This tool will help you to assess your decarbonisation roadmap and access the learnings of the cities of Decarb City Pipes 2050. Results will be fine-tuned according to your situation.
You have just started a new job in the municipality, and you are in charge of leading the heat decarbonisation of your city territory. You are very enthusiastic and want to move forward with the process.
You decided to, first, have a look at your territory's current situation to get organised.
What is your name, by the way?
What is the name of your municipality?
Do you have a heat transition strategy?
You decide to check in with the head of department to know if any heat decarbonisation strategy is already in place before you do anything. They tell you that…
Is that goal politically set?
Now you have a direction to follow and you know your department will support you. However, this is not enough to make progress, and you know it: political steering is needed. You decide to make your way to the office of your (deputy) mayor. There, you show them the heat transition goals supported by the services...
Do you know what your energy demand and supply is now and will be in the future?
You are eager to move forward after the support you received but you need to have a clearer outlook of the current and future energy demand and supply in your city. Are there scenarios, for building retrofitting for example? Or evaluations of the potentials of renewables and low-carbon heat sources for your territory? You direct your questions to...
Do you know what your energy demand and supply is now and in the future?
You know this will be complicated without political support, but you decide to take up the challenge. Before planning further, you want to have a clearer outlook of the current and future energy demand and supply in your city. You wonder if there are scenarios, for building retrofitting for example? For evaluation of the potential of renewable and low-carbon heat sources for the territory? You direct your questions to...
Do you know what your energy demand and supply is now and in the future?
You know this will be complicated without political support, but you know help is on the way, so you decide to take up the challenge. Before planning further, you want to have a clearer outlook of the current and future energy demand and supply in your city. You wonder if there are scenarios, for building retrofitting for example? For evaluation of the potential of renewable and low-carbon heat sources for the territory? You direct your questions to...
Do you know what your energy demand and supply is now and in the future?
Your motivation is strong, so you decide take up the challenge. You are aware that you will need to involve political representatives to set goals, but before planning further, you want to have a clearer outlook of the current and future energy demand and supply in your city. You wonder if there are pre-existing scenarios, for building retrofitting for example? For evaluation of the potential of renewable and low-carbon heat sources for the territory? You direct your questions to...
Do you know which data are needed and how to manage them? Find out how the cities in the project managed data in this report.
D.2.4 Report on data availabilityDo you wonder what energy future the consortium cities are planning? Have a look this report.
Do you have doubts about the main decarbonised energy sources for heating and cooling in 2050? Read the recommendations for cities based on DCP2050 consortium experience.
Now that you have a clearer idea of the overall profile of your municipality, you focus on the spatial dimension of the heat strategy. The city has neighbourhoods with various profiles, you want to know which solution could fit where.
What heat solution is best for each district?
You browse through the different folders on the municipality's server to have a better understanding of potential low carbon and renewable heat sources in each area and the potential technologies which could be applied or developed. You discover...
If you are curious, here are the heating plans of Bilbao, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur
We also developed a guide on spatial energy planning based on the experiences of the consortium, don't hesitate to compare it with your own apporach
If you want to know more on the advantages and constraints of each of the decarbonised heat technologies, don't hesitate to look at this report.
Distribution and architecture of buildings of districts ("urban typologies") have an impact on possible decarbonisation solutions, discover how in this report.
Do you know what information you need?
There is quite a lot of work to be done regarding a spatial analysis of decarbonised solutions: let's start gathering relevant information!
Check out this report to find out how Dublin, Bilbao, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur gathered and treated data for energy planning
Do you know how to analyse this data?
Waiting for answers, you prepare the next step: the analysis of the data… You feel:
If you have doubts, don't hesitate to look at this guide on how to develop heating plans.
You can also find some useful information by reading the heating plans of Bilbao, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur.
Read this guide on developing heating plans.
to complete this step; you need to be able to develop a transition roadmap for heating and cooling.
You can also find some useful information in the heating plans of Bilbao, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur.
To help you get a better understanding of the next steps, you should contact another municipality to do some shadowing and learn from their experience.
Look at each of our deliverables to complete this step; it is mandatory before moving further. To help you get a better understanding of the next steps, you should contact another municipality to do some shadowing and learn from their experience
Now you have a clearer picture of the potential solutions for the different neighbourhoods of your city. There is still one question: when and how are the works going to take place?
Do you know when to take action in which district?
While talking to different colleagues involved in the mapping and planning process, you have managed to…
Do you know how to take action?
You have never felt so ready for heat decarbonisation! Just one last, important, thing… How will you put your plan into action? You decide to start a check-list to make sure that you are finally ready:
What type of ownership it is?
What are the sources used?
To ensure a successful implementation of your transition roadmap, the adaptation of the governance and the inclusion of stakeholders is key. Find inspirations from Bilbao, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur on this challenge in this report.
Do you have data to analyse and do you know when to start?
You know that a timeline is key to the progression of the decarbonisation strategy, so you try to start working on it by yourself.
Do you know how to analyse this data?
You start looking at the information you have and you suddenly realise that…
To ensure a successful implementation of your transition roadmap, the adaptation of the governance and the inclusion of stakeholders is key. Find inspirations from Bilbao, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur on this challenge in this report.
Do you know what information you need?
You take the time to sit down and look at what you have so far, consider what information you still need to figure out when decarbonisation projects can start being developed. The conclusion is quite…
Congratulations!
Congratulations! You are part of the frontrunners when it comes to heat decarbonisation in your municipality! Have a look at the transition roadmaps of
Winterthur and Munichto get more inspiration and get further insights into other good practices
Keep up the good work!
This is not easy, but your motivation can help you get through and make progress. If you feel overwhelmed, start small. If you are looking for inspiration of potential solutions to implement and support you in your decarbonisation strategies, have a look at what the cities of
Dublin and Bilbaoare planning for the future of their heating systems!
Having shadowed your conterpart in another municipality you observed the fundamentals when it comes to defining preferred solutions to decarbonise the heating systems of your city.
Once you complete your spatial heating and cooling plans, you will be ready to transform it into a Transition Roadmap.
Learn more about the roadmaps of Bilbao, Dublin, Munich, Rotterdam, Vienna and Winterthur on our webiste.
