POCITYF

POCITYF supports the Lighthouse cities of Evora (PT) and Alkmaar (NL) and their Fellow cities Granada (ES), Bari (ΙΤ), Celje (SI), Ujpest (HU), Ioannina (GR) and Hvidovre (DK) to address their urgent need to deliver positive energy blocks and districts in their cities, towards rendering their mixed urban environment (also including the case of cultural protected buildings) into cheaper, better accessible, healthier and more reliable.

By demonstrating in overall 10 integrated solutions (ISs), comprising 73 individual innovative elements (technologies, tools, methods), rooted under existing City Information Platforms (CIPs), POCITYF quantifies their value, and connects interests of many different stakeholders in innovative business models, allowing for upscale and replication of those solutions in a form of a validated roadmap for sustainable cities across Europe and world-wide.

To achieve this, POCITYF works along 4 Energy Transition Tracks (ETTs), encompassing the ISs according to the role each one serves for. ETT#1 focuses on the examination and application of ISs transforming existing and new building stock into Energy Positive, while ETT#2 focuses on the application of a) grid flexibility strategies and b) storage systems, supported by DSM platforms for optimizing energy flows to maximize self-consumption and reduce grid stress. ETT#3 with its merit of innovation offers the integration of e-Mobility to as well promote the decarbonisation of the mobility sector. The 3 ETTs under the coordination of ETT#4, which links existing CIPs with innovative apps and other instruments, offers inclusive and holistic services for interdisciplinary citizen engagement and co-creation of them with the city stakeholders and industry, towards the development of each city’s own bold city-vision up to 2050. Through POCITYF the two LHs will achieve a local RES penetration of 16.2 GWh/y, energy savings of 2.32 GWh/y and an emission reduction of 9,743 tons CO2eq/y within their districts.

Consortium

Labelec – Estudos, Desenvolvimento E Actividades Laboratoriais S.A. (EDPL), Portugal
Camara Municipal Evora (CME), Portugal
Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias-Associacao (UNINOVA), Portugal
Universidade de Evora (UEVORA), Portugal
Ubiwhere Lda. (UW), Portugal
DECSIS S.A. (DECSIS), Portugal
Schneider Electric SPA (SE), Italy
Alentejo Science and Technology Park (PACT), Portugal
Sonae MC – Serviços Partilhados, S.A (SONAE), Portugal
ONYX SOLAR ENERGY SL (ONYX), Spain
Tegola Canadese SPA (Tegola), Italy
AMPS Power GmbH (AMPS), Germany
Kimatica LTD (Kimatica), Greece
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESCTEC), Portugal
Gemeente Alkmaar (GA), Netherlands
Stichting Energy Valley (SEV), Netherlands
Inholland University of Applied Sciences (Inholland), Netherlands
NV HVC (HVC), Netherlands
The Netherlands Organisation of Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands
Stichting Woonwaard Noord Kennemerland (Woonwaard), Netherlands
Woningstichting Van Alckmaer voor Wonen (Van Alckmaer), Netherlands
Duurzaam Bouwloket B.V. (DBL), Netherlands
Connexxion Openbaar Vervoer N.V. (Connexxion), Netherlands
Alliander nv (ALI), Netherlands
Neroa B.V. (Neroa), Netherlands
Ciudad de Granada (GRACITY), Spain
Agencia Provincial de la Energía de Granada (APEGR), Spain
The Catalonia Institute of Construction Technology (ITeC), Spain
Comune di Bari (Bari), Italy
Energy@Work Società Cooperativa a R.L. (E@W), Italy
Mestna občina Celje (MOC), Slovenia
Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG), Slovenia
Budapest Főváros IV. kerület Újpest Önkormányzata (UJP), Hungary
EMI NONPROFIT KFT (EMI), Hungary
Municipality of Ioannina (MoI), Greece
Hvidovre Kommune (HVK), Denmark
European Green Cities (EGC), Denmark
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Greece
VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd (VTT), Finland
Fondazione iCons (ICONS), Italy
RINA CONSULTING SpA (RINA-C), Italy
Centro de Investigación de Recursos y Consumos Energéticos (CIRCE), Spain
Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT), Austria
European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA), Belgium
ENERSIS SUISSE AG (Enersis), Switzerland
University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands