DigiTwins4PEDs
Utilisation of Urban Digital Twins to Co-create Flexible Positive Energy Systems for Districts
© DigiTwins4PEDS
- Category
- Project
- Call
- DUT Call 2022
- Duration
- –
- Project coordinator
- Stuttgart Technical University of Applied Sciences - HFT Stuttgart
Numerous initiatives are advancing clean energy and urban sustainability in city districts, such as the EU SET-Plan Action 3.2 targeting 100 European Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) by 2025. Research highlights the essential role of stakeholder engagement, particularly citizens, and technology integration in this transition. While technological innovation is crucial for PEDs, societal transformation, driven by active citizen participation, is equally important. DigiTwins4PEDs works with local communities, residents, and stakeholders in cities like Stuttgart, Vienna, Rotterdam, and Wroclaw. Utilising Urban Digital Twins (UDTs), the project develops tools to expedite PED implementation. The UDT platform will serve as a co-creation hub in living labs across case study regions, promoting a citizen-led shift toward PEDs in densely populated urban areas.
DigiTwins4PEDs takes a bottom-up approach, involving local communities in driving the transition to Positive Energy Districts (PEDs). The project, in collaboration with residents and stakeholders, identifies barriers to PED progress and energy flexibility at the neighborhood level. It uses Urban Digital Twins (UDTs) to develop tools and methods to accelerate the shift to PEDs in urban areas, studying their impact on local and regional scales. The UDT platform of DigiTwins4PEDs will serve as a co-creation platform in a living lab format for simulating energy transition scenarios, aiding in performance monitoring, sustainability assessment, and carbon reduction in case study areas.
DigiTwins4PEDs is expected to contribute in advancing knowledge, best practices and experience related to planning and realisation of PEDs to manage the challenge of energy flexibility. The applied modelling tools within DigiTwins4PEDs will analyse these flexibility-related elements in co-design and co-creation with the stakeholders to a citizen-led shift toward PEDs. DigiTwins4PEDs will further assist in broadening the universal knowledge about Cities for future research.
Austria
Germany
The Netherlands
Poland
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Infosolutions Sp. Z O.O., Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Technische Universiteit Delft, Universitaet Fuer Bodenkultur Wien, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy We Wroclawiu
Gemeente Rotterdam, Stadt Wien
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Contact
Volker Coors
volker.coors@hft-stuttgart.de