Smart & Sustainable City Award (SSCA). SSCA is a unique Europe-led framework to help local governments implement all dimensions of smart and sustainable city policies (17 SDGs). It can be used alongside the European Energy Award (EEA) or other existing frameworks and shared abroad. More information LOW-CARBON STRATEGIES FOR CITIES The Low-Carbon Strategies for Territories […]
Efficacity will take part over the next 3 years in MAGNITUDE, the European H2020 project coordinated by EDF involving 16 partners from 9 European countries (France, Austria, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Germany), to tackle the challenge of establishing a common framework for technical solutions and business models for energy systems. List […]
The Paris 2024 Olympics have raised many hopes, fired many dreams. They have also sparked some concerns, however, and even opposition. So many hopes and fears on which research can shed a light. This prompted Université Paris-Est (UPE) to propose the creation of an Olympics Observatory to evaluate the impacts of Paris 2024 and to […]
We will be attending the 19th European Energy Transition Conference on 30 and 31 January and 1 February 2018. Why not join us there? As part of the event, come along on Tuesday 30 January at 5.30 pm for the workshop “Co-benefits: arguments in favour of your energy transition projects” moderated by Efficacity. Following the […]
IFSTTAR’s intellectual property management department, with the support of Efficacity, has filed for patent on a diagnostic method for fuel cell state of health (SoH). The filing is the culmination of the work carried out by Efficacity and the IFSTTAR Belfort laboratory (UTBM fuel cell platform, FCLAB research federation) under the “Decentralised Production” programme during […]
Multi-scale optimisation of smart microgrids Since 2016, Efficacity has been supervising Tristan Rigaut’s thesis on multi-scale optimisation of smart microgrids as part of the microgrids research project under the R&D theme Territory Management and Instrumentation. Find out more about his thesis in 3 questions. What is the subject of your thesis? Like my trusty co-doctoral […]
CHP as a local lever for exploiting renewable energy? Utilities association FNCCR and environmental agency ATEE Ile de France are organising a study day on CHP on Thursday 25 January, in which Efficacity will be taking part. Offering different scales of modularity and often associated with renewable energy sources, particularly for district heating, CHP is […]
The use of decentralised optimisation methods for energy transition François Pacaud’s thesis is on energy system optimisation at district scale. He is particularly interested in identifying strategies for optimal management of energy stocks (batteries, immersion heaters, etc.), taking explicit account of uncertainty in the problem of optimisation… Interview with François Pacaud. What is the subject […]
Efficacity will be attending World Efficiency 2017 from 12-14 December 2017 in Paris at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre, and taking part in the Vivapolis workshop on the Asia stand from 4.30pm to 5.15pm on Wednesday 13 December 2017. Join us there!