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Transition to Sustainable Energy System for Smart Cities and Industries

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2023) | Viewed by 9574

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Magdalena Wyrwicka

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Guest Editor
Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznań, Poland
Interests: factors of sustainable endogenous development of industries; city or region; foresight research; technological culture

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As a Guest Editor, I would like to invite you to submit your research papers to the Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Transition to Sustainable Energy System for Smart Cities and Industries”.

The aim of this Special Issue is to initiate a debate on the necessary activities related to the transition to sustainable energy systems in smart cities and industries. Case studies on specific solutions implemented in the aspect of sustainable development of energy systems, as well as the results of research on the existing state or concepts for the implementation of transformations, are intriguingly welcomed.

Contributions are expected to consider the factors involved in the sustainable energy system of cities and industries and to investigate them in terms of their economic, social, environmental, or legal aspects.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following themes:

  • Activities related to the transition to sustainable energy systems for smart cities and industries;
  • Municipal energy transition on the way of integration with European Energy Network ENTSO-E;
  • Evaluation of urban public transport systems;
  • Concepts of urban public transport;
  • Forecast for the development of smart cities;
  • Sustainable energy system for industries;
  • Sustainable energy system for smart cities;
  • Concepts of transition to sustainable energy system for industries;
  • Partial solutions supporting the transition to a sustainable energy system for cities or industries;
  • Smart cities;
  • Smart industries.

Dr. Magdalena Wyrwicka
Guest Editor

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainable energy system
  • transition to sustainable energy system
  • smart city
  • smart industry sustainable energy system for smart city
  • sustainable energy system for smart industry
  • solutions supporting the transition to a sustainable energy system
  • forecast for the development of smart cities
  • urban transport in smart city

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Sustainable Urban Freight for Energy-Efficient Smart Cities—Systematic Literature Review
by Paulina Golinska-Dawson and Kanchana Sethanan
Energies 2023, 16(6), 2617; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en16062617 - 10 Mar 2023
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Smart cities need energy-efficient and low-emission transportation for people and goods. Most studies focus on sustainable urban-transportation systems for passengers. Freight transportation in cities has increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to greenhouse gases emissions and negative externalities, such as traffic congestion. [...] Read more.
Smart cities need energy-efficient and low-emission transportation for people and goods. Most studies focus on sustainable urban-transportation systems for passengers. Freight transportation in cities has increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to greenhouse gases emissions and negative externalities, such as traffic congestion. The purpose of this paper is to identify through a systematic literature review which innovations (hardware and software) applied by logistics service providers (LSPs) in sustainable urban freight (SUF) are suitable to support the transition to energy-efficient smart cities. We propose to classify the existing innovations in last-mile delivery for SUF into categories: (1) urban freight consolidation and/or trans-shipment; (2) the Consumer as a Service Provider (CaaSP); (3) choice of transportation modes. We introduce the concept of CaaSP as an innovative solution in last-mile delivery (LMD), where customers take over some transport operations with the use of smart technologies, and thus reduce the energy demand. We consider the modes of transportation, such as: drones, autonomous delivery robots, autonomous vehicles, cargo bikes (including e-cargo bikes, e-tricycles), electric vehicles (mainly vans), and combined passenger-and-cargo transportation rapid-transit systems. From the analyzed dataset, we find that energy-efficiency in smart cities can be improved by the consolidation of parcels in micro-depots, parcel lockers, and mobile depots. We analyze smart technologies (the Internet of things, big data, artificial intelligence, and digital twins), which enable energy efficiency by reducing the energy demand (fuel) of SUF, due to better operational planning and infrastructure sharing by logistics service providers. We propose a new IEE matrix as an actionable tool for the classification of innovations applied by LSPs in SUF, according to the level of their interconnectivity and energy efficiency. Additionally, this paper contributes to the theory by exploring possible future research directions for SUF in energy-efficient smart cities. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition to Sustainable Energy System for Smart Cities and Industries)
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Modeling Activities Related to Improving Energy Efficiency in the Public Procurement Process in Poland
by Arkadiusz T. Borowiec
Energies 2023, 16(6), 2612; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en16062612 - 10 Mar 2023
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The public procurement system in Poland remains highly centralized, although thanks to European Community directives, it is part of European law. Therefore, it has established procedures for sustainable public procurement, including so-called green public procurement. In addition to the Public Procurement Law of [...] Read more.
The public procurement system in Poland remains highly centralized, although thanks to European Community directives, it is part of European law. Therefore, it has established procedures for sustainable public procurement, including so-called green public procurement. In addition to the Public Procurement Law of 11 September 2019, other provisions introducing specific instruments (e.g., energy labels, environmental labels) should be taken into consideration, as such provisions make it easier for contracting authorities to take environmental aspects into account in tender procedures. Bearing in mind the existing legal regulations, this article features a diagnosis of the degree of use of measures to improve energy efficiency in public procurement procedures and models activities related to improving this situation. For this purpose, surveys were conducted for 120 entities applying the provisions of the Public Procurement Law. Taking into consideration the results obtained in the survey, 15 factors related to the improvement of energy efficiency in tender procedures were selected with the help of 12 purposively selected experts connected with the issues raised in this article. Thanks to their expert knowledge, three key factors determining the wider use of this instrument were modeled by means of the systems theory–based methodology of network thinking. The paper also attempts to indicate the key factors determining the wider use of this instrument, using the network thinking methodology for this purpose. As a result of the conducted research, it was found that these factors include human capital, industry, and the energy crisis. Research on the subject in the Polish literature remains innovative and allows for the formulation of application recommendations for decision makers. The concept of energy efficiency in this paper refers to the ratio of the results obtained to the energy input. Efficient use of energy aims to reduce the amount of energy needed to deliver products and services. Full article
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Smart Mobility in a Smart City in the Context of Generation Z Sustainability, Use of ICT, and Participation
by Monika Wawer, Kalina Grzesiuk and Dorota Jegorow
Energies 2022, 15(13), 4651; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/en15134651 - 24 Jun 2022
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Smart sustainable cities represent a great challenge for the modern world. Generation Z (Gen Z), whose representatives are now entering adult life, will play a key role in the implementation of this concept. The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature [...] Read more.
Smart sustainable cities represent a great challenge for the modern world. Generation Z (Gen Z), whose representatives are now entering adult life, will play a key role in the implementation of this concept. The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature of the relationship between the evaluation of smart mobility’s importance for a smart city and the attitudes and behaviours of Generation Z members in the context of sustainability, use of ICT, and their declarative and actual participation in smart city activities. The diagnostic survey method was used to achieve the research objective. The authors designed the questionnaire based on a literature analysis. The research sample consisted of 484 representatives of Generation Z—students of universities located in a smart city, Lublin (Poland). The collected data was statistically analysed using the following methods and statistical tests: Cronbach’s alpha, Pearson’s chi-square test for independence, symmetric measures: Cramer’s V, and the contingency coefficient. The analysis of the obtained research results confirms that the conscious approach of Generation Z to sustainability has a significant and positive impact on their evaluation of actions taken in the field of smart mobility for a smart city. A similar relationship was confirmed with regard to the relationship between ICT use and smart mobility evaluation. The significant and positive impact of young people’s participation in smart cities on their evaluation of smart mobility solutions’ importance was not fully and unequivocally confirmed. In conclusion, the Generation Z representatives’ awareness of the importance of sustainability and caring for the natural environment was confirmed by their desire to be pro-ecological in the areas of smart mobility studied in the paper. Moreover, young people who constantly use the latest technologies see their huge potential for the development of smart mobility in cities. However, despite the growing expectations of citizens’ active attitudes and their increasing participation in smart mobility development, it seems that the representatives of Generation Z are not really interested in it. Their declarations of willingness to join various opinion-forming and decision making processes do not actually transform them into active co-creators of smart mobility solutions. Changing this approach can be an educational, organisational and technological challenge for smart city authorities. The obtained research results could be used as guidelines for facilitating the search for innovative solutions in the area of smart mobility, improving the quality of life of smart city residents based on the principle of sustainable development. Full article
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