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A special issue at DESIGNS is published as an ebook, edited by Tony Castillo-Calzadilla and Carlos Quesada-Granja. This collection of articles explores the forefront of sustainable urbanism, where city districts generate more renewable energy than they consume, and presents a blueprint for positive energy districts (PEDs), core building blocks of climate-neutral cities.
The ebook bridges theory and practice, revealing how technology, planning, and environmental design converge, examining key success factors for PEDs through global case studies; technology solutions from dynamic building envelopesand non-isolated DC–DC converters to thermal demand response strategies; integration of nature-based solutions with renewable systems to create livable, resilient, carbon-neutral cities, modelling for PEDs, and other detailed aspects of PEDS. Included are:
Tony Castillo-Calzadilla: Towards Net-Positive Energy Urban Districts: A Pillar of the Energy Transition
Dimitrios Siakas, Kerstin Siakas, and Georgios Lampropoulos: Positive Energy District Success Factors: Learning from Global Challenges and Success Stories
Aristotelis Ntafalias, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Mark van Wees, Danijela Šijacic, Omar Shafqat, Mari Hukkalainen, Julia Kantorovitch, and Magui Lage: The Benefits of Positive Energy Districts: Introducing Additionality Assessment in Évora,Amsterdam and Espoo
Erfan Shafiee Roudbari, Ramanunni Parakkal Menon, Ivan Kantor, and Ursula Eicker: Toward Positive Energy Districts by Urban–Industrial Energy Exchange
Tohid Hashemi and Hamed Jafari Kaleybar: The Modeling and Simulation of Non-Isolated DC–DC Converters for Optimizing Photovoltaic Systems Applied in Positive Energy Districts
Simon Schneider, Thomas Zelger, Raphael Drexel, Manfred Schindler, Paul Krainer and José Baptista: Declaration-Ready Climate-Neutral PEDs: Budget-Based, Hourly LCA Including Mobility and Flexibility
Anastasia Panori, Nicos Komninos, Dionysis Latinopoulos, Ilektra Papadaki, Elisavet Gkitsa, and Paraskevi Tarani: Blending Nature with Technology: Integrating NBSs with RESs to Foster Carbon-Neutral Cities
Mohammad Almesbah and Julian Wang: Review of Dynamic Building Envelope Systems and Technologies Utilizing Renewable Energy Resources
Martina Capone and Elisa Guelpa: Implementing Optimal Operation of Multi-Energy Districts with Thermal Demand Response
Md. Feroz Ali, Nitai Kumar Sarker, Md. Alamgir Hossain, Md Shafiul Alam,Ashraf Hossain Sanvi, and Syed Ibn Syam Sifat: Techno-Economic Feasibility Study of a 1.5 MW Grid-Connected Solar Power Plant in Bangladesh
Angeliki Kitsopoulou, Dimitris Pallantzas, Evangelos Bellos, and Christos Tzivanidis: Mapping the Potential of Zero-Energy Building in Greece Using Roof Photovoltaics
You can download the book from here:
https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-6373-0