The InSMART concept brings together cities and scientific and industrial organizations to establish and implement a comprehensive methodology for enhancing sustainable planning, addressing the current and future city energy needs through an integrative and multidisciplinary planning approach.
This approach identifies the optimum mix of short-, medium-, and long-term measures for a sustainable energy future. It addresses the efficiency of energy flows across various city sectors with regard to economic, environmental, and social criteria and paves the way towards the actual implementation of priority actions.
Integrated city energy system models have been developed to analyse the cost-optimal mix of measures required to meet sustainable energy targets, considering exogenous parameters, such as policies, environmental targets, land usage, etc.
Measures have been further assessed using non-technical criteria, a multi-criteria decision-making method that addresses economic, environmental, and social issues.
The project's final outcomes are detailed, realistic, and applicable mid-term implementation plans for each partner city, describing and quantifying the necessary steps, required resources, and monitoring procedures to transition to a more sustainable and resilient energy system.

PARTNERS:

Nottingham University (UK)

Nottingham City Council (UK)

Systra (UK)

Municipality of Cesena (Italy)

Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal)

EDP – Energias de Portugal (Portugal)

Municipaly of Evora (Portugal)

CRES – Centre of Renewable Energy Sources and Savings (Greece) – Coordinator

DEYAT Trikala (Greece)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under
grant agreement no 314164.