专刊征文：Energy networks and sustainability，欢迎投稿！

以下《城市信息学》专刊现已开放供投稿。提交截止日期为2024年07月31日。

专刊主题：Energy networks and sustainability

客座主编：

朱瑞：新加坡科学院高性能计算研究所高级研究员，zhur@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

张浩然：北京大学城市规划与设计学院助理教授，h.zhang@pku.edu.cn

目标和范围：

全球城市只占地球陆地面积的3%，却排放了75%的二氧化碳。因此，城市是实现联合国关于碳中和的可持续发展目标和《巴黎协定》减缓全球变暖目标的主战场，实现这一目标的有效途径之一是推广太阳能的使用，减少对传统化石燃料的依赖。例如，为了减少碳排放和为城市降温，新加坡广泛安装了建筑集成光伏（PV）系统，并提出了一项大型倡议，即在未来十年内逐步淘汰内燃机汽车，代之以电动汽车。

投稿主题（包括但不限于）：

1.多源时空数据的构建

2.可再生能源估算(如太阳能、风能、潮汐能)

3.建筑光伏

4.新能源汽车(如电动汽车网络、电动汽车充电等)

5.城市环境(如城市热岛、空气污染和碳减缓能力)

6.经济可行性评估(如技术经济评估)

7.环境影响评价(如生命周期评价)

8.能源政策和政策含义(如上网电价)

The following special issue in Urban Informatics is open for submissions. The submission deadline is July 31, 2024.

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

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