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Baden Württemberg set on achieving its heating and cooling decarbonisation
In European cities, most of our energy consumption is used for heating and cooling. If cities want to reach their target of climate neutrality by 2050, they need to start planning how to phase out fossil fuels from heating and cooling now
… And this is what the German region of Baden-Württemberg is determined to do! The Länder recently required all its cities of more than 20 […]
Helsinki Energy Challenge outcomes: an artificial island, salt and a HIVE will help decarbonise heating
Key lessons include involving citizens, market forces and combining existing technology with local resources
The city of Helsinki organised an international projects competition to find future-proof solutions to heat the city and meet its goal of becoming carbon neutral […]
The heated debate on hydrogen in our cities
Hydrogen is often presented as a quick fix to get rid of fossil fuels from heating and cooling in cities. But is it really?
In last week’s Decarb City Pipes 2050 webinar, Lisa Fischer, Programme Leader atE3G discussed with cities the role that hydrogen can play in the decarbonisation […]
Learning Municipality Networks
A holistic approach for low-carbon municipalities
To meet the EU’s ambition to become climate neutral by 2050, the European Union and the Members States will need to rely on cities and […]
Energy Cities joins broad coalition calling on EU not to rely on hydrogen to decarbonise buildings
33 businesses, industry associations, NGOs, and think tanks joined forces to urge the European Commission to prioritise available efficient and sustainable solutions to decarbonise Europe’s […]
Where should green hydrogen fit in your city?
A short guide to where we think hydrogen can make the biggest impact in a city's energy transition.
Hydrogen is being touted as a solution to many challenges in the energy transition. And it is an exciting and flexible energy carrier that will […]
Seven European cities are showing gas the door
With the Decarb City Pipes 2050 project, Bilbao, Bratislava, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur are committed to phasing out fossil fuels from urban heating […]
Renovation Wave will have a big impact on cities
Mandatory renovations for city-owned buildings and numerous lobbying wins makes for ambitious proposal
The Renovation Wave proposal from the European Commission landed on Oct. 14th and cities, for better or worse, will be most impacted. There are some […]
Local heating and cooling planning – What benefits?
Learn from the Hotmaps pilot cities’ experience
In the past 4 years, five members of the Energy Cities’ network co-developed and tested the Hotmaps toolbox for heating and cooling (H&C) planning together […]
How Aberdeen and Scotland are tackling complicated condo energy retrofits
4 key criteria and appealing to everyone’s desire for a nice home
In the world of energy retrofits we tend to focus on the technical elements like thermal bridging, low carbon heat and doing things faster and […]
The EU Commission’s Hydrogen Prescription for System Integration
New strategies launched pushing energy efficiency and targeting sectors difficult to decarbonise
The European Commission’s new hydrogen strategy and energy system integration strategy have been launched. The two strategies work together. The hydrogen strategy is about developing […]
Decarbonising cities: local resources first!
Heating and cooling strategies are key
Last week, we held the final conference of the Hotmaps project. The event took place entirely online to avoid any health risks, but it included […]
