In the course of the POLYCITY project, three sustainable urban areas in Germany, Spain and Italy are being developed, focusing on energy efficient buildings,the use of renewable energies and large scale energy management systems.

The topic of POLYCITY’s Final Conference is Visions of Sustainable Urban Energy Systems. Highly efficient urban quarters with renewable energy supply projects from all over the world will be presented. The conference programme is already at advanced stages of planning, and a highlight of the first conference day is the evening guest speaker Dr. Franz Alt, author, journalist and TV editor. He will speak about cities of the future followed by a big POLYCITY conference party with live music and buffet.

In addition to the talks, participants will also have the chance to visit the installations which have made the project such a success, in Scharnhauser Park. They will visit the ORC biomass power plant, energy efficient public and residential buildings and an office building with a district heating powered absorption chiller.

The conference will be held in Stuttgart (DE) from 15-17 September 2010. For more information, and to register as a participant, click on to www.polycity.net.