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According to its engagement as an official supporter of the Covenant of Mayors initiative, Alba Local Energy Agency (ALEA) continued its energy-related activities at the county level by offering extended technical support to local authorities in their sustainable energy planning.

The Swedish Solar Expo sees a steadily increasing number of visitors and exhibitors, each year. In October of 2019, the exhibition was organized for the sixth consecutive year, with a record-breaking number of attendants.

The European project IMEAS, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Alpine Space programme, researches how territories can be supported to successfully implement low carbon energy transition strategies.

In recent years, IRE Liguria has been working on promoting electric mobility in Italy’s Liguria Region.

The Prahova County Council started running the project entitled «Extension, rehabilitation, modernisation and endowment of the integrated ambulatory of Ploiesti Obstetrics Gynecology Hospital» with non-reimbursable European funds, through the Regional Operational Program 2014-2020.

The project has been prepared and implemented in accordance with the provisions of the Energy Rehabilitation Program for Public Buildings of the Ministry of Infrastructure and includes a Cohesion fund from the financial perspective 2014-2020.

As a second step in the implementation of the 2020 Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP), Sector 1 in the city of Bucharest is continuing its energy efficiency program for apartment blocks with the replacement of energy inefficient elevators for thermally rehabilitated buildings.

In 2018, The Aegean Energy Agency (AEGEA) helped a number of island municipalities to promote energy efficiency locally by maturing projects in the fields of energy retrofitting of public buildings as well as street lighting.

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.