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The Regional Energy Agency North, REA Sjever, started in 2014 the long-term energy retrofitting of the General County hospital Koprivnica into an energy efficient hospital.

In 2017, CKEA and the Kilkenny County Council embarked on an ambitious project to retrofit 1,300 street lights to LED across the city and county of Kilkenny, The Kilkenny Streetlight LED Retrofit Pilot Project.

Considering the success of previous programs launched by the French Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (Energy 2010 and AGIR) and the evolution of the national and international contexts, the Regional Council (PACA) now wants to go further in energy transition.

In February 2017, the base document for constituting the National Agreement for the energy transition of Catalunya was approved.

The Alba Local Energy Agency, ALEA, strongly promoted the Covenant for Mayors initiative (CoM) launched in 2008, identified as a great opportunity for local authorities to have coherence in their sustainable energy planning.

The Energy Efficiency Strategy - CyL, projects 79 measures with a challenge of reducing energy consumption and emissions of CO2 by more than 30%. The strategy received funding from public and private investments estimated around €800 million.

The Andalusian Energy Agency, AEA, and the Ministry of Employment, Business and Trade of the regional Government of Andalusia presented the Andalusian Electrical Mobility Roadmap 2020.

In 2011, KSSENA established the demonstration centre where a pilot operation of self-sufficient street lamps took place. Lamps are located within parks and tourist areas in the Municipality of Velenje.

Energy sufficiency is energy efficiency risen to another level. It’s about having enough, but not using too much. It’s about making other choices, so we all can live within the limits of our planet’s resources.

Avila County Council developed a regional project to provide public services for Avila citizens, making use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Think global, act local! With a new climate-friendly contracting model, the Berlin Energy Agency (BEA) is continuing its successful energy efficiency partnership with the housing cooperative Bremer Höhe in a neighborhood in Berlin’s Pankow district.

Over the past year, the Government of the Liguria Region and IRE have launched new initiatives to help cities in Liguria with their transition to smart cities. IRE’s expertise is based on its participation to variousb EU projects focusing on the topic of smart cities.

Target 2020 is an energy efficiency programme aiming to help SMEs to reduce their carbon output, improve their sustainability and fund the installation of more energy efficient equipment.

“Green Energy Investments” is a regional project managed by the North Sweden Energy Agency. The project has been supporting new business ideas within sustainability and renewable energy in the County of Norrbotten with the goal of increasing their success rate.

"At EVE, we see energy service contracts as a useful tool for promoting investment in efficiency and renewables and we will continue working to provide advice and support to any public authorities wishing to develop such contracts."

To overcome the barriers to energy-related investments in the public sector, Upper Austria has implemented the regional «Gemeinde-Energie-Programm» (GEP).

Alba Local Energy Agency (ALEA)’s priorities, in line with the new Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative, have driven the agency to set itself more ambitious goals

The process adopted by the Abruzzo Region for tackling climate change challenges has been structured in a number of key documents.

The main focus of the regional SEAP is increasing the safety and reliability of energy supply in the Zlín Region and increasing the energy efficiency and renewable energy sources development in the whole area of the Zlín Region which counts for nearly 600.000 inhabitants.