Sharing Cities — Greenwich Smart District
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Royal Borough of Greenwich was London's demonstrator in Sharing Cities, an EU Horizon 2020 smart-district project (2016–2021) alongside Milan and Lisbon. Greenwich retrofitted homes, added solar PV and a water-source heat pump, EV charging built into street lampposts, smart-parking sensors, an e-bike loan scheme and a shared-mobility platform, all linked by a district-level energy-management system. Programme funding was about €25m.
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Integrating EV charge points into existing lampposts avoided new street furniture and became a widely replicated model for kerbside charging in dense boroughs.
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The kerbside plug, and the number nobody publishes
Where residents park on the street, charging has to go into the street furniture. All four did that. Only one of them says how often the plugs are actually used — which is the number the whole genre turns on.
| Project | Since | Status | Outcome | Evidence | Run by | Cost | Who built it, and what they admit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOX-Block Lamppost EV ChargingDortmund, 🇩🇪 | 2019 | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator, City government | not public | The utility built it into existing streetlights on a federal grant, and then published utilisation — calling five and a half per cent a very good inner-city value. |
| Sharing Cities — Greenwich Smart DistrictLondon, 🇬🇧 | 2016 | Completed | Succeeded | Official | City government | not public | Same idea, EU demonstrator money, and the lamppost approach was copied widely because it avoids new street furniture entirely. |
| Oslo's Municipal On-Street EV Charging NetworkOslo, 🇳🇴 | 2007 | Live | Scaled back | Official | City government, Private company | not public | The city's own agency has run its street network since 2007, and keeps missing its own annual targets — a modest municipal effort folded into a national tax-policy success story. |
| Delhi EV Policy & Discom-Tendered Public ChargingNew Delhi, 🇮🇳 | 2020 | Completed | Scaled back | Official | City government, Utility or public operator | not public | Tendered on the lowest price to the driver rather than the highest revenue to the state, which produced cheap public charging and nowhere near enough of it. |
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Sharing Cities — Greenwich Smart District” — London, United Kingdom. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/london-sharing-cities-greenwich/ (last verified 2026-07-17). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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