Methodology for energy efficiency assessment

Abstract

The rapid urbanization processes and increasing populations pose issues to cities, especially in the area of energy requirements. Smart City strategy has been used for many cities to overcome those issues by implementing energy efficient projects and handle the systematically more complex nature of the city, through interconnected frameworks, and the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). However the absence of a common methodology for monitoring and evaluation those energy efficiency projects produce misleading in their final impact. This thesis explores the energy efficient projects and the methodologies around their evaluation, to finally propose a methodology for energy efficient assessments for Smart Cities. As the number of systems that form a city is considerable high, this thesis consider two sectors, Transport Sector (TrS) and Industrial sector (IndS), this last one on the point of view of the current standardizations on Energy Management System (EMS). The methodology is applied to three smart cities, and feedback from cities authorities is integrated to refine the methodology as well as its implementation process. Finally a generic application is designed to support the methodology implementation process, and use in one of the smart cities.