REGIONAL IMPACTS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY ALLOCATION STRATEGIES

In this paper we report on the development and use of an information system for state or regional energy planning which attempts to deal with both external effects and information needs. A regional economic model is included as an integral part of the information system. External impacts of alternative energy allocation rules are simulated and criteria for evaluating these impacts are presented.Community/Rural/Urban Development,

A Review of Renewable Energy Development and Planning for an Island Province in Eastern Indonesia: Case Study of North Maluku

Indonesia intends to use renewable energy both locally and on a national scale. Regional energy planning must be developed by provincial governments in accordance with national energy planning (RUEN). One of the few provinces that has already published its regional energy planning is North Maluku Province. The ambition to use more renewable energy technologies for power generation is already taken into account in their regional energy planning. However, North Maluku Province may rely on renewable energy as their primary source of power because of the abundance of these resources. The purpose of this paper is to examine renewable energy development and planning in relation to the RUPTL 2021-2030 power development plan. This review gives an insight that North Maluku Province still have untapped renewable energy potential which can be developed in the future to increase its renewable shares in electricity mix as well as to enhance energy security and accessibility in the region

Stakeholders’ participation in regional energy planning processes. Case study from RES H/C SPREAD project

The article briefly describes, through the illustration of four best practices, a successful experience concerning the involvement of external stakeholders in the realization of regional energy plans for the fostering of the renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling in different EU countries. This participatory activity was carried out within the RES H/C SPREAD project (EU Intelligent Energy Program 2014-2016). Project objective was to strengthen the capacity of regional and local authorities for planning in a sustainable development framework

INTEGRATED DESIGN OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY OPTIONS - A MULTICRITERIA APPROACH

Energy planning has come a long way during the 20th century from an intuitive approach to a full-scale discipline, incorporating technological and economic dimensions. The latter include both the micro- and the macro- level, whereas the technological framework covers energy, technology, thermodynamics and thermo-economic approaches. It is only during the last two decades that the environmental aspects of energy conversion has started to assume the gravity that it should have been assigned perhaps from the start, with the deterioration of the environment, e.g. acid rain, urban pollution, global warming, etc. and the depletion of resources becoming issues of outmost importance. The emergence of the renewable energy technologies as a reliable substitute of conventional fossil fuels gave promises that were only partially fulfilled as they never assumed the role that society had entrusted on them in the beginning. The alternative energy options, both on the technological and the resource level, revealed the complex nature of energy planning, where energy production and conversion should be addressed in tandem with energy demand and consumption and the particular preferences of the individuals. In both cases the spatial elements should be carefully analyzed and taken into consideration. Today’s energy planning asks for a complex approach which must includes the technological, economic, environmental and social design, accounting for the multitude of facets that interweave in the analysis and successful implementation of energy policies and projects. The aforementioned four dimensions must in turn be decomposed in a number of attributes in order for a quantitative and qualitative estimation to be realized. For the identification of an appropriate solution, a multi-criteria analysis seems to be the logical framework since it allows for a multitude of elements to be incorporated, and at the same time it can include a variety of stakeholders, with conflicting perhaps interests. In this paper we present the new approach for energy planning with the technological, economic, environmental and social design dimensions integrated in a new platform together with the necessary decomposition analysis. The whole new framework is presented via theoretical and practical examples and will hopefully pave the way towards a new under transition, energy future.

Planning Forum Volume 16

Table of Contents: The Naked Practitioner: Participatory Community Development in Peri-Urban Mexico /by Dr. Patricia Wilson (p. 5) -- Skopje, Macedonia, 1965 to 2014: In Search of a Modern European Capital /by Dr. Cynthia A. Lintz and Lauren Bulka (p. 19) -- Preparing Planners for Economic Decline and Population Loss: An Assessment of North American Planning Curricula /by Maxwell Hartt (p. 33) -- Development and Displacement: Single Family Home Demolitions in Central East Austin, 2007 to 2014 /by Sara McTarnaghan (p. 47) -- Imagining Austin: Political Economy and the Austin Comprehensive Plan /by Adam Ogusky (p. 67) -- Piñata Power: Reflections on Race, Love, and Planning /by Elizabeth Walsh (p. 83) -- A Reflection on Exploratory Research in Pointe-Saint-Charles /by Aditi Ohri (p. 91) -- The Neighborhood and the Park: Drumul Taberei, Bucharest /by Maria Alexandrescu (p. 97) -- A Case for Regional Planning in Energy Access Delivery /by Vivek Shastry (p. 101) -- Marketing Magic: The Tourism Ministry’s Pueblos Mágicos Program and Historical Preservation in Mexico /by Gibrán Lule-Hurtado (p. 107) -- The Spectacularization of Urban Development on the Las Vegas Strip /by Kurt Kraler (p. 115) -- Author Biographies (p. 121) -- Acknowledgments (p. 123)Community and Regional Plannin

Urban energy planning procedure for sustainable development in the built environment: A review of available spatial approaches

Urban and Regional Integrated Energy Planning is crucial to define transition strategies toward sustainable development and post-carbon cities; particularly, in the built environment sector which is one of the main responsible for energy consumption and carbon emissions. The paper aims at offering a systematic review of existing urban and regional energy planning approaches. This analysis is based on literature review. The reviewed papers are critically analyzed and discussed through a Meta-analysis and a SWOT analysis. The papers are classified in order to highlight the main research trends and to illustrate the most relevant characteristics of the principal approaches. This critical analysis of the papers highlights the lack of an holistic and integrated framework which is able to take into account the large variety of dimensions related to sustainable planning. A major achievement of this study is to provide information on how the various existing approaches can be integrated to handle the entire planning procedure adequately. The result provides a preliminary theoretical framework to integrate different approaches, identify the main barriers and future challenges in the field of research. This framework will help urban actors to develop energy planning projects, guiding them in the choice among a significant number of existing planning approaches

Regional energy optimization

Energiamurroksen myötä energiajärjestelmät ovat radikaalin muutoksen partaalla. Perinteiset energiajärjestelmät kehittyvät kohti integroituja älykkäitä energiajärjestelmiä, joiden joustavuus mahdollistaa uusiutuvien ja hajautettujen energiavarojen laaja-alaisen ja tehokkaan hyödyntämisen. Teknisten suunnitteluvaihtoehtojen moninkertaistuminen sekä energiajärjestelmien vahva linkittyminen nykyisiin institutionaalisiin rakenteisiin haastavat alueelliset energia-analyysit käymään läpi kaikki eri vaihtoehdot tehokkaalla, objektiivisella ja läpinäkyvällä tavalla – myös sellaiset perinteisistä poikkeavat vaihtoehdot, jotka eivät suoraan sovellu nykyisiin teknisiin, poliittisiin tai institutionaalisiin rakenteisiin. Tästä johtuen alueellisten energiajärjestelmien suunnittelussa tarvitaan strategista lähestymistapaa. Työssä tutkitaan, mitä tarkoitetaan alueellisella energiaoptimoinnilla, ja kuinka sitä voidaan hyödyntää osana alueellista strategista energiasuunnittelua. Aihetta lähestytään laajanäkökulmaisesti painottaen erityisesti kokonaisvaltaisen ymmärtämisen ja suunnittelun tärkeyttä. Työ sisältää kattavan kirjallisuustutkimuksen, jossa alueellinen energiaoptimointi linkitetään intuitiivisella ja havainnollistavalla tavalla olennaiseksi osaksi kestävien ja edistyksellisten alueellisten energiajärjestelmien suunnittelua. Kirjallisuustutkimukseen pohjautuen työssä luodaan myös alueellista energiaoptimointia hyödyntävä alueellisen strategisen energiasuunnittelun viitekehys, joka pyrkii erityisesti antamaan valmiuden käytännölliseen optimointimenetelmiä hyödyntävään alueelliseen strategiseen energiasuunnitteluun. Alueellisen energiaoptimoinnin huomataan edesauttavan kattavaa, objektiivista ja tehokasta alueellisten energiajärjestelmien suunnitteluvaihtoehtojen tarkastelemista jo suunnitteluprosessin alkuvaiheessa minimaalisella manuaalisen työn vaatimuksella. Optimointimenetelmien avulla erilaisten tavoitteenasetteluiden ja lähtötietojen sekä tulevaisuuden skenaarioiden vaikutusta optimaalisiin ratkaisuvaihtoehtoihin voidaan tutkia perinpohjaisesti ja interaktiivisesti. Lisäksi alueellinen energiaoptimointi mahdollistaa kompleksisien edistyksellisten energiajärjestelmien synergiavaikutuksien systemaattisen tunnistamisen ja hyödyntämisen. Näin ollen alueellisella energiaoptimoinnilla voidaan merkittävästi tukea alueellisia energiajärjestelmiä koskevaa päätöksentekoa edellyttäen kuitenkin, että sitä hyödynnetään strategisen energiasuunnittelun kontekstissa. Alueellisen energiaoptimoinnin luotettava suorittaminen vaatii myös kokonaisvaltaista edistyksellisiä energiajärjestelmiä ja optimointimenetelmiä koskevaa ymmärrystä ja asiantuntijuutta.Energy systems are experiencing a radical change due to the energy transition. Traditional energy systems are evolving towards integrated smart energy systems that are highly flexible, which is an essential precondition for efficient and extensive utilization of renewable and distributed energy resources. The proliferation of potential technical design solutions along with the strong connection between energy systems and existing institutional structures require regional energy analyses to be exhaustive in efficient, objective and transparent manner. Furthermore, regional energy analyses should be capable of identifying and analyzing such advanced technical solutions that do not comport with the current technical, political or institutional structures. Therefore, a strategic approach is crucial in regional energy planning. In this thesis, the purpose of regional energy optimization and its implementation as a part of strategic regional energy planning is studied. The topic is approached from a comprehensive viewpoint emphasizing especially the importance of holistic understanding and design. A comprehensive literature research is conducted in which the connection between regional energy optimization and sustainable advanced energy systems is highlighted in an intuitive and illustrative way. In addition, a framework for strategic regional energy planning that utilizes regional energy optimization is presented. The main objective of the framework is to offer readiness for performing practical strategic energy planning involving optimization methods. Regional energy optimization is found to support a comprehensive, objective and efficient analysis of regional energy systems’ design solutions already in the early stage of a design process with minimal manual work requirement. By utilizing optimization methods, the impact of different objectives, initial data, and scenarios on the optimal design solutions can be analyzed thoroughly and interactively. Regional energy optimization also enables systematic identification and thus utilization of the synergy effects emerging in complex advanced energy systems. Consequently, regional energy optimization supports significantly regional decision making process concerning regional energy systems, although presuming that it is utilized within a context of strategic regional energy planning. Moreover, performing a trustworthy regional energy optimization requires holistic understanding and expertise with respect to advanced energy systems and optimization methods

New and Renewable Energy Policies of Jeju Island in Korea

노트 : World Renewable Energy congress 2011 – Sweden 8-13 May 2011, Linkoping, Swede

A GIS-based model to assess electric energy consumptions and usable renewable energy potential in Lazio region at municipality scale

The ongoing energy transition processes need a rapprochement between the places of energy production and consumption with the aim of creating innovative and integrated territorial models. Consequentially, models and strategies for increasing the use of local and renewable energy sources (RES) play a key rule for enhancing energy independence and sustainability of the considered areas. The main objective of this study is to analyse the energy system of the Lazio Region in Italy, comparing electricity consumptions and production from renewable sources at municipality scale. In order to estimate the electricity consumptions and the local production by RES, the main sectors of electricity consumption together with the potential of the available RES for the electricity production have been analysed. The obtained results pinpointed the main critical aspects of the Lazio region, that are mainly focalized in the city of Rome and in the most densely inhabited municipalities. Furthermore, research outputs provide an overall framework on the regional RES potential and allowed the formulation of proposals aimed at overcoming the identified criticalities and increasing the share of electricity production from renewables. Finally, the research approach could be replicated in other areas, providing a useful process for decision makers and stakeholders