Smart-BEEjS
Human-Centric Energy Districts: Smart Value Generation by Building Efficiency and Energy Justice for Sustainable Living
Description

The EU has used the Strategic Energy Technology Plan to transfer power to consumers, by decentralising the energy ecosystem by establishing “100 positive energy districts by 2025 and 80% of electricity consumption to be managed by consumers in 4 out of 5 households”. The SMART-BEEjS recognises that this requires the systemic synergy of the different stakeholders, balancing attention towards technological and policy oriented drivers, citizens and society needs, providers and technology capabilities and value generation system synergies in order to deliver the transition without leaving large parts of the population behind. Smart-BEEjS covers all angles of this eco-system, to train a generation of transformative and influential champions in policy design, techno-economic planning and business model innovation in the energy and efficiency sectors, mindful of the personal and social dimensions, as well as the nexus of interrelation between stakeholders in energy generation, efficiency and management. 

Challenge

Five objectives have been set to develop:

• a practical tool that popularises the evidence based knowledge of the relationships between socio-economic factors and citizens’ practices, enabling citizens to become active promoters of PEDs;

• strategies that can positively influence citizens towards sustainable behaviour patterns, which will be used to advise at city/town council level;

• a methodology for systemic planning of infrastructure investments that can be recommended at city/town level in order to transition towards PEDs, by designing a systemic modelling approach combining techno-economic aspects and pathways toward the creation and sustainability of PEDs;

• an evidence-based policy and incentives pathway for tackling energy injustice and poverty, by an effective design of policy implementation at PED level;

• a user-based value generation tool that initiates user-centric business models and value proposition designs exploring PEDs, without the need for subsidies

Internal Partners
Research Centre Research Group Role in Project Begin Date End Date
CIS-Iscte PsyChange: Psychology of societal change Partner 2019-04-01 2025-07-03
External Partners
Institution Country Role in Project Begin Date End Date
THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY (TNTU) United Kingdom Leader 2019-04-01 2025-07-03
ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO (Eurac Research) Italy Partner 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN (TU WIEN) Austria Partner 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE CANARIAS, S.A. (ITC) Spain Partner 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
UNIVERSITAT BASEL (UNIVERSITAT BASEL) Switzerland Partner 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY (WU) Netherlands Partner 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. (RWI) Germany Partner 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
Project Team
Name Affiliation Role in Project Begin Date End Date
Susana Batel Research Fellow (DPSO); Integrated Researcher (CIS-Iscte); Local Coordinator 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
Maria Luísa Soares Almeida Pedroso de Lima Professora Catedrática (DPSO); Integrated Researcher (CIS-Iscte); Co-supervisor of PhD student 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
Vasco Rato Professor Associado (DAU); Integrated Researcher (ISTAR-Iscte); Co-supervisor of PhD student 2019-04-01 2023-03-31
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Human-Centric Energy Districts: Smart Value Generation by Building Efficiency and Energy Justice for Sustainable Living
2019-04-01
2023-03-31