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Grounds for Change:
Bridging Energy Planning and
Spatial Design Strategies
Charrette report , May 24th- May 30th 2005
Energy Valley The Netherlands
Grounds for Change secretariaat:
KNN Milieu B.V.
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Energy Valley The Netherlands
Grounds for Change:
Bridging Energy Planning and
Spatial Design Strategies
Edited by Fons van Dam and Klaas Jan Noorman
Groningen, October 2005

Table of contents
page
Foreword 5
General Introduction 7
Vision Statement 9
Presentations
Bridging to the Future 11
Grounds for Change: Bridging Energy Planning and Spatial Design Strategies 13
Energy challenges and constraints relevant for sustainable regional development 19
Energy Use in the Northern part of the Netherlands 23
The Energetic Strategy of Ecosystem Development and Urban/
Regional Spatial Restructuring and Regeneration 29
Exploring the role for natural gas in the transition to sustainable urban systems 39
Long range strategic sustainability concerns for the Groningen-Friesland-Drenthe region (2005-2035) 45
The Northern Netherlands: Scanning the Future 51
Results design groups
Energy-design for Energy Valley challenges 57
Design Meerstad: Visible Energy 65
Energy Plantage, Leeuwarden: Look and Feel 69
Design Assen 75
Design Emmen 79
Concluding remarks 83
Lists of participants 85

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For the charrette report
The International Gas Union (IGU) has recognized its duty as
the world organisation of the gas industry to commit itself to
search for the relation between energy design and urban
design in the future. This awareness was already present at the
22nd World Gas Conference in Tokyo in June 2003 where an
international competition on innovative urban design between
9 teams was presented with the perspective of sustainable
future over 100 years.
The IGU has now initiated the next phase of their ground-
breaking Sustainable Urban Systems Design (SUSD) initiative
with the project "Bridging to the Future".
It will engage four collaborative teams from Canada, China,
India and the Netherlands to develop energy pathways for
their urban areas around the globe. Each city's pathway will
integrate urban and energy planning, accommodate variable
energy scenarios, and use natural gas and other fossil fuels as a
bridge to renewable energy and sustainable urban systems.
The results will be presented at the next World Gas
Conference in Amsterdam in June 2006.
The Dutch team, called Grounds for Change, has presented in
May 2005 in Groningen its intermediate results, which form
the basis for this booklet.
I hope this booklet may stimulate discussions for a further
development to a more sustainable world, where people can
live in a harmonious and environment-friendly way.
George H.B. Verberg, President of IGU
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General Introduction
During the last week of May 2005 the Grounds for Change
project team organized an Energy-Spatial Design charrette.