TITLE:
POCYTIF - A POsitive Energy CITY Transformation Framework
DESCRIPTION:
Smart cities shape their future by leading in technology adoption, resource efficiency and citizen/ stakeholder engagement. On this basis, the POCITYF smart city project mobilises two Lighthouse (LH) cities (Evora-PT and Alkmaar-NL), and six 6 Fellow (FC) cities (Granada-ES, Bari-ΙΤ, Celje-SI, Ujpest-HU, Ioannina-GR and Hvidovre-DK) which already share knowledge, coordinate their efforts, and ride on the same four Energy Τransition Τracks (EΤΤs) to shape their own, unique bold city visions by taking care of their cultural heritage. The later can be critical for environmental sustainability as energy efficiency goals seem to contradict with the protection of historical buildings. POCITYF’s city leaders have embraced the smart city concept with enthusiasm and seized the opportunity with the aim to transform their cities into more efficient, healthy, open, accessible, sustainable, prosperous, and thus, more attractive living environments. Building upon already implemented pre-pilot activities, Evora and Alkmaar will demonstrate integrated solutions for: positive energy blocks (ETT#1), grid flexibility (ETT#2), e-mobility integration into the grid and city planning (ETT#3) and citizen-driven innovation supported by the integration of innovative apps into enhanced City Information Platforms (ETT#4). In total, four mixed-use districts – among them the historical city centre of Evora, characterized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO - have been selected for the demonstration activities in LH cities representing an area of 739Ha hosting 17,500 residents. Demonstration will be performed in 21 building complexes covering a total floor area of 87,480 m2 with current energy needs of 13.25GWh/year. For this purpose, overall 10 integrated solutions (IS) have been defined for demonstration, comprising 73 individual innovative elements (technologies, tools, methods) that have been identified as a result of an intensive and laborious collaborative process. The respective technology providers have been included in the two LH ecosystems shaping a scheme of 25 LH partners. A number of appropriately designed citizen and community engagement strategies, along with open innovation and co-creation activities will be in parallel deployed to ensure the success of demonstration activities, as well as long-lasting adoption. To further strengthen and facilitate demonstration activities, POCITYF will introduce IS-specific business models applied at sharing, barter and circular economy settings. Along with the LH cities, the FCs ecosystem of 13 partners will work on the preparation of the targeted replication activities. As a first step for wide scale replication, FCs have identified over 140,000m2 of floor area where POCITYF’s IS will be replicated, including already identified 18 historical buildings. The project’s monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment activities will ensure effective demonstration, fast replication and wide scale roll out within POCITYF cities and across Europe.
This will put POCITYF in the position to accomplish: a) Local RES penetration of 16.2 GWh/year within the districts; b) 144% coverage of total net energy needs by local RES; c) Waste heat recovery of 5,880MWh; d) Thermal storage at district level equivalent to 2,052MWh. All the above, along with e-mobility uptake, will result in an estimated total of 9,743 GHG reduction (in tons CO2/year). In total, 2.32 GWh annual savings will be achieved by the two LHs by 2024 within their PEBs. The two LHs PEBs will be overpositive with a total outcoming energy of 2.1 GWh/y for all Evora’s PEBs and 5.7 GWh/y for Alkmaar. To achieve the above, on top of the POCITYF budget of 22,4M€, the two LH cities and the six FCs have planned investments of 40M€ and 350M€ respectively up to 2024, while they expect to attract an additional amount of €1bn for the period of 2025-2029
This will put POCITYF in the position to accomplish: a) Local RES penetration of 16.2 GWh/year within the districts; b) 144% coverage of total net energy needs by local RES; c) Waste heat recovery of 5,880MWh; d) Thermal storage at district level equivalent to 2,052MWh. All the above, along with e-mobility uptake, will result in an estimated total of 9,743 GHG reduction (in tons CO2/year). In total, 2.32 GWh annual savings will be achieved by the two LHs by 2024 within their PEBs. The two LHs PEBs will be overpositive with a total outcoming energy of 2.1 GWh/y for all Evora’s PEBs and 5.7 GWh/y for Alkmaar. To achieve the above, on top of the POCITYF budget of 22,4M€, the two LH cities and the six FCs have planned investments of 40M€ and 350M€ respectively up to 2024, while they expect to attract an additional amount of €1bn for the period of 2025-2029
DURATION:
2019/10/01 - 2024/09/30
FUNDING:
Horizon 2020
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