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Through the «Pollec» program, Wallonia supports municipalities that put in place action plans in their territory to reduce energy consumption and adapt to climate change.

What do we want? More and better. When do we want it? Now! Well, over the next 30 years or so at least. And we have to seriously crack on with it or we are in trouble.

Since 2014, Energies Réunion, the energy agency in Reunion Island, is in charge of implementing and animating the national SLIME project - Local Scheme for Energy Efficiency.

The Energy Agency of the Province of Mantua, AGIRE, is acting as partner of the Life-DIADEME project, co-financed by the EU Life Programme and coordinated by Reverberi Enetec, a pioneer company experienced in smart lighting through innovative energy-saving solutions.

The purpose of the POLLEC project is to provide financial, technical and methodological support to Walloon municipalities wishing to set up a Local Energy and Climate Policy within the framework of the Covenant of Mayors.

The Society for the Development of the Province of Burgos (SODEBUR) works to promote social and economic development in rural areas of this Spanish province using different actions.

SuperHomes Ireland enables homeowners to retrofit their homes to ‘A’ BER standard. Funding is available of up to 50%.

The staff of the Jämtland Härjedalen region requested a preliminary study for the charging infrastructure of the area.

The B.&S.U. Beratungs- und Service-Gesellschaft Umwelt mbH, was the lead partner of the save@work project.

The Region of Abruzzo has developed, in coordination with the main national and EU working groups of the field (Italian State- Region Conference, Covenant of Mayors for climate and energy, FEDARENE), the guidelines for the realisation of the Regional Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC).

Nearly all district heating is biomass-based in Sweden. However, not all plants generate both heat and power. Today, there are around 300 district heating plants (<10 MWheat) that only produce heat.

In September 2015, the Basque Government approved the Decree 178/2015 on energy sustainability in the public sector of the Basque Country, that regulates energy saving, energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy in the buildings of the government, regional bodies and other organisations

Great savings can be achieved in terms of emissions, costs and time in companies and organisations if employees can commute and do business trips by bike, public transport and walking instead of going by car and using travel-free meetings.

The Swedish Solar Power Fair gathers the leading companies in solar power, energy storage and environmental technology as well as building owners and decision-makers from all over Sweden.

Thanks to ELENA, the EIB's technical assistance initiative, France’s first energy renovation public service is supporting the restoration of a thousand individual and collective housing units in Picardy (now called Hauts-de-France)’s stock of private residential properties.

Medjimurje Energy Agency Ltd., MENEA, is participating as a partner in Project RURES, which has been approved for financing through the Interreg Central Europe program.

Energy transition is a new concept that we use to say - switch to clean energy, smart and responsible energy management. In practice, this means - use of renewable energy sources and significantly improved energy efficiency.

The aim of the project is to develop the integration of solar thermal energy in district heating systems. In the region, the potential is very significant: indeed, from 400 000 m² to 1 600 000 m² of solar thermal collectors could be integrated into district heating systems.