Urban Energy Transition

Peter Droege directs Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, LISD, active in the transition to regenerative communities and regions. Professor Droege served as President of the European Association for Renewable Energy, Eurosolar, and Executive Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy. He received the European Solar Prize in Education and initiated the Chair for Sustainable Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein, holding a Honorary Professorship at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Droege is co-founder of the Global Climate Geodesign Challenge evolved in the International Geodesign Collaboration with Esri. He taught at MIT, Tokyo University and the University of Sydney and has authored and edited books such as Intelligent Environments; Renewable City; Urban Energy Transition; Climate Design; 100-Percent Renewable; Regenerative Region; Regenerative Spaces; Cross-Border Life and Work; Urban Energy Transition 2; Intelligent Environments 2; and Urban and Regional Agriculture.

• The great shiftFrom cities of waste to climate stabilizing communitiesPeter DroegeSolar and smart citiesSmart solar integration insights from four pioneers: Masdar City, Stockholm, Freiburg and San DiegoSaeed Esfandi and John ByrneUrban housing transformationsRefurbishing suburbs to regenerate cities: energy, architecture and technology for housingEliana Cangelli, Michele Conteduca, Hassan Zaiter and Elnaz Behnam KiaDistributed renewable energyEnabling distributed renewable energy uptake in South African citiesTanaka Shumba-Mukudu, Mark Borchers, Joshua Archibald Dippenaar and Silas MulaudziNet-zero to climate-positive cityTowards a climate-positive world: the dramatic shift to net-zero, then climate-positive citiesPeter Newman, Jan Peters, Xavi Riuz Arozarena and Jemma GreenThe renewable energy precinctLearning from Fairwater Living Laboratory – towards a precinct-based approach for decarbonization and regenerationLeena Thomas, Nimish Biloria, Sara Wilkinson, Joseph Wyndham and Alfredo HueteCities after petroleumTransition from the oil economy to post-oil citiesRoger Brewster EV infrastructure propagationElectric vehicle adoption: a review of the quality of infrastructure in KenyaWinfred Kimuya and Wilson Ombati Nyang’au Towards autonomous islandsDesigning a safe and cost-efficient power supply with a PV system in the City of Ambon, Maluku, IndonesiaParag Patil, Giovanni Maurice Pradipta and Dieter D. GenskeBeyond heat islandsEnergy conservation effects on air conditioning due to urban heat island countermeasures: a simulation at city-block scaleYujiro Hirano and Toshiaki IchinoseBuilding in the PyroceneResistant architecture for bushfire zonesDeborah Ascher BarnstoneThe role of the building sectorNet-zero buildings: exploring the complexity of a sector-wide transition in the new-buildings sector in South African citiesMegan Euston-BrownUnderstanding energy in citiesEnergy and emission profiles of sub-Saharan African cities: an evidence-based analysis to empower cities in responding to energy and climate change IssuesJoel Yongoua Nana, Mark Borchers and Zanie CilliersUrban energy governanceCommunity assumption of energy governance shifts decision-making and planning in the U.S. to community clean-energy authoritiesJohn Byrne and Job TaminiauPublic urban energy innovatorsEmpirical analysis of local government efforts in the U.S. to drive urban energy transition: subscriber versus community solar energyJob Taminiau, John Byrne and Thomas BensonMetropolltan energy transitionClimate neutrality in large cities – the Berlin caseBernd HirschlThermal city and community perspectivesAccelerated heat transition in Germany: socio-economic challenges using the example of BerlinJulika Weiss and Janis BergmannTapping liquid waste for urban energy efficiencyWastewater heat in Berlin: how geo-based wastewater heat maps and wastewater heat can contribute to a low-carbon urban energy systemElisa Dunkelberg, Lukas Torliene, Michel Gunkel and Heinrich GürtlerSearching for urban resource efficiencyDecarbonization of urban environment by municipal solid waste-to-energy system: technical and policy considerationsOgheneruona Endurance Diemuodeke, Kesiena Owebor and Chukwumerije OkerekeAvoiding unintended consequencesBurning landscapes: the country's great transformation through renewable energies threatens to fail because of its mistakesUli HellwegNature-based support in national strategiesUnlocking nature-based solutions for climate resilience: mangroves and Somalia’s Nationally Determined ContributionsLiban Hassan Shoring up the biosphereAll for Earth: accelerating the urban energy transition in its planetary rescue context Peter Droege