Solution Booklet E-Bus
This English and French version of the solution booklet presents electric buses’ replication potential and barriers from a technical, financial
Under Solutions you will find our solution booklets as well as the Smart City Guidance Package and its summary document.
Solution Booklets explain a technology or a concept and its potential for application in a city, in a short booklet of around 30 pages. The booklets are written in an accessible style so that non-technical experts can get grip of the technologies described. They provide various stakeholders with a good overview as well as a dive into what the specific technology or concept includes, and what it could mean for a particular city or municipality. It brings forward the lessons learned from pilot projects and previous applications, the enabling framework, the business case and the potential support the city can deliver to enable the technology or concept to be rolled out. The booklets’ subjects range from technical, like district heating and cooling networks or e-buses, to non-technical matters like citizen engagement or implementing sustainable and smart city strategies. All booklets contain a number of relevant examples, descriptions of cases and useful references.
The Smart City Guidance Package was developed under the former EIP SCC Marketplace, which has meanwhile become the Smart Cities Marketplace. It is an overall urban governance and planning manual that has been created on the basis of a wealth of experiences and advice from practices and projects on the ground. The Smart City Guidance Package may be compared to a tree structure to which the solution booklets are attached as its leaves.
Solution Booklet Building Envelope Retrofit
This booklet focuses specifically on envelope retrofit and considers it from a technical, financial, social and governance perspective. Implementation barriers
Solution Booklet Urban Freight Logistics
The overall goal of urban freight logistics is to provide better and more customised last-time logistic services for citizens, fostering
Smart Solutions Casebook
This brief casebook explores how three cities, Barcelona (Spain), Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Grabovo (Bulgaria), have succeeded with the deployment
Data centers, the new way of heating districts?
Data centers can replace existing heating plants in a district heating system if the right cooling technology is used (liquid-cooled
Minimizing cost and CO2 integrating two solutions (ground source heat pump and district heating and cooling)
A new study shows that a connection between buildings with ground source heat pumps and district heating and cooling networks
Increased energy optimisation using low temperature convectors
A new method of low-temperature heating system makes it possible to reduce energy use by at least 30% and shortens
Solution Booklet Why Circular Cities?
A circular economy is an economic system that decouples economic growth from the consumption of finite natural resources. In a
Local low temperature networks for heating and cooling
The Delft University of Technology, municipality of Amsterdam together with a number of green innovation partners worked together in the
Governance innovation for accelerated sustainable transitions
The ongoing paradigm shift in society puts higher demands on decision-makers and governance. How to support innovation in governance to
Guide to European district energy projects
Get inspired and collect knowledge from recent district heating and cooling (DHC) projects all over Europe. In a new publication
Digitalisation and heat pumps – next step towards fossil free energy systems
This article summarises an overview of the digitalisation in the heating and cooling sector, in particular in building applications, based