PED-ID, Innovative stakeholder involvement process for identification of Positive-Energy-Districts

This goal will be achieved through the increased implementation of Positive-Energy-Districts (PED). Stakeholder involvement is by far the most important element for a successful implementation of PEDs. It is crucial to address important stakeholders besides representatives of municipalities with PED requirements in early area development phase.

PED-ID will develop an innovative knowledge-based stakeholder process for PED areas and assessment methods to use information for the stakeholder process, by which decision-makers are provided at an early stage with improved information about how best to achieve Positive Energy District status, the options and the impacts.

Data will be collected and calculated using an existing methodology adapted for appropriate stakeholders, who may then actively apply this data-driven participation process, consolidate their opinions and make data-based decisions.

This process will be tried and tested in three real EU Living Labs, all potential PED initiatives, with focus on the participation process and the identification of necessary data. By applying this process, the objective is to accelerate the rate of achieving Positive Energy District status and to accomplish the goal of 100 PED sites in Europe by 2025.

Sustainable Innovation will be work package leader for dissemination and communication. Our extensive experience from managing large-scale demonstration projects, organising national opinion building events/activities, our skills in networking and cooperation and working innovation clusters for entrepreneurs will provide the perfect ingredients to carry out these tasks. Further, Sustainable Innovation has over 10 years of experience working with EU funded projects and is well versed with the demands and requirements of dissemination/communication in an R&D context.