ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role of stationary or non-transport energy supply and use in the urban context, and proposes some policy options to help shift it towards a less unsustainable path. Stationary energy is an important direct input, and an input to other inputs, to urban development and activity. The chapter discusses the energy issues within the urban metabolism conceptual framework of inputs, dynamics and outcomes or impacts highlights the critical necessity for an integrated, societal approach to energy policies related to energy production, supply and use. Food supply to urban areas involves significant stationary energy inputs, both directly and indirectly, for agricultural activity, to produce fertilizers and chemicals and for processing into final products. The chapter explores some emerging policy issues associated with these new trends in supply-and-demand factors. National policy also aims to address any structural, legislative or regulatory barriers to cogeneration, renewable energy and energy efficiency consistent with efficient operation of the market.
