Project description
A roadmap for eco-minded communities
The ambitious journey to carbon-neutral energy cities is being lined with smart technologies. The EU-funded SUSTENANCE project is also moving in this direction. It is developing sustainable energy systems to ensure a green transition with a higher share of local renewable energy and more efficient integrated energy solutions for electrical, heat, water, waste and transportation infrastructure. It will demonstrate the systems in Denmark, India, the Netherlands and Poland – four countries with different local energy resources, socioeconomic character, user behaviour, political structures, and market conditions and regulations. The results are expected to show that the same technical concepts such as storage solutions, intelligent control schemes and digitalisation can be applied in all cases.
Objective
The overall purpose of the SUSTENANCE project is to set up sustainable energy systems for achieving novel carbon neutral energy communities. The project focus on the development of smart technological concepts ensuring a green transition of the energy systems with higher share of local renewable energy and more efficient integrated energy solutions for the electrical, heat, water, waste as well as transportation infrastructure. The set up solutions will at the same time have good socio-economic impact in the local communities and ensure ecofriendly solutions and good infrastructures, which provides support to sustaining the essentials of life. The demonstration activities are set up in four countries: Denmark, India, Netherlands and Poland. These countries has different local energy resources, socio-economic, user behavior, political structures, market conditions and regulations. The project will show how same technical concepts such as coupling of different energy vectors, storage solutions, demand response, intelligent control schemes and digitalization can be applied to all demonstration cases despite the huge differences in the local conditions and regulations. Road maps will be set up based on these technical solutions together with guidelines for methods for user engagement and ensuring cooperation among the users in relevant cases leading to cooperatives. Finally, business cases will be set up for the different demonstration sites seen from both user perspective, small enterprises and utility point of view taking into account the local conditions. In this way, synergy effects with inputs from the different demonstration sites are expected and the results give abundant possibilities for maximum impact and replication in other local communities in the four countries as well as in societies worldwide.
Fields of science
Keywords
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
9220 Aalborg
Denmark
See on map
Participants (23)
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
Participation ended
560064 BANGALORE
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
440010 Nagpur
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
400054 Mumbai
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
788010 Silchar
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
620015 Tiruchirappalli
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
400076 Mumbai
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
110 016 New Delhi
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
211004 PRAYAGRAY ALLAHABAD
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
560012 Bangalore
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
721302 Kharagpur
See on map
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
Participation ended
400063 Mumbai
See on map
8660 Skanderborg
See on map
8464 Galten
See on map
9220 Aalborg Ost
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Participation ended
7840 Hoejslev
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8000 Aarhus
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
7522 NB Enschede
See on map
7513 AB Enschede
See on map
80-231 Gdansk
See on map
80 557 Gdansk
See on map
24110 PULAWY
See on map
10-449 Olsztyn
See on map
81-866 Sopot
See on map