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- Delivering inclusive, affordable PCEDs in Lyon Confluence and Munich Harthof district.
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Our previous newsletters
Learn more about the scaling of PCEDs through new governance models, new financing logic, and new ways for cities to design and stress-test the options before committing. Have a look at how ASCEND cities worked on developing energy communities, citizen participation models, and affordability strategies in business modeling workshops.
Smart City Expo World Congress 2025, a three-day showcase of collaboration, innovation, and practical exchanges where ASCEND and partners advanced the mission of designing, deploying, and scaling Positive Clean Energy Districts across Europe, discussed the business models, digitalisation, people-centered governance.
ASCEND presents a comprehensive three-day programme at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, 4–6 November 2025. Explore how ASCEND cities and EU-funded partner projects create and scale Positive Clean Energy Districts across Europe.
6-9 October 2025, a three-day event filled with discussions, learning, and forward-looking collaboration around the shared mission of accelerating Positive Clean Energy Districts, followed by exemplary site visits of PCED solutions in Budapest
How to tackle one of the biggest challenges in building positive clean energy districts: bringing together that many actors, resources, and solutions into a single working system. The concept of an Urban Orchestrator.
People at the heart of the climate transition. By embracing co-creation and citizen participation across all levels of governance, ASCEND cities are designing solutions that are socially rooted and citizen-supported.
Explore how cities are taking innovative steps to decarbonise freight and mobility logistics, which are essential components that contribute to improving living conditions and reducing transport costs, noise, and pollution.
Building a Zero-Carbon Future Together. How our cities are finding creative ways to tackle the challenges encountered in integrating renewable energy generation and storage into strategies for building renovations and construction.
More light on how cities can leverage energy communities and empower citizens to facilitate local renewable energy generation, and optimize self-consumption within positive clean energy districts
The role of digitalisation in urban energy transitions, highlighting how our Digital Infrastructures & ICT Tools enable cities to integrate real-time, data-driven decision-making for smarter urban systems.
Read about how ASCEND’s distinctive approach helps the construction of Positive Clean Energy Districts.
Check out also our highlights, developments, and progress of 2024 from across the ASCEND project cities.