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Smart City Vienna:
Projects at its glance
Smart Cities & Regions
Objectives
• Significantly reducing emissions (CO2, greenhouse
gases,…) and, as a result, achieving EU climate protection
targets. Long-term objective: a zero emission
city, zero emission buildings as standard
• Significantly reducing energy consumption. Longterm
objective: reaching close-to-zero energy standards
in new and existing buildings by 2020
• Significnatly increasing the use of renewable sources
of energy (e.g. in public buildings)
• Raising awareness in the wider public about responsible
use of resources (energy, water)
• Giving citizens (from consumers to prosumers) an active
role by providing opportunities for actively controlling
additional areas of daily life
• Promoting multi-modal transport systems by improving
the public transport network, enhancing networking
between individual transport carriers, and significantly
reducing individual motorised transport
• Positioning Vienna as a model European environmental
city and as a leading European centre for research
and technological development at an international
level
Foto: Johannes Zinner
Foto: Michael Appelt
Aspern: Vienna’s Urban Lakeside
The 240-hectare project area makes it one of Europe’s
largest urban developments. The aspern Vienna’s Urban
Lakeside is built in the northeast of the city and will
be developed until 2028. By then in total 8,500 housing
units will accommodate 20,000 people. Furthermore,
20,000 jobs will be created in the fields of service, trade
and industry, science, research and education. Quality
of life and cooperation rank at the top of the agenda. The
project has a prime location at the centre of the economic
growth region CENTROPE, right on the Vienna-Bratislava
axis. aspern will become a new centre for Vienna’s
22nd municipal district, providing new stimuli for the
region’s economic development by creating new jobs.
Open Government Data
The City of Vienna offers a comprehensive, digital service
platform (www.wien.at). Public data and services
which are not subject to data protection are accessible
thanks to the administration’s Open Government data
policy. Fields of information include geodata, traffic
data, ecology data, budget data, or statistical data. The
new service underlines the administration’s commitment
to transparent, participatory and inclusive governance
via outreach to the public and specifically to economic
and academic sectors. The open government data
gateway is a new sub-portal of www.wien.at.
Citizens’ Solar Power Plants :
solar energy for everyone
By investing in community-funded solar power plants, Viennese
citizens have the opportunity to participate in the
development of renewable energies. Citizens’ Solar Power
Plants mark the beginning of the dawn of a solar energy
future for Vienna, and show the city’s clear commitment
to developing solar energy. In 2012 the first citizen solar
power plant opened on the site of the Donaustadt power
plant in the north of Vienna, with 2.100 photovoltaic modules
and an output of 500 kilowatt peak (kWp). The energy
is fed into the Vienna power grid and provides solar power
for approximately 200 local households. Two more plants
have been completed in the districts of Simmering and
Liesing. Compared to conventional electricity production,
harnessing the sun as an energy source saves around 800
tons of CO 2
per year. The new Citizens’ Solar Power Plant
in Simmering generates green electricity with over 2.000
panels covering a total area of approximately 3.200 m 2 .
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