PLEEC project – running over 36 months - is structured into seven work
packages.
Work Package 1 is dedicated to the
coordination and management of the project consortium throughout the whole
project life cycle in order to ensure an efficient and effective project
management.
In Work
Package 2 (month 1 – 14) the PLEEC partner cities will be profiled with
special consideration of their energy efficiency and use. Analysis of city key
aspects such as renovation of building stock, energy systems, smart
heating/cooling grids, smart electricity grids, water networks, efficient waste
collection and treatment, recycling and energy use, efficient transportation
and mobility systems etc. will show the cities´ performance with respect to the
main characteristics of a “Smart City”.
The PLEEC partner city consortium consists of
six mid-sized European cities:
In the next step, three parallel work packages (WP) will elaborate energy efficiency recommendations for the cities from three key perspectives:
The subject of WP3 (month 10 – 21) is technology-driven energy
efficiency:
Therefore, in WP3 potentials of new technologies
for smart energy systems will be identified. Thus, the leading role in this
work package will be taken by the industry partners as they dispose of the
resources and the knowledge.
WP4 (month 10 – 21) focuses on structure-driven
energy efficiency :
It aims at identifying structure driven energy
efficiency potentials within urban planning and city key aspects targeting at
the question how well energy issues are integrated in the planning process and
how different planning measures are integrated between each other.
In parallel, WP5 (month 10 – 21) concentrates on behaviour-driven energy efficiency:
As energy efficiency depends heavily on the
behavior of people, WP5 aims to identify the potential of energy use reduction
from a behavior driven perspective. Therefore Best Available Practices (BAP)
related to behavior driven potential in smart energy consumption will be
exploited.
Finally, in WP6 (month 21 – 36) the results from
WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP5 will be integrated in the “model of sustainable city
planning” and a “summary of the best matching recommendations” which will be
provided for the cities as “Action plan
for the energy-smart city”. Additionally, researchers will identify and present the future research agenda
on the issue of energy-smart cities.
WP7 (month 1 – 36) will ensure decent dissemination
of the project’s news and results.
