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The Smart Cities Marketplace provides you with vital knowledge to support you in moving your smart city ambitions forward. Here you will find use cases from more than 90 successful European projects, including 18 Lighthouse projects, sharing solutions implemented in both small and medium-sized towns and in metropolises such as London, Barcelona and Vienna. Many projects have reported their core data into our Self-Reporting Tool, to be picked up and developed into bankable solutions.

+CityxChange Limerick

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Finished

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Through the +CityxChange project Limerick has worked hard to gain significant knowledge and understanding of the conditions to support the creation of PEDs. Working with many stakeholders to overcome obstacles, PED development is being advanced in the city through various initiatives such as the Pilot Retrofitting Grant Scheme aimed at retrofitting historic buildings. 

Key outcomes and achievements in Limerick:

  • The opening of the Citizen Innovation Lab, which was a collaboration between Limerick City and County Council and the University of Limerick (UL). The Lab includes a Citizens’ Observatory, an Engagement Hub, a digital platform and a programme of events Citizen Innovation Lab 
  • A digital twin model of the city was created which aimed to provide a baseline on energy use and allow the energy transition of the city to be tracked over time. It highlighted the need to identify and source necessary data that would not only provide a clear KPI framework but also show potential value.
  • Limerick City and County Council has continued to support the retrofitting of historic buildings in the city centre through the Living City Initiative. 
  • Extensive citizen engagement activities have been carried out to build trust and transparency with local communities. 
  • Citizen innovations have been enabled through the Innovation open calls and experimentation labs held throughout the project. 
  • Through the open innovation call process Limerick City and County Council has supported the installation of solar PV on properties as a demonstration project at St Michael's Rowing Club and St John’s Band Hall. 
  • GKinetic has developed Tidal Turbines to be installed in the river Shannon, pending approval of a foreshore licence. The tidal turbines are being demonstrated at a Climate Exhibition in the city which explores the future of renewable energy on the Shannon Estuary. This has catapulted Limerick beyond the regulatory system in Ireland.

Energy Carriers

  • Ambient air
  • Biogas
  • Electricity
  • Heat/district heat
  • Hydropower
  • Other
  • Solar thermal energy
  • Waste heat
  • ‘Green’ electricity

Energy Systems Types

  • Infrastructure & System Integration
  • DHC extension
  • Storage
  • Electrical Storage
  • Storage
  • Thermal Storage

Mobility Type of Intervention

  • Vehicles

Thematic Field

  • Positive Energy District (PED)

Limerick PED - V6 September 2023

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IRIS Gothenburg

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Finished

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Gothenburg service providers, citizens and administrations work together to overcome urban sustainability challenges through a mix of open data, open innovation and public dialogue. The city’s IRIS solutions focus on testing innovative energy management and storage to achieve energy positive districts.

 

Gothenburg is a port city with a strategic location between Oslo and Copenhagen. It has a population of around 570 000 and is Sweden´s second largest city. 70 % of Scandinavia´s total industrial capacity is located within a 500-km radius of the Gothenburg region and 30% of Swedish foreign trade passes through the Port of Gothenburg, which is the largest in Scandinavia.

 

The city is set to grow by another 150 000 inhabitants and aims at being one of the most progressive in the world when it comes to addressing climate change and creating opportunities for residents to reduce their carbon footprint. Gothenburg was first in the world to release Green Bonds in 2013, to fund sustainability initiatives and projects.

Demo Site Expected Impact

* Detailed information regarding the technical and financial performance will be available at a later stage.

The planned measures will reduce energy demand in the neighbourhood, increase the use of renewable energy, improve the comfort level of buildings, save costs on space heating and hot water and involve local residents in project planning.

Technologies

Buildings and energy

The Gothenburg lighthouse demonstration will address the following:

  1. The first challenge lies in developing management and control systems that can deal with the combination of small scale (PV, wind, etc.) RES production and large scale supply such as from the external grid or district heating and cooling.
  2. Another challenge for the district is to integrate and expand management and test different types of storage of heating and cooling.
  3. Low or zero parking quota as a challenge will pave the way for different shared e-mobility solutions, development of electricity buses, EVs, smart charging infrastructure and car pools.
  4. City platform and services need to be developed according to challenges within the district for increased availability for citizens and developers of services. Integration of energy efficiency measures, renewables, storage for grid flexibility and sustainable mobility, integrated urban planning methods and data sharing tools are essential.
  5. A final challenge will be to reinforce citizens for engagement and integrate them in urban planning processes towards the expansion beyond the district and to the whole city.

Energy Carriers

  • Solar thermal energy

Energy Systems Types

  • Storage
  • Electrical Storage

Thematic Field

  • Energy System(s) Integration
  • Information and Communication Technologies

IRIS Utrecht

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Finished

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Within IRIS, Utrecht combines solar energy, affordable social housing and broad access to electric mobility. These solutions are developed together with citizens and built on open data to accelerate change.

 

Home to 350.000 inhabitants, Utrecht is the fourth largest municipality in the Netherlands and the fastest growing city in the country with a predicted 400.000 inhabitants in 2025. Utrecht's core ambition is to be a climate neutral city by 2030.

The city has shown consistency and commitment to sustainable energy policy with ambitious Strategic Energy Action Plans and membership of the Covenant of Mayors among many other initiatives. Although Utrecht is very densely populated, the city has the highest rate of PV-systems installed in the Netherlands (2015: 10 MWp, 4000 installations) and aims to have 10,000 by 2020.

The city is also a recognised pioneer in electric vehicles (EVs) and vehicle to grid (V2G) charging technology. In 2018 a Smart Solar Charging station launched with 200 solar panels and a 1MWh battery, generating enough power to charge twenty full electric cars simultaneously with stored solar energy. Even when the sun doesn’t shine.

A cyclist’s paradise with 43% of journeys under 7.5km taken by bike, Utrecht boasts over 250km of bike paths and the world’s biggest bike parking garage with space for 12,500 cycles.

Demo Site Expected Impact

* Detailed information regarding the technical and financial performance will be available at a later stage.

The planned measures will reduce energy demand in the neighbourhood, increase the use of renewable energy, improve the comfort level of buildings, save costs on space heating and hot water and involve local residents in project planning.

Technologies

Buildings and energy

The Utrecht lighthouse demonstration will address the following:

  1. To become energy neutral districts, a high penetration of renewables is necessary, in addition to low energy buildings and infrastructures.
  2. For high penetration of renewable electricity, increasing the flexibility of the electricity grid is essential. Therefore demand response management as well as integrating storage capacity at district scale are necessary solutions.
  3. The district is characterised by a variety of energy infrastructure, the majority of which was installed in decades ago and has become obsolete. The resulting need for renewal of the energy infrastructure is an opportunity for transforming the district into a Near Zero Energy district. The aim is to use renewable power for heating and cooking rather than natural gas, and to create an all-renewable electric district.
  4. Kanaleneiland Zuid is a low-income district, asking for low and stable energy and mobility bills. A district-wide car sharing system deploying solar powered V2G e-cars is seen as a major chance, providing cost effective mobility, offering grid flexibility thanks to the storage capacity of the V2G-batteries, as well as resulting in low emission and noise levels.
  5. The diversity in stakeholders and the crucial role of citizens as enablers of the energy transition, especially in the low-income and multicultural district Kanaleneiland Zuid, require co-creation and attractive and inclusive services that support them in their own objectives to engage, express ownership, and behaviour change.
  6. In order to integrate energy efficiency solutions and renewables with storage for grid flexibility and sustainable mobility, integrated urban planning methods and data sharing tools are essential. Data based services for integrated urban district planning, as well as an urban ICT platform based on open specifications can be major enablers to manage the successful transformation towards intelligent, user-driven and demand-oriented infrastructures and information services, at household, district and city level.

Building aspects

  • Building Energy Services
  • DHW (only)
  • Building Energy Services
  • heating (only)
  • Building Energy Services
  • lighting and appliances
  • Installed Renewable Energy Sources
  • photovoltaic
  • Technology used to supply the buildings
  • boiler
  • Technology used to supply the buildings
  • district heating (DH) network
  • Technology used to supply the buildings
  • electrical equipment

Energy Systems Types

  • Storage
  • Electrical Storage

Mobility Type of Intervention

  • Infrastructure

Thematic Field

  • Energy System(s) Integration
  • Mobility and Transport
  • Refurbished Building(s)

mySMARTLife Hamburg

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Finished

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More liveable space for more residents

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany, with its 1.8 million inhabitants in the city adding up to 5 million inhabitants in its metropolitan region. Hamburg is a city as well as one of the 16 federal German states. Economically and culturally, Hamburg is the centre of Northern Germany and one of Europe’s most liveable and economically strongest cities. This is why Hamburg is undertaking great efforts to put its Smart City approach into reality by using smart technologies and implementing numerous interdisciplinary pilot projects.

And Hamburg is still facing a growth trend… Especially younger people are attracted be the city’s dynamic economy and the large number of jobs, by the variety of educational institutions and the large range of leisure facilities and cultural opportunities. The aim of the current town planning is to find spaces within the existing areas as well as opening up new development opportunities. The city wants to create additional, high-quality urban spaces by the water, offering homes, jobs, leisure and recreation.

The mySMARTLife demonstration area, the borough of Bergedorf, is Hamburg´s biggest district, located in the East of the city. The district is diverse, with a historic centre with numerous heritage-listed houses as well as residential buildings. All are subject of an integrated strategy targeting the quality of life, citizen involvement, technical and social infrastructures, public buildings and spaces.

There are three zones of interventions, where the 59 mySMARTLife actions in Hamburg will be implemented:

  • Zone 1 comprises the new construction area “Schleusengraben”, where more than 1,400 new residential units will be built. They will be above national energy efficiency standards, with smart controls and connection to an innovative low-energy district heating mainly based on renewable energy sources. Also, new smart adaptive lighting for bicycle routes will be implemented.
  • Zone 2 “Bergedorf-Süd” is the name of an ambitious retrofitting area, where an innovative concept of independent Smart Heating Islands will become reality, again mainly based on renewable energy sources. Also, a humble lamppost initiative is foreseen to replace the existing street lamps.
  • Although the mobility interventions affect the whole City of Hamburg, they are a focused activity in Zone 3, comprising the entire borough of Bergedorf. Here, electric buses, e-cars, e-bikes and the “Cityskater” (a small last mile e-scooter)  for public and private fleets are implemented as well as e-bus charging stations at the bus depot, several fast charging stations and a set of private and public stations for e-cars, all supplied with energy stemming to 100% from renewable energy sources. A multi-modal mobility concept and innovative approaches like a car sharing e-community and parcel delivery system in car trunks complement the actions in Zone 3.

Technologies

Buildings and energy

The new construction area "Schleusengraben" is a focus development area of the City of Hamburg, along the shores of an old industrial channel. The general development of the "Schleusengraben" is divided into six different areas - each area with its own investor and its own architectural and energy supply concept. This is a typical setting in which urban development takes place in Hamburg. Basis for the development of the different areas are urban development contracts between the investors and the administration of the Borough of Bergedorf.

As part of mySMARTLife, the Borough of Bergedorf tries to convince investors to build above national standard, incorporating smart metering and smart controls. This is being done through a process of face-to-face conversations, workshops and the demonstration of best practice examples.

More than 1,400 new residential units are planned to be built in the next years (approximately 75 buildings) including the implementation of a new smart adaptive lighting.

The retrofitting area "Bergedorf-Süd" is a town quarter with a wide mix of old buildings (approximately 500) partially with Wilhelminian architecture and a highly diversified homeownership. As part of mySMARTLife, the borough proactively approaches the homeowners in order to motivate and advise them on energetic refurbishment. The aim is to implement the concept of “smart heating islands”, which describes heating networks on house block scale mainly based on renewables.

Also smart controls, domotics and smart meters will be installed. A humble lamppost initiative is foreseen to repurpose existing lamps, along a newly planned bicycle street.

Mobility & Transport

Public transport is to be playing an important role in Bergedorf’s modal split, thus it needs to be further developed in a sustainable manner. The bus lines serve the central part of the high-performance district. Five 12-meter and other five 18-meter articulated buses will be deployed in Hamburg-Bergedorf. With the aim to equip the bus depot of the public transportation company VHH with charging infrastructure for 10 e-buses, major changes to the main power supply became necessary. With regards to future developments, the local depot grid will be re-dimensioned completely to allow successive installation of charging infrastructure up to a fully electrified depot by 2030.

Regarding charging infrastructure, the City of Hamburg has rolled out more than 600 charging points in the whole area of Hamburg, thereof 22 in the Borough of Bergedorf and 11 in the project area. mySMARTLife in Hamburg is focused on the installation of charging infrastructure for intermodal concepts, i.e. mobility hubs combining mobility services such as car sharing, bicycles etc.

In connection with the rapidly increasing number of electric vehicles and the simultaneous increase of charging points, site-related grid connection capacities will become more and more important. An electrification of (public) fleets often is faced with inefficient grid capacities. The necessary expansion is usually cost intensive. This can be remedied by an intelligent charging technology, a so-called intelligent load management, which will be developed in the context of the project. Furthermore, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences will build a clean energy charging station, providing 100% of green energy for e-cars and e-bikes.

The public authority vehicle fleet of the Borough of Bergedorf will be renewed and electrified. Micromobility solutions will be adopted through the introduction of e-bikes and last mile people movers. A community car sharing concept will be introduced and implemented in the project area in cooperation with a housing company.

ICT

The City of Hamburg Urban Platform will be supplemented with the DTAG (T-Systems, AG) Smart City Ecosystem to form a “System of Systems” following the DIN Spec 91357 on “Open Urban Platforms”. New services will be developed and a new kind of web service for real-time sensor information will be introduced and approved. The aim is to improve the standardised connectivity in order to allocate (open data) apps and services to authorities, citizens and stakeholders. Digitisation leads to new service opportunities and data generation, which will be aligned, harmonised and managed in the Hamburg Urban Platform.

The following vertical smart city applications will be connected to the smart middleware of the Deutsche Telekom’s Smart City Ecosystem: smart street lighting, intermodal routing and smart grid. Further investigation is planned concerning interoperability of two combined "platforms" (forming the Hamburg Open Urban Platform) and other Smart City Platforms, e.g. to the partner Lighthouse Cities Nantes and Helsinki.

Building aspects

  • Building Energy Services
  • heating (only)
  • Building Energy Services
  • heating and DHW
  • Technology used to supply the buildings
  • boiler
  • Technology used to supply the buildings
  • micro CHP

Energy Carriers

  • Domestic gas - grid-bound
  • Other
  • Solar thermal energy

Energy Systems Types

  • Infrastructure & System Integration
  • DHC extension
  • Storage
  • Electrical Storage

Mobility Type of Intervention

  • Infrastructure
  • Vehicles

Thematic Field

  • Energy System(s) Integration
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Mobility and Transport
  • New Building(s)
  • Positive Energy District (PED)
  • Refurbished Building(s)

RUGGEDISED Glasgow

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Finished

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Energy Carriers

  • Solar thermal energy

Energy Systems Types

  • Storage
  • Electrical Storage

Mobility Type of Intervention

  • Infrastructure

Thematic Field

  • Energy System(s) Integration
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Mobility and Transport

G4 - RES optimisation (PV canopy)

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TRIANGULUM Site Manchester

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Finished

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The City of Manchester is one of 10 local authorities that make up the Greater Manchester conurbation.  Manchester has a population of over 500,000 with one of the largest economies in the UK. The innovation district, ’Oxford Road Corridor Manchester’, has been the focus of Triangulum’s activities in the city – a 2 km long spine that contains two of the UK’s largest universities and one of the largest medical research campuses in Western Europe, it makes up 20% of the city’s economic output. It employs 71,700, with an estimated 7,000 new jobs by 2025. There also are 80,000 students in the Oxford Road Corridor.

The Manchester Triangulum consortium is led by the City Council and includes Siemens PLC, Pixel Mill, University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Manchester’s approach is based upon an understanding that cities function as systems, involving a complex interaction between individuals, markets, infrastructure networks and public services. Every intervention has been chosen because it demonstrates the benefits of integration in different ways.

Triangulum has enabled the partners to build on the work already undertaken to establish a smarter, more independent infrastructure whereby energy generation, its supply, storage and use is managed in a more demand responsive manner.

The new investments in renewable energy generation, supply and demand management have been connected through a new ICT infrastructure managed by Siemens.  The project has also created a data platform - a Manchester-i.  This aims to allow enable greater analysis and better informed decision making at both a strategic and operational level.   In addition, the city’s programme to remove cars on Oxford Road, in the Corridor area supported a mobility component focused on electric vehicles and eCargo bikes.

Demo Site Expected Impact

Manchester’s objective is for Corridor Manchester to become one of the largest knowledge rich low-carbon districts in Europe. In achieving these overall impacts, the aim is to decouple a reduction in carbon emissions whilst at the same time increasing economic activity. Very few cities have been able to exhibit this smart green growth but the Corridor has the right conditions and profile to demonstrate this.

Technologies

Buildings and energy

  • Building integrated renewable energy sources

    • Clean power generation (lower GHG)

  • Small energy storage

    • On-site generation, storage and its integration (renewable and conventional)

Mobility & Transport

  • Clean fuels and fueling infrastructure
    • Developing  sustainable urban mobility schemes
  • Electric, hybrid and clean vehicles:
    • Replacement  of diesel vehicles with electric
  • Bicycle infrastructure
    • Electric cargo bikes

ICT

ICT: 

  • Building energy management system
    • Energy optimisations in existing buildings
  • Central controller connected to the energy infrastructure that can optimisatise by responding to external signals

Urban data platform

    • Open Data and Service Engine
    • Platform receiving data from a number of sources from different sources: energy, transport, weather, air quality
    • Manchester-i - Visualisation platform and as a tool for others to create technology innovations

Building aspects

  • Building Energy Services
  • heating (only)
  • Installed Renewable Energy Sources
  • photovoltaic
  • Technology used to supply the buildings
  • boiler

Energy Carriers

  • Biomass
  • Electricity

Energy Systems Types

  • Infrastructure & System Integration
  • DHC extension
  • Storage
  • Electrical Storage

Mobility Type of Intervention

  • Vehicles

Thematic Field

  • Energy System(s) Integration
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Mobility and Transport
  • New Building(s)