The French newspaper “Le Monde” awarded our projects in the area of Smart Cities

07/04/2017

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4/7/2017 – Throughout the world, cities are innovating, experimenting, acting. Because they bring together a whole population of actors and are more agile than states, cities are the home of solutions, accelerators of change… In this spirit, the French newspaper Le Monde and its partners, including ENGIE, launched the second edition of the Urban Innovation Awards in autumn 2016.

Our teams mobilised strongly, since 11 initiatives contributing to changing the city were entered out of a total of 105. Today, in Lyon, an international jury awarded prizes to the projects in the areas of innovation, energy, housing, mobility and civic participation.

We were twice runner-up in the Energy category for the following projects:

01- THASSALIA, the first French marine geothermal power plant (ENGIE Cofely) – data sheet – video

02- ZOEnergy, an innovative public-private partnership offering a more healthy climate to the inhabitants of an Amsterdam neighbourhood (ENGIE Services Nederland)  – data sheet – video

 

Below is the list of the other 9 initiatives entered by ENGIE:

03- The ACCENT project – Accompany Cities in Energy Strategy – which offers an energy diagnostic of the buildings and neighbourhoods of the city (ENGIE lab)  – data sheet – FR video – ENG video

04- The NEMO project: the CLIMESPACE innovative smart tool, a virtuous refrigerating network for the city of Paris – data sheet – video

05- OPALENICA: how to make the population, including children, of this city in Poland aware of the need to make energy savings (ENGIE Services Poland) – data sheet – video

06- ENGIE’s urban simulator – SIRADEL: a decision-making and communication aid tool – data sheet – video

07- Optimized energy supply to the new neighbourhood of OVERHOEKS in Amsterdam (ENGIE Services Nederland) – data sheet – video

08- The application PLEASE which links together, on a neighbourhood scale, people demanding services and those who could meet this demand (ENGIE Ineo) – data sheet – video

09- The ALATA solar smart grid in Corsica (ENGIE Ineo) – data sheet – video

10- PetitBus: an application for sharing daily school runs (ENGIE Ineo) – data sheet – video

11-  Energy efficiency actions in 140 schools in the city of Paris (ENGIE Cofely) – data sheet – video

 

One novelty, this year, is the organization of an international edition of these awards on 2 June in Asia, at Singapore, a city-state which has emerged as one of the most spectacular urban innovation laboratories in the world. ENGIE has already submitted 3 applications for this international edition.

> Find out about other our solutions for cities on the ENGIE Business Solutions platform.