Urban Climate, Comfort and Building Energy Performance

Dear Colleagues,

Electrification and decarbonization are changing the climate, human comfort, and building energy usage at an urban level. Existing power generation infrastructures can be significantly affected by the adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs), which are instrumental facilitators for a more environmentally friendly energy infrastructure. Behind-the-meter DERs enable some electricity end users to be not only consumers, but also generators. These research domains deserve in-depth studies on potential pathways to decarbonization and the associated impacts on climate, human comfort, and energy usage at an urban scale.

This is a multi-domain research topic, which needs contributions from architectural, mechanical, electrical, environmental, economic, and policy researchers. We encourage researchers from different research areas to share domain knowledge and research findings. In this Special Issue, we invite original contributions for state-of-the-art methodologies, case studies, and reviews related to urban climate, comfort, and building energy performance.

We welcome papers on the topics including but not limited to:

• Building energy performance at an urban or community scale;
• Decarbonization and electrification;
• Grid-interactive efficient buildings;
• Building-to-grid integration;
• Thermal comfort;
• Urban and building adaptation strategies to climate change;
• Urban microclimate;
• Urban-scale environmental and economic analysis.

Dr. Yunyang Ye
Dr. Xuechen Lei
Guest Editors

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