Madrid
We promote energy rehabilitation and urban regeneration projects in seven cities to achieve a sustainable future.
In Urbanew EMC3, the city of Madrid will be filled with heroes and heroines of clean energy. The El Greco Energy Community in the district of Villaverde is preparing for its launch and great mission: to bring shared and fair energy to the neighborhoods, with the strength of citizen collaboration.
Madrid's work will be firm until March 2026, acting as mediators between the Administration and citizens with the aim of defining the rules that will drive the energy communities through municipal facilities.
At the same time, citizens will be strengthened by means of a direct connection with the City Council's Associations Service, which will grant extra powers to deal with possible bureaucratic obstacles.
It is also planned to forge alliances to standardize economic-energy studies, which will make it possible to show that another way of shared energy consumption is possible.
Replicability: spreading clean energy throughout the city
But the mission does not stop there. Madrid is big, and each district is a territory in which to act. New scenarios have already been identified in which to expand the collective energy: Puente de Vallecas (CEIP Javier de Miguel), Villa de Vallecas (in connection with Campus Sur), Arganzuela (CEIP Miguel de Unamuno) and Carabanchel (CEIP Perú).
In order to multiply the strength of the Energy Communities, the idea of a secret office at the service of local heroes is born: an Energy Office (it could also take the form of a Green or Sustainability Office). For its creation, a report with the methodology and services will be written and a toolbox will be elaborated so that each new citizen team will have their own superpowers in their hands.
7 Spanish cities
Seven Spanish cities have decided to act in response to the growing threat of climate change. Thus was born URBANEW, a mission driven by the Mission Cities to transform urban environments by rehabilitating what has already been built, reducing emissions and generating a new way of living in cities.
To make this possible, a network of Super-Technicians, professionals with extraordinary skills in sustainability, regeneration and energy efficiency, joined forces to shape replicable, high-impact solutions.
Today this movement is growing in Europe and beyond, and the legacy that the seven cities started continues.
Finance
This project: SGA-NZC-101121530-EMC³-Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council - Enabling Massive Change for Climate-neutral Cities (Spain, 2024-2026), is part of the Enabling City Transformation Programme, under the initiative 'Accelerating cities' transition to net zero emissions by 2030' - 'NetZeroCities', Grant Agreement No. 101121530.
Developed by NetZeroCities (EIT Climate-KIC), funded by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) under powers delegated by the European Commission, within the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027).
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