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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 111, 2019
CLIMA 2019 Congress
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Article Number | 03004 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | High Energy Performance and Sustainable Buildings | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911103004 | |
Published online | 13 August 2019 |
European projects on district energy-renovations and Italian best practices
1 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Science and Technology, Piazza dell’Università 5, Bolzano, Italy
2 IUAV University of Venice, Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments, S. Croce 191, Venezia, Italy
* Corresponding author: lorenzo.teso@natec.unibz.it
Buildings are the major source of greenhouse gas releases: lowering their energy consumption and emissions is particularly challenging for the existing building stock. This topic was examined at an individual building level in the International Energy Agency’s EBC Annex 56. However, the increasing request of nearly zero energy buildings highlight another important topic: the need of an increase in energy production for satisfying the required amount of renewable energy sources. This task could be solved at the district level for the existing buildings, even if it is a complex issue. This work presents a general introduction on the topic of Urban and Regional Integrated Energy Planning, with a focus on the regional and supraregional process to create and manage energy plans. After the first introductory part, the method is explained through a description of its main phases and the tools used. The subsequent section presents a general overview on the European projects that deal with the problem of district regeneration; the ones that are more related to the topic of this work are considered in a deeper way through tangible applications in Italian cities. The study of already done examples will help in the definition of benefits and drawbacks, with the aim to defining newer and better energy planning procedures.
Key words: Energy planning / building retrofit / district heating and cooling / methods and tools / decision-making process.
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