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Ongoing urbanization and ever-growing harmful environmental impacts from urban areas necessitate a sustainability transformation in cities. However, cities are also centers of wealth creation and consumption, which both drive environmental degradation. It is clear that cities need to re-establish themselves as low-energy/low-carbon systems, but the transformation is complex in many ways and time is running out. This Special Issue, “Energy Efficient Cities of Today and Tomorrow”, seeks to provide a more profound understanding of the future energy requirements of urban areas and low-energy and low-carbon cities. The published papers range from macro-level assessments of cities manifesting themselves as forerunners in their environmental work to micro-level studies of pro-environmental attitudes and their impacts on individual emissions, a carbon footprint impacts of sharing of goods and services.

History of engineering & technology --- pro-environmental attitude --- pro-environmental behavior --- greenhouse gases --- urban zones --- local travel --- national travel --- international travel --- energy efficient refurbishment measures --- residential buildings --- decision-making --- Theory of Planned Behavior --- energy audit --- green buildings --- LEED rating system --- operation and management --- methodology --- workflow --- historic buildings --- energy transition --- sustainable cities --- transition roadmaps --- renewable energies --- policymaking --- energy democracy --- energy mapping --- household size --- household economies of scale --- carbon footprint --- energy footprint --- consumption --- European Union --- urban --- rural --- population density --- climate change mitigation --- energy community --- urban building energy modelling --- transition management --- multi-level perspective --- sustainable transition --- energy modelling --- urban scale energy modelling --- building energy use --- localized weather data --- urban building energy use model --- Manhattan --- modelling --- Wepro model --- residential --- household --- electricity --- load profiles --- LPG --- ALPG --- Swedish cities --- passenger transport energy use --- urban form --- transport infrastructure --- mobility patterns --- public transport --- non-motorized modes

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Since their creation eight years ago, the EERA Joint Programmes and their participating institutions have accumulated important knowledge on specific topics of the programmes they carried out. This includes Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts, which are not only crucial topics tackled by EERA Joint Programme in the Smart Cities Workplan, but also in H2020 as well as Horizon Europe or national calls, focusing on innovative solutions based on interdisciplinary approaches, which are needed to face the highly complex challenges in coming years, from sustainable urban development to emergencies in cities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The foreword of EERA JP in SC Special Issue 1|2018 highlighted the aim of the Special Issues series, which was, and still is, to support the growth of research networks in the EC framework. According to this, our ambition is to publish the most promising research and innovation projects which EERA JPonSC partners, and others, set up in the framework of H2020 Programme, to drive the attention to the fact that EERA JP on SC is one of the strong voices in research in Europe, capable of highlighting and integrating different solutions and points of view.

Research & information: general --- Technology: general issues --- positive energy districts labs --- testing facilities --- factsheets --- statistical studies --- electric buses --- greenhouse gas emissions --- low carbon energy public transport --- public transport --- sustainable development --- Polish city --- smart city --- renewable energy --- distributed generation --- urban policy --- Poland --- governance --- energy flexibility --- positive energy districts --- sustainable energy --- smart city deployment --- behaviour change --- carbon footprint: citizen motivation --- sustainability --- energy modelling --- building thermal performance --- refurbishment potential --- multivariable evaluation --- GIS --- TRNSYS --- centralized energy systems --- district heating systems --- energy demand in buildings --- distributed energy sources --- photovoltaic systems --- Positive Energy District (PED) --- PED Booklet --- SET-Plan --- positive energy district --- climate-neutral cities --- 15-minute city --- downsizing district --- doughnuts --- post-COVID-19 scenario for RD&amp --- I funding --- Positive Energy District --- sustainable urban areas --- transition

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Open data and policy implications coming from data-aware planning entail collection and pre- and postprocessing as operations of primary interest. Before these steps, making data available to people and their decision-makers is a crucial point. Referring to the relationship between data and energy, public administrations, governments, and research bodies are promoting the construction of reliable and robust datasets to pursue policies coherent with the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as to allow citizens to make informed choices. Energy engineers and planners must provide the simplest and most robust tools to collect, process, and analyze data in order to offer solid data-based evidence for future projections in building, district, and regional systems planning. This Special Issue aims at providing the state-of-the-art on open-energy data analytics; its availability in the different contexts, i.e., country peculiarities; and its availability at different scales, i.e., building, district, and regional for data-aware planning and policy-making. For all the aforementioned reasons, we encourage researchers to share their original works on the field of open data and energy analytics. Topics of primary interest include but are not limited to the following: 1. Open data and energy sustainability; 2. Open data science and energy planning; 3. Open science and open governance for sustainable development goals; 4. Key performance indicators of data-aware energy modelling, planning, and policy; 5. Energy, water, and sustainability database for building, district, and regional systems; 6. Best practices and case studies.

Research & information: general --- data envelopment analysis --- Kohonen self-organizing maps --- factor analysis --- multiple regression --- energy efficiency --- social media --- energy-consuming activities --- energy consumption --- machine learning --- ontology --- energy performance certificate --- heating energy demand --- buildings --- data mining --- classification --- regression --- decision tree --- support vector machine --- random forest --- artificial neural network --- open data --- electrification modelling --- Malawi --- OnSSET --- MESSAGEix --- reproducibility --- collaborative work --- open modelling and data --- data-handling --- integrated assessment modelling --- data pre- and post-processing --- space heating --- domestic hot water --- market assessment --- EU28 --- district heating --- data analytics --- big data --- forecasting --- energy --- polygeneration --- clustering --- kNN --- pattern recognition --- heating --- building stock --- heat map --- spatial analysis --- heat density map --- building performance simulation --- parametric modelling --- energy management --- model calibration --- Passive House --- energy planning --- energy potential mapping --- urban energy atlas --- urban energy transition --- energy data --- data-aware planning --- spatial planning --- open data analytics --- smart cities --- open energy governance --- urban database --- energy mapping --- building dataset --- energy modelling

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This Special Issue aims at providing recent advancements on open data and models. Energy and environment are the fields of application.For all the aforementioned reasons, we encourage researchers and professionals to share their original works. Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to:Open data and models for energy sustainability;Open data science and environment applications;Open science and open governance for Sustainable Development Goals;Key performance indicators of data-aware energy modelling, planning and policy;Energy, water and sustainability database for building, district and regional systems; andBest practices and case studies.

Research & information: general --- Technology: general issues --- electric vehicles --- electricity mix --- charging profile --- emissions --- energy --- energy scenarios --- photovoltaics --- wind --- EPLANopt --- multi-objective optimization --- climate-change --- bi-level optimisation method --- evolutionary algorithms --- renewable energy --- wave energy converter --- geometric parameters --- power take-off --- levelised cost of energy --- scroll-compressor --- experimental validation --- numerical model --- layout assessment --- wave energy conversion --- real wave model --- building energy management --- energy information systems --- anomaly detection and diagnosis --- classification tree --- symbolic aggregate approximation --- association rule mining --- energy modelling --- heating transition --- modelling practices --- data-driven policy design --- local policy --- municipality --- multi-model ecologies --- energy transitions --- energy analytics --- data-driven methods --- building performance analysis energy efficiency --- energy flexibility --- occupant-centric design --- open energy data --- thermal building performance --- satellite-based solar radiation data --- meteorological reanalysis data --- ISO 52016-1 --- single-zone infiltration --- digital construction --- artificial intelligence --- digital twin --- nZEB --- energy management --- energy efficiency --- edge computing --- n/a

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Since their creation eight years ago, the EERA Joint Programmes and their participating institutions have accumulated important knowledge on specific topics of the programmes they carried out. This includes Smart Cities and Positive Energy Districts, which are not only crucial topics tackled by EERA Joint Programme in the Smart Cities Workplan, but also in H2020 as well as Horizon Europe or national calls, focusing on innovative solutions based on interdisciplinary approaches, which are needed to face the highly complex challenges in coming years, from sustainable urban development to emergencies in cities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The foreword of EERA JP in SC Special Issue 1|2018 highlighted the aim of the Special Issues series, which was, and still is, to support the growth of research networks in the EC framework. According to this, our ambition is to publish the most promising research and innovation projects which EERA JPonSC partners, and others, set up in the framework of H2020 Programme, to drive the attention to the fact that EERA JP on SC is one of the strong voices in research in Europe, capable of highlighting and integrating different solutions and points of view.

Research & information: general --- Technology: general issues --- positive energy districts labs --- testing facilities --- factsheets --- statistical studies --- electric buses --- greenhouse gas emissions --- low carbon energy public transport --- public transport --- sustainable development --- Polish city --- smart city --- renewable energy --- distributed generation --- urban policy --- Poland --- governance --- energy flexibility --- positive energy districts --- sustainable energy --- smart city deployment --- behaviour change --- carbon footprint: citizen motivation --- sustainability --- energy modelling --- building thermal performance --- refurbishment potential --- multivariable evaluation --- GIS --- TRNSYS --- centralized energy systems --- district heating systems --- energy demand in buildings --- distributed energy sources --- photovoltaic systems --- Positive Energy District (PED) --- PED Booklet --- SET-Plan --- positive energy district --- climate-neutral cities --- 15-minute city --- downsizing district --- doughnuts --- post-COVID-19 scenario for RD&amp --- I funding --- Positive Energy District --- sustainable urban areas --- transition