Sonderborg is a Danish municipality with 76 000 citizens committed to becoming a zero-carbon community by 2029, an objective pledged in the ProjectZero visionary project with a focus on sustainable growth and creating new green jobs. Energy efficiency and energy from the area’s own renewable sources are the key means to turn the vision into reality. New thinking is essential and public policy and investments fuel this transition.
Often called the intellectual capital of Estonia, Tartu is a town of intellectuals, scientists, creatives and students, making it a hotbed for creative and scientific culture. Estonia’s most renowned university, the University of Tartu, hosts nearly 14 000 students, which makes up a good proportion of the whole population of the town – a total of 100 000. Also known as the city of good thoughts, Tartu already has a good track record as a smart city.
Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capital of the Basque Country and one of the leading European cities investing in green economy. The city, which was the European Green Capital in 2012, has 240 000 inhabitants and a high proportion of green public areas, ensuring that the entire population lives within 300 metres of an open green space. Numerous tangible measures are in place to assist and increase biodiversity and ecosystem services. Vitoria-Gasteiz is committed to becoming smarter, using modern technologies to improve its citizens’ quality of life.
A Spanish laboratory managed by Acciona will be used to test the solutions developed by FLEXYNETS project with a focus on tri-generation technologies.
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The first phase of the three-year FLEXYNETS project will concentrate on developing the technology for low-temperature (10-20°C) district heating and cooling networks. In this phase a laboratory will be set up in the Technology Park in Bozen-Bolzano, simulating a small-scale district heating and cooling network. This will enable the simulation and testing of different control strategies as well as operating scenarios.
The Växjö Energi district heating system in Rottne (Sweden) is the second largest high temperature distribution network in Rottne, Växjö. It makes up about 10,300 metres with a total volume of about 64 m³.
Son Llatzer is a hospital situated in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) that gives public health assistance to more than 200.000 patients per year with a staff of more than 1500 people.
In 2011 in the surrounding area of Son Llàtzer a tri-generation plant for electricity was installed to supply the hospital and other facilities. The tri-generation plant supplies hot water for air conditioning and sanitary water, and cold water only for air conditioning.
The district heating and cooling (DHC) system in Luleå (Sweden) supplies 31,000 households with heating and cooling on a daily basis. The heat is manly produced at a CHP plant close to the city center. It supplies the base heat production of 185 MW to the grid and gets the fuel (e.g. flue gas) from a neighboring steel plant.
The building that will be renovated within the TRIBE project is the first building of Ozyegin University. Even though it is a very sophisticated building with LEED Gold certificate, it is almost 30% below the targeted energy use, mainly because of the problems with automation, sun shades and under prediction of residence behavior.
There are four pilot buildings in the Zaragoza (Spain) demonstration project.
Pilot 1 – CIRCE headquarters
It is a zero emission building constructed in 2010 dedicated to R+D+I activities, including laboratories and offices. The total area is 1,743 m2.
