Meet the Alliance

Ghent will pilot grid resilience incentives for an ‘all-electric’ neighbourhood. The Mariakerke district aims to be climate neutral by 2050. Ghent will work with DSO Fluvius to test a system for rewarding providers of flexibility services like dynamic energy storage. 

Bremen will partner with shared mobility provider Cambio Bremen to pilot new electric vehicle infrastructure for 20 EVs in car-sharing stations, aiming to monitor, assess and plan for the effects of EV mobility on the city’s grid. 

Antwerp will pilot solutions to reduce the peak demand of electric vehicles (EVs) and electric heating, using energy management software and bi-directional charging to smooth daily demand from EVs while updating its Strategic Energy Vision for heating. 

Dordrecht will support one of the first climate-neutral business parks in Europe, DistriPark, with a pilot for energy planning and flexibility support.  

Fredericia will test the creation of a virtual energy community to support its growing need for flexibility as it invests in green hydrogen storage and the electrification of its local industry.  

As the municipal-owned DSO for the Swedish town of Varberg, Varberg Energi will build a city-wide virtual power plant within COPPER. The Nätflex network will provide flexibility services to the town of 35,000 people. 

Climate Alliance brings its membership of 2,000 cities to ensure the key lessons from COPPER pilots are exchanged all across Europe, aiming to kick-start a wave of local energy action planning across Europe.  

E.DSO brings its position as a European representative for Distribution System Operators (with 36 DSOs from 19 countries) to bring the key perspective of Europe’s DSOs to the initiative and find collaboration models between DSOs and municipalities. 

Cleantech International brings its global innovation community of climate technology businesses to support a series of matchmaking workshops between solution providers and European cities. 

cambio Carsharing is a European car-sharing provider with a fleet of over 4,800 vehicles in Germany and Belgium. In COPPER, cambio Carsharing will work with the local DSO of Bremen, Wesernetz, to analyse data from the Bremen pilot and provide actionable advice to other European cities managing the grid impact of city-level shared electric mobility. 

As the local branch of cambio Carsharing, cambio Bremen will partner with the city of Bremen for 50:50 ownership of new electric vehicle infrastructure in Bremen's pilot. 

Center Denmark acts as the project’s provider for data collection, data science and data processing, using their experience collecting and operationalising data from 400,000 Danish households to provide data-driven solutions for the green transition. 

The University of Ghent will support the City of Ghent with modelling for the transition to an all-electric neighbourhood in Mariakerke, providing policy recommendations to the City and the local DSO Fluvius. 

Aalborg will support the Municipality of Frederica to model how electrification and power-to-X (P2X) solutions will impact the grid.