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However, existing scheduling strategies predominantly focus on energy quantity and cost, often neglecting the heterogeneity of energy quality across electricity, heat, gas, and hydrogen. This paper presents an exergy-enhanced stochastic optimization framework for the optimal scheduling of electricity\u2013hydrogen urban integrated energy systems (EHUIESs) under multiple uncertainties. By incorporating exergy efficiency evaluation into a Stochastic Optimization\u2013Improved Information Gap Decision Theory (SOI-IGDT) framework, the model dynamically balances economic cost with thermodynamic performance. A penalty-based iterative mechanism is introduced to track exergy deviations and guide the system toward higher energy quality. The proposed approach accounts for uncertainties in renewable output, load variation, and Hydrogen-enriched compressed natural gas (HCNG) combustion. Case studies based on a 186-bus UIES coupled with a 20-node HCNG network show that the method improves exergy efficiency by up to 2.18% while maintaining cost robustness across varying confidence levels. 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