GRONINGENJOIN OUR ENERGY

This project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement n°824418. The content

of this presentation reflects only the author’s view. The European Commission and INEA are not responsible for any

use that may be made of the information it contains.

Lighthouse Groningen @ERRIN Smart citiesWorking Group Meeting

14th of may 2019

City of Groningen

Floor de Jong Floor.de.jong@groningen.nl

• Groningen introduction

• Ambition: CO2 neutral in 2035

• Groningen Positive Energy Districts approach

• Groningen Citizen’s engagement

• Questions, suggestions

• +230.000 residents

• Top 5 of biggest cities in NL

• Top 3 happiest cities in NL

• +20.000 companies(>400 international)

• +155.000 jobs

• 80.000 students (15% internationals)

• Best student city (Int. barometer)

• 2nd internet / tech hub city in NL

• 2nd largest cultural city in NL

• 24 mln. visitors to the city centre yearly

• Triple Helix cooperations(Municipality, Universities, UMCG Academic hospital)

• City of Talent > 80.000 students (15% international)

• Knowledge capital of the North

• Large startup scene

• Vibrant inner city

• Impressive cultural live

• Nice city to work and live in

Making City Groningen approachPolicy- Develop new City Vision, beyond the ‘Next City’- Not only taking into account energy- Together with various stakeholders- Research into the complete PESTEL (Politics, Economic, Social,

Technological, Ecology (Environment), Legal).

Implementation- Demonstrate district energy approach in practise- Implement innovate techniques- Combine the excess of new with the shortages of ‘old’Monitoring- Prove of concept

Replication- Regional, National, Europe

MAKING District Energy Plans

• https://vimeo.com/256410738

MAKING District Energy Plans

District Paddepoel

Groningen Consortium

• Municipality of Groningen (GRO)

• Warmtestad (WAR)

• TNO (TNO)

• Grunneger Power (GPO)

• Stichting Energy Valley (SEV)

• Waarborg Vastgoed (WAM)

• Nijestee (NIJ)

• CGI (CGI)

• Sustainable buildings (SB)

• University of Groningen (RUG)

• Hanze University of Applied Sciences (HUAS)

District North District Paddepoel; the plan

Citizen’s engagement – Lessonslearnt• Energy transition is a

social transition

• Engagement →participation →involvement

• Volunteers versus employees

• Open participation versus set project planning and results

This project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement n°824418. The content of this presentation

reflects only the author’s view. The European Commission and INEA are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information

it contains.

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