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Road to Climate-Neutral Leuven: Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, and Community Building

This report highlights the ELENA project in Leuven, which aims to achieve a climate-neutral city by 2050 through energy efficiency in non-residential buildings. The project emphasizes the need for collaboration, accelerating the pace, and knowledge sharing. It also discusses the obstacles encountered and the leverage impact of funding on the project's success.

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Road to Climate-Neutral Leuven: Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing, and Community Building

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  1. ELENA as a lever for an urbanclimatetransition Road to a climate-neutral Leuven

  2. Shared climateambitions Unique governance model • 02/2013 - Scientific report KU Leuven • 11/2013 - Founding of ngo Leuven (Climate-Neutral) 2030 • 12/2014 – First large-scalenetwork meeting on 25 specificchallenges > pilot projects • 12/2016 – CO2-dashboard (online) • 03/2019 – Public presentationRoadmap ‘2025|2035|2050’ during conference ‘Road to 2050’

  3. Energy efficiency in non-residential sector Benefits of collaboration • Needfordrasticreductions in energy consumption • Collaborationand co-creationregarding large buildings • Increasingtheambition, acceleratingthe pace • Knowledge sharing • Community building

  4. ELENA project L.E.U.V.E.N. General summary • 18 > 24 partners • 38 > 50+ M€ of investments • 40 building projects • Deeprenovation • Light renovation • Renewable energy

  5. ELENA project L.E.U.V.E.N. 24 project partners, 40 building projects

  6. ELENA project L.E.U.V.E.N. Obstaclesencountered • Financial • Schools: Long approval periods for subsidies from regional governments for the investment projects. Often it takes up to 8 years. By the time the money comes, the context may have changed. • Social housing: No possibility for housing companies to raise the rent when the energy bill decreases. • Social housing: Existing regulations are counterproductive for the installation of collective systems (heat pumps, micro heating networks, rain water reuse, …) • First things first? • Private companies: Actions that are more visible, easier to communicate or directly related to production are often preferred by the management to less attractive (long-term) investments • Building stock • Recent buildings (> 2000): Difficult to straighten out the mistakes that were made in the recent past • Heritage: Restrictions, interference from different sides, discussions about use

  7. ELENA project L.E.U.V.E.N. Leverage impact of thefunding • Growth in number of partners and amount of investments • Raising the bar for energy performance • Strong story, visibility for partners, projects, Leuven 2030 • Kickstart for continued dissemination afterwards

  8. ELENA project L.E.U.V.E.N. Dissemination on a large scale • Roadmap 2025|2035|2050 • 13 programs, 80 project clusters • Program 2 – energy renovations of non-residential/large buildings • Intermediatemilestonesfor energy consumption • -55% (2035) • -85% (2050) • Kickstart september 2019

  9. –Jan Aerts, program engineerL.E.U.V.E.N. “The ELENA fund was crucial for kickstarting one of our biggest climate transition challenges.”

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