Energy Cities' proposals concerning the energy transition of territories
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Empowering local actors
What is the role of local authorities in the energy transition? What new responsibilities do they have to take on? What new local governance rules should they adopt to guarantee sustainable decisions?
Proposals for developing territorial energy policies:
- Proposal 1.1 Taking responsibility for the territory’s energy supply to enhance local renewable resources
- Proposal 1.2 Uniting public, private and associative players in a local energy alliance
- Proposal 1.3 Presenting public budgets that integrate positive and negative energy externalities
- Proposal 1.4 Co-build a long-term vision of the territory and align policies with this vision
- Proposal 1.5 Developing a local fuel poverty eradication plan
- Proposal 1.6 Being exemplary in the energy management of municipal buildings and facilities to be credible
- Proposal 1.7 Preparing an Energy Transition Action Plan
Knowing our territories’ resources and flows
What strategy should we adopt for improving the management of incoming and outgoing resource flows generated by human activities in territories: energy, water, waste, greenhouse gases? Why should, and how can, we improve our knowledge of them? How can we optimise them and what should our priorities be? Where and with whom should we take action in order to be the most efficient?
Proposals for a global optimisation of territorial resources:
- Proposal 2.1 Knowing the territory’s metabolism so as to optimise local potential and reduce the impact of human activities on the ecosystem
- Proposal 2.2 Preparing a spatial inventory of local energy potential to support urban planning, construction and retrofitting decision-making
- Proposal 2.3 Preparing a local heat plan to ensure consistency between needs and available potential
- Proposal 2.4 Preparing a territorial plan for the methanation of organic waste from the agricultural, agri-food and industrial sectors
- Proposal 2.5 Making the best use of energy and material flows by encouraging synergies between players
- Proposal 2.6 Optimising the use of existing public buildings to limit the construction of new infrastructures
Rethink financing in general
What are the solutions to the public financial, debt and credit crisis? How can we finance the energy transition? What can we do to make it a driving force behind the local economy and job creation? What are the new financial cash flows for this new economy?
Proposals for mobilising the financial resources, in particular of local stakeholders and citizens:
- Proposal 3.1 Keeping money spent on energy near to home
- Proposal 3.2 Collecting local savings and investing them in sustainable local energy projects
- Proposal 3.3 Integrating future energy prices in the economic calculations made prior to investment decisions
- Proposal 3.4 Having sufficient human resources in financial engineering so as to come up with suitable financial solutions
- Proposal 3.5 Setting up financial structures dedicated to energy transition
Inventing a new local governance
How can we make stakeholders share the construction of a common vision and the desire to jointly engage in the energy transition? How can we reinforce collective dynamics? How can we encourage decision-makers and citizens to change their habits? How can we invent new social practices?
Proposals to give dynamic to creativity and involve local stakeholders and citizens:
- Proposal 4.1 Developing intermediation capacities between public authorities and the civil society
- Proposal 4.2 Organising the local authority with a view to overcoming sector-based reasoning
- Proposal 4.3 Measuring the progress made and create a snowball effect
- Proposal 4.4 Giving public visibility to motivated players and citizens
- Proposal 4.5 Raising opportunities for experimenting new practices to encourage their dissemination
- Proposal 4.6 Making arts and culture part of the energy transition process
Urban planning as a way of reducing energy use
What type of urban planning should we develop to satisfy housing, mobility and consumption needs in an energy-efficient way? What infrastructures can increase territories’ energy sufficiency? How should we change our modes of transport and the way we use public space in the future? How can we encourage short supply chains?
Proposals for energy-efficient urban planning:
- Proposal 5.1 Using urban planning as a tool for controlling the territory’s energy use
- Proposal 5.2 Preparing an energy retrofitting plan for the whole building stock
- Proposal 5.3 Making sure that new neighbourhoods are “100%” renewable
- Proposal 5.4 Developing and implementing mobility plans setting figure-based modal distribution targets
- Proposal 5.5 Transforming railway stations into territorial structuring hubs
- Proposal 5.6 Designing a street code that privileges soft modes and the re-appropriation of public spaces
- Proposal 5.7 Integrating goods delivery into the city’s organisation
