Challenge description

Which solutions should be put in place to encourage companies, public authorities and private persons to participate in creating, testing and implementing large scale demonstrations of clean energy and mobility solutions in an urban environment?

The challenge will focus on how to best test and implement new clean energy and mobility solutions, which can pave the way for reaching the 70% CO2 emission target reduction goal by 2030, set by the Danish government. Solutions should focus on the engagement of companies, public authorities and citizens in an urban environment.

Our challenge will focus on how to create large scale green test centres where consumers, public authorities and businesses, within a geographical area - for example a city - participate in full scale test trials of new clean energy and mobility solutions, and where the effects of an idea or technology thus can be tested in real time, and at the same time lead to a lowering of the city’s energy consumption.

Main question: 

There is a need to give green businesses better opportunities to test and implement innovative green solutions in large-scale environments. If regulatory free zones where introduced, and companies for a period could be exempted from tax-regulation. Which 5 solutions should first be tested and implemented?

Sub questions

1. How do we ensure that a whole region is collaborating on the role as facilitator of a green test centre?
2. How do we ensure transferability of the results to other cities and countries?
3. How do we organise and administrate the test trials of the new solutions, while at the same time creating a viable business case?
4. What will a city gain if it succeeds in being perceived as a green test centre in the eyes of the rest of the world. How should this be sustained over the years to come?

Challenge vision

Solutions should focus on:

• How to best engage stakeholders to participate in tests of new clean and green solutions?
• Encouraging the test participants to lower their energy consumption.
• Producing useful data and making it available for utility companies, energy- and urban planners.
• Testing solutions which afterwards are realistic to implement on a large scale.