3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
and LNG, with hydrogen and e-diesel options, which are becoming more favorable over
time. In a transition to a fully sustainable transport economy, it will be crucial for
Luxembourg to consider these options within the broader European context, and to
establish and communicate clear goals and timelines.
Develop innovation engines for accelerating zero net neighborhood (ZNN) models.
This initiative focuses on implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy
technologies at the neighborhood scale. It has several components:
o Focus on schools as engagement hubs. By using schools as engagement hubs,
this proposal increases energy awareness and creates a community-centered
and location-based approach to energy efficiency and renewable energy that will
generate replicable, medium-scale energy savings across a range of different
sectors. In this way, schools take the lead in facilitating technological and cultural
shifts that eventually become embedded in the community. Students and
parents are afforded a unique opportunity to learn as part of a larger
community. Social accountability is also maximized through the focus on the
neighborhood as a geographical target. An initial ZNN would become a proof-ofconcept
that government would then replicate throughout other school districts
in the region.
o Develop an XPRIZE 62 type of approach to stimulate interest and test a
comprehensive range of implementation options. Luxembourg should also
develop a program to stimulate interest in expanding the ZNN concept beyond
energy (i.e., include the circular and sharing economy, efficient transportation,
and local entrepreneurship). The intent is to bring together neighborhood-scale
microgrid technologies, smart meter-enabled energy feedback systems, and
deep energy efficiency retrofits, to enhance community-level, renewable energy
production, community engagement, and new business model development.
Options might include traditional elements, such as energy audits and low-cost
energy retrofits, but it can also go beyond traditional measures and include
innovative concepts, such as the development of a residential microgrid using
the local school as an engagement hub. In this example, the approach would
generate a replicable, residential microgrid that balances the daytime energy
demand of schools during the late afternoon, with the evening energy demands
of households. Reductions in household- and school-related transportation
energy consumption could also be considered through the promotion of efficient
62 See http://www.xprize.org/ and links therein
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