Resilient Renewable Energy Systems for Climate-Adaptive Urban Infrastructure

Abstract

City infrastructure systems are getting more vulnerable to climatic disturbances, which include excessive heat waves, floods, storms and unpredictable increasing and decreasing electricity demand. Such difficulties shed light on the importance of resilient and adjustable systems of energy that can help to provide stable power provision and, therefore, promote sustainable urbanisation. Renewable energy technologies can provide a feasible alternative to improving the resilience of city energy infrastructure through decreasing reliance on centralising fossil-based power production, and decentralising energy regulation. The paper suggests a robust renewable energy system review that aims at supporting climate-adaptive urban infrastructures. The framework proposed incorporates the distributed solar photovoltaic systems, urban wind energy production, battery energy stock, and a smart energy management plan into a hybrid renewable energy network. The simulation modelling method is used to study the system performance when subjected to various climate stress factors which are peak urban electricity demand and fluctuation in renewable energy production. The performance indicators to be assessed include reliability of the system, percentage of renewable energy, the stability in energy supply and reduction of carbon emissions. According to simulation outcomes, proposed hybrid renewable energy system offers great contribution to the resilience of urban energy through better use of renewable energy and less reliance on centralised grid electricity. Moreover, by combining energy storage and adaptive energy management, the stability of the system is enhanced in times of fluctuation of the energy state on the basis of climate. The results prove that robust renewable energy should be considered as a key to the climate-adaptive and sustainable development of urban infrastructure.