Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities ‘A heat strategy in Austria cannot only be built at a federal level, it requires participation from different stakeholders’

Heat Roadmaps by Member States: state of play & next steps >> Eva Hoos – Policy Officer in the Renewable Energy Unit of Energy4Europe 🇪🇺 DG ENER, European Commission #DecarbCities #changemakers

The time for action is now. Decarbonising heat is more than a hot topic > what does this mean concretely for cities? Today @ the #DecarbCities conference, we brought together the change-makers to provide us with solutions. Claire Roumet

Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities in Vienna!

Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities “Energy efficiency of buildings > insulate old buildings and making new energy positive buildings”

Helsinki is giving 1 mil euro to those who can provide solutions to their energy challenge! Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities #helsinkienergychallenge

Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities

Strategy is about making choices too. At the #DecarbCities conference we present the existing tools for local players to design strategies. They just have to choose. The future of #cities starts now.

1. Marcus Hummel, Hotmaps: the tool to start national and local heat strategies 2. Claire Roumet, European City Facility 3. Laura Uuttu-Deschryvere, Helsinki Energy Challenge 4. Irina Brunner, Spatial Energy Planning for Heat Transition #solutions #DecarbCities

5. Herbert Hemis, Energy zoning and decarbonisation of the building stock“ 6. Andreas Riedmann, Implementing EPBD high-efficiency alternative system assessment in Tyrol 7. Patrick Crombez, Heat pumps for replacement market and collective application #solutions #DecarbCities

8.Rainer Wiedemann, Renewable Energy from Waste Water 9. Andrew Bissell, Sunamp heat batteries – Enabling heat pumps in buildings previously deemed inaccessible 10. Thomas Fleckl, Heat pumps in residential – challenges for acoustic & retrofit of multifamily houses #solutions

Behind #smartcities there are smart energy communities. How do we assign wise roles & enable the full potential in local communities? The #DecarbCities conference has the answers.

A democratic support model - city, planners, project development team, citizens - was implemented to make #energy a local product in Eeklo, Belgium 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities

Citizen initiative for a local #heat network in Groningen, Netherlands - large and small meet-ups with people are key! Engaging and making them part of the #solution 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities

The final policy debate of the #DecarbCities conference: What do we need from the European Union?

To make the wave of renovation happen and reach the 3% target we need involvement and initiatives from all the actors involved, at all levels, including citizens, communities, cities. Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities

‘Nobody can miss the comfort, when we have the right technologies’. Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities

Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities

There’s a role for the Commission to play in building trust around the #energytransition at all levels > citizens, communities, #cities. Meet the #changemakers @ #DecarbCities

It’s a wrap! At #DecarbCities we gave cities the leading role in the #energytransition. How about moving from #smartcities to #geniuscities? Cities that are more lively, safe, healthy. Cities where we feel we belong.