Solution Booklet Aggregating Financing for Resilience
This English, French and German versions of the solution booklet explain the challenges and opportunities for SMCs in Europe and
Under Solutions you will find our solution booklets, the Smart City Guidance Package and its summary document as well as the Celsius toolbox.
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 a grip on 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.
The Celsius Toolbox aims to be a source of knowledge and inspiration for cities interested in developing district energy (district heating and cooling) solutions. It addresses cities which are just beginning to implement small-scale district heating and cooling networks as well as cities with large established systems endeavouring for even smarter and more efficient solutions.
Solution Booklet E-Bus
This English, French and German version of the solution booklet presents electric buses’ replication potential and barriers from a technical
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
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
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
Solution Booklet Energy Communities
Energy Communities are a new cooperation concept in the energy market, introduced by the EU Clean Energy Package. They provide