Replication Cities
The Replication Cities are not participants in the demonstrator case studies of the project, but they have the interest to replicate those CELSIUS solutions fitting specifically to their needs, specificities and city plans. Seven CELSIUS Replication Cities have committed themselves to the project via a Letter of Support; the cities are Athens, Riga, Ghent, Gdynia, Warsaw, Gdansk and Viladecans.
Key stakeholders in these seven cities are ready to welcome a CELSIUS expert team for support in developing feasibility studies for creating their own CELSIUS City Roadmap, adapted to their specific heating and/or cooling needs. This feasibility study will not only be about the possibilities for replication of state-of-the-art technical solutions exepmlified within the CELSIUS cities.
With involvement of the European Investment Bank in the CELSIUS proposal, suggestions for applicable funding models that could be applied will be an integral part of the work. The Replication Cities will be the first to deploy the CELSIUS concept, benefitting from the roll out of the project. The Replication Cities support the deployment of the CELSIUS concept/approach throughout the EU having developed tested and refined the approach.
What’s the difference?
A CELSIUS City is a city that believes that intelligent district heating and cooling systems have a role to play in the evolution of the city’s energy systems, and it has committed to actively engage and collaborate with the CELSIUS project in pursuing the city’s heating and cooling objectives.
A CELSIUS city endeavors to have energy policies that support the development of intelligent district heating and cooling systems in appropriate areas to supply affordable, low-carbon heat and cooling to customers and also endeavors to have strategies for designing, financing and constructing these systems.
Seven Replication Cities have commited themselves via a Letter of Support at the time when the CELSIUS proposal was written. The Replication Cities support the deployment of the CELSIUS City offering throughout the EU having been part of the early development, testing and refinement of the approach.
The seven cities are: Athens, Gdansk, Ghent, Gdynia, Riga, Viladecans and Warsaw.
In 2011, the Partner Cities committed to join a consortium in order to prepare the CELSIUS proposal for the FP7 Energy Smart Cities 2012 call for proposals. The cities are the City of Gothenburg, the City of Rotterdam, Cologne City, Comune di Genova and London City also including the Islington Council. Other consortium partners are energy utility companies, renowned research and innovation organisations, and universities.
Each Partner City is a demonstrator host, and all consortium partners will share their experience and experise in the project technology and information transfer.
