Urban Energy Systems for Low-Carbon Cities

Ursula Eicker holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities, at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. With a PhD in solid state physics, her work has expanded from the fundamentals of photovoltaics to building physics and renewable energy systems to today’s research on decarbonization of cities. Her research focuses on digital twins to model the urban built environment and transportation systems.

• 1. Urban energy system planning: Overview and main challenges Sebastien Cajot, Nils Schüler 2 A planning support system using interactive optimization Nils Schüler, Sebastien Cajot3 Building energy demand modelingFrom individual buildings to urban scale4 Load management in buildings Solene Goy, Ana Sancho-Tomás5 Multimodal networks and decentralized renewable generation: Network modeling and energy/exergy performance evaluation Mario Potente, Nina Solomakhina, Pilar Monsalvete6 Open data-modeling standards for city-wide energy simulations Giorgio Agugiaro 7 Uncertainty assessment of building performance simulation An insight into suitability of methods and their applications Parag Wate, Volker Coors, Marco Iglesias, Darren Robinson8 Model integration: An SOA approach Preston Rodrigues9 The case study cities of Geneva and Vienna Jean-Loup Robineau, Giorgio Agugiaro10 Applying modeling and optimization tools to existing city quarters Mario Potente Prieto, Pilar Monsalvete Alvarez de Uribarri, Giovanni Tardioli11 Use of interactive optimization for the planning of new and existing neighborhoods Nils Schüler, Sebastien Cajot