Confluence Smarter Together Energy Grid
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✎ Corrected 27 Aug 2026 Publication date recorded for 3 sources. What changed →
A €7m slice of Lyon's Smarter Together programme (2016–2021) renovated nine buildings to half their energy use and added a megawatt of solar at Confluence — the operator's own closing figures, while the EU record still lists targets.
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Lyon Confluence's EU-funded Smarter Together programme (2016-2021, EUR7m of a EUR30m Horizon 2020 budget shared by 34 partners in eight countries) renovated nine existing buildings totalling 50,000 m2, raised solar production by 1 MW across five building installations, connected the district to a renewable district-heating network and left behind a data-monitoring system that tracks the district's energy performance.
📊 Impact
Refurbished Confluence buildings reached 96 kWh/m2/year of primary energy — a 50% reduction — saving 5,477 MWh and more than 2,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, alongside 40 electric charging points and 16 shared electric cars. All figures are the operator's own closing account.
🎓 Lesson
The delivery exceeded the plan on paper — the European record for the Lyon site sets out an aim of renovating 35,000 m2 and the operator reports 50,000 — but the same European record still says that detailed technical and financial performance will be available at a later stage, years after the programme ended. Everything quotable about what this demonstrator achieved therefore comes from the body that ran it. That is the recurring shape of the Horizon 2020 lighthouse projects in this atlas: generous documentation of what was built, and no independent account of what it did.
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Lyon Confluence's EU-funded Smarter Together programme (2016-2021, EUR7m of a EUR30m Horizon 2020 budget shared by 34 partners in eight countries)
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renovated nine existing buildings totalling 50,000 m2, raised solar production by 1 MW across five building installations, connected the district to a renewable district-heating network and left behind a data-monitoring system that tracks the district's energy performance
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Refurbished Confluence buildings reached 96 kWh/m2/year of primary energy — a 50% reduction — saving 5,477 MWh and more than 2,000 tonnes of CO2 a year
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alongside 40 electric charging points and 16 shared electric cars
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the European record for the Lyon site sets out an aim of renovating 35,000 m2 and the operator reports 50,000
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the same European record still says that detailed technical and financial performance will be available at a later stage, years after the programme ended
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Everything quotable about what this demonstrator achieved therefore comes from the body that ran it
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- regional-government
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- EU Horizon 2020 Smarter Together programme (EUR30M total across Lyon/Munich/Vienna; EUR7M for Lyon Confluence)
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Lyon Confluence — SPL Lyon Confluence (operator)
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src-16731d2f1c0367df- Publisher
- Name not classified · lyon-confluence.fr
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- web-page · language not classified
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- Record last verified
- 2026-08-02
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- 2026-08-27
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A standing programme page that carries no publication date; it is the source of the closing figures in this entry. The page states no publication date.
European Commission Smart Cities Marketplace (authority)
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src-ae26bb1cbff6317f- Publisher
- Name not classified · smart-cities-marketplace.ec.europa.eu
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-08-02
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A standing project record that carries no publication date and still lists the Lyon site aims rather than measured performance. The page states no publication date.
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Energy Cities (research)
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src-5dc10270f6c209f1- Publisher
- Name not classified · energy-cities.eu
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2020-02-21
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- 2026-08-02
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- 2026-08-27
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Confluence Smarter Together Energy Grid” — Lyon, France. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/lyon-smart-district/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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