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• 825529 description "Through the COPPER project, the City of Ghent is preparing for the local energy transition and the challenges it entails." infopages.
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• 825529 name "COPPER" infopages.
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• 825529 dateModified "2024-07-08T12:37:32+00:00" infopages.
• 825529 datePublished "2024-06-12T15:24:53+00:00" infopages.
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• 825529 articleBody " <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--full"> <p><span lang="EN-US">The City of Ghent is lead partner in the Interreg North Sea-funded initiative <strong>COPPER - Cities for Open and Participative Planning for Electricity grid Resilience</strong>.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">To prepare Europe’s local authorities to coordinate local energy systems, the City of Ghent has joined a European-wide alliance of frontrunner municipalities, businesses, research organisations and representatives of Distribution System Operators to test Europe’s first wave of Local Energy Action Plans. </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Funded by the Interreg North Sea programme, the COPPER initiative is the first Europe-wide collaboration to demonstrate Local Energy Action Plans, a bundle of techniques and activities that will enable local authorities to drive locally-powered cities. The project runs from 2023 to 2027.</span></p><h2><span lang="EN-US">The ambitions of the project</span></h2><h3><span lang="EN-US">Pilots</span></h3><p><span lang="EN-US">Deliver six first-of-a-kind pilots for local authority-led <strong>energy planning</strong>, from logistic parks to electric vehicle fleets to entire neighborhoods. </span></p><h3><span lang="EN-US">Research</span></h3><p><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">Explore ways how Distribution System Operators and local authorities can work together to build a <strong>local energy system of storage</strong> and flexibility technologies, policies, market incentives and collaborations to help locally-powered cities thrive. </span></p><h3><span lang="EN-US">Tools</span></h3><p><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Build data models and other tools</strong> to boost local authority’s capacity to understand and steer their local energy system </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><h2><span lang="EN-US">The city of Ghent’s role</span></h2><p><span lang="EN-US">As well as leading the COPPER initiative, the City of Ghent will pilot grid resilience incentives for an ‘all-electric’ neighbourhood. Mariakerke aims to be one of the first districts to go climate neutral. Ghent will work with Distribution System Operators Fluvius and its project partner University of Ghent to test a system for rewarding providers of flexibility services like dynamic energy storage. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><h2><span lang="EN-US">Partners and there goals</span></h2><ul><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">The <strong>City of Bremen </strong>will partner with shared mobility provider <strong>Cambio Bremen</strong> to pilot new electric vehicle infrastructure for 20 electric vehicles in car-sharing stations, aiming to monitor, assess and build a local energy action plan to manage the effects of electric vehicle mobility on the city’s grid.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">The <strong>City of Antwerp </strong>will pilot solutions to reduce the peak demand of electric vehicles and electric heating, using energy management software and bi-directional charging to smooth daily demand from electric vehicles while updating its Strategic Energy Vision for heating.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">The <strong>City of Dordrecht </strong>will support one of the first climate-neutral business parks in Europe, DistriPark, with a pilot for energy planning and flexibility support. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">The <strong>Municipality of Fredericia </strong>will test the creation of a virtual energy community to support its growing need for flexibility as it invests in green hydrogen storage and the electrification of its local industry. Fredericia will be supported by the <strong>University of Aalborg</strong>, who will help Fredericia model how electrification and power-to-X solutions will impact the grid.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Varberg Energi, </strong>the municipal-owned Distribution System Operator for the Swedish town of Varberg, will build a city-wide virtual power plant within COPPER. The Nätflex network will provide flexibility services to the town of 35,000 people.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Climate Alliance </strong>brings its membership of 2,000 cities to ensure the key lessons from COPPER pilots are exchanged all across Europe, aiming to kick-start a wave of local energy action planning across Europe. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><strong>E.DSO </strong>brings its position as a  European representative for Distribution System Operators to bring the key perspective of Europe’s Distribution System Operators to the initiative and find collaboration models between DSOs and municipalities.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Cleantech International </strong>will bring its global innovation community of climate technology businesses to support a series of matchmaking workshops between solution providers and European cities.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Center Denmark </strong>will act as the project’s provider for data collection, data science and data processing, using their experience collecting and operationalising data from 400,000 Danish households to provide data-driven solutions for the green transition</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--call-to-action paragraph--view-mode--full cta-block image-none link"> <div class="cta-block__content"> <div class="feature-block secondary"> <h2>Interested to know more?</h2> <a href="https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper" class="button button-secondary">Visit the website of the COPPER-project</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--partners paragraph--view-mode--full partner-block partner__multiple"> <div class="partner-content intro"> <div class="intro__content"> <p><em><span lang="EN-US">COPPER is an Interreg North Sea project co-funded by the European Union. </span></em><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p><em><span lang="EN-US">Project start: October 2023</span></em><br><em><span lang="EN-US">Project end: October 2027</span></em></p> </div> </div> <div class="partner-content partners"> <ul class="inline"> <li> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--partner-logo paragraph--view-mode--default"> <a href="https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/logo_160/public/media/logos/COPPER%202_0.png?itok=_IxZpjO5" width="159" height="100" alt="COPPER wordt gecofinancierd door Interreg North Sea" class="image-style-logo-160" /> </a> </div> </li> <li> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--partner-logo paragraph--view-mode--default"> <a href="https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/logo_160/public/media/logos/Interreg%20North%20Sea%20logo%202023.png?itok=cO8rGcol" width="163" height="100" alt="COPPER wordt gecofinancierd door Interreg North Sea" class="image-style-logo-160" /> </a> </div> </li> <li> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--partner-logo paragraph--view-mode--default"> <a href="https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/logo_160/public/media/logos/Interreg%20North%20Sea%20logo%20EU%202023_0.png?itok=wmO6x7C3" width="251" height="100" alt="COPPER wordt gecofinancierd door Interreg North Sea" class="image-style-logo-160" /> </a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> " infopages.
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