How to utilize district heating for cooling in a smart way
Fig. 1: The newly built office building at Berlin-Postbahnhof serves as a demonstration site for a cooling concept, which has
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.
Cities Manifesto for Fossil-Free Heating and Cooling
What cities need from the EU & Member States to implement the Green Deal and accelerate the heating and cooling
Heat pumps in district heating systems
Photo: Heating Plant Mitte in Berlin, Vattenfall. Focus of the text This article focuses on the integration of large-scale heat
Ownership and district heating prices: The case of an unregulated natural monopoly
Results of the study The results show that district heating prices in networks owned by private companies are 3% higher
A pioneering project for sustainable energy in Greece
Alexandroupolis, a seaside municipality in Greece’s northeast coast is going to have cost-effective geothermal energy and heating soon. As the
KeepWarm: Supporting modernisation of district heating systems in Central and Eastern Europe
The KeepWarm project, funded under H2020 Energy Efficiency, worked to accelerate investments to retrofit existing inefficient heat networks, improve system
Smart Cities Guidance Package Summary
This document aims to help fast-tracking financially viable smart climate-neutral urban projects in an integrated and inclusive way. It provides
Solution Booklet Batteries and PV
The overall goal of the transition in the electricity system is to increase the share of renewable energy sources in
Solution Booklet Building Integrated PV
Solar panels based on PV technology are well-known, easily applied and scalable to the energy needs, at least within the
Solution Booklet Citizen Engagement
Cities around the world are looking for ways to address the true needs of their citizens, with a deep level
Solution Booklet District Heating and Cooling
Half of the energy consumed in Europe is used for heating and cooling, and 75% of this energy is still
Solution Booklet Electric Vehicles & the Grid
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have been actively promoted on the European market since nearly a decade. The first Tesla appeared on