Discussion about community energy planning and its operation method

Community energy planning (CEP) is one of the important contents during the construction planning of low-carbon city. Based on the current discussion about CEP, expounds the main tasks and contents of CEP. Comparing CEP with the first energy planning (traditional urban energy planning), indicates that CEP is the supplementation and extension of the first energy planning. CEP may be regarded as a secondary energy planning, i.e., community comprehensive energy planning. Summarizes the calculation tools for CEP and their structural features at home and abroad. Compares and analyses the features of two modes, including up-bottom and bottom-up. Points out that a new CEP model, which is a blend of the two modes, is helpful to promoting the widespread implement of CEP.