By Veronika Cerna, CEO of TWNTY Communications, member of ASCEND
Cities are setting ambitious climate and clean energy goals, yet many struggle to translate innovation into large scale deployment.
Many cities are struggling to move beyond pilot projects. In most cases, the problem is not a lack of technology or ambition, but a lack of orchestration. Clean energy initiatives are often developed in a fragmented manner, with unclear ownership, short-term funding and limited capacity to coordinate across departments and partners. As a result, promising projects fail to scale.
To address this gap, ASCEND focuses on helping cities design the positive clean energy districts that can move from experimentation to long-term implementation. Rather than treating governance, business models and digital tools as separate elements, ASCEND brings them together as core building blocks for scalable district development.
You can read more about scaling positive clean energy districts from our ASCEND member, Veronika Cerna via this link.
The article has been posted as part of the ENLIT Europe article series.
