Could Renewable Energy Affect the Form of the City? Case Study on the Wind Energy Considerations

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• 作者：Tamer Abdel Aziz^a ; ^{drtameraa@yahoo.com} ; Osama Elmassah^b ; ^{osama.elmassah@dargroup.com}
• 关键词：Renewable energies ; Wind energy ; Small scale wind turbines ; Horizontal/Vertical wind axe turbines ; Wind corridors ; Wind energy in Egypt
• 刊名：Energy Procedia
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：P136_18766102
• 类别：pw
• 出版时间：2012
• 卷：18
• 期：Complete
• 页码：276-290
• 文件大小：2296 K

摘要

The urbanized surface of the old continents could be double in little more than a century due to the transit of the _world from villages to cities (according to the UN) beside the rapid growing in the world population, these will lead _to large numbers of environmental problems, one of these problems is that the energy consumption per person will _increase so more energy will be produced. ^{^p}Electricity from fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas negatively affect the environment at each step from production till consumption, and relaying mainly on these resources of energy to apply this new huge demand will lead to producing more CO2 gas in the atmosphere which will case rising of earth temperature in a rapid rate while electricity generated using sources other than fossil fuel reduces the environmental impacts.

Buildings consumes approximately 39%of the energy and 74%of the electricity produced annually in the United States (according to LEED BD+C version 3), and as a rule of thumb the better the energy performance of a building, the fewer greenhouse gases are emitted, So relying on renewable energies to supply urban areas with the power needed is the solution for this problem and is considered an important approach for our cities to be more sustainable.

The major shift in the vision of sustainable cities is the potential of buildings to produce energy. This will entail a whole host of solutions (solar, wind power and so forth) that will make cities more interesting as well as sustainable. And in this paper we will try to introduce the main parameters and considerations of these renewable energies specially the wind energy which can affect the form of the city and the important dimensions that should be taken into consideration when designing a new sustainable city.