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<http://schema.org/articleBody> " <div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--full\">\n \n\n\n <p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The City of Ghent is lead partner in the Interreg North Sea-funded initiative <strong>COPPER - Cities for Open and Participative Planning for Electricity grid Resilience</strong>.</span></p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">To prepare Europe\u2019s local authorities to coordinate local energy systems, the City of Ghent has joined a European-wide alliance of frontrunner municipalities, businesses, research organisations and representatives of Distribution System Operators to test Europe\u2019s first wave of Local Energy Action Plans. </span></p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Funded by the Interreg North Sea programme, the COPPER initiative is the first Europe-wide collaboration to demonstrate Local Energy Action Plans, a bundle of techniques and activities that will enable local authorities to drive locally-powered cities. The project runs from 2023 to 2027.</span></p><h2><span lang=\"EN-US\">The ambitions of the project</span></h2><h3><span lang=\"EN-US\">Pilots</span></h3><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Deliver six first-of-a-kind pilots for local authority-led <strong>energy planning</strong>, from logistic parks to electric vehicle fleets to entire neighborhoods. </span></p><h3><span lang=\"EN-US\">Research</span></h3><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Explore ways how Distribution System Operators and local authorities can work together to build a <strong>local energy system of storage</strong> and flexibility technologies, policies, market incentives and collaborations to help locally-powered cities thrive. </span></p><h3><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tools</span></h3><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Build data models and other tools</strong> to boost local authority\u2019s capacity to understand and steer their local energy system </span></p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></p><h2><span lang=\"EN-US\">The city of Ghent\u2019s role</span></h2><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">As well as leading the COPPER initiative, the City of Ghent will pilot grid resilience incentives for an \u2018all-electric\u2019 neighbourhood. Mariakerke aims to be one of the first districts to go climate neutral. Ghent will work with Distribution System Operators Fluvius and its project partner University of Ghent to test a system for rewarding providers of flexibility services like dynamic energy storage. </span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></p><h2><span lang=\"EN-US\">Partners and there goals</span></h2><ul><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <strong>City of Bremen </strong>will partner with shared mobility provider <strong>Cambio Bremen</strong> to pilot new electric vehicle infrastructure for 20 electric vehicles in car-sharing stations, aiming to monitor, assess and build a local energy action plan to manage the effects of electric vehicle mobility on the city\u2019s grid.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <strong>City of Antwerp </strong>will pilot solutions to reduce the peak demand of electric vehicles and electric heating, using energy management software and bi-directional charging to smooth daily demand from electric vehicles while updating its Strategic Energy Vision for heating.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <strong>City of Dordrecht </strong>will support one of the first climate-neutral business parks in Europe, DistriPark, with a pilot for energy planning and flexibility support. </span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\">The <strong>Municipality of Fredericia </strong>will test the creation of a virtual energy community to support its growing need for flexibility as it invests in green hydrogen storage and the electrification of its local industry. Fredericia will be supported by the <strong>University of Aalborg</strong>, who will help Fredericia model how electrification and power-to-X solutions will impact the grid.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Varberg Energi, </strong>the municipal-owned Distribution System Operator for the Swedish town of Varberg, will build a city-wide virtual power plant within COPPER. The N\u00E4tflex network will provide flexibility services to the town of 35,000 people.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Climate Alliance </strong>brings its membership of 2,000 cities to ensure the key lessons from COPPER pilots are exchanged all across Europe, aiming to kick-start a wave of local energy action planning across Europe. </span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>E.DSO </strong>brings its position as a European representative for Distribution System Operators to bring the key perspective of Europe\u2019s Distribution System Operators to the initiative and find collaboration models between DSOs and municipalities.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Cleantech International </strong>will bring its global innovation community of climate technology businesses to support a series of matchmaking workshops between solution providers and European cities.</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li><li><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>Center Denmark </strong>will act as the project\u2019s provider for data collection, data science and data processing, using their experience collecting and operationalising data from 400,000 Danish households to provide data-driven solutions for the green transition</span><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></li></ul>\n \n </div>\n\n <div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--call-to-action paragraph--view-mode--full cta-block image-none link\">\n \n <div class=\"cta-block__content\">\n <div class=\"feature-block secondary\">\n <h2>Interested to know more?</h2>\n\n \n \n <a href=\"https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper\" class=\"button button-secondary\">Visit the website of the COPPER-project</a>\n \n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n\n\n\n\n <div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--partners paragraph--view-mode--full partner-block partner__multiple\">\n <div class=\"partner-content intro\">\n <div class=\"intro__content\">\n \n \n\n\n <p><em><span lang=\"EN-US\">COPPER is an Interreg North Sea project co-funded by the European Union. </span></em><span lang=\"EN-US\"></span></p><p><em><span lang=\"EN-US\">Project start: October 2023</span></em><br><em><span lang=\"EN-US\">Project end: October 2027</span></em></p>\n \n </div>\n </div>\n \n <div class=\"partner-content partners\">\n \n <ul class=\"inline\">\n <li> <div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--partner-logo paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n \n\n\n <a href=\"https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/sites/default/files/styles/logo_160/public/media/logos/COPPER%202_0.png?itok=wTtEj6P6\" width=\"159\" height=\"100\" alt=\"COPPER wordt gecofinancierd door Interreg North Sea\" class=\"image-style-logo-160\" />\n\n</a>\n\n \n </div>\n</li>\n <li> <div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--partner-logo paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n \n\n\n <a href=\"https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/sites/default/files/styles/logo_160/public/media/logos/Interreg%20North%20Sea%20logo%202023.png?itok=18i5XIMK\" width=\"163\" height=\"100\" alt=\"COPPER wordt gecofinancierd door Interreg North Sea\" class=\"image-style-logo-160\" />\n\n</a>\n\n \n </div>\n</li>\n <li> <div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--partner-logo paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n \n\n\n <a href=\"https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/sites/default/files/styles/logo_160/public/media/logos/Interreg%20North%20Sea%20logo%20EU%202023_0.png?itok=K1sUwuXx\" width=\"251\" height=\"100\" alt=\"COPPER wordt gecofinancierd door Interreg North Sea\" class=\"image-style-logo-160\" />\n\n</a>\n\n \n </div>\n</li>\n </ul>\n\n </div>\n </div>\n" ;
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