Bioenergy routes for heat and power in urban areas: trade-offs and perspectives for smart cities

This research aims to overview the potentials of bioenergy to serve the heat and power demand of urban areas and to be integrated into existing energy infrastructures. For this purpose, both the analysis of biomass resources, processing and conversion technologies suitable for urban energy systems, and the assessment of existing case studies of integration of bioenergy to serve heat/cool and electricity demand for urban areas are used to capture the technical and non technical key factors influencing the use of biomass in residential areas, and evaluate the most promising bioenergy routes for these applications.