With the Decree-Law no. 162/2019 publication, it became possible, since January 2020, to share the same energy production unit, which consumers and other interested parties can constitute Energy Communities for production, consumption, sharing, storage [...]
Planning a new "city" requires the urban vision, the design of the infrastructures and the management of the urban services. The design of a Development Plan for a city, such as efficient cities (or smarts), [...]
Energy plays a key role in all activities, namely in economic activities and their development. For a long time, it was thought that growth, progress and socio-economic development could be achieved through the strong growth [...]
New cities can grow up and bring their development closer to regions characterized by more efficient in the terms of the energy use. This requires a change in human behaviour. Energy should be considered a [...]
The benefits from energy savings, resulting from the energy management and planning, lead to benefits that can be reflected at national level and, directly and immediately, at the consumers with the following advantages, among others: [...]
The energy plan must determine a set of energy parameters as well as provide relevant information. We propose the following nine objectives for an Energy Plan: Establish possible scenarios of useful energy demand, broken down [...]
In the planning of a new city the urban vision emerges in the process of urban fabric adaptation to the natural conditions of insolation and dominant winds circulation, landscape design, specific vegetation polity, density [...]
The infrastructures design should incorporate the rational energy production systems, such as photovoltaic plants, trigeneration, the high-performance HVAC systems, retention and treatment of rainwater, as well as the reuse of recycled waste water for [...]
The management of urban services includes the sorting, collection, reuse and recycling of waste, urban mobility optimization, compact and equipped areas, as well as real-time monitoring of energy consumption and management of available resources. [...]
