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City Labs as positive engines for energy transition

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

Strengthen the understanding of the use of energy communities as drivers for energy transition
Share best practices and case studies of energy communities in Living Labs
Empower dialogue to identify drivers and barriers for the adoption of energy communities

 

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 LifeBeckon Copenhagen

Eik Buhl Petterson (City of Copenhagen)

11.00 – 11.15h

RESCoop: a European network of Energy Community Cooperatives

Sara TacheletRESCoop

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:

Koen Vervoort – Senior Stakeholder Strategist ENoLL

 

Following speakers are in the pipeline:

Maarten De Groote – Project Coordinator oPEN Lab
Pieter Bosmans – VITO
Leyre Iriarte – City of Pamplona
Kaspar Alev – City of Tartu / Merit Tatar – IBS
Eik Buhl Petterson – Roskilde University (Life Beckon)
Sara TacheletRESCoop
Valentino Piana HES-SO

 

Price

This is event is free of charge but registration is required

 

Registration form

https://forms.office.com/e/6TF1DkTY9A

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