Value proposition

Energy Cooperation Platform to support industrial & business parks in becoming ecoregions that reduce emissions by 10%.

R-ACES means a step-change in the contribution of European Industry to the climate targets of the EU. The sector afterall represents 25% of all energy demand – and 50% of all cooling and heating - on the continent; yet only 16% comesfrom renewables. By focusing on collective measures and clustering, the efficiency of industry can be drasticallyincreased.The focus of R-Aces therefore is to turn high-potential, high-impact industrial clusters into EcoRegions that achieve atleast a 10% reduction in emissions. An Eco-region is an area where energy, material and information exchanges occurbetween various companies and actors to reduce waste and energy/material consumption. Each region is centeredon an (eco-)industrial park or (eco-)business park, linked to its surroundings by a 4th/5th generation district heating/cooling network.The consortium sees this project as a capping stone, condensing the knowledge and experience gathered throughoutH2020 into a set of three focused tools embedded in selected support actions. The tools consist of an assessment tool;legal decision support for joint contracts; and a smart energy management platform for clusters. The support actionsare built around peer-to-peer learning, more formal coursework and serious games.Together they enable a cluster to really become an EcoRegion and set up meaningful energy collaboration.The entire package of tools and support is aimed at the high-potential clusters identified in the European ThermalRoadmap. It will be validated in three of them (all are part of the consortium); actively deployed in another seven; anddisseminated to ninety of them. In addition, the tools and support methodology will be made available to third partiesin a sustainable way after the end of this two-year project.The project consortium consists of the entire value chain needed for energy collaboration – suppliers, ESCO, clustermanagers, support – and represents many years of proven experience in this field. EU funding No. 892429.

Industrial Symbiosis, Circular Economy, Heat Exchange, Energy Management, DHC, Sustainability, Energy Cooperation, Energy Transition, Ecoregion, Industry Cluster, Industrial Park, Industrial Region, Use Cases, Facilitator, Learning Community, Learning Network, Legal Tool, Self Assessment Tool, Serious Game, and Business Park