Energy is the vital source of our society. Overpopulation, resource scarcity, environmental degradation and climate change force us to make rational use of it.
It is in this context where the city-energy binomial is especially attractive and groundbreaking. It allows you to think and structure coherent solutions from the three perspectives of thesustainability:environmentally sound, economically acceptable and socially satisfactory.
The world's population grows at the rate at which its cities grow. The countryside is shrinking year after year, with an increasingly shrinking and aging population. Cities are leaders of a world in full transformation andThe importance of energy efficiency is fundamental in the fight against climate change.
Cities are taking advantage of the rapid maturation thatnew technologiesoffer in energy generation and efficiency. Their structure allows them to react to changes and opportunities more agilely than the state administration. They are creating new models of urban morphology.Sustainable building,electric vehiclesor renewable energies become true pillars.
Cities and their energy transition path
Post-oil urban models are increasingly less attentive to the whims of architecture and design. They are more focused on climate science, sustainability and renewables. Solar energy is establishing itself as one of the big winners on the urban map. Thanks to its flexibility, it is adaptable to existing constructions and highlights its excellent performance-cost ratio.
Each of us is a citizen who wants to participate in the decisions that affect us. We want to assume our responsibility and obligations in the risks that we are willing to take regarding our future. The question now would be: How are our authorities able to report information, for example, aboutthe carbon footprintothe water footprintof our city?
There are already solutions on the market that allow efficient control of the indicators necessary to correctly manage the transition towards acity and low carbon economy.An example of this isSicaSoft Low Carbon Cities,a collaborative platform aimed at municipal managers and companies, which allows improving competitiveness anddevelop low carbon cities, through efficient energy management,water and climate change.