Preface
Cities will play a dominant role in combating global warming
and securing the energy supplies required to meet our increasing
energy service demands. The implementation of the politically
agreed restructuring of our energy and infrastructure systems
in energy cities require a unique mission, realistic goals,
active networking and transformation processes and the willingness
to restructure energy cities. Intelligent energy and infrastructure
systems and innovative technologies both on the energy production
side as well as in the consumer households will help to
redesign the energy generation and consumption patterns
while also considering the cultural context.
As a pioneer in renewable energies and in innovative and
participative energy planning Vienna demonstrates, how complex
energy models can lead to realistic and consensual solutions.
Today, the political awareness in this respect is enormous
and the positioning of energy cities is taking place now.
Vienna has all that’s required to do so and viennergy
2008 is one of the instruments along this way.
