Webinar: EBC Technical Day - Energy innovations for the city of tomorrow

Organizer

The International Technical Day was hosted by the Federal Ministry for Climate Action and organised by the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology.

Buildings will take on a new role in future energy systems, both in connection with and through interaction with the infrastructures that provide energy. In addition to increased efficiency and a reduction of energy consumption in the building stock, new buildings must have increased flexibility, i.e. increased adaptability, to base energy consumption on the levels of energy currently available. In future, buildings, communities and entire city districts will move from being energy consumers to decentralised power plants. As plus-energy districts, they can be integrated into the energy system across sectors to ensure that production and consumption are balanced on a local level.

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Ministry for Climate Action has put together a brief webinar highlighting activities of the Technology Collaboration Programme "Energy in Buildings and Communities" (EBC) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) as well as results from Austrian R&D projects funded within the Austrian research and technology programme "City of Tomorrow". The research initiative Green Energy Lab funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund will round up the program, that targets an audience coming from city (planning) administration, companies involved in building and energy research and innovation and representatives from industrial and economic associations.

The International Technical Day was hosted by the Federal Ministry for Climate Action and organised by the Austrian Society for Environment and Technology.

Summary of the Webinar (only available in German)

10:30 (UTC) REGISTRATION

• Session Chair Sabine Mitter, IEA EUWP Vice Chair for Buildings, Federal Ministry for Climate Action

Presentation slides (About the Webinar)

11:00 Welcome and opening

• Eva-Maria Titz, Federal Ministry for Climate Action
• Takao Sawachi, IEA EBC Chair

Presentation slides of Takao Sawachi

11:20 IEA EBC Annex 67: Energy-flexible buildings / EBC Annex 82: Energy Flexible Buildings Towards Resilient Low Carbon Energy Systems

• Søren Østergaard Jensen, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark

11:35 Spatial Energy Planning and the Green Energy Lab

• Susanne Supper, Raphaela Reinfeld, Green Energy Lab, Austria

Presentation slides of Raphaela Reinfeld

11:50 IEA EBC Annex 73: Towards Net Zero Energy Public Resilient Communities

• Rüdiger Lohse, KEA Klimaschutz- und Energieagentur, Germany

12:05 Future Quarter 2.0 – Grid-Supportive Conception of (Positive Energy) Districts

• Simon Schneider, FH Technikum Wien, Austria

12:20 IEA EBC Annex 75: Cost-effective Building Renovation at District Level

• Manuela Almeida, University of Minho, Portugal

Presentation slides of Manuela Almeida

12:35 Decarbonisation lost in translation! How to improve the dialogue between research and cities

• Helmut Strasser, Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung und Wohnen, Austria

12:50 Otto Wagner Areal Plus – feasibility study of a plus-energy-district renovation

• Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University (CEU), Hungary
• Günter Lang, LANG Consulting, Austria

Presentation slides of Diana Ürge-Vorsatz and Günter Lang

13:15 END

Hannes Warmuth
ÖGUT – Austrian Society for Environment and Technology
Email: Hannes.Warmuth@oegut.at