City and Industry Energy Strategy
According to OECD, 67% of world energy is used by cities and 70% of CO2 emissions come from cities. Therefore, optimizing urban energy investments is a key challenge for reducing polluting emissions and financial exposition to fuel price uncertainties.
However, the definition of a sustainable, reliable and cost-effective energy strategy requires to simulate the whole energy chain (consumption, transport, distribution, storage, production) with different types of energy (electricity, gas, heat, wind, waste, etc.) and to assess the environmental and financial impacts of various long-term scenarios (fuel prices, consumption scenarios, etc.).
Local authorities facing this issue have today only partial answers to these questions (simulation of a given type of energy, of a part of the energy chain only or without any long-term risk assessment) and lack a global analysis.
- Assess and compare energy strategies through detailed energy chain simulations
- Optimize local energy strategy to cost-effectively integrate green energy and reduce CO2 emissions
- Define robust energy schemes to face fuel price uncertainties
- 4 high-level research centers (INESCP for electric system modelling, AIT for building and energy infrastructure planning, ARMINES for long-term energy strategies and INRIA for optimization algorithms)
- 1 SME specialized in decision-support software in the energy field (Artelys, leader of the consortium)
- 2 well-known industrial groups (Schneider Electric for its expertise in electric systems; TUPRAS, Turkish refineries as end-user) and 1 national company (ERVET for its expertise in energy processes)
- 2 large cities (Cesena and Bologna as end-users).
