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R. Giffinger, G. Haindlmaier, H. Hemis, H. Kramar, F. Strohmayer, K. Weninger:
"Methodology for monitoring - PLEEC Deliverable 2.4";
2015; 20 pages.

Energy efficiency is high on the European agenda. One of the goals of the European Union's 20-20-20 plan is to improve energy efficiency by 20% until 2020. However, holistic knowledge about energy efficiency potentials in cities is far from complete. Currently, a variety of individual strategies and approaches by different stakeholders tackling separate key aspects hinders strategic energy efficiency planning.
For this reason, the PLEEC project - "Planning for Energy Efficient Cities" - funded by the EU Seventh Framework Programme not only uses an integrative approach to achieve the sustainable, energy-efficient, smart city. It also argues that energy efficiency and sustainable city development should be monitored by a respective set of indicators.
Hence, this report provides a set of indicators which should describe energy efficient urban development in a quantitative way based on the definition of key fields and respective domains for energy efficient development (energy smart city profiles). This definition of indicators and their empirical elaboration is result of two surveys with city stakeholders and several workshop discussions with partners in the PLEEC-project. Correspondingly, this report provides
- an overview about the definition of indicators
- some general observations/conclusions regarding the elaboration of a list of indicators as base for a future monitoring
Besides, in the appendix you will find a selective description of energy efficient characteristics of each city based on the disposal information.

Main findings/conclusions
. Due to the heterogeneous background and status of recent information on energy efficiency in the partner cities it was not possible to use one of the existing European approaches regarding indicators.
. From a methodological point of view it was necessary to bring forward the understanding (definition, domains) of energy efficiency and to find a consensus regarding the list and definition of most relevant indicators.
. In total, 49 indicators were identified for describing different domains in 5 defined key fields of energy efficiency.
. Definitions for the indicators were elaborated in accordance with the partner cities and experts.
. The majority of data for calculating the indicator values are available in each city. However, the data coverage varies between 47% (Santiago de Compostela) and 88% (Jyväskylä).
. Reliability of data is given for most indicator calculation. The majority of indicator values is reliable, only a minority of data is missing or implausible. Only few indicators are defined by the cities in a different way.
. There is a remarkable variation in valid, plausible and missing values between the six partner cities.

Monitoring, Indicators, Smart City, Energy Efficiency, Eskilstuna, Jyväskylä, Santiago de Compostela, Stoke-on-Trent, Tartu, Turku

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_240141.pdf

Project Head Rudolf Giffinger:
Planning for energy efficient cities