Energy Landscape Planning

Energy Landscape Planning (ELP) is an interdisciplinary field of urban and rural planning and energy and resource science. The research methods of planning and landscape studies are applied to energy planning, so to achieve research results with the advantages of both disciplines. The research objects of ELP include biomass energy, wind energy, solar energy and other renewable energy, and then the spatial optimal distribution patterns of energy production, conversion and storage sites, as well as transmission pipe network and transportation road network are explored through quantifying the temporal and spatial distribution of energy supply and demand based on multi-source data. Theoretical modeling, supply and demand measurement, spatial analysis and other methods, are used to promote the regional comprehensive energy utilization efficiency to the maximum extent, so to achieve a sustainable development.

Figure: Evolution process of biomass CHP plants' network

Source: Yifei Zhang; Jian Kang. Effect of the distribution density of biomass combined heat and power plant networks on total energy utilization efficiency[J], Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2018,10(11): 065902.

Edited and translated by Zhang Yifei