Enabling Energy Resilience through new energy flexible and affordable PED concepts

The main aim of RESPED is to support cities in their transition towards a more sustainable economy and infrastructure by studying how PEDs can drive this development, especially through improved resilience and increased affordability and identification of solutions most acceptable for the affected citizens. This will be achieved through a better understanding of the different dimensions of resilience to which PEDs can contribute. In a participatory process involving three urban living labs (ULL) in Finland, the Czech Republic and Austria and a set of municipalities in Italy, a systems based approach will help to understand the technical preconditions ULLs are embedded in as well as the most relevant drivers and the interdependencies between actors. This will help to improve decision-making at the mesoscale of the neighbourhood and city, while zooming into the microscale behaviour level ofdistricts, aiming to make citizens drivers for change and creating PEDs with the greatest impacts on energy poverty reduction and resilience. A city learning community will enable cross country learning and replicability of innovative concepts and technologies.