24th April, 10.00-12.00am CEST
As an answer to the high energy prices and significant inflation across Europe. The European Commission is promoting initiatives to reduce increase energy savings and the share of renewable energy to reduce the energy bills of citizens.
With recent legislative changes, the EU has made collective investments in renewable energy easier by introducing energy sharing legal frameworks such as self-consumption and energy communities.These empower homeowners and SMEs to control their own energy on a local scale. Multiple renewable energy communities are emerging throughout the EU, as bottom-up initiatives of residents or enabled by the local authorities. Furthermore, district and neighbourhood approaches are increasingly recognised on EU level to encourage and scale up renovation. One particular EU initiative set target of100 Positive Energy Districts in which citizens can collectively share energy.
The oPEN Lab project aims at creating Positive Energy Neighbourhoods (PEN) in 3 European Cities, Genk, Pamplona, and Tartu. According to oPEN Lab, PENs aim for energy-efficient and energy-flexible groups of connected buildings and urban areas which produce net zero greenhouse emissions from energy use on an annual basis and actively manage an annual local or regional surplus production of renewable energy, based on an integrated, participatory, neighbourhood-based approach.
In this ENoLL session, co-organized with the oPEN Lab project and the Energy working group, we’d like to explore the barriers and drivers for PENs and energy communities as instruments for energy transition in city environments.
Target audience
The event is designed for city representatives, (social science) researchers, Living Lab practitioners, company representatives, and citizens interested in learning about positive energy neighbourhoods and energy communities.
All ENoLL members and partners of energy projects are also invited to join this session.
Event objectives
Venue
Online team environment
Session Details
Timing |
Description |
Presenter |
10.00 – 10.05h |
Welcome & Introduction |
Koen Vervoort (ENoLL) |
10.05 – 10.15h |
The oPEN Lab project and PENs |
Maarten De Groote (VITO) |
10.15 – 10.25h |
Best practices & barriers from the Genk oPEN LL |
Pieter Bosmans (VITO)/ Tanja Croci (City of Genk) |
10.25 – 10.35h |
Best practices & barriers from the Pamplona oPEN LL |
Luis Torres (AHA) |
10.35 – 10.45h |
Best practices & barriers from the Tartu oPEN LL |
Merit Tatar (IBS) |
10.45 – 11.00h |
Best practices & barriers from Life–Beckon Copenhagen |
Eik Buhl Petterson (City of Copenhagen) |
11.00 – 11.15h |
RESCoop: a European network of Energy Community Cooperatives |
Sara Tachelet – RESCoop |
11.15 – 11.45h |
Open discussion on barriers & drivers for energy transition and how can energy communities be used to drive systemic change |
Moderation: Koen Vervoort |
11.45 – 11.55h |
The ENoLL working group on Energy & Environment |
Valentino Piana (HES-SO) |
11.55 – 12.00h |
Conclusions and next steps |
Koen Vervoort |
Speakers / Your Trainers
The session will be moderated by:
Following speakers are in the pipeline:
Price
This is event is free of charge but registration is required
Registration form