Smart cities
New video presents POCITYF's strategy

The POCITYF (POsitive Energy CITY Transformation Framework) project offers a new video with the main strategic lines of action to make historic cities greener, smarter, and more liveable.

In this video, which is available on the website and on the YouTube page of the project, the restrictions on retrofitting buildings in historic cities are addressed, due to the protection standards of the heritage and respect for cultural heritage. In this sense, POCITYF presents the strategy of creating Positive Energy Districts (PEDs), which are groups of buildings, geographically delimited, in which the production of renewable energy must be higher than the consumption, in terms of annual average, producing an excess of energy that can be made available to adjacent areas, having a positive impact on the energy system.

The lighthouse cities of Évora (Portugal) and Alkmaar (Netherlands) will test innovative technologies and sustainable solutions applied to buildings and districts, electric mobility, citizen participation, information technologies and advanced energy management. Six other European cities - Granada (Spain), Bari (Italy), Celje (Slovenia), Ujpest (Hungary), Ioannina (Greece) and Hvidovre (Denmark) - are part of the project and will replicate the model tested in the lighthouse cities.

POCITYF is a smart city project, with EU funding, through the Horizon 2020 program, with the grant 864400, which includes the participation of the Renewable Energies Chair at University of Évora in a network of partners that includes 46 institutions from 13 countries.

 

Watch the video here.

Published in 24.04.2020