Partners

Aalborg Municipality has seven administrations, one of them – The Department of Environment and Energy – conducts holistic planning in sustainability, climate, energy, water supply, waste water and refuse.

Through the years, Aalborg has undergone a huge transformation from industrial town to modern knowledge city with a global perspective.

Aalborg has a strong focus on sustainability and has lent its name to two important agreements on sustainability. The Aalborg Charter from 1994 and 10 years later Aalborg Commitments. In 2014, Aalborg has committed to the Covenant of Mayors. Furthermore, Aalborg has launched the SMART Aalborg initiative to make Aalborg a smarter, more digital and sustainable city.

As part of the ongoing development, Aalborg Municipality wishes to participate in disciplinary collaborations and networks within the EU. The Hotmaps project is a good example of this.

The Municipality of Aalborg has been conducting strategic heat planning since the late 1980s and through the years, Aalborg has made several heat plans for the municipality. As a partner of the Hotmaps project Aalborg intend to include and share our knowledge and experience to the process of developing and testing the tool and to the other pilot areas. In addition, Aalborg expect to learn from the experiences of the other pilot areas and partners in the project.

Contributions to Hotmaps

• Review the strategic heat planning activities in Europe
• Provide guidelines for strategic heat planning
• Assessment of efficient heating and cooling practices
• Develop comprehensive hourly energy system analysis

Expectations of Hotmaps

• Improve the knowledge about strategic heat planning in Europe from the city, regional and national perspective
• Help the stakeholders to better address efficient heating and cooling measures
• Support the transition towards renewable, integrated, cross-sector energy systems that increase the security of supply and reduce the carbon emissions at the lowest costs for the society.

In between its main activities, the municipality elaborates plans of organization, urban development and field endowment and takes action in the fileds of energy efficiency and environment protection in order to increase the life quality.

Thus, the municipality disposes of an IT software „Energy Management System” ”(EMS) through which we register the energy consumption for 90 buildings, this database allowing the generation of analysis reports supporting the energy efficiency measures to be undertaken, the monitoring of the gas, power and water supply consumption and the necessary data for the cycling reporting for the European structure “Covenant of Mayors” related to the Bistrita Sustainable Energy Action Plan` implementation.

The City of Bistrita is a member of several organizations related to the energy theme like Cities Energy Romania, ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability), Energy Cities and we are also one of the Signatories of the Covenant of Mayors.

Being part of Hotmaps project will help us plan new energy alternatives to replace the existing heating systems both for residential consumers and for the municipal buildings. More, the open source data base will provide us efficient scenarios for real future planning of heating and cooling systems, a diagnosis analyse leading to concrete measures and necessary investments to reduce the energy consumption. And, let`s not forget that being a local authority it is our duty to be a good example to be followed.

CREM contributions to HotMaps:

In its role of first choice interface between R&D, municipalities and industries, the CREM has a sound experience in converting the innovative methods stemming from the research into specific GIS-based tools. Based on these experiences, the CREM will:

• lead the tool IT implementation, ensuring that the different steps from data treatment to the planning methods will be made available to the targeted end user of the project;
• bring its competencies in treating and structuring data;
• contribute in the result and scenario assessment module aiming at comparing different indicators for various scenarios of the heating and cooling system development;
• ensure City of Geneva’s integration in HotMaps project.

FSS is the coordinator of Smart activities in the city. As part of its Smart strategy, FSS coordinates the REPLICATE Smart Cities Implementation Project (SCC01 HORIZON2020) as well as It has developed an Energy Master Plan in the Urumea Riverside District and a Smart City Plan 2016-2020 under the STEEP project (funded by EU-FP7).

e-think‘s main areas of competence are:

• Analyse socio-economic aspects of energy use
• Model energy systems and develop scenarios
• Assess impacts of energy policies
• Develop effective and efficient deployment strategies for RES in electricity, heat and transport
• Promote energy efficiency in buildings, mobility, electrical and industrial applications

Contributions to Hotmaps

e-think supports the demonstration and testing the Hotmaps toolbox in pilot areas. e-think contributes to the mapping and developing of heat densitiy maps for EU-28. Moreover, e-think is responsible for the guidelines how to apply the Hotmaps toolbox on different regional levels.

Expectations for Hotmaps

• We develop a toolbox to support authorities and energy planners in their individual strategic heating and cooling planning process
• We aim to share our knowledge on efficient heating and cooling supply with the scientific community and motivate the Open Source community to contribute to Hotmaps

We want to support the transformation towards a sustainable society and help to choose cost efficient transition pathways to low carbon heating and cooling supply.

Energy Cities contributions to Hotmaps:

Energy Cities promotes Hotmaps and disseminates its results to other local authorities as well as the national level in other EU countries, in order to ensure favourable conditions for the take up of the Hotmaps software.

Energy Cities is also contributing to the bottom up development of the Hotmaps tool by ensuring that is is continuously taking into account the needs of local authorities in Europe. Energy Cities will contribute and organise capacity building for energy planners and decision makers working at local and national level in Europe.

EURAC has a turnover of about 21 mil.€ and has been involved in the past 10 years in about 70 projects of which 45 funded within various EU programs, including H2020, FP7, IEE, and Interreg. Besides from EU and private commissioned funding, EURAC receives contributions from its members and from the Province of Bolzano.

The Institute for Renewable Energy focuses on advanced energy systems and sustainable energy sources research. Its activities include national and international projects and direct cooperation with industrial partners. The institute supports the promotion of renewable energy technologies and assists political decision-makers through scientific consultancy. The Institute also offers support in the elaboration of complex energy models for single energy systems, buildings, urban and regional areas.

The Institute is structured into FIVE RESEARCH GROUPS:

• SUSTAINABLE HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS – focusing on efficient hybrid heating and cooling for buildings, industry, and sustainable districts;
• URBAN AND REGIONAL ENERGY SYSTEMS – focusing on sustainable energy planning, decision support systems, big data, economic and financial evaluations of energy solutions;
• ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS – focusing on energy flexible buildings, façade system concepts, solutions for natural ventilation and daylighting and cost-optimal solution sets for Nearly Zero Energy Buildings;
• ENERGY RETROFIT OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS – focusing on energy performance of historic buildings and districts, conservation and energy planning in retrofit solutions;
• PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY SYSTEMS – focusing on the analysis of solar resources, performance and reliability of PV modules and their integration into buildings and electricity grids.

Together with the people of Frankfurt, architects, urban planner and businesses, Energiereferat has developed a concept on how the goal can be reached. (http://tinyurl.com/n8f5xbh)

The energy agency concentrates on the following areas:

1. Electricity saving;
2. Energy planning – heat and power supply;
3. Reduction of energy consumption and use of renewable energies for buildings;
4. Inform and empower citizens to contribute to climate goals.

The Hotmaps Project will completely fit to the strategy of Energiereferat. “One of the pillars of our Masterplan is district heating. The project will give us a perfect tool to increase the share of DH in energy supply. Therefore we integrated our local utility Mainova for contribution to the project (expertise and data) and to facilitate the boost of DH.”

More information: www.energiereferat.stadt-frankfurt.de

The main fields of research of the two Competence Centers “Energy Policy and Energy Markets”, as well as “Energy Technologies and Energy Systems” are energy and climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, energy economics analyses, electricity markets and infrastructure, energy demand analysis and projections.

Main tasks by Fraunhofer ISI:

• Development of generic data for specific heating and cooling demand in industry and for technologies in steam generation
• Data collection on heating and cooling demand of energy intensive plants
• Data collection regarding the heat supply mix for decentral heating and cooling systems and district heating and cooling
• Development of generic hourly, temperature-dependant load profiles
• Development of industrial heat demand and waste heat integration module
• Development of Demand response module

The energy office of the City of Geneva is in charge of the building and the maintenance of all the property assets owns by the City. This office is also responsible for the application of the energy policy of the municipality. Geneva is part of energy cities and has the gold energy award. Its goal for 2050 is ambitious: “100% renewable in 2050”.

In close collaboration with the town planning office of the City, we will bring to hotmaps our experience about energetical planification and our incredible geographical database wich is called SITG (système d’informations du territoire genevois).

We hope hotmaps will help us and our partners to create a strategy for all the territory in order to reach our goal of being 100% renewable in 2050”.

The research in eEnergy carried out by the Institute of Information systems is part of the broader issue of intelligent energy management. The Institute develops information systems to improve the daily management of energy consumption. Based on these experiences, HES-SO will:

• Support the IT implementation of the tool in partnership with CREM.
• Dissemination of the tool through workshop for students and participation to conferences.
• Apply last software technologies to the project to make easily accessible from the open source community.

Kerry is a rural county in the southwest of Ireland and the most westerly point of Europe. The majority of the population lives in rural areas (66%). The main towns in the county are Tralee (23,693 pop.), Killarney (14,219 pop.) and Listowel (4,832 pop.). Agriculture, manufacturing (in particular food processing) and tourism are key economic sectors for the county. Kerry County Council, the local authority for the county is a signatory of the Covenant of Mayors and has been at the forefront of promoting the development of district heating in Ireland. The mission statement of Kerry County Council ‘is to enhance the quality of life of our people and visitors by building sustainable communities and delivering quality services.’

The organization is responsible for the delivery of a wide range of services across the county. The Energy Section is a very small element in a very large organization. However commitment to energy efficiency and reduction of energy consumption is embedded across all sector of the organization. An ISO50001 Energy Management System is currently being implemented across the organization.  The role of the Kerry County Council Energy Section is to track the organizations energy consumption in the delivery of services, encouraging and promoting energy efficiency, awareness and sustainability with an aim to the achievement of national and EU energy efficiency targets.

Kerry County Council have completed a number of detailed feasibility studies for the development of large scale district heating projects in the larger town in the county. These studies have shown that such projects are economically and technically viable with the introduction of a suitable renewable heat incentive in Ireland. Given Kerry’s status in the area of District Heating in Ireland, Kerry County Council took a very active role in working with the government department in relation to the development of a suitable Renewable Heat Incentive and is partaking in a consultation process in relation to this which is ongoing.

Kerry County Council is a signature of the Covenant of Mayors and is committed to supporting the development of sustainable communities and sustainable jobs across the county. Kerry County Council along with a number of active local groups (including Transition Kerry) worked together with a local energy consultant, XD Consulting, in the development of Transition Kerry’s Sustainable Energy Community Roadmap which details a strategy for County Kerry’s transition to 100% renewable energy supply. To this end Kerry County Council are working on incorporating the findings of the case studies and heat mapping exercise completed to date into appropriate legal, planning and development policies going forward.

It is hoped that the Hotmaps project will allow Kerry County Council to build on the existing heat mapping developed as part of the SmartReflex project and result in a complete heat map for the county. It is hoped that the resulting tool can be used in decision making from a technical, financial and planning points of view when potential district heating projects are being proposed and evaluated. It is hoped that it will show the benefit of district heating when compared to individual heating systems and lead to local sustainable job creation and a transition from an over-reliance on imported fossil fuel.

Milton Keynes is a new city, created in 1967 to provide housing and employment for the growing population in the UK. It has a population of 265,000 as of 2016, and is growing at approximately 1.5% per annum. The city’s economy depends on light industry, commerce, warehousing and distribution. The city is laid out on a grid pattern, with wide grid roads surrounding areas dedicated to the city centre, industry or housing.

Milton Keynes has experience of working with developers at a large scale and the city has a long history of supporting innovation and exemplar energy efficiency initiatives.

A usable tool to evaluate opportunities for both small and large scale heating/cooling networks will help our development and planning teams advise on the development of the city. The reduction in resources required to carry this out in a conventional manner will improve our services to the public and help the city meet its carbon reduction commitments.

PlanEnergi covers the following five key areas of consultancy:

• Strategic Energy Planning – including energy strategies and heat planning
• District heating – including large scale heat pumps and network optimisation
• Solar energy – including large scale solar thermal, seasonal storage and certification
• Biogas energy – including planning, design, implementation and commissioning
• Wind energy – including planning, visualization and analysis of potential sites for wind turbines

Contributions to Hotmaps

PlanEnergi will help define the user needs for the Hotmaps toolbox based on input from pilot areas and other planning experts. Moreover we will help demonstrate the use of the Hotmaps toolbox in the planning process in pilot areas.

Expectations from the Hotmaps project

Based on PlanEnergi’s experiences with heat planning at the local and regional level we believe there is a need for a planning tool that can fill out the gap between overall analysis of district heating potentials at a national level and very case specific local calculations.

The HotMaps project is aiming at doing just that.

We believe that the Hotmaps toolbox can be very valuable in supporting local authorities and energy planners in their strategic heating and cooling planning process.

Organization

The Energy Economics Group (EEG) is within the Institute for Energy Systems and Electric Drives at TU Wien (TUW). The core areas of research at EEG are:

• Energy modelling, mapping and analysis of energy policy strategies;
• Integration strategies for renewable and new energy systems in various sectors;
• Global and local environmental aspects (life cycle analysis, cumulated energy demand, CO₂-emissions).

Contributions to Hotmaps

TUW will lead the overall project coordination and will contribute with the following tasks to Hotmaps:

• Building stock modelling and calculation of heating and cooling density layers;
• Development of energy system planning modules in the open source Toolbox;
• District heating grid expansion modelling and optimization;
• Scenarios and regional scale consistency;
• Communication and dissemination.

Expectations for Hotmaps

• We develop a toolbox to support authorities and energy planners in their individual strategic heating and cooling planning process;
• We aim to share our knowledge on efficient heating and cooling supply with the scientific community and motivate the Open Source community to contribute to Hotmaps;
• We want to support the transformation towards a sustainable society and help to choose cost efficient transition pathways to low carbon heating and cooling supply.