On 29-31 March, the ATELIER consortium met in the Fellow City Copenhagen in Denmark for 3 intense days filled with workshops, presentations and site visits. The focus of the event was capacity building for the cities – especially for the 6 Fellow Cities Budapest,...
By Rudy Rooth, City of Amsterdam What is congestion? Congestion is well known in relation to traffic. Jams develop when the capacity of the road network is insufficient to cope with the amount of vehicles. Congestion in electricity grids is generally known as an...
Krakow sets standards in the field of environmental, ecological and climate activities. We already have taken intensive measures to improve the air quality in the city. Now we are facing an extremely important challenge that affects all people on earth. Our goal is...
The Slovakian capital Bratislava is deepening cooperation with Tokorozawa, located near Tokyo in Japan. The pair has built a close bond for the past four years within the framework of the International Urban and Regional Cooperation Programme (IURC). Currently, the...
It is a common understanding that the successful development and implementation of Positive Energy Districts requires the support of citizens. Citizen engagement is indeed at the core of the ATELIER project - as the name also implies. The article "Energy...
By Willem van Winden, professor of Urban Economic Innovation at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences In the Atelier project, Amsterdam and Bilbao are building Positive Energy Districts: urban districts that create more energy than they consume and do it in a...
ATELIER Stories: The transformation of Zorrotzaurre in Bilbao The ATELIER demo district within Bilbao, Zorrotzaurre, has been the industrial heart of the old Bilbao city. The heavy industry, mainly around activities linked to Bilbao’s Port and basically...
It is a common understanding that the successful development and implementation of Positive Energy Districts requires the support of citizens. Citizen engagement is indeed at the core of the ATELIER project - as the name also implies. The article "Energy...
This article by Rick Wolbertus , Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences explains the importance to include electric transport in Positive Energy Districts. To examine if a district is energy positive, it is necessary to define clear boundaries to determine which...
Energy modeling at PED scale is a rather new area of research in which a limited number of scientific articles has been published to this date. Especially the evaluation of e-Mobility and its effect on Positive Energy Districts has not been the focus topic of many...
