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Smart Cities and CommunitiesSCC1 - 2020

Jens BARTHOLMES

European Commission – DG ENERGY

UNIT C2

Challenge

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COP21EU Energy and Climate goals

Role of cities

Energy transition in

cities

Energy system integration

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Smart Cities and Communities - SCC1

• 7th year of lighthouse projects

• €55 million available

• 46 Lighthouse cities and 70 Fellow cities

• so far > €360 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

• Industry, SMEs, Research

• By the deadline, all lighthouse cities must have a validated:

• Actively participate replication 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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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)

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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

• Collaboration

• Dissemination

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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%)

Flexibility• Newly introduced: 5% of budget for cascade funding to give more

flexibility

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Lighthouse cluster support 2020-2025

Upcoming support tender to enable:

• Continuity

• Mentoring

• Professional cluster support

• Higher visibility

• Branding

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Contribution from the EU

Between EUR 15 to 20 million per project

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Thank you!

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EU Funding & Tenders Portalwww.ec.europa.eu/research/participants

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LC-SC3-SCC-2-2020: Smart Airports

Kyriakos Maniatis

Principal Administrator

European Commission – DG ENER

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Challenge

COP21EU Energy and Climate goals

Role of airports

Energy transition in

airports

Energy system integration

including lowcarbon fuels

Scope:

Proposals will demonstrate novel concepts and effective solutions to stimulate the take-up of biokerosene and other relevant alternative fuels by aviation.

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Airports:

Each proposal will contain one Lighthouse Airport where the demonstration actions will be implemented. This Lighthouse Airport will also collaborate closely with two Fellow Airports.

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Lighthouse Airports and Fellow Airports

• Fellow Cities

• Actively participate replication

• Close collaboration

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• Lighthouse Airports inspiring examples

• Scaling up / replication

• Innovative solutions

• First-mover-risk

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Two areas:

A) Smart use in airports and aircraft of biofuels and other relevant alternative fuels

The aim is to integrate sustainable bio-kerosene and other relevant alternative fuels in the fuelling infrastructure and associated fuel-handling logistics of the airport, including blending operations resulting in blends compliant with the ASTM standards.

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B) Smart Energy in Airports:

Projects will demonstrate novel concepts and solutions aimed at improving the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the operations of the airports.

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Innovative elements of the projects needed to:

• Handle, logistics, blending, fuelling of low carbon fuels, all ground operations

• Foster innovative energy systems integration

• Complement the wider energy system to decrease GHG emissions

• Collaboration

• Dissemination

Eligible costs

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Non-eligible costs

Costs of commercial technologies are not eligible, for example:

• Buildings: purchase, construction, retrofitting and maintenance

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

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

The procurement of low carbon fuels is not eligible

Thank you!

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EU Funding & Tenders Portalwww.ec.europa.eu/research/participants

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