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Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and the largest city of Poland, with a population of 1,719,000 (agglomeration - up to 3.3 million). The city’s energy initiatives are closely tied with their commitment to the Covenant of Mayors, which the city signed in 2009, and submitted a Sustainable Energy Action Plan in 2011.

Warsaw currently boasts an extremely high proportion of public transport use at nearly 60%. In this topic, the city is quite advanced, with over 50% of public transport journey are made with electric-powered trams and metro. Additionally, the municipal bus fleet includes four hybrid buses with plans to extend, among other measures to increase public transport use.

The City of Warsaw is undertaking various projects to achieve its goals under CASCADE’s thematic focus of ‘Energy efficient buildings and districts’, such as OPEN HOUSE, Low-Carbon Area, ICE-WISH and E3SoHo.

Being quite advanced in the above-mentioned two thematic focuses, Warsaw has work to popularise projects under the theme of ‘renewable energy sources (RES) and distributed energy generation’, and it has begun doing so through projects such as the RES Educational Centre.

Targets:

20% reduction of final energy use by 2020, compared to 2007 levels.
20% reduction of CO2 by 2020, compared to 2007 levels.

Examples of local initiatives:

Project OPEN HOUSE - benchmarking and mainstreaming building sustainability through creation of assessment methodology based on transparency and openness.
Project E3SoHo (ICT services for Energy Efficiency in European Social Housing) – holistic solutions for ICT-enabled energy efficient social housing developments all across Europe.
“E-Mobil Cluster” -introducing energy-efficient and environmental-friendly transport in Warsaw agglomeration, with particular emphasis on e-mobility.
Low-Carbon Area – a city area that will feature solutions on behalf of energy efficiency, natural environment and low greenhouse gas emissions, both in the field of city planning, energy networks, buildings construction, transport, waste management, and water and wastewater management.
RES Educational Centre – includes installations producing renewable energy; 8 solar collectors, 1 heat pump and 16 photovoltaic modules.