City Energy Management : A Case Study on the Area of Liège in Belgium

peer reviewed ; Within the framework of sustainable development, it is important to take into account environmental aspects of urban areas related to their energy use. In this research, a typology of urban blocks is drawn up for the urban area of Liège through the use of GIS tools in order to assess energy uses of residential buildings and transport of residents at the city scale. For each class of this typology, a representative block is selected in order to model energy use at the city scale, as well as to consider the possible evolution of the city energy consumption and to simulate the eff... Mehr ...