City Stories by Energy Cities
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City Stories by Energy Cities
Welcome to City Stories, the podcast by Energy Cities. Energy Cities is the European city network of local authorities in energy transition with over 1000 members from 30 countries. This podcast is for those who want to learn more about how cities go about with the energy transition. The challenge i...
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City-citizen collaboration: Episode on the LIFE LOOP journey for vibrant energy communities
In this episode of City Stories, I’m joined by two community energy experts I know well and I loved working with lately: my colleague Anna Francis fr...
Detox City Lapeenranta: Interview about municipal innovation in heat with Ilkka Rasanen
In this episode we interview Ilkka Räsänen, a 63-year old jovial Fin who is one of the innovation leaders in his municipality. Electricity prices in F...
City Stories of citizens engagement on the energy transition - live session
This is quite a special episode of City Stories: Our host Miriam Eisermann moderated a live session with city makers recorded on the occasion of Energ...
Detox City Mechelen: Interview about the heat transition with Ighor Vandevyver
Mechelen has already started its heat journey a while ago. The goal? To switch to a renewable heat supply for all its buildings by 2050. But what poli...
EU Peers: the Oktave success story of a regional one-stop-shop
The shortage of decent and affordable housing, both for purchase and rental, is getting deeper and deeper. Millions of homes in the EU need urgent ren...
Preparing the future in the cities of Mouscron (Belgium) and Brașov (Romania)
At the next 2025 Annual Forum, many European cities will gather in Besançon. Over two days, cities will exchange knowledge with each other and with ot...
City interventions for better health and against energy poverty
This is our second and final episode on how energy poverty affects people not only financially but also through poor health. In the previous episode w...
Interview on energy poverty and ill-health with Dr. Lucie Middlemiss and Beverley Searle
Since the energy crisis started a few years ago, we hear more often about energy or fuel poverty. But how often do we talk about the concrete challeng...
SCCALE episode about public acceptance in energy community projects
No risk, no fun. No risk, no failure… This is what experienced somme energy community pioneers on the Aland islands, an archipelago between Finland an...
SCCALE episode about community energy strategies in a small paradise in Croatia
Ugo and Franjo are, respectively, President and Manager of this energy cooperative called Apsyrtides. In this episode they tell us how community work...
SCCALE episode about degrowth & energy communities with Chris Giotsitsas
The wind has turned again for energy communities in Greece: a recent change in law now forbids, for example, the participation of businesses. This shi...
SCCALE interview about an emerging heat community in The Netherlands
Today we are in Zwolle, around 1h20 drive from Amsterdam. The town of 130.000 inhabitants has a beautiful medieval centre. Today’s guest, Olaf Heinen,...
SCCALE episode on inclusive power: Changing how we think about cities and energy access
Some say the energy transition is a great opportunity to create a more equal society. Others are more pessimistic and predict that the transition will...
SCCALE episode on public procurement for energy communities
We all try to make green choices for a more sustainable world. And so do local authorities as public buyers. Through public procurement authorities bu...
SCCALE interview with Carlo Tacconelli from EnGreen
This episode is with Carlo Tacconelli. Carlo is an international energy expert and CEO of EnGreen, anItalian renewables start-up. Carlo has 16 years o...
SCCALE episode about Czech energy transitions with Michal Svoboda, Sustainable Energy consultant
He is an ultra-runner and an ultra-communicator. When Michal Svoboda talks to Mayors about new energy practices he demonstrates both, endurance and cr...
EUCityCalc episode with Ivan Simic, Managing Director of REA North in Croatia
For this episode we traveled to Croatia: From Zagreb it takes between one and two hours by car to the much smaller towns of Koprivnica, Varazdin and V...
EUCityCalc Episode with Mantova's City Councillor Adriana Nepote
Mantova, West of Venice, is a beautiful city with a UNESCO protected core. Unfortunately, it is also surrounded by three artificial lakes that suffer...
EN FRANCAIS - Entretien avec Jean-Patrick Masson, Vice-Président, Dijon Métropole
Mise à part son excellence culinaire, la région métropolitaine a également été reconnue par la Commission européenne comme étant un leader climatique....
EUCityCalc episode with Dijon's Vice-President Jean-Patrick Masson
What do you think of when you hear Dijon? Mustard? Wine? Certainly not energy planning, right?
Yes, Dijon is located in the famous Burgundy reg...
Episode with Cristina Daniel from energy agency ENA (Portugal)
In this episode we welcome Cristina Daniel who is the managing director of the regional energy agency ENA – Energy and Environment Agency of Arrábida...
Episode with the Director of Riga's energy agency Janis Ikaunieks
What is it like to be the young director of a capital city’s energy agency? I found some answers when talking with Janiks Ikaunieks. Janis leads the R...
Episode on the financing of renewable energy projects
When a group of citizens or civil servants with no previous experience in financing starts a renewable energy project, this can be a huge challenge to...
Episode with Chloé Verlinden, co-founder of Brussels' first energy cooperative Brupower
An energy cooperative never pops out of nowhere. Rather, it grows silently with motivated citizens putting their heads together and imagining how they...
Combining historic richness with innovative energy projects
Welcome to the small city of Porec on the west coast of Croatia. Porec has a rich history and culture with an old town nerved by narrow streets from R...
Energy community in The Netherlands - Anatol Itten and Siward Zomer
The Netherlands is one of the leading countries when it comes to an energy policy taking into account many different people and sectors. The Dutch Nat...
Sufficiency is a serious game
If you’ve been following along with this podcast in the past months or more, you’ll know that we like to dig out local initiatives that might look sma...
Energy citizenship insights with Dr BinBin Pearce and Margot Vingerhoedt
Today’s guests will explore the question on how we can create a culture of energy citizenship. I sit together with two inspiring women: Dr BinBin Pear...
Katharina Habersbrunner about gender justice in energy communities
For this episode we wanted to know what it needs to spark such initiatives, how we can bring more women into it and what all this has to do with takin...
Episode with Mayor and Smart City Coordinator of the City of Žďár nad Sázavou (Czech Republic)
For this episode, our podcast host Miriam Eisermann sat down with Martin Mrkos, Mayor the City of Žďár nad Sázavou in Czech Republic. He is joined by...
Getting your local administration ready for transition roadmapping process: methods and experiences.
If you want to trigger big change in a city you essentially need 2 things: a great deal of political will and people in the administration who know ho...
Community-building around a transition roadmap: How do Brest and Valencia do that?
How do you engage individuals and local organisations in the energy transition? What does it need to make them allies in the journey towards greener c...
Co-creating the 2050 vision of one's city: How do Valencia and Dublin do that?
The City of Valencia and Dublin County are both on an ambitious trajectory: Not only do they aim for becoming greener and fairer cities by 2050. But a...
Pau Balcells about the data culture in the City of Barcelona
In this episode Miriam sits down with Pau Balcells from the Barcelona Data Office. Together they dive into the role of data to design, feed and assess...
ECF collaboration lab episode: community energy, a powerful force of change in Besançon
In this episode, two energy experts based in the East of France join us to share their plans for an energy community in the city of Besançon. Besançon...
ECF collaboration lab episode: Community power through virtual net metering in Athens area
Greece is a gifted country when it comes to renewables and it was the first EU country to have a law on energy communities all the way back in 2018. I...
Episode with Jakuta Imširović on the challenge of a just transition in a Balkan city
The city of Zenica, a coal and steel producer, lies right in the center of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jakuta talks us through the different projects of t...
Dr. Lucie Middlemiss about energy poverty in cities
We talk with Lucie Middlemiss about who the energy poor are in Leeds (and elsewhere), why they should be involved in finding the right answers, but al...
ECF collaboration episode: priority to renewables and energy poverty in Valencia
Until now, Valencia with its 800.000 inhabitants may be more known for its mild climate and lovely beaches than for its incredibly collaborative and f...
ECF collaboration lab episode: Changing mentalities is priority #1 in Campania region
Today we’re in the South of Italy: in the region of Naples, four small municipalities team up for the energy transition so as to make their place attr...