Open AccessSEAMS: an alternative techno-economic system to foster the sustainable development of renewable energy use in urban areas
Author(s) -
D Bourguig,
P Crépeaux,
Frane Adam
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012087
Subject(s) - renewable energy , xuzhou , implementation , sustainable development , fragility , electricity , energy system , mainland , environmental economics , civil engineering , business , natural resource economics , geography , computer science , economics , engineering , ancient history , chemistry , archaeology , law , political science , electrical engineering , history , programming language
To foster the sustainable development of renewable energy use in urban areas, we define an alternative, reciprocity-based, techno-economic system named SEAMS (“sharing energy amongst adjacent buildings”). We demonstrate its relevance through a statistical analysis of linear heat density across coastal cities from Northwestern mainland France, and a comparison of four implementations of three techno-economic systems within the perimeter of two adjacent building blocks, located in the city center of Lorient (Brittany). The SEAMS approach promises to address the multidimensional fragility issues currently surfacing with the conventional, market-based or redistribution-based, techno-economic systems, namely electricity and gas networks (EGN) or district heating and cooling networks (DHCN).