Evaluating Positive Energy Districts: A Literature Review

Abstract

To achieve the climate goals in the Paris Agreement and clean energy transition, positive energy districts must be promoted. A positive energy district is focused on increasing the efficiency of the buildings within it, using the renewable energy it produces, favouring electric and hybrid cars, and storing all the energy produced, in order to make clean energy for the whole city. Positive energy is a concept that takes into account not only the energy aspect, but also the environmental, social, and economic sphere. In order to be effective, this transformation requires the intervention of the community and the local decision-makers. The aim of the paper is to investigate the scientific literature, through the scientific dataset SCOPUS, in order to develop an evaluation framework for energy transition to support the decision-makers. Since the positive energy district is a recent paradigm, the investigation is extended to consider energy fields and takes into account different levels of urban scale. Specific keywords are used in order to find different economic methods in the literature, which can be used to support positive energy transition.