Integrated and Replicable Solutions for Co-Creation in Sustainable Cities

Project Information

IRIS

Grant agreement ID: 774199

DOI

10.3030/774199

Project closed

EC signature date 25 September 2017

Start date 1 October 2017

End date 31 March 2023

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Total cost

€ 20 810 612,77

EU contribution

€ 17 996 569,05

Coordinated by

GEMEENTE UTRECHT
Netherlands

Periodic Reporting for period 4 - IRIS (Integrated and Replicable Solutions for Co-Creation in Sustainable Cities)

Reporting period: 2021-10-01 to 2023-03-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The IRIS project supported the Lighthouse cities of Utrecht (NL), Göteborg (SE) and Nice Côte d’Azur (FR) and their Follower cities Vaasa (FI), Alexandroupolis (GR), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (ES), and Focsani (RO) to address their urgent need to deliver energy and mobility services in their cities that are cheaper, better accessible, reliable, and that contribute to a better and more sustainable urban quality of life. By demonstrating smart solutions that integrate energy, mobility and ICT, rooted in a City Innovation Platform, IRIS quantified their value, and connected interests of many different stakeholders in innovative business models, allowing for upscale and replication of integrated solutions for sustainable cities across Europe and world-wide.

The overall concept of IRIS is the Transition Strategy comprising of five (5) Transition Tracks that together provide a universal yet versatile framework to address both common and district specific challenges. Within these five tracks, IRIS demonstrated a set of 16 integrated solutions built on top of both mature and innovative technologies.
Track 1, 2 and 3 enhanced energy efficiency and utilize grid flexibility by balancing supply and demand dynamically and by 2nd life battery and V2G storage, to allow increase of renewable energy production and roll-out of e-cars and e-buses. Track 4 supported this by data sharing, a common architecture, use of standards, and governance practices accelerating innovation, standardisation and implementation of affordable smart applications. Track 5 integrated interdisciplinary citizen engagement and co-creation in Tracks 1 to 4, connecting the needs of end-users with those of other stakeholders, in further support of innovative business models.

The expected impacts of IRIS are an open innovation ecosystem motivating citizens to act as prosumers; more effective urban planning and governance of integrated solutions; exploitation of validated innovative business models based on multi-stakeholder collaboration; more stable, secure and affordable energy and mobility services for citizens, with improved air quality.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

WP5 Utrecht Lighthouse Activities (see D5.9):
• PEB refurbishment of a ten-storey high rise social housing apartment building (Henriëttedreef) with a prefabricated renovation concept Inside-Out which includes all installations and heating systems and can be installed in one day avoiding moving of tenants for renovations.
• NZEB refurbishment of four 4-story social housing apartment buildings with insulation, heat pumps, PV-panels and smart (hybrid) e-heating systems combining electric heat pumps with gas heated boilers.
• Flexibility services (balancing, congestion) to electricity grid by smart charging and V2G services of e-vehicles with 25 V2G shared E-vehicles (IONIQ5) , 18 V2G charging points in the district and 650 V2G charging points in city
• City Innovation Platform services: 1) Parking sensor service notifying if EV parking space is used without charging; 2) 3D Urban Game around energy transition measures
• Smart pedestrian crossing adapting to vehicles passing through street
• Co-creation campaign Smart Street Lighting involving residents in public space development

WP6 Nice Lighthouse Demonstration Activities (see D6.9):
• Self-consumption demonstrated at two buildings (Palazzo Meridia and IMREDD) using EMS, PVs, battery and other storage assets, as well as electricity price forecast.
• Optimization of heating load curve with sensor information (air temperature, water temperature, water flow, energy index, power, solar radiation, etc.)
• Local electric flexibility management (in IMREDD building) using stationary storage
• DHCN optimisation algorithm combining multi-energy sources and innovative heat storage
• Interfacing of a smart charging platform and a car sharing platform with APIs
• AZUR model to measure and model air quality using of micro sensors to improve model with measurements

WP7 Gothenburg Lighthouse Demonstration activities (see D7.9)
• Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV in HRB Living Lab) used in façade renovation process
• Positive Energy Building (Brf Viva) with a combination of energy-saving measures, energy storages, renewable energy sources and energy management systems
• PV/battery/DC network to successfully cuts peaks in electricity consumption.
• PCM thermal storage for cooling
• Mobility-as-a-Service (EC2B) offering flexible mobility services connected to urban development projects
• City Information Model pilot for managing building projects using BIM.

WP8 Replication
• Smart City Replication Plans for four European Cities (Vaasa, Tenerife, Focsani, Alexandroupolis) and regional guidelins for four European Regions

WP9 Monitoring and Evaluation
• KPI tool to store, manage, process, displays and shares monitoring data from different smart city projects
• Smart City KPI Framework process for identifying appropriate KPIs, setting up data collection, calculating values and presenting results.

WP3 Business models and Exploitation
•Innovation Management Roadmap for city authorities and partners (D3.6)
•Cookbooks for setting up smart city incubation programs (D3.4)
•Assessment of the regional entrepreneurial eco-systems in Europe (D3.1)

WP4 City Innovation Platform
•City Innovation Platform: an open urban data platform based on scalable, reusable architecture, open standards, and open API’s and available on GitHub.(D4.7)

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

IRIS project achieved significant progress on in the 3 Lighthouse cities, in some of which a notable progress beyond the state of the art has further been reported. For example:
- Utrecht deployed a city wide energy management system demonstrating grid flexibility at DSO/TSO level, being the first city world-wide with V2G-cars. The system includes a district battery, 2nd life battery at bus depot and powercube with total of 1015 kWH stationary storage capacity; 25 V2G shared E-vehicles (IONIQ5) in operation in Utrecht, 18 V2G charging points in the district and 650 V2G charging points throughout city enables V2G ready ecosystem for when ISO-15118-20 bidirectional charging standard is fully adopted. Furthermore a “first of a kind in Europe” PEB refurbishment of a 10 story residential block was finished in 2022 using the Inside-Out retrofitting concept. The results show a decrease of 100% of gas usage and an increase of 125% in electricity usage completely covered by on-site PV production leading to a positive energy balance of 163 MWh produced vs 147 MWh used.
- Nice demonstrated collective self-consumption at two buildings combining a solar PV electricity (177,8 MWh for IMREDD and 76,44 MWh for Palazzo) and stationary storage system (218 kWh for IMREDD and 90 kWh for Palazzo) to increase the self-sufficiency rate achieving between 75% to 95% in 2021 and 2022. s
- In Gothenburg advancements in positive energy buildings and districts have been made. A PEB has been realised with electricity storage, PV production, heating from geo energy with heat pumps, seasonal energy trading with adjacent office block and Energy Management Systems.

The IRIS project also advanced insights on collaboration in innovation teams leading to a definition of skill sets for transdisciplinary innovation teams consisting of "champions", "boundary spanners" and "knights".

peb-gothenburg-brf-viva.png

iris-consortium.jpg

iris-five-transition-tracks-and-integrated-solutions.jpg

transdisciplinary-innovation-teams.jpg

peb-utrecht.jpg

peb-nice.png