Contact:

CITyFiED Dissemination & Communication Secretariatsecretariat@cityfied.eu

Project CoordinatorAli Vasallo Belver Energy Division Centro Tecnológico CARTIFcityfied@cityfied.eu

CITyFiED is a member of My Smart City District

and Community

THE CONSORTIUM

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BACKGROUND Latest studies suggest around 6.2 billion people will be living in urban areas by 2030, representing 70% of the world’s population. This trend will have a direct impact on our cities, with citizens requiring more resources such as energy, water, better buildings and infrastructure, new mobility solutions and improved services. Zero-energy districts are the only way forward for European cities.

The main challenge for Europe will therefore be to adapt European cities and urban ecosystems so that energy demand and CO2 emissions are driven down, and the use of renewable energy is increased. This involves implementing innovative technologies and methodologies for building renovation, smart grid and district heating, and their crossovers with ICT. Since people spend 90% of their lives inside buildings, which account for 40% of primary energy demand in Europe, reducing energy demand in existing building stock has become a priority in EU policy. To meet these targets, CITyFiED will develop a replicable, holistic model and demonstrate how it can effectively cut energy requirements by 50% in three retrofitted European districts.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No 609129

A replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to transform European cities and urban ecosystems into the Smart Cities of the Future

A combination of demonstration, innovative technologies and business models for the Smart Cities of the FutureCITyFiED delivers a replicable and holistic strategy together with new business models to transform European cities into Smart Cities, focusing on reducing energy demand and greenhouse gases emissions while increasing the use of renewable energy sources.

CITyFiED develops innovative and cost effective methodologies for planning, deploying and replicating energy efficiency solutions at district level. Input areas include retrofitting, HVAC facilities, smart grids, heating networks, renewable energy, waste energy recovery and their crossovers with ICT.

KEY MESSAGES• CITyFiED brings about reduction in energy demand and GHG

emissions in city districts through smart retrofit resulting in low energy and nearly zero emission cities and urban areas,

• To achieve energy efficient district renovation on a European scale, CITyFiED delivers a set of renewable and adaptable solutions interfacing with ICT,

• Replicability is a key to the widespread and beneficial application of the CITyFiED model,

• CITyFiED develops innovative and cost effective methodologies for planning, deploying and replicating energy efficient district retrofitting actions,

• CITyFiED develops better business models to support the strategy for transforming urban areas into low energy and nearly zero emission cities.

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CITyFiED Project

My Smart City District

3 demonstrators, a cluster of 11 European cities and a large Community of Interest: the CITyFiED Smart Cities networkThe three demonstrators are located in Laguna de Duero (Spain), Lund (Sweden) and Soma (Turkey): a systemic approach covering technological aspects will be applied in each city, in order to achieve significant energy savings, very low energy buildings and reduced CO2 emissions.

The CITyFiED approach to district retrofitting will be tested virtually by 11 European cities belonging to the City Cluster: Botkyrka (Sweden), Florence (Italy), Izmir (Turkey), Ludwigshafen (Germany), Málaga (Spain), Naples (Italy), Rovereto (Italy), Salerno (Italy), Udine (Italy), Valladolid (Spain) and Värmdö (Sweden).

An additional layer of 40 Smart Cities to further support the project’s replication potential will be represented by the Community of Interest. These cities will be able to benefit from networking activities with other communities and to learn from the retrofitting methodology implemented at the CITyFiED Demo Sites.

LAGUNA DE DUERO Torrelago District

The Torrelago district demo site involves 31 private multi-property residential buildings, each consisting of 12 floors and 4 apartments. The buildings were built between 1977 and 1981. The retrofitting will take place in two phases covering 12 and 19 buildings respectively and involving over 4,000 residents.

LUND Linero District

The Linero district is a housing area where the blocks Eddan and Havamal consist of 28 three-level dwellings built in early 1970s. Eddan and Havamal are owned by the public housing company Lunds Kommuns Fastighets AB (LKF). Approximately 2,000 residents live in the demo site.

SOMA Manisa Province

The pilot demonstrator district consists of a total gross area of 64,971 m2, including 41,158 m2 which comprises the area involved in the demonstration. The buildings are owned by SOMA Electricity Generation & Trading Joint Stock Company (SEAŞ) and were built in 1982. Approximately 1,500 - 2,000 residents live in the demo site.

SCOPE

• More 70 kWh/m2yr of energy savings • A reduction of at least 13,000 tons in CO2 emissions will be achieved through the retrofitting of 2,300 dwellings • More than 7,200 citizens involved in the demo sites• A sound and feasible replication plan, which will be virtually tested

in 11 representative European cities• A network of 40 European cities involved in knowledge transfer

and information exchange to support the replication potential of the renovation model

• Training and technology transfer for future users of the retrofitted demo sites for new business potential and the generation of new employment

• Increased social awareness and acceptance towards energy savings and future city renovation projects

• 31 buildings • 1,488 dwellings• conditioned area 140,000 m2

• 35.58% energy savings• 59.41% renewable energy

sources

Energy Efficiency Measures• Façade renovation• New district heating (Biomass)• New pumping system• Combined heat and power

facility• Smart grid• Monitoring platform

• 82 buildings• 346 dwellings• conditioned area 41,158 m2 • 49.14% energy savings• 58.55% renewable energy

sources

Energy Efficiency Measures• Façade renovation• District heating (heat recovery

– Soma Thermal Plant)• Photovoltaic roof integration• Solar thermal• Smart grid• Monitoring platform

CITyFiED TargetsValue chain stakeholders• Citizens• Public at large• Public and private building owners• City planners, architects

and engineers• Municipalities• Public and private promoters• Investors• Energy-environment service

providers• Building contractors• Building industry providers

and installers • Energy technology businesses

Support stakeholders at European, regional and local level• Associations, federations,

platforms• NGOs• Public authorities• Standardization bodies• Energy management agencies

Research stakeholders• Universities• Research centres

• 16 buildings• 379 dwellings• conditioned area 40,400 m2

• 30.8% energy savings• 75.4% renewable energy

sources

Energy Efficiency Measures• Façade renovation• District heating (RES)• Photovoltaic integration• Combined heat and power

facility• Smart grid• Monitoring platform

3 DEMO CITIES

CITY CLUSTER11 cities

COMMUNITY OF INTEREST40 cities

3 DEMO CITIES

A network of European cities for greater replication potential

Newsletter 1 – September 2014

Welcome to the first CITyFiED Newsletter!

The CITyFiED project aims to address some of major challenges facing urban districts and to do

so it focuses on three broad and overlapping key areas: energy savings, integrated urban

mobility, and ICT.

It is an exciting prospect to seek out integrated responses to these issues and to pioneer a set of

solutions that will be adopted throughout Europe and beyond. Only a sound and skilled

consortium made up of leading organisations and business such as those represented within the

CITyFiED consortium can deliver on this challenging agenda. They include partners from RTD,

industry and communication all working towards meeting the EU’s objectives of creative and

smart cities. To this we must add the municipalities and other public bodies involved in our

endeavours. In fact, one of the key elements of our project is to set up a “cluster of cities” with

close links to the consortium and designed to “get them cityfied” using the results and

methodologies developed from our work. 11 cities are now part of the cluster, which is no mean

feat as we are only six months into CITyFiED!

You can find out more about who’s who in this edition along with news from the our demonstration

districts (Lund-Sweden, Soma-Turkey and Valladolid-Spain), and highlights from a very packed

and eventful first progress meeting hosted by our partners in Lund.

As with all demonstration projects, communication is paramount and so CITyFiED has a fully

functional website where you can find out all you need to know. Why not sign up and join our

community using our social media?

With best wishes,

Ali Vasallo Belver

CITyFiED coordinator

In this issue

News P. 2 - 6

Interviews P. 7

In the spotlight: CARTIF P. 8

News from our cities P. 9 – 11

What’s new on the social web? P. 12

Recommended events P. 13

Contact P. 14

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh

Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under

grant agreement N° 609129

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Welcome to this first edition of the CITyFiED

project newsletter! Here you will find insight

into how we are developing a systemic vision

and strategy to adapt European cities and

urban ecosystems into smart, sustainable and

inclusive cities for the future. CITyFiED is co-

financed through the FP7 programme, brings

together some 18 partners from Belgium,

Spain, Sweden and Turkey and draws on three

demonstration districts.

Across society, greener ways of living are coming

about and we are already aware of the need to

shift to more sustainable ecosystems for our towns

and cities.

Exploitation workshop in Lund

Delegates attending the CITyFiED project’s first progress

meeting in Lund (Sweden) at the end of last month

participated in the first of three exploitation workshops

scheduled under the project.

The workshop, woven into the progress meeting, took place on 25

September. It was put together and delivered by CITyFiED partner

Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum who is in charge of exploitation and market

deployment.

One of the major challenges of demonstration projects like CITyFiED

is to fully capitalise on the work undertaken and ensure outreach and

replication on a vast scale. In short, the project has to sell, it has to

breed. Now this could be a bit of tall order without a sound exploitation

and market deployment mechanism built into the project’s framework.

And so it is here that Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum steps in, drawing on

its long track record in promoting RTD programmes and supporting

cross-border technology transfer.

The workshop, conducted by Teresa Puerta and Valerie Bahr, was a

savvy mix of briefings and exercises for delegates. It threw the latter

into the deep end of what exploitation actually entails both for

themselves and others, and it enabled each person to get to grips with

intellectual property issues and to better cater for the diversity of

partners and their strategic positions within the project.

The audience were introduced to the Business Model Canvas, a

strategic management and operational tool used as a template for

marketing and deployment. Merging this into their hands-on

workshop, the first of a series of three planned in the course of the

project, Teresa and Valerie took their colleagues on the journey from

exploitable results - known as outcomes - to deployment plan, visiting

everything in-between – value propositions, revenues streams, key

resources, unique selling propositions... to name but a few.

The focus of the first exploitation workshop was on identifying

background (pre-existing knowledge brought by each participant to

the project), foreground (knowledge generated during the execution of

the project) and exploitable results (project results which may be used

e.g. at an economic or academic level after the project). The main

take-away from this workshop was a more specific definition of

products and services from CITyFiED. In particular, the workshop has

provided a basis for putting together integrated building retrofitting

strategies and tools for the various marketing targets such as building

owners, engineers, energy suppliers, construction companies,

municipalities and, as far as they are involved in the decision and

implementation process of building retrofitting, the building occupiers

meaning the general public.

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First progress meeting held in Lund

CITyFiED consortium gathered in Lund, Sweden, for the

project’s first progress meeting on 24-26 September. A

progress meeting maybe, but this was also the setting for

a demonstration site visit and an exploitation workshop.

The City of Lund in southern Sweden played host to 55

delegates from the 18-strong multinational consortium who

convened to take stock of the first six months of progress and

to check the bearing as the project steers through its first of five

years toward greener districts.

Two and a half days were allocated to a packed agenda that

included an official reception by the Mayor of Lund, Mats

Helmfrid; a visit to Lund’s Linero district, one of CITyFiED’s

three demonstration sites; and the first of several exploitation

workshops aimed at setting out exploitation strategies of the

project results.

It can be said that CITyFiED has now reached cruising speed

after its first six months. Corporate identity along with a

functional website, a more-than-burgeoning city cluster with 11

cities signed up, and analysis/monitoring virtually completed at

each demo site are some of the project’s achievements to date.

Considering the general level achievements of the project so

far, coordinator Ali Vasallo from Fundación CARTIF underlined

that CITyFiED was progressing well thanks to the great

collaborative work and efforts of all partners.

At the end of the first day, delegates were offered the

opportunity to find out more about the Lund demonstration site,

a district called Linero built in the early 70s and made up of

some 28, 3-storey building with around 2000 tenants. The focus

was on the Swedish district heating systems since 1948 and

how Linero should benefit from the retrofit interventions planned

under CITyFiED.

The meeting was also the setting for partners Steinbeis-

Europa-Zentrum, who are in charge of the project’s exploitation

and market deployment strand, to deliver their first exploitation

workshop. This involved defining CITyFiED products and

services and its Unique Selling Proposition. More information

about this will be available on the project website.

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CITyFiED project consortium hosted by

MATS HELMFRID, Mayor and Chairman of

the City Executive Board, City of Lund

The CITyFiED project’s first periodic meeting took place

in Lund, Sweden this 24-26 September 2014. This

medium-sized university town with a research-intensive

industry is the location of one of three demonstration sites

critical to the development of a replicable, systemic and

integrated strategy to adapt European cities and urban

ecosystems into the smart city of the future.

During the meeting, Mayor Mats Helmfrid took time out of his

busy agenda to welcome more than 60 participants at the town

hall to warmly endorse the project and give a platform for the

City of Lund and its partners working closely with the

demonstration site to express their ambitions and reasoning

behind their drive for smarter, more energy efficient districts.

"CITyFiED is an important project for both Lund and for Europe.

If we are serious about sustainable housing, we must address

new houses as well as the housing of 15-20 years ago" said the

Mayor. “with greater urbanization, the number of inhabitants

has grown greatly during the last century and a large stock of

the buildings from the 1960s and 1970s now needs retrofitting.”

"This project plays an important role for Lund and further afield

in refining our approach and solutions to this challenge.

Measuring energy performance, increasing effectiveness of our

renovation works and adopting new techniques and

technologies are central to making our housing stock desirable

for the future”

Bertil Lundström, Technical Manager of the municipally owned

housing company Lunds Kommuns Fastighets (LKF)

underlined the local and European aspect of CITyFiED "This

project gives us the opportunity to learn even more about our

intentions to renovate a host of 60-70s buildings, develop a

range of cutting edge technologies – on a par with the very best

projects in Europe.”

Almost 90% of the heat demand in the city is supplied by the

district heating network, and consortium partner, energy

company Kraftringen is central to the demonstration site and

many more homes and buildings beyond. The company’s goal

is to replace all fossil fuels by 2020 and so it was apt that

business manager, Anders Möller said "The future may seem

distant, but it's just around the corner. CITyFiED provides us

with good opportunities to develop the next generation of

efficient district heating, which can lead to even more

environmentally friendly and sustainable energy solutions.” He

added, “In addition to this, the development of smart power

grids, as well as a visualization tool which clearly illustrates the

tenant's energy use, are important components in the smart city

of the future.”

Project Director for the City of Lund, Markus Paulsson

refocused the minds of those present on the human element of

the project: "At the most fundamental level, the project is about

delivering an improved environment and better quality of life for

the citizens of Lund.” “The retrofitting of the Linero district will

focus on reaching a higher energy standard with maintained

affordability for the tenants.”

Finally, Anna Jarnehammer, Director at the Swedish

Environmental Research Institute, IVL and CiTYFiED

consortium partner spoke of the importance of another type of

innovation critical to the project and Europe’s challenges: "One

of the most important elements of CITyFiED is bringing cost

effective improvements for tenants and authorities through

innovative business models". “Through the project, our work

with the Lund demonstration site and focus on a CITyFiED

model for evaluating the replication potential across a further

cluster of 11 cities, we hope to help multiply the number of

near zero energy districts in Scania and beyond.”

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Tackling the many challenges of smarter,

greener cities

Zero-energy districts are the only possible future for

European cities, as costs associated with palliating the

effects of climate change soar, but there are many

challenges ahead

The quest towards low energy consumption in city districts requires

many changes not only at building level, but also at district level. For

instance, this may involve improving the thermal properties of the

buildings, introducing renewable energies—such as those sources

from biomass, photovoltaic or solar thermal technologies—creating a

district heating and cooling network and developing an intelligent

electricity network, dubbed smart grid).

These are some of the solutions due to be tested in the EU-funded

Project CITyFiED. The project aims to carry out an extensive

demonstration of its low energy consumption concept, among other

things, through in selected districts in the cities of Laguna de Duero,

in Spain, Lund in Sweden and Soma in Turkey. “The current maturity

of technology allows us to address the challenge of renovating

residential districts and creating nearly-zero energy areas,” says Ali

Vasallo, the project coordinator and an expert in industrial

engineering at the energy division of an applied research institute

called the CARTIF Technology Centre, based in Boecillo near

Valladolid, in Spain.

Such project does not come without challenges, though. “One of the

first steps is to involve all the stakeholders—the neighbourhood, the

owners, the energy services and construction companies and the

municipalities—in order to make these kind of solutions and strategies

available and offer an attractive product for all of them,” Vasallo says.

One expert believes that such approach is only feasible if

accompanied by an intensive citizen awareness campaign

demonstrating the benefits of such renovation plan. This is accounted

not only in terms of energy savings, but also in terms of economic

benefits in the long term. “It is technologically feasible and

economically profitable in the long run, but [we need] a transition

process that convinces political, economic and social actors,” points

out Han Vandevyvere, a senior researcher and project

manager at VITO, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research, in

Mol Belgium.

Another expert sees a second challenge in that the solutions

developed under the project are expected to be replicable in other

urban districts on the continent. Although he believes in the

importance of creating new examples such as the CITyFiED project

demo-sites, or the Johanneberg district in Göteborg, replicability may

still be an issue. “We know we can do it,” says Greg Morrison, head

deputy of the department of civil and environmental engineering

at Chalmers University in Göteborg, Sweden, “but the challenge is

how to replicate these models in urban areas where there is both less

money to be invested and also a lack of integration and social

cohesion.”

The third, more significant, challenge is getting the right business

model. To date, the project has succeeded in involving in its Spanish

demo-site an energy service company (ESCO) together with a

construction company who are making the necessary initial

investment in these technologies. They expect to recoup their

investment, when the owners pay them back in the long term thanks

to energy savings.

However, “the upfront investment is one of the main bottlenecks,”

notes Vandevyvere, who previously served as scientific coordinator of

the city project Leuven Climate Neutral 2030, completed in 2013. He

adds: “we need to find investors that accomodate for longer pay back

time, like 30 years, but we also need to make it understandable to all

the agents that this huge investment is economically viable, as you

invest in green economy, cleaner cities, a better quality of life, local

employment and energy independency.”

Marta Espar

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Kick-off in Valladolid of CITyFiED, a

project designed to support the shift

towards high performance energy

districts across Europe and beyond

A project to demonstrate optimised energy systems for high

performance energy cities has just commenced. CITyFiED is

a 5-year endeavour co-funded by the EU and led by

Valladolid-based Fundación CARTIF. The consortium

comprises 18 partners from Spain, Sweden, Turkey,

Belgium and Germany.

The underlying purpose of CITyFiED is to develop a

replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to transform

European urban ecosystems into smart cities of the future. It

will focus on reducing energy demand and GHG emissions

while increasing the use of renewable energy sources.

CITyFiED aims to achieve this by developing and

implementing innovative technology and methodologies for

building renovation, smart grids, district heating networks,

and mobility.

There are four main strands to CITyFiED’s activities allowing

the project to fully embrace all the facets of the challenges to

be addressed:

Large scale demonstrations: three holistic district

renovations at Laguna-Valladolid (Spain), Soma

(Turkey) and Lund (Sweden) deploying innovative

and cost-effective technologies in order to boost

overall energy efficiency and to slash environmental

footprint. This will include a thorough retrofit of

buildings, and the implementation of pioneering

concepts to enhance heating and cooling solutions.

Clustering cities to maximise replication potential.

Over 15 cities from across Europe have expressed

an interest to cluster in order to benefit from and roll

out CITyFiED solutions.

Developing cost-effective pioneering

methodologies for planning, deploying and

replicating energy efficient retrofit solutions. This will

include HVAC facilities on district scale and

integrating distributed electricity generation.

A Community of Interest involving 40 cities, which

will benefit from networking activities and information

sharing on the CITyFiED retrofitting methodology

Dissemination of a clear message to professionals,

academia and also to the general public who need to

be on-board with energy efficiency measures

including mobility, since user behaviour needs to

adopt a more sustainable approach.

The CITyFiED consortium drawing on partners from RTD,

industry, public authority, exploitation and communication,

expects to induce high replication potential thus accelerating

smart retrofit uptake for low energy efficient district stock by

2020. The replication plan should lead to 100 potential

projects in other cities with over 500,000 dwellings retrofitted

in 10 years. Business models for energy providers and

SMEs are set to benefit from CITyFiED solutions and there

will be wider benefits for citizens and society as a whole.

Furthermore, the project outcomes will inform policy at

European level and will result in raising standards in both the

energy and building sectors.

Project coordinators Fundación CARTIF hosted the kick-off

meeting at their Valladolid base on 28-30 April, including

work sessions specific to each of the three demonstration

sites.

This new European project thus embarks on a five-year

period to directly help move Europe towards more

sustainable, efficient and healthy urban spaces for European

citizens.

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Ali Vasallo - towards near-zero energy

consumption at district level

Citizens living in near-zero energy districts will make significant

savings and benefit from an increased comfort in their homes

Transforming districts into near-zero energy consumption urban areas

could be a reality in the next few decades. This is what the EU-funded

Project CITyFiED aims to demonstrate by testing new approaches

and improved business model, designed to ensure this solution is

replicable around Europe. Project coordinator Ali Vasallo, who is an

expert in industrial engineering at the energy division of an applied

research institute, called the CARTIF Technology Centre, based

in Boecillo near Valladolid in Spain, talks about the challenges of

reducing the energy consumption at city district level.

What is the aim of your research?

The project’s main aim is to deliver a systematic and integrated

methodology combined with the development of better business

models to support the transformation of urban areas into districts with

near-zero energy consumption. The ambition is then to replicate this

kind of intervention in cities around Europe. This involves combining

different technologies, such as retrofitting buildings, district heating

and cooling systems and smart grids, and introducing renewable

energies.

Which are the strategy's main pillars?

One of the main pillars of the strategy is to get the involvement of the

citizens, which is really important for the success of such projects.

Form a technical point of view, we are first going to redesign the

envelope of the buildings to improve their thermal properties. Then,

we will introduce a district heating system based on renewable

energies, like biomass. Next, we will provide the district with a new

smart grid, which is an electrical intelligent network, and then

introduce a monitoring platform. That way, individual owners or

tenants—and the neighbourhood as a whole—will be provided with

the information, that, in turn, will increase their awareness over their

consumption habits. We are also focusing on meeting economic and

technological targets. We have to deal with innovative technologies to

be implemented in our demonstration sites. Among others, we are

going to study better systems for centralised thermal energy

generation, new strategies to control the temperature of the system,

how to integrate renewables and how to develop a monitoring platform

for data gathering and storage, data analysis and data visualisation.

We need to study all of these technologies

to implement them in our demo sites. We also need to develop new

business models to make these kinds of interventions possible and

attractive for all the stakeholders. Indeed, it is the demonstration of

their economic value that is one of the main aspects of this project.

How will you convince owners to accept and invest in such a

retrofitting project?

The idea is to show that if people go for energy efficient solutions, they

can make significant savings on their bill and better control their

energy consumption. What is more, as we are going to improve the

thermal behaviour of the building, these solutions will improve users’

comfort. In some cases an ESCO—energy service company—

together with a construction company, will make the initial investment

to implement these technologies. And then the owners can pay this

back in the long term through energy savings.

What is the expected impact of this smart city demonstration

project?

We hope to be able to replicate widely our strategy in other districts

around Europe in order to accelerate the retrofitting uptake of low

efficient district stock. The areas chosen for the demonstration sites

are similar to many others found around European cities. Apart from

the involvement of the citizens, one important condition for replicability

is to have a certain level of homogeneity in the district to make the

installation of heating and cooling systems at district level easier. We

are going to involve a city cluster consiting up of 10 cities and use

virtual demonstrations to replicate the benefits and feasibility of our

strategy.

Marta Espar

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Fundación CARTIF

CARTIF is a horizontal research centre located in Spain, which covers a wide range of

scientific disciplines such as such as Energy, Environment, Food and Chemicals,

Biomedical, Robotics.

Fundación CARTIF, co-ordinator of the CITyFiED project, is a leading Spanish applied research

centre set up in 1994. It possesses 9 technical divisions, in which some 200 research staff are

mobilised across energy, environment, food and chemicals, biomedical, and robotics.

The focal point of CARTIF’s research areas is ICT and energy. By combining these two fields, a

multidisciplinary team is able to design and develop solutions in the specific fields of energy

efficiency, energy savings, integration of renewable energy systems, electricity market, demand

response, Smart Grid, etc.

CARTIF takes an active part in 10 international networks and platforms such

as ISES (International Solar Energy Society) and IEA (International Energy Agency), and it is also

the Spanish National Liaison Point for the European E2BA (Energy Efficient Buildings

Association).

The Energy Division at CARTIF has carried out many research and development projects in its

fields of specialisation. Besides, the current participation in international projects in which it is

involved include FP7-EeB projects such as DIRECTION and R2CITIES (both coordinated by

CARTIF), BAAS, BRICKER, CAMPUS21, iNSPiREe, CommONEnergy.

CARTIF is leading the overall coordination of the project involving 18 partners from 5 different

European countries and is also directly involved in the implementation of the CITyFiED

methodology in the Laguna de Duero demo site.

Contact

Ali Vasallo Belver

CITyFiED project coordinator

Energy Division

alivas@cartif.es

Sergio Sanz

Energy Division Deputy Manager

sersan@cartif.es

Rubén García Pajares,

Energy Division

rubgar@cartif.es

“ “ Ali Vasallo, CITyFiED coordinator: “The current maturity of technology

allows us to address the challenge of renovating residential districts and

creating nearly-zero energy areas. One of the first steps is to involve all

the stakeholders — the neighbourhood, the owners, the energy services

and construction companies and the municipalities—in order to make

these kind of solutions and strategies available and offer an attractive

product for all of them”

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Energy Efficiency Measures Façade renovation

District heating (RES)

Photovoltaic integration

Combined heat and power facility

Smart Grid

Monitoring Platform

Expected Impacts Energy savings: 30,8%

• Current energy demand: 149,5

kWh/m2yr

• Expected energy demand: 103,4

kWh/m2yr

RES contribution: 70,8%

Lund – Linero District

Energy Efficiency Measures Façade renovation

New district heating (biomass)

New Pumping System

Combined heat and power facility

Smart Grid

Monitoring Platform

Expected Impacts Energy savings: 38,72%

• Current energy demand: 140,69

kWh/m2yr

• Expected energy demand: 86,21

kWh/m2yr

RES contribution: 57,32%

Laguna de Duero – Torrelago District

Energy Efficiency Measures Façade renovation

District heating (heat recovery –

Soma Thermal Plant)

Photovoltaic roof integration

Smart Grid

Monitoring Platform

Expected Impacts Energy savings: 56,16%

• Current energy demand: 219

kWh/m2yr

• Expected energy demand: 96

kWh/m2yr

RES contribution: 53,16%

Soma – Manisa District

News from our cities

Laguna de Duero (Valladolid), Spain, Lund, Sweden, and Soma, Turkey, are a set of cities, strategically located around Europe,

which represent a variety of demonstrative scenarios of city level refurbishment in terms of district and building typologies,

ownership models, district heating and cooling schemes and technological solutions for low voltage electricity distributed

generation. These cities will address a holistic intervention of district renovation, in line with the pillars of the project objectives

(large scale demonstration, maximization of the replication potential, development of innovative and cost effective methodologies,

dissemination). All of the main technological aspects (retrofitting of buildings, district heating facility and distributed low voltage

generation) will be addressed by means of a systemic approach in each city, in order to achieve significant energy savings, very low

energy buildings and very low CO2 emissions. Each location has its own entity with respect to the demonstration capability,

because the foreseen interventions will be in depth, covering ambitious energy targets and providing very high replication potential.

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Cluster of cities first in line for new

renovation approach

As part of the CITyFiED project 11 cities have become what is

known as the CITyFiED CityCluster; cities that will frequently

partake in all the new methods and discoveries that will come

out of the demo sites in Lund, Soma and Laguna. Through

virtual modelling the cities will be first in line to see how the

CITyFiED city district retrofitting approach could be applicable to

their own cities and areas.

“We believe that this way of working, where cities which are facing the

same renovation challenges as our demo sites can have speedy

access to new methods and best practices, will benefit both the project

and the cluster cities”, says Work package leader and IVL project

manager Jeanette Green. “Since each cluster city also participates in

the projects Board of Representatives we will have a natural flow of

feedback and insights from them going right back into the project, and

vice versa”, she continues.

In order to widen the replication potential further the secretariat is now

in the process of creating a Community of Interest. About 40 cities,

facing the same renovation challenges as the demo sites and the

cluster cities will be offered to partake in several technical study tours,

workshops and webinars and thus receive access to the projects full

knowledge and expertise. Contacts are currently being taken in order

to identify the cities that fit the replication potential of the project and

that would be interested to be a part of the Community of Interest.

The new City Secretariat has been set up, with the sole purpose of

keeping the city cluster coordinated and informed on the latest

progresses and methods. Each city will be able to follow the process of

the demo sites during the coming years through webinars, newsletters,

‘members’ city space online, LinkedIn, workshops, virtual models and

study tours, and thus be able to use any new knowledge and apply it to

their own cities and areas.

“The city set up, with three demo sites, eleven cluster cities and forty

cities in the community of interest will require the secretariat to act as

both organizer, communicator, central point of contact and match

maker between cities. We are looking forward to this work and hope

that we can contribute to the success of the program,” says Maria

Kardborn, Secretariat Manager.

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CITY

CLUSTER

More information about the CityCluster and the Community of Interest can be

obtained at www.cityfied.eu or by contacting cities-cityfied@ivl.se

Cities in the Cluster

Botkyrka (Sweden)

Värmdö (Sweden)

Izmir (Turkey)

Ludwigshafen (Germany)

Málaga (Spain)

Valladolid (Spain)

Rovereto (Italy)

Naples (Italy)

Salerno (Italy)

Udine (Italy)

Florence (Italy)

A smarter, faster route to the future: the

CITyFiED Community of Interest

For those towns, cities and municipalities looking to navigate

the complex systems of Smart Cities and find the most

efficient route to achieving near zero energy districts,

CITyFiED has the answer.

A select group of 40 cities and leading associations will be

invited to have direct access to innovative, tested and cost

effective methodologies and procedures for planning, deploying

and replicating energy efficient district retrofitting actions,

heating solutions and integrated electricity generation.

This high-level group will also be exposed to a vast array of soft

skills – exchanges of experience on partnerships, finance

and legal frameworks to enable more confident, cost

effective and time sensitive decision-making. Either through

peer-2-peer exchange with the three demonstration sites and

11 replication cities; a multitude of online learning opportunities,

webinars and study tours. It is a low-investment, high-impact

formula designed to facilitate your energy goals.

Finally, members of the Community of Interest will become

recognised actors leading European drive for smart cities

and energy transition. Considerable opportunities for

partnership building, media visibility and promotion to local,

national and European stakeholder groups are assured.

Interested parties may contact alec.walker-love@cityfied.eu to

find out more.

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What’s new on the social web?

Social media to establish and sustain the CITyFiED

online reputation and to provide stakeholders

dedicated channels to communicate about the

project.

CITyFiED started with an aim: empower the results produced

by exploiting all available communication channels, with a

strong emphasis on the use of social media. Since the kick-off-

meeting of the project, we have launched the hashtag

“#cityfied” to begin the conversation about the project officially.

The launch of the Twitter account @cityfied_eu came with the

publication of the project website: you can find a quick link to

the Twitter account at the top of the CITyFiED website

homepage:

The visual identity of the account mirrors the one of the project

website, focusing on the demo-sites and on the smart city

concepts: the CITyFiED logo appears as profile picture while a

skyline of a smart city has been designed as cover picture.

Twitter is being used in view of positioning the project among

EU-funded Smart Cities projects, with tweets in English

language and an official tone of voice. Every meeting and

official event CITyFiED will participate to will end with a

narrative packaged in the following format and will have an

echo on Twitter:

You can receive the CITyFiED newsletter as well as other

project information by simply registering to the CITyFiED

website using your LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ or Twitter

account, after allowing CITyFiED to access them.

All articles published on the CITyFiED web site are equipped

with social web buttons, to facilitate sharing with your

colleagues, friends and other contacts via social media or e-

mail through “mailto”.

The next Newsletter will also cover the launch of the CITyFiED

Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Keep on reading about

CITyFiED and engage with the project on social media.

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This extensive international conference will welcome nearly 2,000 experts in sustainable

building from all over the world and has set itself the ambitious goal of encouraging and

accelerating answers to the social and environmental challenges the building sector

faces. CITyFiED coordinator Ali Vasallo, Cartif Energy Division Director Sergio Sanz and

Dissemination & Communication Secretariat manager Helga Treiber will be available in

advance and onsite to speak about the project’s programme for a replicable and systemic

strategy to create the smart cities of the

future.

Event website

World Sustainable

Building

Conference 28 – 30 October 2014

Barcelona, Spain

How to manage the demand for energy in growing cities without compromising economic

and social concerns is central to this year’s event – and the programme mixes ideas on

mobility management, local renewable energy production and new technologies to

explore how our cities can make a crucial contribution to reducing CO2 emissions in

future. CITyFiED partner, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum will be onsite following proceedings

closely.

Also onsite, the EUROCITIES awards will recognise outstanding achievement by

EUROCITIES members in the delivery of local activities or practices that improve the

quality of life for citizens. Amongst the nominees is CITyFiED city cluster member

Malaga, for their already exceptional energy efficient refurbishment and citizen

engagement actions in the ‘Los Limoneros’ district.

Event website

EUROCITIES

Conference,

Energising cities

– energy

intelligent cities

of tomorrow 5 - 8 November 2014

Munich, Germany

Once more to Barcelona, and once more to a leading event in the smart city space. This

blend of congress and exhibition will welcome over 300 speakers articulated around a

programme with six “tracks”: smart society, technology, governance, energy, mobility and

the sustainable city. In parallel, the exhibition space features a 2,000m2 mock up of smart

city technologies changing our cities amongst other activities.

Event website

Smart City World

Expo & Congress 18 - 20 November 2014

Barcelona, Spain

Recommended events –

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Contact

More information on this Newsletter and related dissemination and

communication activities of the project available at:

CITyFiED D&C Secretariat

e-mail: secretariat@cityfied.eu

Project Coordinator

Centro Tecnológico CARTIF

Parque Tecnológico de Boecillo 205. C.P. 47151

Boecillo, Valladolid - España

Tel. 0034 983 54 65 04

Fax 0034 983 54 65 21

Coordinator

Ali Vasallo

Energy & ICT Divisions

Fundación CARTIF

e-mail: cityfied@cityfied.eu

City Secretariat

e-mail: cities@cityfied.eu

Community of Interest:

E-mail: alec.walker-love@cityfied.eu

Register on our website or get access with your LinkedIn, Facebook,

Google or Twitter accounts to receive the CITyFiED newsletter via e-mail.

For the purposes of media law, editorial responsibility rests with the

CITyFiED Communication Secretariat.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh

Programme for research, technological development and demonstration

under grant agreement N° 609129

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In this issue

News P. 2 - 6

Interviews P. 7

In the spotlight: CARTIF P. 8

News from our cities P. 9 – 11

What’s new on the social web? P. 12

Recommended events P. 13

Contact P. 14

Newsletter 1 – April 2015

Welcome to the second CITyFiED Newsletter!

As part of this set up, a Board of Representatives has been put together so that all

members, whatever their category – citizens, policy makers, technology developers,

from the various cities and associate cities – can have their say and benefit from the

replication potential of the project. To this effect, the 2nd periodic meeting that convened

in Soma, Turkey, at the end of March, welcomed the 10 City Cluster cities along with

representatives of the Community of Interest, thus marking the first time all the project

partners and associated cities have come together. The watchword in CITyFiED being

replication, the meeting in Soma led the Board of Representatives through a workshop

on replication potential and covered the project’s methodology. This included a briefing

on how the City Cluster will virtually test the model based on the demonstration sites.

With the City Cluster and now the Community of Interest, as well as the core project

partners, we already have the makings of a credible, high-impact group able to listen

and to be listened to that will allow maximize the replication potential of CITyFiED

results.

Over the coming weeks and months, emphasis will be on capitalising on the all

important face-to-face links made at the Soma meeting and on making sure the

community has all latest tools to ensure the project’s targets are met in terms of smart

solutions and replicability.

Ali Vasallo Belver

CITyFiED coordinator

In this issue

News P. 2 - 6

Interviews P. 7

In the spotlight: P. 8 – 9

News from our cities P. 10– 14

What’s new on the social web? P. 15

Recommended events P. 16 – 17

Contact P. 18

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh

Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under

grant agreement N° 609129

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Welcome to this second edition of the

CITyFiED newsletter which comes as our

project has been gathering significant

momentum. The City Cluster is up and

running, and since October we have been

reaching out to other towns and cities

across Europe in order to form a wider

Community of Interest. The latter already

has 12 cities signed up and is well on the way

to incorporating three times more. It is

designed to enable interested cities to identify

the most efficient solutions, partnerships,

results and experiences for achieving nearly

zero energy districts unlocked by CITyFiED.

Towards a systemic approach for smart

cities: major works ahead as CITyFiED

changes gear

A lively and productive working environment was the

signature for the second CITyFiED project meeting held

in Izmir and Soma, Turkey, 24-26 March.

The project consortium went straight to business, with a first

day dedicated to key project issues and progress – but not

before some words of welcome from our generous hosts.

Muzaffer Tunçağ of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality and Yılmaz

Gençoğlu from Manisa Metropolitan Municipality outlined how

the project mirrors and enhances their respective strong drive

towards smarter, healthier cities for all – from traffic

management to energy efficiency. They also underlined the

historical and topical significance of the venue – a gas works

that brought light to the homes and streets of Izmir and an

innovation hub of its time, when built in the 1860s. Today, it

was our turn to reinvent the energy of our homes and cities.

Definitely of our time was the consortium discussion on smart

monitoring and management systems, led by Felix Larrinaga of

Mondragon. The team was able to draw on fresh insight

generated by tests on early prototypes or mock-ups that

recently served as testing elements at Laguna de Duero

(Spain) in late February – essential to the deployment of a

methodology in the rest of the demonstration sites in Sweden

and Turkey. Several residents and CITyFiED consortium

members participated in the test to measure user acceptance

of the technological and non-technological solutions devised as

tools to reduce energy consumption. The Work Package 4 team

also took the opportunity to discuss in detail the broader

monitoring of environmental, technological, economical and

social indicators that makes CITyFiED a truly holistic

endeavour as well as finding the right cloud-based solutions to

aggregate real-time data sets from multiple locations.

Further break out session topics gave some precious face-to-

face time to exchange on the replication model and

methodology at the very heart of the project.

Jeanette Green and the team at IVL Swedish Environmental

Research Institute had been working hard along with Work

Package 1 partners in advance of the meeting to define the

replication model. This represents a framework for assessing

and putting into motion the process of district renovation. The

model examines technical and non-technical barriers and an

energy analysis before examining a range of appropriate

business models in order to define the most effective path to

replicating CITyFiED energy impacts and results.

If the replication model represents the starting point for feasible

success, Elena Mendéz Bértolo of Acciona and the

consortium team are working on a strategic and integrated

methodology on how to arrive at the final goal. Development

of innovative and cost effective methodology and

procedures for planning, deploying and replicating energy

efficient district retrofitting actions are being structured around

key themes and steps. These include the environment and

resources; governance; social well-being; economy and

innovation; and the built environment.

The development of the replication model and methodology are

pillars of the project and the initial work was shared with a

group of 19 city representatives at a special workshop held the

next day for members of the City Cluster and the Community

of Interest.

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Relevant, pertinent, applicable – a

pathway to replication and exploitation

for CITyFiED

With such a wide range of expertise and activities

generated by the project, exploitation leader, Aude

Pelison-Scheker and Valerie Bahr of Steinbeis

Europa-Zentrum have been busy from day one.

Beginning with a hands-on exploitation workshop at the

first project meeting, the process of identifying and

refining CITyFiED assets has been non-stop.

A toolkit of expertise was presented to the consortium,

consisting of three pillars: innovative technologies, design and

strategies; and models. As project results mature and

accumulate, a range of toolkits to support delivery on each of

these areas will be made available – in particular to the

community of cities involved in the project. Also outlined at the

meeting was further information and tools to help project

members. This included an ongoing ‘tech watch’ service,

advice on navigating intellectual property issues, market access

and outreach.

Project coordinator Ali Vasallo expressed his satisfaction

at the progress and collaboration on-hand in advance and

during the meeting – and especially that this gathering could

take place around the Turkish demo-site. “This is a large-scale,

multi-country demonstration project; including the largest

residential renovation site in Europe at 140,000m2. These are

real world scenarios, delivery real world solutions to complex

energy and environment problems. I am pleased to see the

project gaining real momentum now”.

Concerning the projects ambition to replicate initiatives as

widely as possible he continued, “Vitally, our results are proven

solutions. Our objective is to now continue the good work and

make these available to cities around Europe. CITyFiED

outputs must be a cost-saver and time-saver to local authorities

and partnerships looking to become smarter cities… and I think

we are well on track to do that at scale.”

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Policy-makers, decision-makers and

technical experts working together to

support CITyFiED ambitions to make

Europe smarter, faster

Moving activities to SOMA Electricity Generation &

Trading Joint Stock Company (SEAŞ) premises and the

demonstration site for day two, the CITyFiED consortium

were delighted to be joined by Mr. Mario Dionisio of the

European Commission and 19 city representatives from

15 cities and one region.

In order to better target content and exchanges, the group split

into two, with technical partners delving in to project issues and

renovation works in detail, while the Board of Representatives

from cities were privy to discovering each other and the

CITyFiED work for the first time.

Kicking off the municipalities’ session, participants were invited

to share their needs and expectations. At first glance,

testimonies revealed a range of climatic, political, technical and

personal variety before revealing a common and powerful need

– that of a methodology, a strategy to facilitate delivering

renovation and smart city initiatives more coherently and at

scale.

From the start, it seemed the project and participants make a

good fit. For Alessandra Barbieri from Florence, Italy,

CITyFiED could be the trigger for ‘internal replication’ across

the city. Bo Karlsson from Botkyrka, Sweden and Özlem

Tugac of Izmir Municipality expressed a desire for the project

to help joint the dots between good initiatives and available

technology to create a more systematic route to success.

Project partners, IVL, Steinbeis, Acciona, Cartif, Tecnalia,

Veolia, Lund and youris.com were more than happy to

elaborate and discuss how the project could respond – covering

a range of replication, methodological, exploitation and

dissemination issues in formal sessions and coffee break

discussions.

Peer-to-peer exchange within the group was clearly highly

valued, and an afternoon session led by Linda Birkedal of Lund

Municipality gave an opportunity to do so. Splitting into ‘semi-

structured’ discussion groups, each was mandated to explore a

non-technical barrier to successful deployment. Based on

Lund’s experiences, it was paramount to identify non-technical

issues as early in the process as possible. From legal and

organization to financial and even emotional, large-scale works

can stumble if not addressed by proper consultation and

discussion Ms Birkedal shared. Hopefully this session was the

first of many take-aways and the beginning of a productive and

fruitful relationship with the CITyFiED team for the

municipalities.

To round off the theory, participants conducted an

accompanied study tour of the Soma demonstration site and

works. A mix of technical partners including Mir Unique

Solutions, TUBITAK and Reengen gave insights to

supplement a detailed walking commentary from Demir Enerji.

Finally, as rare and energizing face-to-face meetings are, they

are also rare. Work package leader, Jeanette Green and

communications specialist at youris.com, Alec Walker-Love

were pleased to outline a number of opportunities for online

learning, resources and communications tools to carry the

momentum to the next city cluster and community of interest

workshop and study tour. The project team certainly signed-off

more motivated than ever to bring practical, performing

solutions to meet the municipalities’ high expectations and

energy ambitions.

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Virtual models to make cities greener

Retrofitting districts with sustainable energy systems can be a

success if enough data is available to analyse the suitability of

each chosen energy-saving solution

Making a city or district energy smart is, first and foremost, an exercise in

good planning. However, such green planning tools are still in their infancy.

The trouble is that every city is different, every district unique. To replicate best

practices for use in other context, it is important to develop models that can

help better assess the actual source of energy savings. Scientists in

Sweden have just started compiling such a virtual model, designed to calculate

the energy saving potential of a district.

The model was initiated by the team of Anna Jarnehammar, director for

business &market development at IVL, the Swedish Environmental

Research Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. It has already been applied to a

neighbourhood in Lund, Sweden. Now, IVL is also bringing its model to

contribute to CITyFiED. "On a general level we can show how much carbon

dioxide a district can avoid by implementing certain kinds of measures,”

Jarnehammar tells CITyFiED.

In addition, the model gives an indication of how it might be possible to

replicate the energy saving improvements, from one city to another. As

input for the model, Jarnehammar's group uses data gathered from the three

showcase districts of the project, located in Lund, Sweden, Laguna de Duero

near Valladolid, Spain, and Soma, Western Turkey. This data, for example,

includes construction details of houses, budget and development plans of the

city councils and citizens' opinions. "Besides the technical part, we do

interviews in order to really find out what the cities plan for the future in

general.[This means checking] if they have enough money allocated for

energy efficient measures or how mature they are with regard to new

technological renovation options," says Jarnehammar. This information is

necessary to assess whether retrofitting efforts are likely to become a

success.

Jarnehammar’s counterpart in the project is Elena Méndez Bértolo,

geographer and researcher at the construction company Acciona in Madrid,

Spain. She is leading the development of a methodology for turning city

districts into energy efficient neighbourhoods. Jarnehammar’s model will

be used to analyse if a district is suitable for retrofitting. As a complement,

CITyFiED methodology comes into play involving stakeholders in the decision

process with the proposal of optimal and adapted to each site retrofitting

scenarios. "Our approach is to provide tools and techniques developing a

technical support for the decision making process," she tells CITyFiED

and continues: "The methodology we are developing tries to analyse the

current situation of a city and relates it with its energy efficiency objectives in

terms of energy efficiency. It is not an automatic work as it needs real contacts

with the industry, the authorities and the citizens of a district."

A similar approach has already been realised by the project Morgenstadt –

which means city of tomorrow – supported by the largest German research

organisation, the Fraunhofer Society. Whereas CITyFiED will demonstrate its

models through showcases in actual cities, the Morgenstadt project focuses

on doing research on scientific and technological developments. Indeed,

unlike CITyFiED, Morgenstadt has developed an analytical framework to

assess the sustainability profile of cities across eight urban sectors and with

reference to their complex interactions, including energy, traffic, water, and

others. However, "When trying to compare cities, it does indeed not make

sense to refer to the entire city system with its complex interactions.

Instead it is necessary to find benchmarks for single sectors, for example

the energy sector," explains Alanus von Radecki, the Morgenstadt project

leader, based at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO in

Stuttgart, Germany.

In the next phase of the research, the Morgenstadt partners will concentrate

on demand-oriented solutions for cities. "We have seen a gap between

supply and demand in technological solutions. City retrofitting requires

technologies which integrate with other city sectors, while most products do not

address the complex city interdependencies," von Radecki says. CITyFiED

methodology will help to bridge this gap. Meanwhile, Jarnehammar's

model will show if a city – in cooperation with research and industry – is

open for new ideas and able to nurture innovative solutions.

Hanns-J. Neubert

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Cities join forces to retrofit districts

All over Europe cities and towns strive to become climate

smart. They revamp their energy districts, step-by-step,

while looking across borders to learn from best practices.

Cities have started to join forces to become more energy

efficient. This trends stems from the findings of the first climate

assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC), published in 1990, which was quite alarming. It

led to the creation of Energy Cities, the European association

of local authorities in energy transition. Today, it counts more

than 1,000 cities from 30 countries.

"Energy Cities represents the interests of the cities on

European level and try to influence European legislation in the

way that cities can implement the energy transition on site,”

explains Eckard Würzner, who is the president of Energy

Cities and the mayor of Heidelberg, Germany. He adds: “The

association helps to understand the sometimes quite complex

European legislation, supports funding of measures and

programmes and encourages the member cities to participate

in European-wide projects.”

Many cities in Europe have already shown that energy

transition and reduction in carbon dioxide emission are

possible. Such successes are to be emulated by copycats.

However, "to promote their achievements, better European and

national frameworks are required,” Würzner tells youris.com.

“Unfortunately European policies do not always coincide with

local requirements, challenges and capabilities," he notes. His

own home town, Heidelberg, was the first German city to adopt

a communal concept for climate protection in 1992. And it has

currently one of the largest passive house districts in the World,

expanding constantly in an area of 115 hectares, near the city

centre.

The trouble is that legislation is behind, when it comes to

supporting such initiatives. This is particularly the case in

Eastern European countries. There, municipalities are confined

to State or commercial monopolies.

Yet, rather large showcase projects are now flourishing

everywhere in Europe. One of them is the EU-funded

project, CITyFiED, which started in April 2014. As part of the

project, with optimised energy and heating systems. The three

showcase districts have been selected to cover three climate

regions, being based in Lund, Sweden, Laguna de Duero-

Valladolid, Spain, and Soma, Western Turkey. The project

objective is to achieve a saving of 50% of energy requirement

after retrofitting all the 2,328 dwellings; thus it is estimated to

affect 7,250 citizens.

"We are implementing innovative systems in order to cover all

energy demands of the buildings with biomass, solar or thermal

energy, in parallel with a drastic reduction of the thermal

demand installing high performance insulation solutions in the

buildings,” explains Sergio Sanz, who is the project coordinator

and energy division deputy manager at the CARTIF

Technology Centre in Valladolid, Spain. “For electricity, we

have interventions with photovoltaics and combined heat and

power production. In Sweden, thermal heat will be exploited,"

he adds.

He believes that it is also important to cooperate with the local

industry. Not only do they develop the solutions, but they can

also deliver recovered heat. This way, even new business

models can come up locally over time. However, citizens

participation is only limited. "They are involved because we

need their opinion about the projected benefits, and they

should, of course, agree with this intervention," says Sanz.

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District heating: Sweden is leading the way out of

fossil fuels

By relying on district heating combined with heat and power

production, municipalities in Sweden power their cities from renewable

energy sources.

Nordic countries have achieved a great independence from fossils because of

their widespread district heating systems. District heating is a smart way to

avoid using fossil fuels to heat buildings. It is typically based on wood, peat

and other biofuels, or household waste. But other non-fossil fuel sources, such

as deep thermal heat—sourced from between 100 to 500 meters below the

ground—or recycled heat from industries can be used as well.

Two Swedish experts talk to youris.com about ways of removing carbon-based

fuels from the heating equation, and what other municipalities can learn from

their experience. One of them is Karin Ericsson, a senior lecturer at the

Department of Environmental and Energy Systems of Lund’s University.

Her research field is energy system analysis and bioenergy in Europe. The

other is Mats Didriksson, who is director for the business area energy of

Kraftringen, an energy company owned by four municipalities in Southern

Sweden near the city of Lund.

What is the history of the development of district heating in Sweden?

Karin Ericsson: Overall, district heating represent about 60% of heating in

Sweden. In fact, 85% of all multi-dwelling houses and all public buildings are

connected to district heating. Today all towns in Sweden have district heating

networks.

It started in the 1950s, when the municipalities saw an opportunity to reduce

air pollution in the towns. They wanted, at the same time, to produce electricity

efficiently, as the demand was rapidly growing. Efficiency was very important.

They opted for combined heat and power production, which is much more

efficient than condensed power production.

In Sweden, there is generally a very high acceptance for collective

infrastructure solutions; especially in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. From the

beginning, district heating was organised within the municipalities, which took

the initiative to build the systems. Later, they were transformed into

municipality-owned companies. During the late 1990s, some of them were sold

to national or international companies.

What can cities in other countries learn from Sweden’s experiences?

Karin Ericsson: District heating has enabled the Swedish heating sector to

become almost completely fossil-free. We use mainly biofuels like wood and

peat, but we also burn household waste. When the industrial context in a given

town allows it, we can use waste heat from industry.

In the case of Sweden, the policy pressure on the building and heating sector

has been quite strong. It is quite easy to operate district heating. This is

because you do not have to take the international context into account, as is

the case with electricity for example. But building such infrastructures is difficult

and expensive. However, municipalities are the most important actors even in

other countries, as they are the ones who have to take up the initiative.

How has a municipality owned company like Kraftringen sourced

sufficient renewable energy for district heating?

Mats Didriksson: Sustainability is high on our agenda. In terms of renewable

energies, wind and solar power is just one side of the equation. Of course, we

also use such power sources, but we also look at the regional perspective of

renewables. In Sweden, we talk a lot about biofuels as replacements for coal-

fuelled power plants; and thus built bio-fuelled power and heating plants. This

shift has been going on in the past 20 to 30 years.

When we planned our new combined heat and power production plant—north

of Lund—we assumed that we would buy wood from the middle region of

Sweden. But then, we witnessed the development of a local biofuel market in

an area of about 60 kilometres in diameter around the plant. It offered very

competitive wood prices, and started as early as during the building phase.

What about competition?

Mats Didriksson: There is no competition from other district heating companies.

But we have a tough competition from heat pumps. Electricity is expected to

remain at relatively low price in the next five or ten years. However, there will

be a pressure from the customers, who may switch to these systems.

What can other European cities learn from Kraftringen’s experiences?

Mats Didriksson: District heating is not very common in continental Europe.

Except in Eastern Europe, where district heating is still broadly based on coal

burning. The combined heat and electrical power production method in our

plants is today a very economically and financially sound way of producing

energy.

The way we are optimising the production and distribution system is something

that, I know, other countries could learn from. With our holistic system

approach to district heating, we look at the whole environment, not just the

production plants nor just the distribution networks. For example, if the system

network is efficient, temperature in the plants can be reduced.

Hanns-J. Neubert

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Istanbul Technical University

The Energy Institute at Istanbul Technical University is a university-based

research and development organization in the broad area of energy science and

engineering.

It provides education, research and collaborative opportunities with other research

institutions (like the Energy Institute of TUBİTAK, and UNIDO-Ichet) and with state

agencies on studies aimed at solutions of energy problems. The institute was formed by

the reshaping of the Nuclear Energy Institute, which had been founded in 1961. In 2003,

the institute was renamed as the Energy Institute to carry out advanced teaching and

research activities on energy in a wider scope.

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Demir Enerji

Demir Energy Consulting provides high quality project management and

consultancy services in a wide set of innovation areas.

The team members are involved in pioneering and innovative local and international projects.

Demir Energy consultants are experts in different areas and have a holistic approach to their

projects from technical, legal, project management and financial point of view. Based on their

extensive knowledge, it offers solutions on sustainable energy, energy efficiency and climate

change to multinational corporations, industrial organizations, building companies, private

investors, service providers, local authorities, NGO’s and energy consumers.

Contact

Esra Demir

edemir@demirenerji.com

“ “ Demir has been a pioneer in strategic studies, road-mapping, action

plans and a host of associated actions. CITyFiED has given us a great

opportunity to do it for real – and within a stimulating multinational

environment Baha Kuban, Demir Enerji

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Contact

Hatice Sözer

sozerh@itu.edu.tr

Reengen

Reengen is a smart grid company that develops solutions for smarter buildings and

smarter grid.

The power of the Reengen comes from its invaluable merits; complementary core competencies

of team members, belief in success, creating inspiration and the vision on disruptive clean energy

technologies. Reengen is the developer of Provolta Energy Operating System which is the

core technology for the smart grid, the future of energy sector. The solution is being applied to

make tangible energy efficiency gains at the demonstration site in Soma, Turkey. It will provide

residents with actionable intelligence, real-time energy and condition monitoring and improving

asset performance by optimization and predictive maintenance of HVAC equipment.

Reengen uses data science centric technology employing machine learning algorithms and a

physics-based modeling of connected equipment and buildings to make this a truly state of the art

solution being deployed within the project. Provolta is also scalable and cloud-based making it a

suitable asset for replication.

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Mir

Mir Unique Solutions is a company of Mir Holding Group located in İstanbul

(Turkey). The group develops and licenses technologies in various disciplines.

The main principle of the company consists of a project-based execution of all their activities

thanks to their expertise in technology and information management. Mir collaborates with various

universities and academics primarily in order to enhance the opportunities at each project.

All R&D studies of the company are defined and performed as individual projects. Specialists

from various disciplines (Mechanical Eng., Chemical Eng., Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science

Eng., Agricultural Eng., Electronics Eng., Food Engineering etc.) take part in these studies. This

working habit brings synergism and leads to genuine ideas.

Contact

Aliihsan Koca

IHSANKOCA@mirholding.com.tr

“ “ We’re delighted to be bringing our extensive research work up to a full-scale

implementation within the CITyFiED project. Notably, some game-changing

composite district heating system pipes with significantly more longevity, chemical

strength and pressure resistance, along with a novel heating and cooling system to

be worked with district heating more efficiently Aliihsan Koca

Department Leader, Thermo-Fluid and Energy Research

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Contact

Burak Sefer

burak.sefer@reengen.com

“

“ Combining technological developments with existing problems on energy

sector increases the significance of a big energy transformation called Smart

Grid. Buildings and grid have to get ready for such a revolution on energy

sector. Burak Sefer

Multiplying options, reducing risk, increasing impact

Accelerating delivery of smarter cities and districts to achieve our energy goals

Making substantial reductions in energy demand, green house gas

emissions and incorporating renewable technologies at district and

city level is a tricky task. A new community of cities is discovering real

solutions with real impact as part of the CITyFiED project.

What does a city with strong scientific skills, plans for a multi-fuel CHP

plant and new sustainable housing districts; a future European Capital

of Culture developing a powerful energy master plan; and district

pioneering citizen and public engagement in redesigning its energy

future have in common?

They are all part of a growing ‘Community of Interest’ navigating the

complex systems, partnerships and financing formulas to find the

most efficient route to achieving near zero energy districts as part of

the CITyFiED project.

The project knowledge and experience is anchored in large-scale

works at three demonstration sites incorporating technologies

and approaches to achieving innovative and efficient districts.

These sites are located across a range of climatic conditions in the

cities of Lund, Sweden, Laguna de Duero, Spain and Soma, Turkey.

Between them, they will achieve more than70 kWh/m2yr of energy

savings, a reduction of at least 13,000 tons in CO2 emissions will be

achieved through the retrofitting of 2,300 dwellings and change the

lives of over 7,000 citizens.

“Our approach has been engineered to be as accessible as possible –

based on a sound and feasible replication plan, which will be virtually

tested in a City Cluster of 11 representative European cities”

explains Markus Paulsson of the city of Lund and coordinator of the

three central demonstration sites. “But the largest ‘return on

investment’ if you like, is saved for a group of 40 cities and districts –

as they will discover first hand the smartest and fastest routes to

success, based on a sound methodology and proven experience”.

Project coordinator Ali Vasallo of research center CARTIF outlines the

thinking - “we know time and resources are precious, so from the

start, we wanted to create a low investment, high-impact formula

designed to help facilitate a city or districts’ energy goals”. Knowledge

and technology transfer is delivered by a series of webinars and

accompanying resources available live, as part of a group, or to

consult at anytime in a dedicated “CITy Smart” portal reserved for

Community of Interest (COI) members.

The approach of COI members has been just as pragmatic and

constructive. San Sebastian general manager Euken Sesé is keen

to have exchanges with the group on business models, management

systems and district heating whilst sharing their systems approach to

energy efficiency developed in the STEEP project.

In Estonia, Tartu’s Smart City Lab is a lively hub for improving public

services and business processes. For executive board member Rene

Tonnisson, “Smart City development is a high priority for Tartu in

coming years and we are looking for suitable networks dealing with

related issues in order to learn from other cities having similar

ambitions and challenges”. Tartu has plenty to offer in exchange,

“With a strong set of experiences in district heating and cooling - that

reach up to 90% penetration in some cases – and a range of electric

mobility solutions already deployed, I am looking forward to a mutual

transfer of knowledge and experience sharing between the CITyFIED

partners”.

For Zabrze, Poland, joining the CITyFiED Community of Interest is an

ideal support to their plans not only for wider European collaboration,

but for a new energy-efficient district using renewable energy sources

such as small-scale photovoltaics integrated into building designs and

enhancing development of a biogas plant.

In Belgium, COI member Brussels are looking to CITyFiED to help on

both the strategic and operational levels. Mohamed Ouriaghli,

Deputy Mayor for Housing, Equal Opportunities and ICT outlines a

couple of reasons for joining the project: “Brussels is very busy

organizing our smart cities projects and looking to the future. We are

familiar with the concepts and have strong foundations; but in the past

lacked a unified strategic plan” he outlined. “In addition, with

responsibility for around 3,000 housing units, we always need to be

on the look out for new solutions. CITyFiED is exactly the kind of

laboratory that will develop our know-how on these topics”.

Ali Vasallo is enthusiastic about the ability of the community to inspire

each other and the project’s ability to support these leaders in

European energy transition: “We aim to provide the technical know-

how and a framework for local leaders to make more confident, cost-

effective and time sensitive decisions for reaching their stated

ambitions”. “This applies to cities and districts of all sizes and

maturities with COI members ranging from 15,000 inhabitants to 1.5

million and above.”

The CITyFiED Community of Interest is open to towns, cities, districts and

relevant municipal housing and energy agencies from across the EU.

Interested parties in joining the community should contact alec.walker-

love@cityfied.eu to benefit from one of the limited places available.

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Life at the coalface: CITyFiED consortium

& cities visit to Soma demonstration site

in Turkey

Nothing can replace the value and insight gained by a

hands-on visit. And so it was the case when combining a

recent project meeting with technical visits to the Soma

demonstration site by members of the project

consortium and cluster cities.

The retrofitting interventions in the district of Manisa Province cover

an area of 41,158 m2 across 346 dwellings on a site owned by SOMA

Electricity Generation & Trading Joint Stock Company (SEAŞ) and

used to house its personnel.

Two different retrofitting strategies have been proposed at the site and

shared with the visiting groups. The first consists of application of

passive design strategies on the building envelope adding defined

building elements such as insulation. The second strategy consists of

integration of active design strategies such as building integrated PV

and solar collectors as a renewable technology and innovative

integration of monitoring systems from partner REENGEN for

providing best indoor comfort conditions and energy savings.

Delegates were able to visit an example of ‘before’ and a series of

apartments currently undergoing the significant works.

Demir Enerji is overseeing the on-site interventions at the demo site

and developing ‘green certification’ for the renovated buildings. Co-

founder Caner Demir was on-hand throughout the visits to give expert

testimony on the works. During the visit he elaborated on the push for

BREEAM certification. “The certification is in line with EU standards

and helps give some extra direction and recognition to the renovation

works being done. It's an important message to send out, that we

can achieve certification in this type of existing building."

Impressive as these works are, the integration of a district heating

system using a powerful neighbouring asset – SEAŞ’s own lignite

fired thermal power plant - also generated plenty of interest. Research

work on system by Istanbul Technical University (İTU) Energy

Institute and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of

Turkey, Marmara Research Center (TUBİTAK MAM) has been

modeling the energy demand and designing the district heating

system -before and after- to achieve the expected energy saving

goals. Estimations are such that thermal power plant has the potential

to provide heating for nearly 28,000 homes using its waste heat. With

14 such power plants across Turkey, this represents a huge

potential not only for energy savings; but CITyFiED’s watchword

– replication.

During the district heating overview, delegates were given first-hand

introduction to another of the CITyFiED project’s innovative products,

this one from partner Mir Unique Solutions. Within the project, the

company is bringing their research know-how to life and taking

inspiration from the oil and gas sectors to develop a new type of pipe

for the district heating system. Their composite pipes will have

significantly more longevity, chemical strength and pressure

resistance than existing solutions and represent a first in Europe.

This is one of five study tours planned during the course of the

CITyFiED project. For the project consortium and city community,

each will be an important springboard for developing tangible

experience and launching replication initiatives. The project team and

everyone in attendance would like to extend their thanks for setting

the bar so high in the first visit. Çok teşekkür ederim!

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Representatives of European cities and members of the project consortium take in the

Soma site, guided by Caner Demir of Demir Enerji.

Technical experts from the project consortium visiting the nearby thermal power plant –

where previously wasted heat is being used to fuel the district heating system.

Information about the demo sites

now available in local languages

Local language mini-sites signify new high-value features

on the project´s website

Local language mini-sites signify new high-value features on the

project´s website. Language specific spaces for the each of the

demonstration sites (in Spanish, Turkish and Swedish) have been

recently made available in our online public space. The mini-sites

target local stakeholders and citizens from Laguna de Duero, Soma

and Lund and contribute to overcome the language barriers among

the three locations. The idea is to increase the reach, awareness and

understanding of the project by displaying transparent and up-to-date

information of the demonstration sites. This way, our partners and

local people can keep informed and get communications about

CITyFiED on a regular-basis and in their own language.

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CITyFiED visualisation solutions user test– Valladolid

Continuing with the development of ICT solutions

oriented to support residents on energy consumption

reduction, a series of user tests were conducted on

February, 27th to validate the visualization solutions

proposed during the design phase

These solutions are early prototypes or mock-ups that serve as

testing elements before the final users (residents). The solutions are

the result of several weeks of work and started with a workshop in

November.

One of the main objectives of the tests, lead by Mondragon, was to

measure user acceptance of the technological and non-technological

solutions devised as tools to reduce energy consumption by means of

awareness measures and the commitment from the users. The

usability, the value of the content and accessibility of information were

other testing attributes measured. Several residents and people

from CITyFiED took the tests.

The testers had not previous knowledge about the solutions to be

tested. Time was assigned to each tester to examine the solutions

before answering questions to measure testing attributes. In some

cases the tests were interactive asking users to look for information in

the solution. The tests ended with a survey that will be used to

evaluate user acceptance of the solutions with the main goal in mind

(consumption reduction).

The information extracted from these tests will be extremely useful to

define the ICT platform, in particular issues related to monitoring

and visualization. Although these tests were related to the Spanish

Demo-site, the information will be shared with the rest of the demos,

and both Turkish and Swedish partners will have the opportunity of

deploying this step of the methodology in the rest of the demo-sites.

Conclusions to those tests will be also transferred to the rest of the

consortium.

Stakeholder meeting at the Soma demo site

A personal report from an organizer

We arrived early at the Soma conference centre,

demosite in CITyFiED lingo. The stakeholder meeting

was to commence at 17:30 after working hours, so that a

maximum number of people could attend, just before

dinner time. The meeting had been postponed for quite a

while, on advice from our Soma partners, as they had

judged that the tense circumstances prevailing there,

needed a cautious approach.

People living in the lodgings are overwhelmingly

employees of the power plant, which has been

privatized. Anxiety about unemployment and

dislodgement is very extremely high among the tenants

here, which naturally explains the delicate situation

regarding any sort of meeting on the grounds.

We presented our Project to around 40 people,

including participants from Manisa Municipality who now

have the responsibility for the district heating system. We

explained the various technical interventions, the benefits

for the home energy economy and comfort aspects.

How participation meant playing a pioneering role, active

engagement in self- management of energy matters and

sharing common visions with people from other parts of

Europe, visions of a more ecological, more climate-

friendly, more participative planet. Interventions in

demosites from Valladolid and Lund were explained.

People did not ask many questions at the beginning but

especially the discussion on district heating sparked

many questions. Inevitably, discussion shifted somewhat

towards things that were in peoples’ minds, their worries,

anxieties and grievances.

So the stakeholder meeting at Soma put in relief, one

of the more important aspects of the aspired for

"smart city". It made us think once again that smart

cities are also made by people, real people who have a

much wider scope of interests and demands than the

technical measures, gadgetry and solutions we offer for

the spaces that they live and work.

The imperative to find a "language", a suitable means

of communication to understand each other presents

itself vividly. It is a challenge that needs to be confronted

head on, with caution and care. The "language" may not

present us with much cross-culturality, but gives us the

possibilities and means of communicating as well

learning from those whose lives we believe are going to

be improving.

Baha Kuban, Demir Enerji

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MySmartCityDistrict: Torrelago and

Linero open their doors

MySmartCityDistrict is a collaboration among seven smart

cities projects (R2CITIES, EU-GUGLE, ZenN, CITyFiED,

SINFONIA, City-Zen and READY) involving 22 districts

belonging to 21 cities from 12 different countries.

The MSCD Cluster project joined the EUSEW 2015 Energy

Days by organizing Open Houses at their demo sites

throughout Europe. The aim of the EU Sustainable Energy

Week is to disseminate best practices, inspire new ideas and

build alliances to help meet the EU’s energy and climate goals

by displaying activities on energy efficiency and renewable

energy solutions.

The Open House events will include a range of activities to

engage with residents, citizens, local communities, public

authorities and other stakeholders about key milestones of the

project to come and the intended final benefits.

Two-fold benefits can also be raising awareness about tangibl

e benefits of energy efficiency measures being deployed,

connecting with the entire supply-chain and support

stakeholders, from local politicians and financing bodies to

sub-suppliers and construction teams.

CITyFiED Torrelago and Linero districts will propose

activities during the week 15th-19th of June 2015 at their demo

sites.

In the framework of the Open House, the Linero team will

organise guided tours in the district for the citizens, the

municipal staff and other interested parties. The Torrelago

district will focus on energy and kids by inviting schools to visit

the biomass boiler room and the building and by preparing an

´energy game´ together with the school teachers. Torrelago will

also organise guided tours for citizens. Check the CITyFiED

website where you will to find more information about the Open

Houses in the coming weeks or contact the D&C Secretariat on

secretariat@cityfied.eu

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Real cities, real solutions, real impact – CITyFiED and fellow projects cluster together to extend their reach and impact in South & Eastern Europe

Four complementary projects chose to join forces during the

Smart Cities Exhibition and Conference for South East Europe,

11-13 March 2015, in Sofia, Bulgaria where CITyFiED,

RemoUrban, Direction and R2CITIES hosted a common

exhibition stand and shared their knowledge in the

accompanying professional conference.

Between them, the projects represent 12 demonstration sites

and 17 follower cities delivering tangible partnerships and

achievements in large-scale renovation and replicable smart

cities initiatives. This rich experience helped to present a

range of expertise to exhibition visitors and congress

attendees - from cost-effective innovations creating the latest

near zero-energy new buildings and retrofits to replicable

strategies for smarter cities and citizen-driven urban

regeneration.

CITyFiED was particularly well received thanks to its

holistic, district approach and the possibility for

municipalities and their appropriate agencies to become part of

the ‘Community of Interest’.

In a panel session chaired by Krisztina Dely of the Covenant

of Mayors, Ruben García gave a presentation profiling nine

case studies in financing from across the EU; while Miguel

García spoke about the methodology to evaluate residential

districts renovation towards nearly Zero Energy Districts

(nZED). We were pleased to welcome Ms Dely on the stand

afterwards to discuss CITyFiED, fellow projects, energy

transition in South East Europe and more.

Amongst the many discussions, the exhibition was a

valuable opportunity to discover the region’s initiatives in

energy efficiency and smart cities. All four projects came

away with a greater understanding of the key stakeholders and

their requirements – hopefully a solid basis for further

replication and future partnerships.

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What’s new on the social web?

Since its launch in August 2014 CITyFiED Twitter account

@cityfied_eu has brought the latest news and developments of the

project to a wide range of stakeholders and audiences. Using the

social web to raise awareness and increase the projects sphere of

influence is a powerful asset in achieving replication.

So far, the high-activity of our account within the Twitter sphere

has allowed for live interactions with other EU-smart city projects

and important stakeholders (the EU-institutions, Covenant of

Mayors, Energy Cities, Eurocities, Climate Alliance, ICLEI and

individual personalities on the energy field). The content displayed on

@cityfied_eu receives notable contributions from these actors.

The recent announcements of our interviews with the new members of

our Community of Interest, San Sebastián, Värmdö and Tartu

represent a good example of this interaction with multilevel

stakeholders both in English and local languages.

In February 2015, a new “City Smart Space” was launched on the

project website. This section provides valuable and exclusive

content for our city members. Registration is needed to access this

space and we invite those who have not registered yet to sign up to

be able to navigate the new content displayed. Some of the benefits

for the cities brought by the space include privileged knowledge and

learning opportunities from each of our cities, as well as access to

information from our partners for future EU projects and

communication materials for the project.

CITyFiED is also present in other social media, like Facebook and

LinkedIn. CITyFiED´s private group on LinkedIn is beginning and will

be fully deployed soon. We invite all our project members to join our

LinkedIn group and we kindly remind you to contribute to the

dissemination of its our social media content with your colleagues,

friends and surroundings.

Impact of the interview with San Sebastián.

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The 37th edition of the Euroheat & Power Congress will round up professionals on the

District Heating and Cooling (DHC) disciplines in Tallinn. DHC is a building block for

improved energy efficiency within the CITyFiED project and across Europe. It is a topic

gathering more attention and growing strategic importance in recent Energy Union

initiatives of the European Commission. With the slogan “District Energy in a Connected

World”, the conference provides a forum for knowledge-sharing among experts,

organisations, policymakers and other relevant players in the field. In 2013, when the last

edition took place, more than 250 stakeholders attended a set of meetings, panel

debates, sessions and side events. Alec Walker-Love is attending the conference and will be the moderator of one of the

project sessions (“DHC worldwide connections“).

Event website

Euroheat & Power

Congress 27 – 28 April 2015

Tallinn, Estonia

"Be inspired and get connected" is the slogan of the 5th edition of the Smart City Event

that will take place in Amsterdam from the 2nd until the 5th of June. This annual

conference attracts stakeholders from across Europe with the organisers registering 500

delegates and 30 participating countries last year. Miguel Arias Cañete (Euro

Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy) and Anna Lisa Boni (Secretary General of

Eurocities) will speak during the event. The focus is on learning from the most successful

European projects on smart cities.

CITyFiED ´s Coordinator, Ali Vasallo Belver, will guide a roundtable session and talk

about bringing stakeholders together to create efficient solutions for smarter cities. Our

consortium member Veolia is a partner of the event.

Event website

Smart City Event

2015 2-5 June 2015

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Recommended events –

Meet us at events

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The The 10th edition of the European Sustainable Energy Week will take place

from the 15th until the 19th of June in Brussels. Since its launch in 2006 by the European

Commission, the EUSEW has become a key annual event on supporting the EU´s

energy goals. Relevant stakeholders in the energy field will get together to debate energy

efficiency solutions and renewables.

During the month of June, in parallel with the EUSEW, hundreds of associations,

companies, NGOs, public authorities and regions across Europe will be organising an

Energy Day. Energy Days are not-for-profit events aimed at the public and stakeholders

that promote sustainable energy.

For CITyFiED, Torrelago and Linero will propose Open House activities during the week

15th-19th of June 2015 at their demo sites. For more information about the Open Houses,

check the CITyFiED website where you will to find more information about the Open

Houses in the coming weeks or contact the D&C Secretariat on secretariat@cityfied.eu.

Event website

European

Sustainable Energy

Week (EUSEW) 15-19 June 2015

Brussels, Belgium

Recommended events –

Meet us at events

Newsletter 1/2015 | Contact

Contact

More information on this Newsletter and related dissemination and

communication activities of the project available at:

CITyFiED D&C Secretariat

e-mail: secretariat@cityfied.eu

Project Coordinator

Centro Tecnológico CARTIF

Parque Tecnológico de Boecillo 205. C.P. 47151

Boecillo, Valladolid - España

Tel. 0034 983 54 65 04

Fax 0034 983 54 65 21

Coordinator

Ali Vasallo

Energy & ICT Divisions

Fundación CARTIF

e-mail: cityfied@cityfied.eu

City Secretariat

e-mail: cities-cityfied@ivl.se

Community of Interest:

E-mail: alec.walker-love@cityfied.eu

Register on our website or get access with your LinkedIn, Facebook,

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For the purposes of media law, editorial responsibility rests with the

CITyFiED Communication Secretariat.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh

Programme for research, technological development and demonstration

under grant agreement N° 609129

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A replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to adapt European cities and urban ecosystems into the smart city of the future

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 609129

CITyFiED concentrates its activities on delivering a replicable and holistic strategy together with new business models to transform European cities into Smart Cities, focusing on reducing the energy demand and GHG emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy sources

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A combination of demonstration, innovative technologies and business models towards the Smart City of the FutureThe methodology developed by CITyFiED will be implemented and validated in three demonstrators located in Lund (Sweden), Laguna de Duero (Spain) and Soma (Turkey) and further expanded through a European Cluster of more than 10 cities with high replication potential. The CITyFiED Community of Interest will further enrich the CITyFiED cities networking community exchanging best practices and interacting about energy-efficiency plans and initiatives related to the CITyFiED strategy.

Is your city interested in exchanging experiences with a high-level Smart City community of over 50 cities?

Join the CITyFiED Community of Interest now!

Contacts:

CITyFiED Dissemination & Communication Secretariatsecretariat@cityfied.eu

Project CoordinatorAli Vasallo Belver Energy Division Centro Tecnológico CARTIFcityfied@cityfied.eu

The CITyFiED retrofitting actions involving more than 2,300 dwellings in the three demo sites will demonstrate how the developed integrated strategy will enable energy savings of more than 70 kWh/m2yr and a reduction of at least 13,000 tons of CO2 emissions. Innovative technologies and methodologies for district level retrofitting, heating and cooling, electric energy balance towards zero energy districts and their management will be used to achieve this goal.

The elaboration of a sound and feasible replication plan will further enhance the potential exploitation of the project results stimulating the implementation of at least 10 new projects for district retrofitting around Europe.

CITY CLUSTER11 cities

COMMUNITY OF INTEREST40 cities

3 DEMO CITIES