Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain.
Endesa, Avenida de la Borbolla, 5, 41004, Sevilla, Spain.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 May;27(13):15645-15662. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-08079-7. Epub 2020 Feb 20.
This paper presents a methodology that allows for calculating the thermal and electric energy consumption together with CO emissions of cities by inhabitant and household based on climate, only making use of publicly available data. With this aim, climate was analysed and cities were classified based on it. The analysis of those cities' energy consumption and CO emissions allowed for drawing conclusions. Once aware of the climate zones in which energy consumption and emissions are higher, these mentioned conclusions could help to take further actions. An index has been defined to facilitate this analysis. This paper shows the case of Spain for illustrative purposes. This type of study has been carried out in some detail in many countries, but not in Spain yet. This paper tries as well to fill the existing gaps in studies that relate climate to thermal and electric energy consumption. For this purpose, it analyses the 145 cities in Spain that have more than 50,000 inhabitants. Knowing all this is essential in all regions and countries. It will allow for taking proper actions for promoting the energy saving and the use of alternative energy sources that reduce CO emissions. According to the study carried out in this paper, the extremer the climate of a city is, the higher the thermal energy consumption is. This consumption decreases in softer climates. However, electric energy consumption is similar in all cities independent of the climate they have. With regard to CO emissions, it was calculated that the higher the energy consumption of a city is, the higher these emissions are.
本文提出了一种方法，可根据气候，仅利用公开数据，计算居民和家庭的城市热能和电能消耗以及 CO 排放量。为此，对气候进行了分析，并根据气候对城市进行了分类。对这些城市的能源消耗和 CO 排放进行了分析，得出了结论。一旦了解了能源消耗和排放较高的气候区，就可以采取进一步的行动。已经定义了一个指数来方便这种分析。本文以西班牙为例来说明。在许多国家已经详细进行了这种类型的研究，但西班牙尚未进行。本文还试图填补与气候与热能和电能消耗相关的研究中的空白。为此，它分析了西班牙的 145 个拥有超过 50,000 名居民的城市。了解所有这些在所有地区和国家都是必不可少的。这将有助于采取适当的行动，以促进节能和使用减少 CO 排放的替代能源。根据本文进行的研究，城市的气候越极端，热能消耗就越高。在气候较温和的地区，这种消耗会减少。然而，所有城市的电力消耗都相似，而与它们所处的气候无关。关于 CO 排放，据计算，城市的能源消耗越高，排放量就越高。
