Reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in cities across Central Europe
Project Summary
EnergyCity is a European-funded project aimed at reducing energy consumptions and CO2 emissions of towns and cities in Central Europe. The project is coordinated by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Environmental Economics.
Cities account for eighty percent of the buildings and seventy five percent of carbon dioxide emissions. They are therefore an obvious area where efforts have to be concentrated as improvements in their energy efficiency can deliver substantial gains in the fight against climate change. EnergyCity will collect an extensive set of digital data in seven cities in Central Europe (Budapest, Prague, Munich, Bologna, Treviso, Ludwigsburg and Velenje) via aerial and ground surveys. Selected urban areas in the project cities will be overflown to collect thermal images using thermal cameras mounted on an aircraft. These images will show heat energy losses from buildings, ground features and even objects below the ground. A series of pilot actions in the seven cities will deliver pilot training for carbon mapping, implement awareness raising campaigns and fuel poverty reduction plans. A series of recommendations targeting all levels of governance and a policy guidance document for the definition of the way-ahead for EU’s and national institutions will be produced in the project's final stages.
Mid-term conference and Experts' Hearing Roundtable
Two core events of the project were organized in Debrecen, on 13-14 October 2011: 26 papers were accepted to the Mid-term Conference with the urban
energy in the focus (more information here...). Additionnally the Experts' Hearing Roundtable was organized together with the conference.
Project
State-of-the-art analysis at national and trans-national level
This section gives an overview about works, available knowledge and data from both previous cooperation projects and other initiatives in the fields of energy and CO2 emissions measurements in cities, thermal mapping for energy efficiency and the use of multi- and hyper-spectral data for roof surface classification. It aims at developing a knowledge baseline on which the design of methods for urban carbon and thermal mapping for energy efficiency in subsequent activities can be based. It provides the key information and data to fulfil one of the project objectives, i.e. the harmonization of energy standards, emissions factors and CO2 performance requirements across Central Europe and beyond.
The midterm conference of the EnergyCity project was organized on October 13-14, 2011
Partners:
"This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF"
