Smart cities integrates in an innovative urban paradigm energy efficiency, by promoting both environmental and economic sustainability.
In a smart city infrastructures, services and technologies together with the public and private sector contribute in saving energy and reducing CO2 emissions. Smart grids are key to the development of smart cities.
A smart city includes the following smart grid technologies:
In smart cities, people are actors of an urban context where environmental sustainability has a central role, live in energy efficient buildings, circulate around the city in an environmental sustainable way, contribute to a cleaner environment, breath clean air and consume energy rationally.
To shape a smart city synergies are created among different actors: energy companies, public institutions, universities, local governments and cutting-edge technology companies.
Enel is playing a leading role in validating this new model. The first participating cities are:
- Genoa (Italy);
- Bari(Italy);
- Malaga (Spain);
- Buzios.(Brazil);
- Barcellona (Spain).
