World Energy Council partners with Arup

The World Energy Council has formed a new partnership with professional services firm Arup, which recently signed an agreement to be a project supporter for the World Energy Scenarios flagship study. As explained by Paula Kirk, Arup’s global climate change leader, “The role of project supporter will help strengthen our capabilities as well as encourage city leaders to make informed decisions about the various forms of urban energy.”

Arup and the World Energy Council will collaborate to analyse how different key urban drivers will play into the different council energy scenarios, bringing together the expertise of the World Energy Council’s global network of leaders and practitioners with Arup’s strong capabilities and experience within urban design. The results of the partnership will be fed into the World Energy Council flagship Scenarios study, to be unveiled at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul on 10 October 2016.

“With a special focus on urban innovation, Arup will be providing perspectives and analysis on a selection of resource areas that include ongoing work on e-storage, e-mobility, energy efficiency, solar energy, waste to energy, energy-water-food nexus and resilience,” said World Energy Council Secretary General Christoph Frei. “With 10,000 projects going on across the globe, Arup brings a treasure box of worldwide experience and case studies to our scenarios work.”