Sustainable Energy Communities

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Sustainable Energy Communities

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Integrated activities

• Action combining several of the specific fields
  (SAVE,
• ALTENER and STEER) or relating to certain
  Community
• priorities
• integrating energy efficiency and renewable
  energy sources in several sectors of the economy
• combining various instruments, tools and players
  within the same action or project.

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Definition

• Sustainable Energy Communities
• Local communities in which
• politicians, market actors, citizens
• co-operate to demonstrate high
• degrees of sustainable energy supply and end-use

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Objectives

• To foster development of Sustainable
• Energy Communities committed to increasing
• their energy performance and their share of
• renewable energy sources.
• To have decision-makers of these communities lead
  by
• example and convince their citizens, companies
  and
• peers to follow suit.

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Priorities for action (1)

• Proposals with high visibility and strong
  replication potential, likely to generate
  interest at Europe-wide level.
• Proposals where a few front-running communities
  transfer their knowledge and experience to the
  large number of communities where energy issues
  are not yet being given high priority, in
  particular in less-favoured regions.
• Proposals considering several energy end-use
  sectors and covering both demand- and supply-side
  measures, including energy-efficient public
  procurement.

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Priorities for action (2)

• Proposals where local/regional governments play a
  clear leading role and where local stakeholders,
  including citizens, are closely associated.
• Proposals stimulating energy-efficient behaviour
  on the part of citizens/enterprises and promoting
  development of a local market for energy
  services.
• Proposals resulting in practical action plans
  with clear, realistic and measurable targets,
  achievement of which is monitored and widely
  communicated.

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Project examples (1)

• SEC-TOOLS
• Adoption of energy planning and financing tools
  in small and medium size municipalities in New
  Member States
• SECURE
• SEC in Urban Areas assessing of concepts as
  passive houses and a carbon neutral city
• 3-NITY
• Adoption of EFQM-excellence model for quality
  assessment in Sustainable Energy Communities

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Project examples (2)

• WISE-PLANS
• Preparation of SEC-Plans in ecologically
  sensitive regions
• BALANCE
• Development and testing of tools to evaluate
  energy and CO2 saving
• potentials at municipal level
• SErENADE Sharing Expertise in Energy Advice
• Evaluation of the existing energy advice
  provisions
• Development of on-line energy advice toolkit

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Project examples (3)

• EL-EFF REGIONBoosting efficiency in electricity
  use in 8 European regions
• ASPIREAchieving Energy Sustainability in
  Peripheral Regions of Europe
• RES PUBLICA
• Further development of the Local Agenda 21s in
  relation to energy field.