Securing Smart Grids to Address Environmental Issues in Regional Planning
This chapter examines regional planning and development in relation to sustainability and highlights sustainability challenges in various regional planning case studies. Creating smart cities addresses the problems that arise from rapid urbanisation and growth of the urban population. This chapter p...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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IntechOpen
2023
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| Online Access: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/86242 |
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| Summary: | This chapter examines regional planning and development in relation to sustainability and highlights sustainability challenges in various regional planning case studies. Creating smart cities addresses the problems that arise from rapid urbanisation and growth of the urban population. This chapter provides an overview of smart cities and discusses several global smart city efforts. It introduces the idea of smart energy highlighting the smart grid components and how it tackles environmental challenges in regional planning. Additionally, it analyses several threats to the smart grid that may hinder its efficient operation and makes suggestions on how to deal with them so that sustainable energy may be delivered to smart cities. |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-80356-050-2 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.110189 |