Specific programme: Joint Programming Initiative funded through DUT 2022 programme and AEI “Proyectos de Cooperación Internacional” (Proyecto PCI2023-146015-2, financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por la Unión Europea).

APCIN code: PCI2023-146015-2

UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary

UPV/EHU PI: Rufino Javier Hernández

Project start: 01/12/2023
Project end:   30/11/2026
 

Brief description: PERSIST is a project that takes an innovation-oriented approach to tackle the challenges of decarbonizing the energy system and promoting PEDs across Europe.

The project aims to achieve a better understanding of how socio-economic, socio-cultural, and socio- political factors shape PEDs (Positive Energy Districts) and their interrelations with technological, regulatory, and investment aspects across different geographical, cultural, and economic contexts. For this purpose, it presents a comprehensive strategy for creating PEDs in urban areas, highlighting the importance of integrating innovative solutions such as flexible energy technologies and energy storage systems to achieve maximum energy efficiency and carbon reduction. It emphasizes the need for community engagement and participation to ensure the success and sustainability of the project. It also investigates the relevant conditions for PEDs across Europe and identifies the most relevant participation archetypes to develop decarbonization scenarios for an optimized flexible and participative Energy System, in an Urban Living Lab (ULL) setting. PERSIT benefits from a strong network of urban living labs (or specific pilot projects of PEDs) that represent different social practices and regulatory contexts within Europe. Within this framework it is expected to observe different cognitive norms (e.g., social aspirations, expected conform levels, environmental concerns) and different energy practices or regulations (e.g., available technology and resources, marketing practices and stakeholders, price structures).