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Smart Cities Initiative: how to foster a quick transition towards local sustainable energy systems
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EUI RSCAS; 2010/70; Florence School of Regulation; Energy
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MEEUS, Leonardo, DELARUE, Erik, AZEVEDO, Isabel, GLACHANT, Jean-Michel, LEAL, Vitor, DE OLIVEIRA FERNANDES, Eduardo, Smart Cities Initiative: how to foster a quick transition towards local sustainable energy systems, EUI RSCAS, 2010/70, Florence School of Regulation, Energy - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/14619
Abstract
The European Commission has recently launched the Smart Cities Initiative to demonstrate and
disseminate how to foster a quick transition towards local sustainable energy systems. Within this
initiative, the three main challenges faced by pioneering cities, are to reduce or modify the demand for
energy services, to improve the uptake of energy efficient technologies and to improve the uptake of
renewables in the urban environment. We find that enough resources will need to be provided to a
significant number of pioneering cities, and propose that the initiative would allocate these resources
through project competition, rewarding innovation, ambition and performance, which have been
ingredients of success at Member State level.
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