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Smart Cities and Communities

SCC1 - 2019

Jens BARTHOLMES - UNIT C2 European Commission – DG ENERGY

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Smart Cities and Communities - SCC1

• 6th year of lighthouse projects

• €83 million available

• 40 Lighthouse cities and 53 Fellow cities

• so far > €300 million co-funds

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Working together in the Lighthouse group • Replication • Business models • Dissemination

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Lighthouse cities and fellow cities

• Lighthouse Cities inspiring examples

• Scaling up / replication

• Innovative solutions

• First-mover-risk

• Fellow Cities

• Actively participate replication

• Close collaboration

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Lighthouse projects

• 2 lighthouse cities and ≥ 5 fellow cities

• Industry, SMEs, Research

• By the call deadline, all lighthouse cities must have a validated: • Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP), or

• Sustainable Energy (and Climate) Action Plans (SECAP), or

• a similar, at least equally ambitious, plan

• A city can be funded as a lighthouse city only once under Horizon 2020

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LINK

Searching for partners

SCC page on the Participant Portal

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Challenge

COP21 EU Energy and Climate goals

Role of cities Energy

transition in cities

Energy system integration

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Scope • Deploy and test integrated innovative solutions for Positive Energy

Blocks/Districts in the Lighthouse Cities

• Interaction and integration between the buildings, the users and the larger energy system

• Implications of increased electro-mobility, its impact on the energy system and its integration in planning.

• Carry out extensive performance monitoring (ideally for more than 2 years)

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Definition Positive Energy Blocks/Districts

• Actively manage their energy consumption and energy flows

• Annual positive energy balance

• Optimal use of elements

• Integral part of the district/city energy system

• Scalable

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Assessing Positive Energy Blocks/Districts

• Building Energy Specification Table – BEST 2018

• energy need,

• RES produced locally and

• energy flows through test site boundaries.

• Overview of proposed measures

• Assess the ambition / facilitate comparison

LINK

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City-vision 2050

• Bold city-vision for 2050

• Urban, technical, financial and social

• Guidelines

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Proposals should focus on

• Mixed use urban districts

• Replication potential

• Important role of local communities and local governments

• Energy awareness

• Promote decarbonisation, improving air quality

• Smart Cities Information System database (SCIS)

Projects should deliver

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Effective business models

Practical recommendations

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Eligible costs

Innovative elements of the projects needed to:

• connect and integrate buildings

• enable Positive Energy Blocks/Districts

• foster innovative systems integration

• complement the wider energy system

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Non-eligible costs

Costs of commercial technologies are not eligible, for example:

• Buildings: purchase, construction, retrofitting and maintenance

• Electric vehicles and charging stations: purchase, installation and maintenance

• City-level ICT platforms: purchase, development and maintenance

• Standard, commercially-available RES: purchase, development and maintenance

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Cooperation

• SCC1– Lighthouse group

• European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC)

• Earmark appropriate collaboration resources (5%)

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Contribution from the EU

Between EUR 15 to 20 million per project

Deadline to apply: 05 February 2019

Thank you!

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@JensBartho

EU Participant Portal www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants

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