A review of the solar city concept and methods to assess rooftop solar electric potential, with an illustrative application to the city of Seoul

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 830-844

  Byrne, John ^a   Taminiau, Job ^a   Kurdgelashvili, Lado ^a   Kim, Kyung Nam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Built environment; Peak shaving; Photovoltaics; Solar city; Solar energy; Solar rooftop potential; Urban solar potential

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; DUAL-ENERGY; ENERGY ECONOMY; PEAK-SHAVING; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR CITY; SOLAR POTENTIAL; SOLAR ROOFTOP POTENTIAL; SOUTH KOREA; URBAN SOLAR POTENTIAL;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84907549467     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.08.023     Document Type: Review

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