Energy conservation in buildings and community systems program. Annex 33: Advanced Local Energy Planning (ALEP) - a guidebook

Within the IEA (International Energy Agency) program on Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems four countries have cooperated to apply the approach of 'Advanced Local Energy Planning' (ALEP) to three big cities and three regions in Germany, Italy, Sweden and The Netherlands, using Markal as comprehensive energy model. This Guidebook on Advanced Local Energy Planning contains the results of these case studies, a presentation of the 'ALEP philosophy' and a discussion of the potential benefits of energy system models in the context of strategic local energy planning, compared to conventional planning approaches. It has been shown that the results of the energy model could be verified with conventional tools and that the model, once established, allows for much more comprehensive analyses and optimization and thus is better suited to develop a fully consistent long-term energy strategy than conventional means. Although capable of modeling a complex local energy system, there are deficits in user-friendliness which represent a major barrier for wider distribution. Therefore, further development is necessary. By Annex 33, a specification of the needs of practical Local Energy Planning to future energy system models that are at present under development was provided. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F02B1684 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung, Berlin (Germany); International Energy Agency, 75 - Paris (France)DEGerman