Full Electrification and Transition in Electricity Consumption Pattern of Urban Residential Buildings

With the escalating severity of global climate change and the growing prominence of energy mix transformation, the building sector, as a primary domain of energy consumption, faces unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Against the backdrop of the energy revolution, the transition from traditional energy sources to clean and renewable energy has triggered a transformation in energy production and consumption patterns, while also presenting new requirements for the building energy field. In the context of addressing global climate change and achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, the energy consumption patterns and development concepts of urban residential buildings require urgent transformation and upgrades. Buildings, as a crucial component of the power grid demand side, urgently require breakthroughs in key technological bottlenecks to achieve friendly interaction with power grids and release their potential as the demand-side regulation means. Traditional buildings, as “energy consumers”, struggle to align with the current development of the energy system. The development of the new building power system necessitates the transition of an urban residential building from a mere energy consumer to an integrated energy system incorporating energy production, storage, consumption and regulation functions. This transition swims with the tide of full building electrification and can address the phase-out trend of fossil energy and the challenge of maximizing renewable energy utilization during the low-carbon transition of the building sector.