Prague – Smart City Striving for Energy Sustainability Jaroslav Solc Brussels, March 24, 2010 Smart Cities - Prague 1 PRAGUE – Basic Facts Number of inhabitants 1.2 mill. Area 496.1 km2 Capital City of the Czech Republic (municipality) 1 of 14 regions of the Czech Republic Administrative division 57 City Districts (borroughs) Being a member of EUROCITIES since 1993. Having representation in Brussels (Prague House). Smart Cities - Prague 2 Energy Supply Management Utilities – joint stock companies. The City of Prague is one of shareholders. Prague Energy Utility Co. (electricity) . Prague Gas Utility Co. Prague Heat Utility Co. Prague Water Management Company (member of the Veolia Group) . Prague Services Co. (waste disposal, City cleaning) . Project „Together for Prague“ with the City of Prague (Prague City Hall) Smart Cities - Prague 3 Energy and Fuel Consumption Trends . Heating and hot water production - decreasing . Electricity – increasing (also summer / air-conditioning systems) 2008: • Electricity 6,042 GWh • Natural gas 11,615 GWh • Heat 13,088 TJ More in the Yearbook Prague Environment 2008 Smart Cities - Prague 4 Sustainable Waste Management = Energy Waste Management Plan of the City . Sorted collection, recycling, energy generation (4-6% of total waste, 50-60% of municipal waste) Examples ZEVO Malešice . plant for energy generation from waste . capacity 300 kt of municipal waste per year, . heat generation 1,000 TJ (for 20 thousand households), . electricity generation under construction (70,000 MWh) Landfills for municipal waste (Ďáblice, D.Chabry) . Biogas from waste used for generation of heat (80 TJ), and electricity (30,000 MWh) Biogas from the Central Waste Water Treatment Plant . 5 co-generation units, heat ( 100% own consumption), electricity (30,000 MWh, ¾ own consumption). Smart Cities - Prague 5 Energy Savings Strategy . Territorial Energy Concept (TEC) of the City of Prague (approved in 2005) . Action Plan of the TEC implementation for 2007 – 2010 Energy savings, use of renewable energy sources, reduction of expenditures and air pollution (emissions) Energy audits and measures . Buildings owned by the City (2000 audits, 2003-4) . 392 measures (constructions) implemented by 2009, CZK 1,500 mill. (EUR 60 mill.), energy savings of ca 30-40% . Energy demands certificates (energy mgmt. law, 2006) for the City owned buildings Grant Programme – Clean Energy Prague . Launched in 1994 – replacement of solid fuel, since 2009 also supports renewable energy sources Smart Cities - Prague 6 Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign - Prague Projects Complex of energy saving measures in school properties of the Municipal district Prague 13 . City District Prague 13, SEVEn (NGO) . 31 public schools, . Thermal insulation, conversion of heating systems . Reduction per year: energy 8,600 MWh, CO2 emission 1,720 t Green Heating System of Primary Art School, Na Popelce 18, Praha 5 . City of Prague . Heat pump using wastewater from the sewage network, power capacity 50 kW City of Prague Compressed Natural Gas Garbage Vehicles . City of Prague, see further Smart Cities - Prague 7 Smart Grids, Smart Metering PRE Group (electricity) . Circuits management, black-out prevention . Remote control, load management (collective) system in the CR since the 1960s (CZ: HDO) . Regulation- tariff policy, emergency situations . Remote metering – test project (several thousands of intelligent meters) Prague Heat Utility Co. (PT a.s.) . Remote metering since 1995, ca 4,600 meters (45%) . Data transmission – own infrastructure & mobile telcos . Projects planned in cooperation with other utility companies Smart Cities - Prague 8 Sustainable Energy in Transport Public transport system . Underground, trams, buses – over 1,300 million passengers per year . Integrated & Combined transport (PID, P+R, K+R) CNG Vehicles . Prague Services Co. Garbage vehicles, cleaning vehicles . Started in 2008 . 2009: 21 vehicles, 2010: 10 vehicles planned . CNG refuelling station (at the PS premises) . Plans: use biogas from municipal waste Smart Cities - Prague 9 Information and Awareness Support Prague Environmental Information System . Statistical data, maps / GIS, measurements, model calculations . Yearbooks (since 1989) , Atlas web ENVIS: http://envis.praha-mesto.cz Environmental education and awareness . Regional Concept, Action Plan – schools ... Specific energy issues, activities (brochure) PRE activities . consulting centre, web: energy advisor free lending of meters . Project „ The Praguers save with PRE“ 6 families, audits, saving electric appliances within REMODECE project, SEVEn Smart Cities - Prague 10 City Environment and ICT Aspects Innovation & sustainability concepts . Smart Cities, Green Cities, Clean Energy, Intelligent Communities, Digital Local Agenda etc. Solutions: Smart Metring, Smatr Grids Green IT . Power savings (HW), cooling, waste Integrated approach . Sharing data and infrastructure, . Sharing ideas, services, costs … Analyses, planning . Data registers, statistics, spatial data & GIS, model calculations - e.g. buildings, infrastructure, emission sources, fuel consumption, CO2, air pollution Information, awareness, education . On-line reports, maps, info services, education, help centers, eLearning (state, LR govs, companies, research&education, NGO´s Smart Cities - Prague 11 Thank you for attention! Jaroslav Solc, SIKS a.s., [email protected] Data provided by: Tomas Vorisek, SEVEn; Jana Hrstkova, Prague City Hall PRE a.s., PT a.s., PS a.s. Smart Cities - Prague 12.