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In 2008, Stockholm City Council appointed Stockholm Royal Seaport as the next environmentally profiled city district and model for sustainable urban planning. The goal is that Stockholm Royal Seaport will be a fossil-fuel-free city district with low resource use and a high degree of circularity. During the bright summer days with up to 18 hours of sunshine, solar electricity can potentially cover the annual property electricity demand. In addition there is a city-wide challenge of cutting peak loads that occur, especially during cold winter days, that could be addressed by local storage. The City initiated pre-feasibility studies to explore the potential of designing a fossil fuel free energy system for the last neighbourhood to be built, accommodating between 4,000-6,000 households. The pre-planning process has just begun, but decisions on decentralised energy systems will have to be made within the next two years. The design process for the infrastructure will begin 2021/22 with construction starting earliest by 2023.
The challenge is to provide a storage system combining seasonal storage of electricity with a back-up of short-time storage for cutting peak-loads. Seasonal storage solutions should have a capacity of up to 6 months for 1GWh locally generated electricity. Short-time storage should have a capacity of up to 7 days for an additional 20 MWh. The decentralised system should be cost-effective, durable, reliable, low maintenance and replicable. Technical solutions should be produced in a socially sustainable way.