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SINFONIA - Smart INitiativeof cities FullycOmmittedto iNvestin Advancedlarge-scaled energy solutions

Coordinator: SP - The Technical Research Institute of Sweden

Project leader University of Innsbruck: Wolfgang Streicher

Project staff: Wolfgang Feist, Rainer Pfluger, Alexander Thür, Alexander Richtfeld, Alois Ilmer, Georgios Dermentzis, Pavel Sevela, Michael Flach, Maria Schneider

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Funding organisation: EU

Duration: 01/06/2014 - 31/05/2019

Homepage: www.sinfonia-smartcities.eu

Sinfonia is a project submitted by over 30 partners from eight European countries in the "Smart Cities & Communities" funding line of the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. Of these partners, 13 are from Tyrol and a further eight from South Tyrol. The project coordinator is the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, while the Tyrol is managed by the Standortagentur. The project was launched in June 2014 and will run for five years. EU funding totalling 27.5 million euros will be implemented in projects amounting to 43.1 million euros. A total of 21.4 million euros will be invested in the east of Innsbruck as part of the project, of which around 12.2 million euros will come from the EU. In total, Sinfonia will trigger up to 125 million euros in investments in Innsbruck.

In selected districts of Innsbruck and Bolzano, energy requirements are to be reduced by 40 to 50 per cent and the proportion of renewable sources in the electricity and heat supply increased by 30 per cent, while CO2 emissions are to be reduced by 20 per cent. The measures are being adapted and prepared for implementation in five other European cities - Rosenheim, La Rochelle, Seville, Paphos in Cyprus and Boras in Sweden.

Stadtteile mit Sanierungsprojekten im Rahmen von Sinfonia

Neighbourhoods with refurbishment projects as part of Sinfonia

In Innsbruck, flats belonging to Neue Heimat Tirol and Innsbrucker Immobilien-Gesellschaft with a total living space of 66,000 m² are being refurbished. A team led by Professors Streicher, Feist and Pfluger (Energy Efficient Building), Flach (Timber Construction) at the Department of Structural Engineering and Material Sciences and Professor Schneider (Urban Design and Land Use Planning) are supporting these measures with planning support and comprehensive measurements in order to be able to demonstrate the actual efficiency gains following the refurbishment measures. The tenants of affected flats are involved in all processes of the project. The basis for comparison is the actual status of the test area ("district"), which was recorded in the Innsbruck energy development plan and is being adapted as part of Sinfonia.

Im Rahmen von Sinfonia zu sanierendes Gebäude

Im Rahmen von Sinfonia zu sanierendes Gebäude (Thermographie)

Building to be renovated as part of Sinfonia and associated thermography

Electricity and gas suppliers IKB and TIGAS are also involved in "Sinfonia": For example, photovoltaics with battery storage, state-of-the-art combined heat and power generation, solar thermal energy, heat and cold storage, heat pumps to utilise local waste heat sources or heat supply via district heating networks are being used to develop the electricity and heat supply. In the east of Innsbruck, IKB will set up an intelligent power grid, a so-called "smart grid", in order to network the decentralised power generation plants and battery storage systems to be installed as part of Sinfonia with the consumers.
In the area of heat and cold generation and distribution, measures are planned for industrial and commercial waste heat utilisation, for example from the waste water channels, the sewage treatment plant or the tunnel waters of the Brenner base tunnel, the use of modern combined heat and power plants for heat and electricity production or the networking of decentralised heat pumps for the provision of heating and cooling energy.

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