Stories

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.

The Lower Austrian Photovoltaic-League awards a prize to communities that have the annual highest growth in photovoltaic (PV) capacity.

Energy efficiency in public buildings is among the main tasks for the Energetická agentura Zlínského kraje, EAZK. By joining the international project BOOSTEE-CE, a new and innovative approach in this field will be implemented in the Zlín Region.

The Energy and Climate department of IAU-IDF (Institut d’aménagement et d’urbanisme de la région Île-de-France), previously ARENE*, has launched a project dealing with the support to local authorities for the definition and the implementation of public buildings renovation strategies.

Public building users are involved and encouraged to reduce energy consumption using digital tools developed in partnerships. In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the energy agency AURA-EE, collaborated with High Schools (Picasso-Aragon Givors and Condorcet Saint-Priest) and other stakeholders.

Over the past few years, the IRE (Infrastrutture Recupero Energia Agenzia Regionale Ligure) promoted innovative financing schemes in Liguria.

The City Council of Valladolid decided to carry out the inventory of greenhouse gases, a useful tool to achieve greater efficiency as well as a reduction of its environmental impact.

A central heating network or District Heating is a hot water supply system for sanitary and heating uses (and in some cases also cooling), providing its services to different buildings from one central plant.

Our Future’s People is a sustainable energy project for secondary schools.

The aim of these energy audits is to provide to each school an energy report, which will include interventions for energy and CO2 emissions savings in different levels, up to the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) level.

Dr. Vlasta Krmelj, Director of Energy agency of Podravje, a European Energy Manager and certified expert for energy certificates for buildings has been a wonderful host in Slovenia to Dr. Fernando Noivo, Energy Municipality Manager, from Portuguese Municipality of Loures

Valladolid city council launched a new atmospheric control center called Rapid Deployment because, if required, it can be moved to any urban location.

The aim of the REPLACE project is to motivate and support people to replace their old heating systems with more efficient, environmentally-friendly alternatives, as quickly as possible.

The Tipperary Energy Agency has completed a successful retrofit of the Lahinch Leisure Centre in Co. Clare, Ireland, improving conditions for customers and decreasing both emissions and costs for managers.

The high costs and disruption involved in most energy-efficiency retrofitting projects put many people off – no matter if the work would reduce their energy bills in the long run.

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."