Urban Informatics - Call for papers: Energy networks and sustainability
The following special issue in Urban Informatics is open for submissions. The submission deadline is July 31, 2024.
Call for papers: Energy networks and sustainability
Guest editors:
Dr. Rui Zhu, Senior Scientist, Systems Science Department, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore; zhur@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg
Dr. Haoran Zhang, Assistant Professor, School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University, China; h.zhang@pku.edu.cn
Dr. Qi Chen, Associate Professor, School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geoscience (Wuhan), China; chenqi@cug.edu.cn
Aim & Scope:
Global cities occupy only 3% of Earth’s land surface but account for 75% of all CO2 emissions. Thus, cities are the main battlefields to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals on carbon neutrality and the Paris Agreement’s goal of mitigating global warming. To accomplish such goals, one of the effective ways is promoting the use of solar energy and reducing the dependency on conventional fossil fuels. For instance, to reduce carbon emission and cool down the city, Singapore has widely installed building-integrated photovoltaic (PV) systems and has established a large initiative to gradually phrase out internal combustion vehicles with the replacement of electric vehicles in the next decade.
However, effectively powering various urban systems with solar energy faces several challenges. It is mainly because the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of solar potential distribution (intermittency), uncertainty of energy demand (uncertainty), and difficulty of dynamic dispatching between energy supply and demand over time and space (complexity). In most recent years, geospatial technologies, such as Surveying, Remote Sensing, and Geographical Information Science, are increasingly playing an important role in solar energy penetration, such as construction of detailed 3D building models, segmentation of installed PV areas from satellite imagery, and estimation of spatiotemporal solar potential on 3D urban surfaces.
This special issue will focus on research topics related to energy and sustainability, including but not limited to:
1. Construction of multi-soured spatiotemporal data
2. Renewable energy estimation (e.g., solar energy, wind energy, and tidal energy)
3. Building-integrated photovoltaics
4. New energy vehicles (e.g., electric-vehicle networks, and electric-vehicle charging)
5. Urban environment (e.g., urban heat island, air pollution, and carbon mitigation capacity)
6. Economic feasibility assessment (e.g., techno-economic assessment)
7. Environmental impact assessment (e.g., life cycle assessment)
8. Energy policy and policy implication (e.g., feed-in tariff)
9. Macro-distributed - urban energy systems
Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines. (this opens in a new tab)