Green Energy: Integration in Urban Environments
Urbanization has also seen an unprecedented increase as the world's population becomes more and more urban, posing a dual challenge to cities. Wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal power and bioenergy are the main types of green energy. This paper studies the intelligence emergence of green energy in urban agglomerations, and comments on its importance, benefits, challenges and solutions. For cities, the integration of green energy is a key method to reduce their carbon footprints or greenhouse gas emissions as well provide healthy air quality and sustainable development. These benefits include energy savings, cost reductions and environmental/health improvements while also enhancing the customers' energy resilience. Nevertheless, significant challenges related to space availability and land tenure issues, infrastructure compatibility, limited sun hours per day, regulatory barriers must be overcome. Key activities focus on integrating renewable energy considerations into urban planning (design) practice, technology advancement in the built form and systems engineering sides of solutions to this need, policy support through legislation/incentives/policies that create markets for come practices related to residential or commercial scale Millennium Developments goals (MDG) work, community engagement with example demonstrations at either large-scale commercial sites or small privately owned buildings. Utilizing these approaches, cities can tap into renewable energy's promising future for the more secure and buoyant urban illusion. In addition to mitigating climate change and improving energy security, this transformation promotes economic development and improves the quality of life for urban residents.
Authors
- Shipra Gupta
- Sweta Bagdwal
Institutions
- Graphic Era University (IN)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-12-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/cisct62494.2024.11134204
- Primary Topic
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00