COPPER

To prepare Europe’s local authorities to coordinate local energy systems, Varberg Energi has joined a European-wide alliance of frontrunner municipalities, businesses, research organisations and DSO representatives to test Europe’s first wave of Local Energy Action Plans (LEAPs).

Funded by the Interreg North Sea programme, the COPPER initiative is the first Europe-wide collaboration to demonstrate LEAPs, a bundle of techniques and activities that will enable local authorities to drive locally-powered cities. 

From 2023 - 2027, COPPER will:

• Deliver six first-of-a-kind pilots for local authority-led energy planning, from logistic parks to electric vehicle (EV) fleets to entire neighbourhoods.
• Explore ways that Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and local authorities can work together to build a local energy system of storage and flexibility technologies, policies, market incentives and collaborations to help locally-powered cities thrive.
• Build data models and other tools to boost local authority’s capacity to understand and steer their local energy system

Varberg Energi’s role

As part of the project, Varberg Energi will show the development of how flexible use of electricity can give the city advantage in expansion opportunities as cities grow and electricity use increases. By connecting multiple devices to the digital platform “Nätflex”, the local energy company can control electricity use according to the load on the electricity grid.

Learn more

Learn more about COPPER here, and follow us on LinkedIn to stay informed about the COPPER project. Please address questions to contact@coppercities.eu.

COPPER is an Interreg North Sea project co-funded by the European Union.

Project start: October 2023
Project end: October 2027