Solar ElectriCity Guide for Municipalities Implementing Photovoltaics in the Local Urban Environment The Swiss Editions

摘要

Municipalities play an important role in sustainable development and energy-related issues. One of the very key factors is renewable energy with e.g. photovoltaics providing more and more opportunities now and in the future. This is the starting point of the Solar ElectriCity Guide for Municipalities. The guide aims at showing ways of implementing photovoltaics (PV) in the urban environment on a communal level. The guide contains concise information and easy-to-use instruments to define, evaluate, plan and implement PV projects in the urban environment. The target audience are mainly local and regional authorities as well as related professionals (urban designers and developers, project developers and builders). Main topics and sections to be presented in the Solar ElectriCity Guide editions are 1) applications, 2) projects, 3) policy, 4) potential, 5) urban design, 6) building design, 7) finance and 8) contact points. The contents address technological issues but the focus is clearly on what PV can offer to cities and how PV can be successfully developed and integrated in the urban environment. Great emphasis is subsequently put on illustrations (pictures and examples), which make the guide a tangible and valuable source of inspiration and information for the key stakeholders in the development of solar power at a local urban scale.