1. Gérard Magnin
Executive Director
Energy Cities
International Conference of Territorial Intelligence
"Territorial Intelligence, socio-ecological transition
and resilience of the territories"
30-31 May 2013,
Besançon (UFR SLHS, MSHE), Dijon (MSHD)
The Energy Transition:
towards which society ?

2. Energy Cities:
Where vision and action meet !
1000 cities
30 countries

3. Energy is an universal issue…

4. …as climate is a global one

5. What does that mean?
Acting on energy -> Seeing the results

6. 1 - Society and energy
organisation

7. Centralised organisation
(no relation between people)
Order is imposed from the top
From Gregory Ellison

8. Centralised grid
(no relations between customers)

9. Order emerges from the bottom
Holarchic organisation
(everybody is in relation with all others)
From Gregory Ellison

10. Distributed production
(everybody is in relation with all others)

11. Which (energy)
organisation for the future?
?

12. Which (governance)
organisation for the future?
?

13. =
=
Competition
Cooperation
Competition vs
Cooperation

14. Empowerment….

15.  Energy systems = long cycles, inerty
 Energy choices done from 40 (1st oil shock)
to 70 years ago
 A society based on abundant and cheap
energies without climate constraints
 A very changing world in all domains
Why the energy transition ?
We are at the end of a cycle. What to do now?

16. A transition towards…
Megawatt Negawatt
Supply Demand
Vertical Horizontal
State Local authorities
Centralised Decentralised
Big technologies Small & soft techn.
Fossil, Fissil Renewables
Consumers Citizens

17. 2 - Energy and
social organisation

19. Low Energy Cities
with a High Quality of Life for All

20. Low Energy Cities
with a High Quality of Life for All

21. Low Energy Cities
with a High Quality of Life for All

22. Low Energy Cities
with a High Quality of Life for All

23. Low Energy Cities
with a High Quality of Life for All

24. Low Energy Cities
with a High Quality of Life for All

25. Low Energy Cities
with a High Quality of Life for All

26. Accelerate the
Energy Transition of
Cities and Towns

28. 1 - Empowering local actors

29. 1.1 Take local control of energy supply
1.2 Unite all stakeholders in a local energy alliance
1.3 Ensure public budgets integrate energy externalities
1.4 Co-create a long-term vision to shape all policies
1.5 Eradicate local fuel poverty
1.6 Lead by example by transforming municipal energy
management
1.7 Prepare an Energy Transition Action Plan
1 - Empowering local actors

30. 2 - Knowing our territories’
resources and flows

31. 2.1 Know the territory’s metabolism so as to optimise local
potential
2.2 Identify local energy potential in order to live within our
means
2.3 Prepare a local heat plan to match need and available
resource
2.4 Create and implement a territorial bio-waste action plan
2.5 Make the best use of energy and material flows by
encouraging synergies between players
2 - Knowing our territories’
resources and flows

32. 3 - Rethinking finance in general

33. 3.1 Keep money spent on energy near to home
3.2 Collect local savings and invest them in sustainable local
energy projects
3.3 Integrate future energy prices in the economic calculations
made prior to investment decisions
3.4 Dedicate human capacities in financial engineering
3.5 Set up financial structures dedicated to the energy
transition
3 - Rethinking finance in general

34. 4 - Inventing a new local governance

35. 4.1 Create interface capacities between public authorities and
the civil society
4.2 Establish cross departmental links to avoid silo mentality
4.3 Prove that it works and create a snowball effect
4.4 Give public visibility to motivated players and citizens
4.5 Raise opportunities for experimenting new practices to
encourage their dissemination
4.6 Make arts and culture part of the energy transition process
4 - Inventing a new local governance

36. 5 - Urban planning as a way of
reducing energy use

37. 5.1 Make planning system drive territory’s energy transition
5.2 Prepare an energy retrofitting plan for the whole building
stock
5.3 Ensure that new neighbourhoods are “100%” renewable
5.4 Plan modal shift to sustainable transport
5.5 Transform railway stations into territorial structuring hubs
5.6 Design a street code to favour walking and cycling
5.7 Implement goods delivery schemes
5 - Urban planning as a way of
reducing energy use

39. Thank You!
www.energy-cities.eu
gerard.magnin@energy-cities.eu