Objective
Trondheim, Limerick, Alba Iulia, Pisek, Sestao, Smolyan and Voru and their industry and research partners are joining forces to co-create the future we want to live in. As aspiring Lighthouse and Follower Cities, respectively, they have detailed out their ambitions into the +CityxChange proposal, which describes a structured approach on how to develop and deploy Positive Energy Blocks and Districts and scale these out as part of the Clean Energy Transition.
The approach combines: Prototyping the Future through Integrated Planning and Design; Enabling the Future through Creation of a Common Energy Market; and Accelerating the Future through CommunityxChange with all stakeholders of the city.
New forms of integrated spatial, social, political, economic, regulatory, legal, and technological innovations will deliver citizen observatories, innovation playgrounds, regulatory sandboxes, and Bold City Visions to engage civil society, local authorities, industry, and RTOs to scale up from PEBs to PEBs to Positive Energy Cities, supported by a distributed and modular energy system architecture that goes beyond nZEB.
On top of this, the consortium will create a new energy market design coupled to consumer-driven innovation, developed in close working cooperation with national regulators, DSOs/CSOs, property developers, and local energy communities. Flexibility will be put at the core of the distributed energy system by creating new micro-grid operation, prosumer-driven Community System Operators, and new markets for peak shaving/RES trading to reduce grid investment needs and curtailment.
Their aim is to realize Europe-wide deployment of Positive Energy Districts by 2050 and prepare the way for fully Positive Energy Cities.
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7491 Trondheim
Norway
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V94 Limerick
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7004 Trondheim
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510134 Alba Iulia
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397 01 Pisek
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48910 Sestao
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4700 Smolyan
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65620 Voru
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Dublin 1
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G20 0SP Glasgow
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7037 Trondheim
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4000 Plovdiv
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- Limerick
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D02 RV08 Dublin
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27100 Pavia
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2521 CA The Hague
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7031 Trondheim
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1396 Billingstad
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7012 Trondheim
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1371 Asker
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7037 Trondheim
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DA3A995 Dublin
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2 Dublin
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28014 Madrid
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NO-7075 Tiller
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7037 Trondheim
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R35 RP77 Tullamore
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D07Y8N5 Dublin
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14007 Cordoba
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00198 Roma
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10437 Berlin
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7011 Trondheim
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V42FW61 Limerick
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D09 F1P0 Santry Dublin
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