Details
Duration
to
Status
Finished
Project URL
EU contribution
€25,189,520
Total costs
€42,874,939
Funding programme
FP7
4- Demonstration of optimised energy systems for high performance-energy districts.
Description
City-zen was a joint project of Amsterdam, Grenoble and 28 partners that was granted EU-funding to develop and demonstrate energy efficient cities and to build a methodology and tools for cities, industries and citizens to reach the 20-20-20 targets.
Map
Project demonstration sites
City-ZEN Site Grenoble
City
Grenoble, France
CITY-ZEN Site Amsterdam
City
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Results
- Sanquin cooling by raw water realized
- Houthaven comfort cooling realized
- Amount of renovated (residential) buildings: 76000 m2
- Amount of dwellings connected to a smart grid: 10000
- Innovative collective drainage network for a significant density of highly energy performance groundwater heat pumps realized
- Development of two roadmaps to carbon neutrality
- Smart grid elements tested:
- Virtual power plant in Amsterdam and PV combined with batteries in Grenoble
- Multi-territorial monitoring system (heat, water, electricity)
- Vehicle to grid
- End to end smartification
- 10 Roadshows executed (intense, one week programs at cities that want to kick-start their energy transition)
Objective
The City-zen project has yielded the following results:
* saving 35,000 tons CO2 per year
* renovated 76,000 m2 residential buildings
* connected 10,000 dwellings to smart grid
* 20 pilot projects completed in Grenoble and Amsterdam
Related topics
Building aspects
- Building Energy Services
- heating (only)
- Building Energy Services
- heating and DHW
- Building Energy Services
- lighting and appliances
- Building Energy Services
- other please specify
- Installed Renewable Energy Sources
- photovoltaic
- Installed Renewable Energy Sources
- solar thermal collectors
- Technology used to supply the buildings
- boiler
- Technology used to supply the buildings
- condensing boiler
- Technology used to supply the buildings
- electrical equipment
- Technology used to supply the buildings
- heat pump: compression
- Technology used to supply the buildings
- other please specify
- Technology used to supply the buildings
- stove
Energy Carriers
- Cold/district cold
- Domestic gas - grid-bound
- Electricity
- Light oil
- Other
- Wood pellets
- ‘Green’ electricity
Energy Systems Types
- Infrastructure & System Integration
- DHC extension
- Storage
- Electrical Storage
- Sustainable Generation
- Solar Thermal Plant
Mobility Type of Intervention
- Infrastructure
Thematic Field
- Energy System(s) Integration
- Mobility and Transport
- Refurbished Building(s)
Contact
Name
Birgit Vandevelde
Organisation
VITO
Email
birgit.vandevelde@energyville.be