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Are smart city projects catalyzing urban energy sustainability?

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Haarstad, Håvard, Wathne, Marikken W.·2019·Energy Policy
DOI 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.001
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between smart cities and urban energy sustainability. Because achieving a “smart city” is a wide agenda rather than a specific set of interventions, smartness itself cannot easily be measured or quantifiably assessed. Instead, we understand smart cities to be a broad framework of strategies pursued by urban actors, and ask whether and how smart city projects catalyze urban energy sustainability. We use case studies of three cities (Nottingham, Stavanger, and Stockholm) funded by the Horizon 2020 Smart Cities and Communities program and examine how urban energy sustainability was advanced and realized through the smart city initiatives. We find first that while sustainability is not always a major objective of local implementation of smart city projects, the smartness agenda nevertheless increases the ambition to achieve energy sustainability targets. Second, the sustainability measures in smart cities are rarely driven by advanced technology, even though the smart city agenda is framed around such innovations. Third, there is significant sustainability potential in cross-sectoral integration, but there are unresolved challenges of accountability for and measurability of these gains.

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Authors
Haarstad, H., & Wathne, M. W.
Affiliations
  • University of Bergen (NO)
  • OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University (NO)
Corresponding author
  • Haarstad, Håvard
  • Wathne, Marikken W.
ORCID
Venue
Energy Policy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-06
Volume
129
Pages
918-925
ISSN
0301-4215 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.001
OpenAlex
W2922114378
Cited by
164
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 5
FWCI
15.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Energy Policy (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Bergens Forskningsstiftelse (BFS2016REK04)
  • Horizon 2020
  • European Commission
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
Keywords
smart cities, smart city projects, sustainability goals, intersectoral integration, accountability, urban governance, Nottingham, Stavanger, Stockholm

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