As part of the Europe-wide initiative COPPER – Cities for Open and Participative Planning for Electricity grid Resilience, funded by the Interreg North Sea Programme, cambio is collaborating with the city of Bremen to help develop a resilient and sustainable electricity grid in the Hanseatic city.
In collaboration with the city of Bremen, cambio CarSharing is actively engaged in the prominent European initiative COPPER. This program is dedicated to testing innovative concepts aimed at shaping the future of local energy planning in cities and municipalities. The COPPER initiative, focused on Cities for Open and Participative Planning for Electricity Grid Resilience, is backed by €5.1 million from the Interreg North Sea program. It will develop and trial solutions for energy planning in decentralized energy systems across six pioneering municipalities.
To meet its climate objectives, the city of Bremen must prepare for shifts in how we power our vehicles, homes, and buildings. While transitioning to local renewable energy presents opportunities for cleaner air, local green jobs, and achieving net-zero energy, it also presents new challenges that necessitate careful long-term planning.
With co-funding from the Interreg North Sea Programme, Bremen will be among the first municipalities in Europe to implement Local Energy Action Plans (LEAPs). This approach enables the acquisition of knowledge about local energy supply in cities, which can then be applied effectively.
cambio is actively involved in the project to contribute to the development of a resilient and sustainable energy supply and mobility. As a partner in COPPER, cambio will establish charging infrastructure for e-car sharing in cooperation with the city of Bremen to assess the impact of electromobility on the city's power grid.
The collaboration between cambio, the City of Bremen, and the grid operator Wesernetz under the COPPER initiative aims to devise solutions for the challenges at the intersection of energy supply and mobility services. Our objective is to understand how a large electric car-sharing fleet can be operated reliably and in a grid-friendly manner in the future. A crucial aspect of the project involves analyzing the usage patterns of cambio Bremen's e-charging stations, which have been installed as part of the project, and examining the load profiles. Insights gleaned from the data analysis will facilitate in-depth discussions with Wesernetz and the City of Bremen. The ultimate goal is to develop a concept for grid-friendly charging of car-sharing fleets that demonstrates the efficient integration of local energy planning and sustainable mobility.
About the COPPER Alliance
COPPER is an Interreg North Sea project co-funded by the European Union. Running from October 2023 to October 2027, COPPER unites municipalities, companies, research organizations, and representatives of grid operators across Europe in a continent-wide task force for local energy planning and action. Each partner focuses on a different aspect or use case to contribute to the development of decentralized and comprehensive perspectives on local energy action planning. More information about COPPER and its project partners can be found here: https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/copper
Over a four-year period, COPPER:
- Executes six pilot projects for energy planning at the municipal level, spanning logistics parks, electric vehicle fleets, and entire neighborhoods.
- Explores collaborative approaches between distribution system operators and local authorities to construct a local energy system incorporating storage and flexibility technologies, policies, market incentives, and partnerships that foster the success of cities with local energy supply.
- Constructs data models and other tools to enhance the capability of local authorities to comprehend and manage their local energy systems.
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Veröffentlicht am 08.04.2024