<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper provides an overview of the development trends of the smart city. Over the past decades, the trend of the new urban model called smart city has been gaining momentum, which is an aggregate of the latest technologies, intelligent administration and conscious citizens, which allows the city to actively develop, and effectively and efficiently solve the problems it is facing. Profound changes are also taking place in the energy sector. Researchers and other specialists offer a wide variety of innovative solutions and approaches for the concepts of intelligent cities. The paper reviews and analyses the existing methodological solutions in the field of power industry, as well as provides recommendations how to introduce the common platform on the basis of disparate sources of information on energy resources existing in the city as an optimal solution for developing the city's intelligence, flexibility and sustainability based on its starting conditions.</p></abstract>

The paper provides an overview of the development trends of the smart city. Over the past decades, the trend of the new urban model called smart city has been gaining momentum, which is an aggregate of the latest technologies, intelligent administration and conscious citizens, which allows the city to actively develop, and effectively and efficiently solve the problems it is facing. Profound changes are also taking place in the energy sector. Researchers and other specialists offer a wide variety of innovative solutions and approaches for the concepts of intelligent cities. The paper reviews and analyses the existing methodological solutions in the field of power industry, as well as provides recommendations how to introduce the common platform on the basis of disparate sources of information on energy resources existing in the city as an optimal solution for developing the city's intelligence, flexibility and sustainability based on its starting conditions.

Smart City Through a Flexible Approach to Smart Energy

Smart Grid Research Centre, Institute of Physical Energetics

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

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The paper provides an overview of the development trends of the smart city. Over the past decades, the trend of the new urban model called smart city has been...

Smart City Through a Flexible Approach to Smart Energy

Published Online: Mar 24, 2018

Page range: 3 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2018-0001

Keywords
energy management, multi-energy city, smart city, smart city model, smart energy city, platformization

© 2018 A. Mutule et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Smart City Through a Flexible Approach to Smart Energy

Published Online: Mar 24, 2018

Page range: 3 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2018-0001

Keywordsenergy management, multi-energy city, smart city, smart city model, smart energy city, platformization

© 2018 A. Mutule et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
energy management, multi-energy city, smart city, smart city model, smart energy city, platformization