Benjamin Szemkus gave us an insight in to the Swiss Smart Cities programme at our Task 24 workshop in Luzern, October 15, 2013.

1. Smart Swiss Cities and Communities Results and on-going activities
DSM Management Task 24 Workshop
Closing the Loop - Behaviour Change in DSM:
From Theory to Policies and Practice
15.10.2013, Luzern
Benjamin Szemkus, ENCO AG, mandated by SFOE
15.10.2013

2. Content
• The European Energy Award (eea)
• Smart City Activities in Switzerland
• D-A-CH - cooperation
• Lessons learned, so far
• next steps
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3. European Energy Award (eea) Cities in CH
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596 member Cities
334 awarded “Energy Cities”
25 in eea Gold Standard
Representing 52 % of the Swiss population

4. Smart City related Implementation:
“Swiss Energy for Municipalities”
• Public Private Partnership Program for
Implementation of the eea in Switzerland
• Mandate by SFOE, 2.5 Mio € /a, 90 private consultants
• Training, exchange of experiences, products, quality
control, communication, dissemination
• The aim is, by 2020, 800 Swiss municipalities and
cities are participating in this program - most of them
awarded with the eea / Energy City label
• Co-financed by
- SFOE, Swiss Federal Office of Energy
- States (Cantons)
- Municipalities
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5. Sustainable Implementation: “Plan-Do-Check-Act”
Communal Management System:
Plan
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Political, mayoral commitment
Current status assessment, Initial
review
Goals and strategies, Policy, planning
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Activity program
Implementing measures and operation
Awareness and training
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Evaluating and controlling
Reporting procedure
Checking and management review
Act
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Corrective actions
Continual improvements

6. The European Energy Award (eea) process:
P-D-C-A
Initial Review
Targets and Goals
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Appoint Team
Evaluate actual state
Consensus
Energy / Climate
policy program
Principles
Targets
Horizon 4 years
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Activities projects
Schedules, Budget
Persons
every 4 years
Implementation
Energy City Award
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• Mayoral decision
Evaluation
• 50 / 75 % realized
• Awarding
Decided measures
PR, Communication
Implementing Tools
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Optimization of
Processes
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Project organization
Performance
indicators

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Key areas of the European Energy Award
Structure according to activities and stakeholders in administration
4. Mobility
Public transport, Zones low speed,
parking management, pedestrian
zones, bicycle routes
1. Communal development,
planning
5. Internal Organization
Capacity building, policies,
strategies, controlling
Energy policy, action plan, regulations and increasing enforcement
2. Communal buildings,
Facilities
6. External communication
Information, promotion, subsidies
Energy management, building
efficiency
3. Supply,waste disposal
Electricity, distant heating, Water
supply, waste treatment
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8. European Energy Award (eea)
Based on Swiss “Energy City”
Label
Since 2002: European Energy
Award, programme activities in 6
countries, pilot activities in 11
countries
≈ 1’000 active municipalities
≈ 500 awarded municipalities, 25
Mio Inhabitants
Identical catalogue of measures,
country specific indicators and
values
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9. European Energy Award (eea
Same system, country specific characteristics:
Germany
= European Energy Award
Austria
= e5
France
= Cit’ergie
Switzerland = Energiestadt / Cité de l’énergie / Città
dell’energie

10. European Energy Award: Results
• Common view of all the stakeholder on the issue
• Accepted strategies and targets
• Multi-stakeholder process of developing action plan
• Decided action plan by authorities
• Decided structure of the energy issue in the
municipality
• Broad communication
internal review every year
external review and renewed application every 4 year
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11. Smart Citys?
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is still quite a fuzzy concept and is
used in ways that are not always
consistent.
Often discussed as:
–Stage development of infrastructure
–strategy for creating a competitive
environment
–an approach to inclusive and sustainable
cities

12. Swiss definition of Smart City
A smart city offers its inhabitants a maximum of life
quality by a minimum use of resources thanks to
intelligent combination of different infrastructure
systems (Transport, Energy Communication, Grids
etc.) on different levels like buildings, areas, quarters
and cities.
«Intelligent» in this context does not automatically
means «IT». By similar performance, passive or selfregulating mechanism are preferable to active
regulated systems.

13. Smart City related Implementation:
“Project Smart Cities Switzerland”
• Motivation of eea-Cities to perform projects
• Project evaluation within the program of “Pilot – and
Demonstration-Projects” and «Lighthouse»-Projects
by the SFOE
• Implementation of a active Stakeholder-forum
• International Cooperations (D-A-CH Kooperation)
• Positioning „Smart Cities“ in context with Label
«Energiestadt» in Switzerland
• Data-base of «Smart City»-projects
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14. Energy City (eea) and Smart Citys
• Optimal basis
6 areas of Energy City
Fields of activity of a «Smart City»
Master
Planning
Samrt
Stakeholder /
buildings
Smart City
Good
Governance
Smart Grids,
Mobility
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= «Smarte» projects,
« inter agency»!

15. Smart City related Implementation:
“Project Smart Cities Switzerland”
Actually not foreseen:
• No new label «Smart City»
• No «Ranking» or «Benchmark», who is the «smartest
City»?
• No projects from areas of security, health or social
politics
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16. Smart City related Implementation:
“Project Smart Cities Switzerland”
• Energy Cities are well positioned here
• Energy cities (especially in the expression "gold")
provide good prerequisite
• Participate city must have binding, multidisciplinary
collaborations with different partners
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17. Smart City related Implementation:
“Project Smart Cities Switzerland”
• en. 213 projects
• Ranking of issues
• Definition of gaps
• Definition of new research
issues
• Download of reports
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18. Smart City related Implementation:
“D-A-CH”
• Memorandum of Understanding between D
(Germany), A (Austria) and CH (Switzerland)
– Collaboration, Exchange of Experiences
– Common call for tender
– Common dissemination activities
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19. Smart City related Implementation:
“D-A-CH - Cooperation”
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20. Smart City related Implementation:
“D-A-CH - Initiative”
Karlsruhe, Salzburg und Winterthur
each city project(s) financed by each country
2013-2014 define concrete activities, establish exchange
of experiences
2014 ff: Prepare common project , 3 years, multiple
stakeholders
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21. Lessons learned, so far
• Smart City is an ongoing initiative all over Europe, and
something en vogue
• Switzerland is a partner in Europe for Cooperation and
research
• The planning process is time consuming and exhausting
(different partner, different timetables and different
financing models and one project manager)
• Promotions is needed all over and takes time (i.p. in City
and Communities with small budgets)
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22. Lessons learned, so far in CH
• Attractive incentives needs to be found
• Stakeholder Platform
• Attracting investors
• The concept needs time and patience!
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23. Next steps
• Share experiences in this field
• Find further partner cities in CH
• Information
• Research
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24. Next steps
Welcome to the conference on November
11/29 in Lausanne

25. Next steps
Thank you for your interest!