Urban Renewable Energy on the Upswing: A Spotlight on Renewable Energy in Cities in REN21’s “Renewables 2019 Global Status Report”
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Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Padua, 35131 Padua, Italy
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Water and Environmental Engineering Group, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7QF, UK
Resources 2019, 8(3), 139; https://doi.org/10.3390/resources8030139
Received: 29 July 2019
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Accepted: 1 August 2019
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Published: 2 August 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underutilised Resources in Urban Environments)
Published in June 2019, the new edition of the annually updated Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) compiles the most recent developments and trends in the adoption of renewable energies worldwide and in specific regions, countries and sectors. The report represents a rich resource for reliable and up-to-date information about individual renewable energy sources and their use. The analysis also covers a review of energy policies. Renewable energy policies still strongly concentrate on the power sector, while transport and heating and cooling are given less attention. Most investment in renewable energy today happens in developing and emerging countries, which is a major change to the situation some years ago. The 2019 edition of the GSR report includes a feature on renewable energy in cities, which highlights the importance of prioritising the urban context in order to achieve more sustainable schemes of energy supply and consumption. More than half of the global population today lives in cities, but around two-thirds of energy consumption happens in an urban environment. The GSR 2019 identifies that cities already are among the most active players in the adoption of renewable energies. One interesting finding is that in more than 100 cities worldwide at least 70% of the electricity already comes from renewables. This includes cities in both developed and developing countries.
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Keywords:
renewable energy; energy transition; energy policies; urban energy
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Chicago/Turabian StyleKusch-Brandt, Sigrid. 2019. "Urban Renewable Energy on the Upswing: A Spotlight on Renewable Energy in Cities in REN21’s “Renewables 2019 Global Status Report”" Resources 8, no. 3: 139. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources8030139
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