Research into urban sustainability increasingly deploys advanced analytics and large‐scale data to investigate possible sustainable energy options. This paper reviews several available data‐driven approaches that answer urban sustainability questions. One such approach is applied to identify energy consumption and rooftop photovoltaic (PV) generation potential in New York City at the electricity network level with the objective of improving the city's resilience to expected impacts of climate change. Electric system resilience is, in part, dependent on the spatial and temporal distribution of consumption and potential sustainable energy generation which is investigated here by separating the city into 68 electricity networks and evaluating their generation‐consumption interaction pattern. The analysis reveals that New York City could be home to about 10 GWp of rooftop solar installations—sufficient to cover approximately 25% of annual city electricity consumption and 53% of daylight hour consumption. Localized electricity import–export dimensions are explored for each of the 68 electricity networks and we identify an excess 3.1 TWh electricity supply per year if the entire technical potential of rooftop solar PV is deployed. This excess electricity supply is roughly equivalent to an annual $734 million value which could benefit low‐income areas in the city.

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城市规模的城市可持续性：纽约市分布式太阳能的时空分布图

对城市可持续性的研究越来越多地使用高级分析和大规模数据来研究可能的可持续能源选择。本文回顾了几种可用数据驱动的方法来回答城市可持续性问题。一种这样的方法被应用于在电网水平上确定纽约市的能源消耗和屋顶光伏（PV）发电潜力，目的是提高纽约市对气候变化的预期影响的适应力。电力系统的复原力部分取决于消耗量和时空分布以及潜在的可持续能源产生，在此将城市分为68个电网并评估其发电与消耗之间的相互作用方式来进行调查。该分析表明，纽约市可能拥有约10 GWp的屋顶太阳能装置，足以满足约25％的城市年度用电量和53％的日间用电量。对68个电网中的每个电网都进行了局部电力进出口规模的研究，如果部署了屋顶太阳能PV的全部技术潜力，我们将确定每年多余的3.1 TWh电力供应。这些多余的电力供应大约相当于每年7.34亿美元的价值，这可能会使该市的低收入地区受益。对68个电网中的每个电网都进行了局部电力进出口规模的研究，如果部署了屋顶太阳能PV的全部技术潜力，我们将确定每年多余的3.1 TWh电力。这些多余的电力供应大约相当于每年7.34亿美元的价值，这可能会使该市的低收入地区受益。对68个电网中的每个电网都进行了局部电力进出口规模的研究，如果部署了屋顶太阳能PV的全部技术潜力，我们将确定每年多余的3.1 TWh电力。这些多余的电力供应大约相当于每年7.34亿美元的价值，这可能会使该市的低收入地区受益。