Hannele Ahvenniemi

TL;DR: Analyzing 16 sets of city assessment frameworks for smart city and sustainable city frameworks suggests that there is a need for developing smart city frameworks further or re-defining the smart city concept, and recommends the use of a more accurate term “smart sustainable cities” instead of smart cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption in Finland, where the adoption of solar PV systems is still at a low level, and ask how adopters have overcome the barriers to adopting solar PV system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the extent to which smartness and sustainability aspects are addressed in the city strategies and how smarts and sustainability goals overlap with each other, and found that less than one-third of the goals are related to a smartness aspect.

TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of nearly zero-energy building renovation from a technical, environmental, economic and social point of view is analyzed using the energy consumption calculations for country-specific reference case buildings before renovation, after traditional renovation, and after a Nearly Zero-Energy Building Renovation (NZEBR) as the starting point.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed the potential interest in heating related services acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the customer needs and indicated the importance of certain criteria when choosing the heating system in households.