Project NameProject CodeStart DateEnd Date
MAKING PEDs - Decision-Making Digital Twins for Climate Neutral PEDs F-DUT-2022-0186 01/2023 01/2026
POSEIDON - Positive Energy Initiatives in Districts for Neutral Mediterranean Cities F-DUT-2022-0340 01/2023 01/2026
RESPED - Enabling Energy Resilience through new energy flexible and affordable PED concepts 01/2025 01/2027
CSP - Cascais Smart Pole 01_Call#4_CascaisSmartPolebyNovaSBE 01/2020 01/2024
PERSIST F-DUT-2022-0064 01/2024 01/2027
HeatCOOP F-DUT-2022-0156 01/2023 01/2026
DigiTwins4PEDs F-DUT-2022-0210 01/2023 01/2026
JUST PEPP F-DUT-2022-0360 01/2023 01/2026
COPPER F-DUT-2022-0352 01/2024 01/2026
CO2PED F-DUT-2022-0327 01/2024 01/2026
FLEdge F-DUT-2022-0337 01/2024 01/2026
OPEN4CEC F-DUT-2022-0070 01/2024 01/2027
PED StepWise F-DUT-2022-0419 01/2023 01/2026
V2G-QUESTS F-DUT-2022-0241 01/2023 01/2026
London/Ontario Living Lab 01/1970 01/1970
ASCEND - Accelerate poSitive Clean ENergy Districts 3251924 01/2023 01/2027
ENERGY4ALL F-DUT-2022-0114 01/2024 01/2026
CULTURAL-E - Climate and cultural-based solutions for Plus Energy Buildings 870072 01/2019 01/2025
LEGOFIT - Adaptable technological solutions based on early design actions for the construction and renovation of Energy Positive Homes 101104058 01/2023 01/2027
InterPED - INTERoperable cloud-based solution for cross-vector planning and management of Positive Energy Districts Grant Agreement number 101138047 01/2024 01/2026
PEDvolution - Interoperable solutions to streamline PED evolution and cross-sectoral integration 101138472 01/2024 01/2026
ATELIER - AmsTErdam BiLbao cItizen drivEn smaRt cities 864374 01/2019 01/2025
BIPED - Building Intelligent Positive Energy Districts 101139060 01/2024 01/2026
NEUTRALPATH - Pathway towards Climate-Neutrality through low risky and fully replicable Positive Clean Energy Districts ID: 101096753 01/2023 01/2027
ExPEDite - Enabling Positive Energy Districts through Digital Twins Grant Agreement No. 101139527 01/2024 01/2026
PED urban - Development of methods and tools for accounting, planning and operation of climate-neutral district 03EN3048A 01/2021 01/2024
PED-ACT - Auto characterization of PEDs for digital references towards iterative process optimisation 43927229 01/2022 01/2025
CIEMAT-CEDER 01/1970 01/1970
STARDUST - Holistic and Integrated Urban Model for Smart Cities ID: 774094 01/2017 01/2024
ZEN - Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities 01/2017 01/2024
RESPONSE - Integrated Solutions for Positive Energy and Resilient Cities ID: 957751 01/2020 01/2025
POCITYF - A POsitive Energy CITY Transformation Framework ID: 864400 01/2019 01/2024
MAKING-CITY - Energy efficient pathway for the city transformation: enabling a positive future ID: 824418 01/2018 01/2023
SPARCS - Sustainable energy Positive & zero cARbon CommunitieS ID: 864242 01/2019 01/2024
Syn.ikia - Sustainable Plus Energy Neighbourhoods ID: 869918 01/2020 01/2024
SmartEnCity - Towards Smart Zero CO2 Cities across Europe ID: 691883 01/2016 01/2022
GRETA - GReen Energy Transition Actions ID:101022317 01/2021 01/2023
D1P001: Name of the project
D1P001: Name of the projectBIPED - Building Intelligent Positive Energy Districts
D1P002: Project assigned code
D1P002: Project assigned code101139060
D1P003: Start date
D1P003: Start date01/24
D1P004: End date
D1P004: End date12/26
D1P005: Ongoing project
D1P005: Ongoing projectYes
D1P006: Funding programme/financing model
FP7/H2020/HEU/DUTyes
FP7/H2020/HEUHorizon Europe
Interregno
National fundingno
Public-Private Partnership - please specifyno
Otherno
D1P007: Estimated project costs (Mill. €)
D1P007: Estimated project costs (Mill. €)
D1P008: Description of project objectives/concepts
D1P008: Description of project objectives/conceptsThe BIPED project is building an intelligent PED model to assist cities with decarbonisation efforts aimed at reaching net zero by 2030. At the core of BIPED solution lies the advanced digital twin technology complete with AI-driven optimisation tools for better urban planning. After the initial deployment in Aarhus, Denmark, BIPED tools and results will be offered to interested adopters across Europe, with a special focus on actors in the climate neutral cities network.
D1P009: Description of project upscaling strategies/potential
D1P009: Description of project upscaling strategies/potentialOpen technical specifications and guidance will allow cities to replicate and scale the BIPED solution to drive the decarbonisation agenda, especially when it comes to designing and implementing green investment plans necessary to achieve climate-neutrality by 2030. The use of standards, and in particular MIMs (Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms) will be a key enabler of cross-border integration, as well as between domains and systems. New MIMs ensure that the necessary technical requirements are met to provide efficient, scalable data-driven services. The use of European standards for data spaces will enable low-level models to inform higher-level aggregated city models employed in urban planning.
D1P010: Number of PED case studies in the project
D1P010: Number of PED case studies in the project
D1P011: Case Study
D1P011: Case Study
D1P012: Description of project expected impact
D1P012: Description of project expected impact
  • Extending LDT capabilities to better represent PED's multi-dimensional profile: Current LDT implementations lack sophistication necessary to characterise PEDs in all their complexity, as they typically address a limited number of urban systems, such as mobility, transport and energy consumption. BIPED will go beyond these domains to provide a deeper understanding of PEDs in general and Brabrand in particular. By integrating social, cultural and political properties of a city, BIPED will guide PED development toward a more holistic model that more accurately represents urban dynamics.,
  • Enriching PED development by integrating 'soft' datasets: Properties that define a district's profile can often be measured quantitatively due to their discrete nature, using air or traffic sensors, for example. However, properties that are less quantitatively tangible, such as people's perceptions or urban environment, are harder to capture but, once tapped, can show whether and where citizens feel happy or sad. This kind of emotional mapping has huge, though as yet unexplored, potential for urban planning. BIPED will pioneer the development of novel methodologies for gathering such “soft data” and its adequate representation in LDTs.,
  • Boosting PED's replication potential for the benefit of climate neutral cities: Although PEDs have common characteristics, they tend to be very specific to the local context. It is not easy to replicate the solution from one district to another, even in the same city, which limits the scalability potential. BIPED will use international standards, and in particular MIMs (Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms), to facilitate cross-district and cross-border integration of datasets, models and services. This will ensure that the necessary technical requirements are met to develop replication strategies on a country level as well as more widely across the Cities Mission.
D1P013: Standardization efforts
D1P013: Standardization effortsBIPED will build a world-class LDT for the district of Brabrand in Aarhus. Based on the ambitious EU roadmap for Federated LDTs (Digital Europe Programme), MIMS developed in the context of Living-in.EU (MIMs Plus) and the global y.MIM format, the first iteration of BIPED's solution will be created, comprising a detailed semantic 3D model of the physical environment, along with additional geospatial data and soft datasets. The geometrical and visual representation of the digital twin will feature a terrain model, orthophotos, 3D vegetation models, street furniture models, and building models as specified by the OGC CityGML standard with at least Level of Detail (LOD) 2 geometrical and semantical differentiation. Higher LODs with additional information of facade and roof structures will be created as needed. Open standards such as CityGML, GeoJSON, GML, GlTF, and open interfaces such as OGC WMS, WFS, WCS, OGC API Features will be incorporated to a) enable live data exchange with existing spatial data infrastructures and b) ensure portability with IT infrastructures of other European cities. Subsequent iterations will link spatial data with domain specific data and tie in live information from sensors. Depending on local needs and modelling requirements, further integration with traffic networks, IoT sensors, mobility and energy systems may be undertaken to provide an optimal solution for decision making.
D1P014: Sources
D1P014: Sources
D1P015: Can you specify a suitable contact person regarding the load-management approach within your PED project?
NameHenrik Madsen
Emailhmad@dtu.dk
D1P016: Would you be willing to share data from your PED project for research purposes?
D1P016: Would you be willing to share data from your PED project for research purposes?Yes

Authors (framework concept)

Beril Alpagut (Demir Energy); Giulia Turci (University of Bologna); Michal Kuzmic (Czech Technical University in Prague); Paolo Civiero (Università Roma Tre); Serena Pagliulia (University of Bologna); Oscar Seco (CIEMAT); Silvia Soutullo (CIEMAT); Daniele Vettorato (EURAC Research, IEA Annex 83); Bailador Ferreras M. Almudena (CIEMAT); Vicky Albert-Seifried (FHG ISE)

Contributors (to the content)

Laura Aelenei (LNEG), Nienke Maas (TNO), Savis Gohari (OsloMet), Andras Reith (ABUD), Ghazal Etminan (AIT), Maria-Beatrice Andreucci (Universita Sapienza), Francesco Reda (VTT, IEA Annex 83), Mari Hukkalainen (VTT), Judith-Borsboom (Locality), Gilda Massa (ENEA), Jelena Ziemele (University of Latvia), Nikola Pokorny (CVUT), Sergio Diaz de Garayo Balsategui (CENER, IEA Annex 83), Matthias Haase (ZHAW, IEA Annex 83), Christoph Gollner (FFG, JPI UE), Silvia Bossi (ENEA, JPI UE), Christian Winzer (Zurich University of Applied Science), George Martinopoulos (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas), Maria Nuria Sánchez (CIEMAT), Angelina Tomova (Energy Agency of Plovdiv), Oya Tabanoglu (Demir Enerji), Jelena Brajković (University of Belgrade), Juveria Shah (Dalarna University), Michela Pirro (ENEA), Francesca Sabatini (University of Bologna)

Implemented by

Boutik.pt: Filipe Martins, Jamal Khan
Marek Suchánek (Czech Technical University in Prague)