Welcome to CUE2021-The 7th Applied Energy Symposium 2021: Low carbon cities and urban energy systems.

Cities are rapidly getting on top of the agendas of various initiatives worldwide aimed at decreasing the cost and carbon footprint of energy products, services and activities. The demands and pressure on energy infrastructure and resources obliges city infrastructure and consumers to adapt intelligently to ensure efficient, affordable and sustainable solutions.

Developing intelligent energy solutions for resilient urban systems is a global and complex challenge which involves interdisciplinary fields. With this as theme of the conference, same as the previous serious symposiums, the CUE2021 aims to provide a premier international forum for all stakeholders including academia, industry and policy decision makers to present and share latest findings in all aspects across this domain, discussing how smart technologies and services can integrate the production and use of energy to support a more sustainable and resilient urban system.

CUE2021 is organized by the international journal, Applied Energy, Advances in Applied Energy, Applied Energy Innovation Institute (AEii) and Mälardalen University, Sweden. Due to the COVID-19, the event will be held in virtual symposium for sharing the most recent progress of research RD&Ds in urban energy systems.

The conference will include keynotes and invited speeches, plenary sessions, oral presentations and poster sessions. All accepted papers will be published in Energy Proceedings, see www.energy-proceedings.org. Selected best papers from the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue jointly in Applied Energy (www.journals.elsevier.com/applied-energy)(IF=9.746) and Advances in Applied Energy (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-applied-energy)

For more detailed and updated information, please visit conference website at: www.applied-energy.org/cue2021. If you have questions regarding this conference or submission, please feel free to contact at: cue2021@applied-energy.org.

We are looking forward to meeting you.