Smart Communities to eliminate the Peak Energy Crisis: A Vision for Net Zero Communities in Indian Cities

This Synthesis revists Architecture and urbanism for energy efficient communities to be a part of smarter cities to manage and eliminate Peak energy demands in highly populated cities in India. Approaching advanced strategies in different scale of buildings, neighborhoods, and communities for a smart management of energy. It expands the perspective from a Building energy efficiency to a community level for future cities with a stable grid and clean energy. Each section quantifies the energy savings for every strategy applied to buildings and neighborhood scale followed by a schematic illustration of these strategies applied to the neighborhood proposed. 

The smart design approach is based on an urban scale community or neighborhood level. The Urban design of this community is a different section itself which was not included in the scope of research. Some of the strategies and solutions are based on different climatic conditions and locations in the world and the research provided quantifies for that specific location. The energy calculation varies depending on the scale of the project and the type of systems used. Although the passive strategies studied are in specific to Delhi climate of similar.