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Smart Altitude a LOW-CARBON, HIGH-IMPACT and RESILIENT FUTURE for ALPINE WINTER TOURISM TERRITORIES IMPRESSUM The project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Alpine Space programme March 2021 Smart Altitude A LOW-CARBON, HIGH-IMPACT AND RESILIENT FUTURE FOR ALPINE WINTER TOURISM TERRITORIES IMPRESSUM Smart Altitude/Interreg Alpine Space. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a CC BY SA public copyright licence (unless otherwise specified). Download a copy at www.alpine-space.eu/projects/smart-altitude/en/home This publication is stored at the institutional repository “EPUB.OEAW” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. DOI 10.1553/smart-altitude EDITORS Annemarie Polderman, Andreas Haller, Chiara Pellegrini, Diego Viesi, Xavier Tabin, Chiara Cervigni, Stefano Sala, Barbara Trebušak, Quentin Daragon, Demetrius Ramette, Yann Bidault AUTHORS Les Orres: Yann Bidault EDF: Quentin Daragon BSC Kranj: Jelena Vidović RTC Krvavec: Barbara Trebušak, Nina Janša, Janez Janša TS: Gianni Baldessari FBK: Diego Viesi, Chiara Pellegrini, Luigi Crema ÖAW/IGF: Andreas Haller, Annemarie Polderman, Domenico Branca, Oliver Bender UMIL: Stefano Sala, Anna Giorgi, Chiara Cervigni CREM: Xavier Tabin S2i: Demetrius Ramette, Marie-Eve Reinert CITATION Polderman, A., Haller, A., Pellegrini, C., Viesi, D., Tabin, X., Cervigni, C., Sala, S., Trebušak, B., Daragon, Q., Ramette, D., & Bidault, Y. (eds.) (2021). Smart Altitude: A low-carbon, high-impact and resilient future for Alpine winter tourism territories. Smart Altitude/Interreg Alpine Space. https://doi.org/10.1553/smart-altitude ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We like to thank the Interreg Alpine Space Programme and the European Regional Development Fund, the external collaborators, the partners from the four Living Labs, as well as the observers and other stakeholders who actively participated in this project. PROJECT PARTNERS Municipality of Les Orres (lead partner) Electricité de France Business Support Centre Ltd., Kranj Recreational tourist center Krvavec, d.d. Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trentino Sviluppo S.p.A. Austrian Academy of Sciences University of Milan—UNIMONT Steinbeis 2i GmbH Center in Energy and Municipal Researches PROJECT OBSERVERS Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt GmbH) • Office of the Government of Tyrol, Department of Economy, Municipalities, and Finance (Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung Gruppe Wirtschaft, Gemeinden und Finanzen) • Municipality Seefeld (Gemeinde Seefeld) • Euromontana • Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations • French Ropeway and ski slopes operators (Domaines Skiables de France) • Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Energy Environment Agency: AURA-EE (Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Énergie-Environnement) • National Association of Mountain Resort Mayors (Association Nationale des Maires des Stations de Montagne) • Conseil Regional Provence-Alpes-Cote D’azur • Chair for Regional Building and Urban Planning, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Abteilung Regionales Bauen und Siedlungsplanung Leibniz Universität Hannover) • Research Association for Energy Markets and Technologies (Forschungsgesellschaft für Energiewirtschaft mbH) • Provincial Agency for Water Resources and Energy (APRIE—Agenzia Provinciale per le Risorse Idriche e l’Energia) • Consorzio Assindustria Energia Trento—Assoenergia • Bank of Trentino Province (Cassa Del Trentino S.p.A.) • Municipality of Pinzolo (Comune di Pinzolo) • Dolomiti Energia Rinnovabili Srl (DER) • Ski lifts Madonna di Campiglio S.p.A. (Funivie Madonna di Campiglio S.p.A.) • Agency for Energy South Tyrol—CasaClima (Agentur für Energie Südtirol—KlimaHaus Agenzia per l’Energia Alto Adige—CasaClima) • Lombardy Region (Regione Lombardia) • National Union of Mountain Towns and Communities (Unione Nazionale Comuni Comunità Enti Montani—UNCEM) • Association Ropeways of Slovenia (Združenje slovenskih Žičničarjev GIZ) • Simnet S.A. • Téléverbier S.A. • Swiss Centre for mountain regions (Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Berggebiete—SAB) SMART ALTITUDE REPORT 3 Smart Altitude Alpine winter tourism territories demonstrating an integrated framework for a low-carbon, high-impact and resilient future. Abstract This final report summarizes the outcomes of the Smart Altitude project. The Smart Altitude project ran from June 2018 to April 2021 and was carried out by ten partners from six different countries in the Alpine Space (Austria, France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland). The project was co-financed by the European Union via Interreg Alpine Space. The aim of the project was to enable and accelerate the implementation of low-carbon policies in winter tourism regions by demonstrating the efficiency of a step-by-step decision support tool for energy transition in four Living Labs. The project targeted policymakers, ski resort operators, investors, tourism and entrepreneurship organizations. The Smart Altitude approach was designed to ensure suitability across the Alpine Space, thereby fostering its replication and uptake in other winter tourism regions and thus increasing the resilience of mountain areas. 4 SMART ALTITUDE REPORT Table of contents Introduction 5 Context 6 Vision 9 Options to act: explaining the Smart Altitude Toolkit and process 10 Providing leadership: the experience of Smart Altitude Living Labs 12 Smart Altitude replication pathway 20 Final conclusions and recommendations 22 SMART ALTITUDE REPORT 5 Introduction Ski resort managers are faced with multiple challenges posed by global warming and its impacts on snow cover and water resources. One of the consequences is an increasing need for energy and water for the production and distribution (grooming) of artificial snow. This is in addition to the other energy needs of a ski resort, including the operation of ski lifts and heating of technical buildings and tourist accommodations. At the same time, there is an increasing demand from political, economic and environmental actors, and the general public for ski resorts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and save energy. In this context, the improvement of energy efficiency and the integration of renewable energies by valorizing endogenous resources is a necessity. Smart Altitude aims at enabling and accelerating the implementation of low-carbon policies in winter tourism regions. Today, there are various technical solutions for reducing energy consumption and GHG emissions in mountain areas depending on winter tourism and these should be exploited. However, key trade-offs are at the heart of their slow uptake: they require stronger and innovative involvement to overcome strategic (goals, priorities, risks), economic (costs, financing), and organizational (partnership, stakeholder involvement) challenges. Smart Altitude demonstrates the efficiency of a decision support tool integrating all challenges into a step-by-step approach to energy transition. The project clearly innovates by deploying a comprehensive approach of low-carbon policy implementation based on impact maximization accounting for technical, economic and governance factors. It is based on common performance indicators, monitoring systems (snow processes, municipal infrastructure, renewables, buildings, etc.) and Energy Management Systems (EMS) in mountain regions, in order to build a shared situational awareness and take impactful decisions. The approach is successfully implemented in four Living Labs and is now replicated in 20 other Alpine Space winter tourism regions. On the following pages we present a brief overview of the main achievements and the lessons learned in the Smart Altitude project. It is addressed to all persons and institutions interested in actions to improve the energy footprint of mountain resorts, build a resilient future for winter tourism regions, and, more generally, to implement low-carbon policies across the Alpine Space. To learn more about the project’s achievements, please visit the results section of the project website at https://www.alpine-space.eu/projects/smart-altitude/en/ project-results and the Smart Altitude Toolkit at https://smartaltitude.eu/ 6 SMART ALTITUDE REPORT Context 17 3 3 4 19 14 2 16 2 12 18 21 1 15 9 10 5 8 6 13 11 20 7 1 4 MAP OF THE SMART ALTITUDE LEGEND: LIVING LABS AND REPLICATORS (Credit: Smart Altitude/Interreg Alpine Space) Alpine space Involved areas France Italy 1. Arâches (Carroz/Flaine) 12. Aprica - Corteno 2. Avoriaz (in process) 13. Bardonecchia Ski 3. Chatel 14. Folgarida - Marilleva 4. Isola 200 15. Monte Bondone 5. Les Belleveille (San Martin, 16. Paganella Living Labs resorts Les Menuires, Val Thorens) 17. Pejo Smart Altitude 6. Oz-Vaujani 18. Pinzolo 7. Risoul 19. Ponte di Legno - Tonale 1. Les Orres (F) 8. Val Cenis 20. Sestriere SPA 2. Madonna di Campiglio (I) 9. Val d’Isère 21. Valle Bianca 3. Krvavec (SL) 10. Villarembert 4. Verbier (CH) 11. Montgenèvre CLIMATE Climate change already impacts winter tourism regions technologies are projected to be less effective in reducing risks negatively and this trend is predicted to further increase. to ski tourism in a warmer climate in most parts of Europe” (p. Indeed, in its Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere [1] 25). The decrease in natural snow reliability therefore implies (p. 6), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a strong increase of needs for artificial snowmaking by the observes that “in nearly all high mountain areas, the depth, 2050s [2]. An increase of artificial snow production however extent and duration of snow cover have declined over recent also comes with higher energy, financial and ecological costs. decades, especially at lower elevation”. Consequently, the It is therefore
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