Urban Energy Transition
Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions
- 3rd Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Peter Droege
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 4 3 7 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 4 3 8 - 5
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Urban Energy Transition: Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions, Third Edition is the definitive scientific and practice-based reference on energy transformations in the global urban system. This fully revised compendium provides a structured approach to the four integral areas of finance, governance, technology, and design related to current progress and innovation in urban energy transition. Dedicated to essential strategies for abundant and ubiquitous energy for all, global statistics of decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions, the role of cities in the global transition to renewable energy, and principles, models, and tools of policy and planning for renewable energy-based communities are covered.
This book will be extremely relevant and of interest to the global community, energy and sustainability practitioners and researchers, scholars, teachers and students in sustainability and urban energy managers.
- Covers technical design, mapping, and modeling for issues related to urban renewable energy transformations
- Presents global city-wide renewable energy strategies and urban thermal performance planning, sector coupling, and smart distributed renewable energy and storage systems
- Explains successful innovations in solar bond finance, blockchain technology enabled peer-to-peer renewable energy trading systems, and the case for renewable energy based regional monetary systems
- Includes analytic case insights into successful practices from around the globe that provide local, regional, and country-specific governance and organizational perspectives
Energy and sustainability practitioners and researchers, scholars, teachers and students in sustainability and urban energy managers, Scientific communities in the field of social sciences, technology studies, sustainability studies, regional studies, urban- and regional planning
Introduction
From cities of waste to climate stablizing communities
Solar and smart cities
Smart Solar Integration: Insights from Four Pioneering Cities of Masdar, Stockholm, Freiburg, and San Diego
Urban transformation
Refurbishing suburbs to regenerate cities: energy, architecture and technology for Housing
The energy precinct
Learning from Fairwater Living Laboratory –towards a precinct based approach for decarbonization and regeneration
City after petroleum
Transition to a post-oil city
EV propagation
Electric Vehicle Adoption: a review of the quality of infrastructure in Kenya
Building in the Pyrocene
Resistant Architecture for Bushfire Zones
Towards autonomous islands
Designing a safe and cost-efficient power supply with a PV system in the City of Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia
Heat island city
Energy Conservation Effects on Air Conditioning Due to Urban Heat Island Countermeasures: A Simulation at a City-Block Scale
The role of the building sector
Net Zero Buildings: exploring the complexity of sector-wide transition in the new buildings sector in South African cities
Distributed Renewable Energy
Enabling Distributed Renewable Energy Uptake in South African Cities
Understanding cities
Energy and emission profiles of sub-Saharan African cities: an Evidence-Based Analysis to Empower Cities in Responding to Energy and Climate Change Issues
Urban energy governance
Community Assumption of Energy Governance Shifts Decision-making and Planning in the U.S. to Community Clean Energy Authorities
Government as innovator
Empirical Analysis of Local Government Efforts in the U.S. to Drive Urban Energy Transition: Subscriber versus Community Solar
Net zero city
Climate neutrality in large cities – the Berlin case
Thermal city
Accelerated Heat Transition in Germany: Socio-economic challenges using the example of Berlin
Liquid waste efficiency
Wastewater heat in Berlin: How geo-based wastewater heat maps and wastewater heat can contribute to a low-carbon urban energy system
Resource efficiency
Decarbonisation of urban environment by municipal solid waste-to-energy system: technical and policy considerations
Unintended consequences
Burning landscapes
Climate positive project planning
"Mangroves and Somalia’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): Unlocking Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience
Regenerating the biosphere
All for Earth: accelerating the urban energy transition in its planetary context
- Edition: 3
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Peter Droege
Peter Droege directs the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, the global advisory and research organization for the rapid transition to regenerative communities, cities, regions and infrastructure. Professor Droege serves also as President of Eurosolar, the European Association for Renewable Energy, and as General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy. A recipient of the European Solar Prize in Education, Peter Droege initiated the Chair for Sustainable Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein while holding a Conjoint Professorship at the Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecure and the Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Australia. Professor Droege has authored or edited numerous books, including Intelligent Environments (Elsevier 1997), Urban Energy Transition, 1st Edition: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Power (Elsevier 2008).
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, President, Eurosolar, European Association of Renewable Energy and General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy