Bold City Vision (BCV)
In the +CityxChange project, the Bold City Vision (BCV) Framework helps cities identify and address key opportunities and actions on...
Glossary
Citizen Energy Community (CEC)
A Citizen Energy Community (CEC) is a voluntary legal not-for-profit entity established at a local level for the purpose of...
+CityxChange
+CityxChange (Positive City Exchange) is a Horizon 2020 research and innovation smart city project, where cities experiment to integrate smart...
Citizen Participation Playbook
The Citizen Participation Playbook is a catalog of practices to empower communities to contribute to the Positive Energy transition. It...
Community Grid
A Community Grid is a local electrical grid owned collaboratively by local consumers and prosumers, allowing them to trade energy...
Decision Support Tool (DST)
In the +CityxChange Project, an Integrated Modelling and Decision Support Tool (DST) analyses energy use at building level; power and...
DPEB Innovation Lab
In the +CityxChange project, a DPEB Innovation Lab is a dedicated center for digital innovation within a city. Data and...
e-mobility platform
An e-mobility platform is a group of technologies that provide an environment where applications and services can be built and...
e-Mobility-as-a-Service (eMaaS)
e-Mobility-as-a-Service (eMaaS) is similar to MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service), with focus on sustainable mobility services using electric vehicles, e-bikes, and other eco-friendly...
Energy sharing
Energy sharing involves a ‘local grid balancing tool’, a software that simulates energy load/ flow in the local grid, and...
Energy Community
An Energy Community is a legal entity where citizens, SMEs and local authorities come together, as final users of energy,...
Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency means eliminating energy waste by reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services. As an...
Energy Trading
Energy trading, in the context of the ‘Common EU energy market’, means local energy producers and prosumers can trade energy.
ESCO
Energy Service Companies (ESCO) are businesses providing energy solutions including designs and implementation of energy savings projects, energy conservation, energy...
Financial Models/ Investment financing (energy)
Financial models being developed by the +CityxChange project are a “shift” from traditional public financial resources, available at national and...
Flexibility Trading
Flexibility trading means swapping energy, capacity and system services products in a local market. It can be understood as shifting...
Innovation Playground
In the +CityxChange project, an Innovation Playground is an area of a city where different virtual and physical places and...
Learning Framework (for Next Generation Smart Citizens)
In the +CityxChange project, a Learning Framework is an infrastructure for intergenerational learning initiatives and learning events with youth participation in...
Local Energy Market
A Local Energy Market is a transparent market accessible for all appropriately metered assets – independent of size – within...
Micro Generation
Micro Generation involves small-scale production of energy for local consumers via technology such as solar panels, “miniwind” turbines, or other...
Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) enables transport from A to B utilizing either public transport, personal transport by shared cars/EVs and/or bikes/EBikes, or...
Positive Energy Balance
A Positive Energy Balance is possible where the annual energy production within an area is greater than the energy consumed...
Positive Energy Block (PEB)
A Positive Energy Block (PEB) is a compact area which over a year produces more energy than it consumes. It...
Positive Energy Champions
Positive Energy Champions are individuals who embrace Positive Energy Concepts, take Positive Energy Actions and foster Positive Energy Communities by...
Positive Energy City
Based on the definition of a Positive Energy Block (PEB) or District (PED), a Positive Energy City is one where...
Positive Energy Districts (PED)
A Positive Energy District (PED) can, according to the SET-Plan Action no. 3.2, be defined as the following. It should...
Prosumer
A Prosumer is an energy consumer who also locally generates renewable energy which is sold to the market when they...
Prosumer Group
A Prosumer Group is a group of Prosumers.
Regulatory Sandbox
In the +CityxChange project, a Regulatory Sandbox is a process towards the local, national or European regulatory authorities in order...
Renewable Energy Community (REC)
A Renewable Energy Community (arising out of the recast Renewables Directive (EU) 2018/2001) is a legal entity involved in renewable...
Renewable Energy Systems (RES)
Renewable energy systems are technologies that produce energy through the use of renewable sources which are constantly replenished, such as...
Renovation and Retrofit
Renovation and retrofit measures can be seen as the addition or replacement of existing features and technologies of a building...
REScoop
REScoop is short for renewable energy cooperative, and refers to a business model where citizens jointly own and participate in...
SLU (Smart Link Units)
SLU (Smart Link Units) are a specific type of small scaled Digital Electricity Meter (Smart Meter).
Smart City
A Smart City is a place where traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital...
Smart Grid
A Smart Grid is an electricity network based on digital technology that is used to supply electricity to consumers via...
Smart Meter
A Smart Meter sends readings to your energy supplier automatically at regular intervals, resulting in more accurate billing and fewer...
Sustainable Finance (Sustainable Investment)
Sustainable finance is an innovative tool that considers and evaluates energy investments integrating financial and economic aspects with wider social...
