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| Project title: | Positive EneRgy diStrIctS driven by ciTizens |
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| Project short title: | PERSIST |
| Number of project implementation agreement: | ES RTD/2024/03 |
| Registration number: | 4875 |
| Department: | . |
| Administrating department: | . |
| Finance fund: | Horizon Europe / DUT (Driving Urban Transitions to a sustainable future) programme |
| Project RTU role: | project partner |
| Status: | In implementation |
| Project start date: | 01.12.2023. |
| Project end date: | 30.11.2026. |
| Title of grant issuer: | Latvijas Zinātnes padome |
| General manager: | Anna Mutule |
| Administrative manager: | Anna Mutule |
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| 2 348 683,53 EUR | |
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Citizen participation is key to developing scenarios for decarbonising the energy system in Europe. Different social aspirations, environmental concerns, regulations and price structures can influence PEDs (Positive Energy Districts). The PERSIST project will shed light on how socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio-political factors shape PEDs and how they interact with technological, regulatory and investment contexts. The project makes use of the Urban Living Labs network and identifies the most relevant participation archetypes for an optimised, flexible and participatory energy system. |
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PERSIST' main activities: The project: - analyses processes which are internal to relevant social groups with a focus on empowerment and activation of citizens not yet engaged including the impact of digitization of the energy system and the proliferation of social media. - assesses existing / emerging participation models for renewables (in electricity, heating & cooling, energy efficiency and flexibility) with regard to approach, offer and take-up; external environmental (e.g., openness of institutional or corporate environments, availability of sympathetic interlocutors, access to financial or other sources of support, legal or other obstacles), and internal variables describing the social groups and other demographic variables. - accelerates decarbonization strategies, through local energy management and promotion of local distributed energy resources (DERs) in PEDs. - improves assets energy efficiency and cost-efficiency and tests new business models for PEDs. - formulates concrete policy recommendations to public authorities at regional, national and supranational level considering the diversity of legal systems and geographies on the basis of decarbonization scenarios for the energy system. |
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| Project published on RTU website: | 01.12.2023. |