through the adoption of smart energy solutions. Environmental stewardship: reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, preservation of natural resources, and mitigation of ecological degradation. Urban resilience: enhancements in the resilience of cities to climate change impacts, natural disasters, and other external shocks.
This topic seeks contributions from various domains employing varied methodological lenses to comprehensively examine sustainable energy innovation and urban transformation catalyzed by smart solutions. We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, policy analysis, perspective pieces, case studies and other contribution types that explicitly link proposed smart urban energy solutions to the advancement of environmental sustainability (reducing emissions, enhancing resilience), economic sustainability (enabling green growth, new business models) and social sustainability (energy access, affordability, equity) of cities.
Themes and topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Innovative smart grid, renewable energy, energy storage and efficiency technologies for urban areas
- Business models, financing and market mechanisms for scaling smart energy solutions
- Processes for integrated smart urban energy and climate action planning. Digital technologies for energy management, monitoring and public engagement Integrated sustainable energy planning and policymaking for cities
- Decentralized and community-cantered energy solutions like urban microgrids, peer-to-peer trading. Urban climate action plans, emissions monitoring and management using smart technologies
- Analysis of socioeconomic, environmental and health impacts of smart energy transitions
- Case Studies Evaluating Successful and failed examples of Urban smart energy transformation.
We welcome contributions spanning technical, economic, political, environmental, social and policy dimensions surrounding smart solutions for sustainable urban energy and climate action. However, purely technical submissions needing an explicit link to sustainable development objectives for cities will be considered the outside scope for this collection.
The cross-disciplinary expertise of the Topic Editors encompasses renewable energy engineering, smart grid technologies, energy policy and regulation, climate change mitigation, urban sustainability transitions, socio-technical systems analysis, stakeholder engagement and other relevant areas. This allows for a comprehensive framing of the Research Topic that bridges scientific, policy and practice perspectives on catalyzing sustainable urban transformation through smart energy solutions.By synthesizing insights across multiple disciplines, sectors, technologies and geographies, this collection will illuminate pathways for accelerating innovation and transformation of urban energy systems to underpin sustainable cities' environmental, economic and social dimensions. We invite contributions that explore the diverse dimensions of transformation enabled by smart urban energy solutions.
Authors are encouraged to delve into specific examples and case studies that illustrate the transformative potential of these solutions across different sectors and geographical contexts. By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and showcasing innovative approaches, we aim to advance our understanding of how smart urban energy solutions can contribute to the sustainable development of cities.
Keywords: Smart Urban Energy, Sustainable City Growth, Energy Solutions, Urban Sustainability, Smart Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, Green Technologies, Sustainable City Solutions, Artificial Intelligence, IoT
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