Intelligent Energy - SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COMMUNITIES - 8 Innovative Projects For An Energy-Intelligent Europe

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COMMUNITIES
8 innovative projects for an energy-intelligent Europe
Status: December 2006

Sustainable Energy Communities: 8 Innovative Projects supported by the IEE Programme
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Issued by the European Commission's Intelligent Energy Executive Agency (IEEA), this report presents
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Table of contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................................. 4
3-fold Initiative for Energy Planning and Sustainable Development at Local Level (3-NITY) ..................... 6
Building in Europe Local Intelligent Energy Forums (BELIEF) ................................................................... 8
Energy Self Supply In Rural Communities (ENSRC) ............................................................................... 10
NEw Concept of local sustainable development in pilot communities (NEC) ........................................... 11
Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Insular Areas (RERINA) .................................. 13
Energy service communities in New Member States - Energy Planning and Financing Tools at Local
Level (SEC-Tools) .................................................................................................................................... 14
Sustainable Energy Communities in Urban Areas in Europe (SECURE)................................................. 16
WISE PLANS Co-operation between communities for energy action plans............................................. 17
New Projects (start 2007) ......................................................................................................................... 18
Multiplying Sustainable Energy Communities - A Blueprint for Action (MUSEC) ..................................... 19
Energy-Conscious Households in ACTION (ECHO ACTION).................................................................. 19
Achieving Energy Sustainability in Peripheral Regions of Europe (ASPIRE) ........................................... 20
Renewable Energy Sustainable Planning and Use within public Bodies in Liaison with Involved
Community Actors (RES PUBLICA) ......................................................................................................... 20
Actions and Strategies for Sustainable Growth through Community Networking and Innovative Thinking
(INNOVATIVE THINKING) ....................................................................................................................... 21
Promoting Reproducible Actions in the Communities to Improve Sustainable Energy (PRACTISE) ....... 21
Strategy for Energy Sustainability and Strengthening of the Planning of the Energy Use in Sustainable or
Potentially Sustainable Municipalities (ENERGY 21) ............................................................................... 22
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Introduction
What are Sustainable Energy Communities?
Every community can become sustainable,
Every community look-alikes his citizens,
Every citizen can make a change.
Sustainable Energy Communities (SEC) can be defined as:
Local communities in which politicians, planners, project developers market actors and citizens actively co-operate
to develop high degrees of intelligent energy supply, favouring renewable energy sources, together with a
conscientious application of energy efficiency measures.
SECs in a nutshell
IEE programme is intended to support the emergence of pioneer Sustainable Energy Communities. These
Communities should demonstrate the applications aimed at implementation of integrated energy patterns, e.g.
improved security of energy supply, better use of renewable energies, reduction of energy intensity, greater use of
biofuels for transport, reduction of CO2 emissions, etc. and can become showcases for the dissemination of those
concepts around Europe.
This development is only possible as a result of the strong commitment from the relevant local authorities, and
includes energy end-users as well as technical experts, academics, private companies from across Europe.
SEC actions
The Target Areas of SECs correspond to three main axes; the local policy making, the local energy citizenship and
the local energy market.
The three axes of Sustainable Energy Communities
POLICY
MAKING
ENERGY ENERGY
CITIZENSHIP MARKET
These are axes along which a sustainable energy community has to develop in order to achieve its energy policy
objectives. All three are closely interrelated, and they should all contribute to achieving common objectives in a
balanced way.
Promoting energy citizenship and mobilising local energy actors
‚ create awareness through dissemination of good practice,
‚ promote on a broad scale the social awareness on the needs for sustainable development,
‚ establish local energy partnerships involving the public sector, consumers and energy providers,
‚ introduce a “new governance” concept in the field of energy, using a “bottom up approach”, to strengthen the
consumers’ role in the energy market, and also to strengthen the role of different actors by promoting a new
energy citizenship.
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Local community planning for the efficient use of energy, renewable energies and associated
mobility
‚ stimulate local energy planning and integration of energy plans in the local development scheme,
‚ actions aimed at strengthening the commitments of key decision makers and market actors for sustainable
energy communities,
‚ reinforce the energy component of sustainable development plans targeted at a local level.
‚ launch concrete implementation measures for the establishment of SEC
Establish favourable conditions for local energy markets and services
‚ facilitate the transfers of intelligent energy technologies by implementing appropriate know how at local level
‚ develop and promote good practices to regulate and develop local energy markets
‚ stimulate an innovative approach to the reduction of RUE and RES costs (grouping for purchases and
collective maintenance contracts),
‚ tackle the short term barriers which stop the main actors (politicians, planners, developers, and citizens) from
working on SEC projects
Benefits for Sustainable Energy Communities
SECs produce substantial benefits when fighting the climate change and improve the security of energy supplies
e.g.:
‚ Communities will benefit from visibility as forerunners in the field of intelligent energy management.
‚ Adoption of SEC strategy documents will lead to smarter and better targeted local development.
‚ Implementation of sustainable energy actions will lead to cleaner more pleasant local environment.
‚ Involvement in the SEC-network will provide opportunities for know-how exchange on intelligent energy
initiatives.
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3-fold Initiative for Energy Planning and Sustainable Development at Local

Level (3-NITY)
Programme area: SAVE, Sustainable Energy Communities
Status: Ongoing
Coordinator: Hans Jacob Mydske

New Energy Performance AS (NEPAS), Norway
E-mail: Mydske@nepas.no
Tel: +47 92 60 03 07
Partners: Institute for Energy Technology, Norway
Prosjektinriktad forskning og utveckling, Sweden
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, Greece
European Foundation for Quality Management, Belgium
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Duurzaamheid en Innovatie, The
Netherlands
European Islands Energy and Environment Network, UK Sustainable
Media Farm AS, Norway Planning
Municipality of Gotland, Sweden

Results
Municipality of Skedsmo, Norway Sustainable
Sustainable
Polish Foundation for Energy Efficiency, Poland Excellence
Measures
and
Activities
Agenzija za Prestrukturiranje Energetike, Slovenia)
Region of Crete – Regional Energy Agency of Crete, Greece
Centro da Biomassa Para a Energia, Portugal
Mid Wales Energy Agency, UK
City of Palermo, Italy
Website: www.ieeprojects.net
Objective: To demonstrate the feasibility of “Sustainable Energy Communities” with

reasonable costs and human resources
Benefits: Local authorities obtain a set of methods to create “Sustainable Energy
Communities”
Keywords: Local energy planning, constant improvement
Duration: 01/2006 – 06/2008

Budget: € 1,379,800 (EU contribution: 50%)
Contract number: EIE/05/188/SI2.419825
Short description
The 3-fold initiative will develop, test and demonstrate a comprehensive set of tools, quality systems and
sustainable best practices for local energy planning and implementation. Local stakeholders will be encouraged to
apply this methodology for continuous improvement which covers 3 main areas:
‚ Sustainable Planning
This area will develop a modern planning and investment decision tool for local energy planning at several
levels in the local community, i.e. politicians, planners, energy market actors as well as the citizens.
‚ Sustainable Measures and Activities
This area will stimulate politicians, planners, energy actors and citizens to actively participate in local
sustainable energy planning and implementation through a series of events, initiatives and methodologies.
‚ Sustainable Excellence
This area will apply the EFQM-excellence model – a tool to measure the qualitative achievements of an
organisation – to local governments and municipalities. The existing framework of Communities of Practice
(CoPs) which is operated by EFQM, will be used to create a new “Sustainable Energy Communities” group.
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Expected and/or achieved results

‚ Quantitative objectives
The quantitative objective for3-NITY is to improve the level of consistency and security throughout the planning
and decision-making processes at local level. Consistency with respect to meeting international and national
regulations and standards regarding energy policy objectives, planning and target setting requirements as well
as reporting procedures is important in this respect. Security for investments and future allocations of public
resources is of critical importance for politicians and planners at local level.
‚ Qualitative objectives
The qualitative objective of the 3-NITY project is to involve all the relevant stakeholders in local energy
planning processes, and thereby improve their joint ability to make better decisions with respect to local
sustainability, and related effects e.g. job creation, social cohesion etc. A key issue of the EFQM excellence
model is that such qualitative improvements should be possible to measure, and this will be a key issues also
for the 3-NITY project. If successfully implemented, the Sustainable Excellence will secure a long-term
engagement and continuity of the 3-NITY activities within the SECs.
Lessons learnt
Although the project has not been completed it is possible to draw the following preliminary conclusions:
‚ The review of relevant experiences in Sustainable energy planning indicates that local communities that have
had success in achieving their high ambitions with respect to a sustainable, local energy development have
started off with a comprehensive energy plan. However, the main driving forces behind the planning process
can very well be other than the traditional energy aspects. Typical driving forces seem to be job-creation,
general community development, or other related important sectors for the community such as tourism, forestry
and agriculture.
‚ The 3-NITY project aims to engage citizens in the energy planning processes, and the first attempts to do so
are quite encouraging. There seems to be a great interest among citizens and other stakeholders to contribute
in such processes, mainly for the following reasons:
/ To learn how they, as citizens and business stakeholders can act more sustainable in their daily lives and
businesses.
/ Citizens seem to create a general enthusiasm by being invited to take a part in the local community
processes of this kind.
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Building in Europe Local Intelligent Energy Forums (BELIEF)

Programme area: Horizontal, Sustainable Energy Communities
Status: Ongoing
Coordinator: Energie-Cités
Jean-Pierre VALLAR
E-mail: jpvallar@energie-cites.org (or info@energie-cites.org)
Tel: +33 (0)3 81 65 36 80 (or +33 (0)3 81 65 36 85)
Partners: Energie Centre Bratislava, SK
Gemeente Zoetermeer, NL
Gemeente Delft, NL
Stadt Frankfurt, DE
Energy Agency Zoetermeer, NL
Stadt Heidelberg, DE
Agência Municipal de Energia de Gaia, PT
Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque, FR
Bistrita City Hall, RO
City of Rennes, FR
Agência Municipal de Energia de Almada, PT
Municipality of Nikea, GR
Ob7ina Beltinci, SI
Comune di Rimini, IT
Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, ES
Landeshauptstadt München, DE
Sofia Energy Agency, BG
Comune di Padova, IT
Leicester City Council, UK
Comune di Modena, IT
Grenoble Alpes Métropole, FR
Agenzia Napoletana Energia ed Ambiente, IT
London Borough of Southwark, UK
Website: www.belief-europe.org
Objective: To set up “Local Intelligent Energy Forums” and implement

“Sustainable Energy Action Plans” in 20 European
communities
Benefits: Investment planning and the involvement of relevant local
stakeholders ensure that the Action Plans are really
implemented
Keywords: Sustainable Energy Communities; Local Intelligent Energy Forums;

Sustainable Energy Action Plans
Duration: 01/2006 – 06/2008

Short description
BELIEF will promote Sustainable Energy Communities at European scale by
‚ setting up Local Intelligent Energy Forums in 20 European communities;
‚ formalising methodologies and preparing tools;
‚ improving capacity building of the 20 BELIEF communities involved;
‚ disseminating information, shining examples, results, methodologies and tools towards European local
authorities focussing on New Member States and Candidate Countries.
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‚ Creating a group of local EU pioneers showing new ways for the future
‚ Consolidating (and in some ways inventing), a EU replicable concept in line with the EU priorities on energy,
sustainability, competitiveness and innovation
‚ Using more advanced experiences to provide knowledge and know-how to the less advanced communities via
the exchange of good practice
‚ Disseminating information and methodologies widely throughout Europe, demonstrating that new ways can be
generalised everywhere
‚ Significantly improving the existing levels of energy efficiency and use of renewables in BELIEF communities
thus bringing together local stakeholders and facilitating the way forward for larger scale investments
Lessons learnt
At this stage of the project, it is too early to draw conclusions.
Nevertheless, the BELIEF launch Conference (March 2006) and the first BELIEF workshop (June 2006) allowed
the partners to come to important agreements and conclusions especially regarding three main questions: How to
define a Forum? How to create and run a Forum? How to evaluate the work and results of a Forum? These are
reported on the BELIEF website www.belief-europe.org
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Energy Self Supply In Rural Communities (ENSRC)

Programme area: Horizontal, Sustainable energy communities
Status: Ongoing
Coordinator: Waterford County Council,

Civic Offices, Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland.
info@waterfordenergy.ie
Tel: +353 51305531
Partners: BPC & Associates (Ireland)
AMESEIXAL Energy Agency Portugal (Portugal)
Black Sea Agency for Energy Management (Bulgaria),
Carmarthenshire County Council (Wales UK)
Website:
Objective: To form four energy co-operatives & provide technical and

administration support for 1 year
Benefits: Development of alternative energy sources for rural communities
Keywords: Co-operative, communities
Duration: 01/01/2006 – 0/03/2008

Budget: € 185,219
Contract number: EIE/05/108/S12.419768
Short description
Initially the project begins with the investigation of barriers and incentives to rural self supply and what methods can
be employed to overcome the barriers in each of the four participating countries. Technologies and incentives are
identified to facilitate the self-supply of renewable energy in rural areas.
Following a comprehensive consultation with farmers and community groups four energy co-operatives will be
formed. Technical and administrative support will be provided to the operation of the four co-operatives for 12
months. Energy conservation measures for co-operative members will be examined & it is planed that each co-
operative will have some form of renewable energy technology installed.
A number of feasibility studies & development plans will have to be prepared that will assist the co-operatives in
their development. A manual will be produced on the steps necessary to form and develop a self-supply energy co-
operative that could be utilised by others.

‚ Self sustaining energy co-operative in each of the participating countries.
‚ Renewable energy installation in rural areas.
‚ Consolations with farmers & community groups in relation to energy potential.
‚ Production of manual to assist the development of energy co-operatives.
‚ Energy efficiency measures for co-operative members.
Lessons learnt
‚ Communities and farmers can be slow to embrace new ideas & however ever communities contain innovative
persons who given the chance can pioneer alternative energy technology development.
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NEw Concept of local sustainable development in pilot communities (NEC)

Programme area: Horizontal, Sustainable Energy Communities
Status: ongoing
Coordinator: AEA Energy and Environmental Agency of Province of Perugia, S.p.A.

Italy
E-mail: info@aea.perugia.it
Tel +39 075 5170824
Partners: ABMEE Associatia “Agentia pentru Managementul Energiei 3i
Protectia Mediului Bra3ov” (Romania)
Municipality of Brasov (Romania)
MEA Municipal Energy Agency (Bulgaria)
Municipality of Foligno (Italy)
Regione Umbria (Italy)
Website: www.necproject.info
Objective: To create a sustainable energy community (SEC) in every involved

Country (Foligno, Brasov, Rousse)
Benefits: Involvement of citizens, politicians, and other key actors in the
project; greater awareness of the SEC concept
Keywords: Save, awareness, clean transport
Duration: 01/2006 – 12/ 2007

Budget: € 486,163 (EU contribution: 50%)
Contract number: EIE – 05 - 099
Short description
NEC project wants to create Sustainable Energy Communities in Foligno (IT), Brasov(RO) and Rousse (BG)using
pilot actions to spread a new sensibility towards the culture SEC sinking through:
‚ energy certification of the buildings;
‚ rational and efficient use of the electric energy;
‚ educational lessons in the primary schools;
‚ urban mobility: to stimulate the use of the public transport and the use of bio-combustible or methane gas.
The project foresees the attainment of its mission through the following initiatives:
‚ studies and analysis;
‚ demonstrative actions;
‚ promoting campaigns and workshops;
‚ awareness of citizens;
‚ international conference;
‚ informative and training courses.
One of the points of strength of the project NEC consists in his flawibility and adaptability to the specific demands
of the single Countries, allowing so a reply and export of the benefits envoys in light from the Project also in other
Countries currently involved not.
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‚ Develop models and tools for energy certification of buildings
‚ Certification of buildings
‚ Carrying out of boiler inspections
Lessons learnt
‚ Even if the boiler is a tool that the citizens uses always many of them are unaware of the importance of boiler
inspection
‚ Citizens don’t know what Energy Certification is and they are very reluctant to open their home to be inspected
‚ Citizens don’t know and the National and European Laws on energetic aspect.
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Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Insular Areas

(RERINA)
Programme area: Horizontal, sustainable energy communities
Status: ongoing
Coordinator: Dr Theocharis Tsoutsos

Technical University of Crete (ENV/TUC), Greece
E-mail: tsoutsos@mred.tuc.gr
Tel: +30 28210 37825
Partners: Islenet, UK
Cyprus Institute of Cnergy, Cyprus
Municipal Corporation of the Municipality of Armenous, Greece
Comune di Cabras, Italy
Regione Ciciliana, Italy
WWF Greece, Greece
Website: www.rerina.net
Objective: To address issues related to Sustainable Energy Plans for

islands and ecologically sensitive areas
Benefits: sustainable development and increased competitiveness
Keywords: Sustainable Energy Communities, Insular & Rural Energy Planning
Duration: 01/2006 –12/2007

Budget: 586419 € (EU contribution: 50%)
Short description
Integrated approaches to develop Sustainable Energy Communities in islands and ecologically sensitive areas help
implement European policies on energy, environment and sustainable development. The RERINA project develops
and applies "Sustainable Energy Plans" to achieve this objective, notably by examining suitable renewable energy
technologies, best-practices for the development of Sustainable Energy Communities and of awareness and
training campaigns, and existing and potential barriers. Inland transport issues will be be included in the
energy/transport interface.

‚ An integrated methodological approach capable to support insular communities’ stakeholders to develop and
implement efficient Sustainable Energy Plan
‚ A Practical Guide for 'Sustainable Energy Communities' Planers
‚ A typology on renewable energy technologies use; a typology on European islands and ecologically sensitive
areas
‚ Outlines, materials and suggestions as to how to organize and develop awareness and training workshops
‚ Proceedings of a European Conference on 'Sustainable Energy Communities'
Lessons learnt
It is too early to draw conclusions at the current stage of the project.
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Energy service communities in New Member States - Energy Planning and

Financing Tools at Local Level (SEC-Tools)
Programme area: SAVE, sustainable energy communities
Status: Ongoing
Coordinator: Nils Daugaard

Energy Consulting Network, Denmark
E-mail: nda@ecnetwork.dk
Tel +45 3871 0143
Partners: Strasa, Latvia
SAPE, Poland
EMD, Denmark
SEVEn, Czech Republic
CEBra, Germany
Energy Agency of Plovdiv – EAP, Bulgaria
Municipality of Karlovo, Bulgaria
Municipality of Chepelare, Bulgaria
Fedarene, Belgium
TCC – ALAL, Lithuania
Municipality of Trakai, Lithuania
Municipality of Kelme, Lithuania
Municipality of Kaisiadorys, Lithuania
Website: www.sec-tools.net
Objective: To develop and refine tools for sustainable energy practice in new
member states and candidate countries
Benefits: Local communities can realise energy sustainable energy goals: Cost
savings, uptake of renewable energy and conscious citizens
Keywords: Tool, pilot actions, dissemination
Duration: 01/2006 – 12/2008

Short description
The SEC-Tools action is dedicated to meeting the large need for energy efficiency improvement and further use of
renewable energy in communities of New Member States and Accession Countries. A core part of the action
concerns elaboration of generic tools with a view to encourage qualified sustainable energy thinking and practice.
The key target group is communities of 3,000-30,000 inhabitants; e.g. smaller communities. The tools will be
tested in nine communities in respectively Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic and Bulgaria and the project will result in
a ‘Toolbox’ on energy planning, activation of the energy market and mobilisation of end-users at local level. The
action includes a broad set of dissemination activities to help ensure the spread of the developed tools and lessons
learnt at broad scale.

‚ A main result of the action will be the elaboration of a generic Toolbox with proven, well described tools for
sustainable energy communities ready to adapt in communities at broad scale
‚ In parallel with this the action entails undertaking of specific actions in the pilot communities within the three
axes of Sustainable Energy Communities: Local energy planning, activation of the energy market and end-user
mobilisation. Part of the pilot actions will concern the practical testing and refining of the Toolbox.
‚ The elaboration and testing of Toolbox will be accompanied by various dissemination activities, i.e. comprising:
project website, regular E-Newsletter, European and local events, SEC-Tools package for media and videos on
good SEC practice.
‚ The project’s interaction of elaborating generic tools in combination with undertaking pilot actions in 9
committed communities is expected to provide a strong push to improving the basis for SEC operations around
NMS/EU
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Lessons learnt
The project team has learnt that there are the following key considerations to take into consideration in the
development and dissemination of SEC practice:
‚ WHY is it important for communities to become engaged in sustainable energy? Communities have many other
responsibilities and thus a key question is to attract their attention and showing the potential benefits in form of
saved energy costs, job creation etc.
‚ If attracted, HOW can the community best be guided through the process of creating sustainable energy
practice? The targeted communities are small and thus have often limited capacity. The project is to produce
tools that can be easily integrated in the communities’ daily reality.
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Sustainable Energy Communities in Urban Areas in Europe (SECURE)

Status: Ongoing
Coordinator: Roland Zinkernagel

City of Malmö, Sweden
roland.zinkernagel@malmo.se
+46 40 34 20 79
Partners: City of Dublin Energy Management Agency,Ireland
Tallinn City Government,Estonia
Hillerød El, Vand og Varme (Hillerød Electricity, Water and Heating
supply company),Denmark
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Limited,Sweden
Cenergia Energy Consultants,Denmark
Respect Europe,Sweden
Website: www.secureproject.org
Objective: To create standards and tools to spread sustainable energy projects

in Europe
Benefits: Pilot projects become mainstream
Keywords: Energy action plans, energy efficiency, renewable energy
Duration: 01/2006 – 12/2008

Contract number: EIE-05-125
Short description
A number of cities in Europe have implemented holistic projects in order to transform city districts to ecological
sustainability. Actions have e.g. been carried out to increase the share of renewable energy, make the use of
energy more efficient and reduce impact from traffic. Actions to increase ecological sustainability have often been
implemented simultaneously with actions to increase social and economic sustainability in the area.
The evaluation of the ecological transformation projects are often insufficient with the consequence that
dissemination fails. Demonstration projects tend to be isolated cases not putting any stamps on the prevalent ways
of working.
The SECURE project wants therefore to remove the barriers of mainstreaming results from successful
demonstration projects and other far reaching concepts for sustainable development in order to make it possible to
scale up the methods and concepts.

‚ Develop standards and tools for spreading knowledge of sustainable energy projects to entire Europe.
‚ Develop sustainable energy action plans in participating cities in cooperation with business, organizations and
universities.
‚ Implement sustainable energy action plans in participating cities.
Lessons learnt
This project has just started. It is therefore too early to draw lessons.
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WISE PLANS Co-operation between communities for energy action plans

Status: Ongoing
Coordinator: Dario Furlanetto

Consorzio Parco Lombardo della Valle del Ticino
E-mail: direzione@parcoticino.it
Tel: +39 02 97210234
Partners: Comitato Termotecnico Italiano,Italy
Fundación Doñana 21, Spain
Agencia Andaluza de la Energía, Spain
City and County of Swansea, United Kingdom
Green Land Reclamation Limited, United Kingdom
Skellefteå Kraft, Sweden
Website: www.wiseplans.eu
Objective: Development of sustainable energy action plans for a better and more
efficient use of energy
Benefits: All the local communities will take active part to the creation of the
plans and finally take advantage from them
Keywords: wise energy plans
Duration: 01/2006 - 12/2007

Budget: € 1,039,987 (50% EU contribution)
Short description
Four communities from Wales, Italy, Sweden and Spain are working co-operatively towards the objectives of the
Europe’s Sustainable Development Strategy and its policies for sustainable energy. The aim is to identify
requirements to mitigate the impacts of the production and supply of energy, to reduce emissions of CO2 from fossil
fuels and reduce dependence on external resources.
WISEPLANS’ objective is to create Sustainable Energy Action Plans in each community, taking advantage of
cross-referral between all partners in order to derive relevant, common methodologies; this will lead to the
production of high-grade, community-scale plans for a more effective use and management of local energy
resources. Guidelines for best practices to plan Sustainable Energy Communities will be defined and disseminated
to a wider community, at both national and European levels, so that further replications may be implemented more
easily and at lower levels of cost.

‚ Preparation of Sustainable Energy Action Plans for communities in ecologically sensitive regions including
natural parks, urban and rural areas
‚ Exchange of knowledge on energy solutions already adopted in the communities to improve environmental and
social conditions
‚ Engagement of local actors to support the future implementation of the Plans
‚ Promotion of the replication of the Action at both national and European level
Lessons learnt
‚ Stakeholders’ engagement is fundamental in order to produce partaken sustainable energy action plans
‚ Studying the energetic potentialities of an area is very important for a more efficient energy use and consume.
‚ The dissemination of information and a co-operation between the partners, deploying information gained
through each others’ knowledge and experience, is essential to grow a sustainability-oriented culture
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New Projects (start 2007)

The projects outlined in this part of the document were submitted under the 2005 call for proposals of the Intelligent
Energy – Europe programme and have successfully passed the evaluation. They are therefore very likely to start
later in 2006 or in early 2007.
The information provided is of a provisional nature and given for information purposes only. It does not bind legally
any of the involved parties.
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Multiplying Sustainable Energy Communities - A Blueprint for Action

(MUSEC)
Many European communities have developed interesting activities to promote energy efficiency and renewable
sources. However, although these activities can be considered as best practices, many of them remain isolated
cases and haven’t been integrated in local energy plans. This project aims to look at these practices and to develop
and implement a Sustainable Energy Community strategy for the partner communities, by transforming best
practices into "standardized" actions that gather a larger support by several stakeholders. Standardization means
learning from best practices the necessary boundary conditions, partnerships and methods that lead to a
successful replication. The combination of all the strategic plans with concrete examples of implementation from
the partner cities will create the basis for the creation of a Sustainable Energy Communities Blueprint. Emphasis
will be given on integration between adequate energy policies, innovative financing mechanisms and
communications programs.
Contact Details
Coordinamento Agende 21 Locali Italiane

Eriuccio Nora
+39 059 209434-350
coordinamento.agenda21@provincia.modena.it
Participating Countries
Italy, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark
Energy-Conscious Households in ACTION (ECHO ACTION)

Difficulty in family lifestyle changes is one of the strongest barriers that Local Authorities have to overcome in order
to promote and develop sustainability issues in their territories. ECHO ACTION aims at creating a model of active
and voluntary involvement of families, local economic actors and financial institutes, co-ordinated by the local
energy agency, for the contribution to the carrying out of local energy plans. This goal will be achieved by dividing
families into working groups. The project runs on a double track. On one side it addresses families, i.e. final users,
in order to direct “demand side” towards more responsible energy use. On the other it addresses technology
providers, as well as financial institutes. A first level of actions will regard a critical revision of lifestyles and a
revision of consumptions, a second one will focus on the implementation of low cost solutions and a third one will
help those families who intend to realise more complex and expensive actions.
Contact Details
AGIRE - AGENZIA VENEZIANA PER L'ENERGIA

Mr. Edoardo TOGNON
+39-0415094251
tognon@veneziaenergia.it
Italy, Portugal, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Bulgaria, Lithuania
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Achieving Energy Sustainability in Peripheral Regions of Europe (ASPIRE)

Achieving economic sustainability in regions peripheral to the metropolitan centres of the EU is a challenge. The
proposal aims to demonstrate the role that energy plays in the economic and social development of communities,
and how better integration of sustainable energy measures can directly contribute to overall economic
sustainability. Through a combination of education, capacity building and action planning, working with key
stakeholders and citizens, the proposal will define criteria and programmes (articulated in Sustainable Energy
Action Plans) to create Sustainable Energy Communities in such peripheral communities of the EU. These actions
will aim to produce multiple positive effects: creating and safeguarding jobs; new markets for renewable resources
and energy services; new instruments to finance and support the energy sector at local level. Involvement of a
multitude of local actors in 10 Member/Accession states will raise awareness of the opportunities deriving from
sound, bottom-up energy sustainability planning, so as to foster replication of the action.
Contact Details
Cornwall County Council

Brian Shipman
+44 1872 322 608
bshipman@cornwall.gov.uk
United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia
Renewable Energy Sustainable Planning and Use within public Bodies in

Liaison with Involved Community Actors (RES PUBLICA)
The RES PUBLICA project starts from the need for a local sustainable development towards a more effective use
of RES and RUE. The idea is to create synergies at local level between policy makers, the citizenship and market
actors through the methodology of implementation of LAg21. The partnership is made of strong public
administrations from 4 different countries with experience in the field and relevant contacts on the territory. The
main activities consist in the creation in each partner’s area of a local Energy Forum that will involve all relevant
stakeholders and lead to the production of a local Sustainable Energy programme focused on RES and RUE and
including suggestions for the updating of local planning tools. Feasibility plans for the main priorities and tasks of
the local programmes will be produced. Each Forum will work following Common guidelines and methodologies
created by the partnership making the results comparable and the activities easily replicable.
Contact Details
Provincia di Genova
Mr. Dario Miroglio
+39 010 5499888
miroglio@provincia.genova.it
Italy, Germany, Hungary, Spain
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Actions and Strategies for Sustainable Growth through Community

Networking and Innovative Thinking (INNOVATIVE THINKING)
This project focuses on the process and on making a joint commitment in the community, in order to establish long-
term sustainable development of the community towards a energy efficient and renewable energy (including
transport) dedicated community striving towards reduced dependence on fossil fuels. Building a sustainable future
needs involvement of both politicians and decision-makers, as well as community market actors, utilities, key
energy users in the community, consultants etc. Thus involving all these people necessarily needs a focus on the
PROCESS and a process like this takes time. The aim of the project is to establish and implement an action plan in
each community as a joint agreed document with key community stakeholders, such as utilities, buildings owners,
transport companies, the municipal/district council and NGOs, as well as politically accepted in the community. This
will include concrete actions, such as investment plans, as well as plans and actions for information and training. It
will be based on designed status of RES/RUE (including transport) status and possibilities per community.
Contact Details
Municipality of Dals-Ed (Dals-Eds Kommun)

Mr. Christian Nilsson
+46 534 19000
christian.nilsson@dalsed.se
Sweden, Netherlands, Latvia, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Bulgaria
Promoting Reproducible Actions in the Communities to Improve

Sustainable Energy (PRACTISE)
The Practise Project will take place in 5 countries that present big differences of energetic context in Europe. It
aims to demonstrate, evaluate and disseminate territorial community strategies able to develop a sustainable
energy action plan well balanced on the territory and regarding energy sources, whatever the geographic or socio-
economic context is.
At local level, it has been our effort to include in the partnerships all the subjects intended to play a relevant role in
the proposed actions, in order to warrant a participative involvement. PRACTISE supports, under the principle of
subsidiarity, the implementation of policies addressed by the European Union in local communities involved. The
ultimate aim of Practise project is to create a package of best practices for the creation and implementation of a
Sustainable Energy Community that will be replicable everywhere in Europe. By detecting, networking and training
the local actors involved or interested in SE, PRACTISE will permit to the communities to improve their approach to
RUE and RES.
Contact Details
Comune di Alessandria
Mr. Marco Italo Neri
00390131515461
marco.neri@comune.alessandria.it
Italy, France, Spain, Romania, United Kingdom
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Strategy for Energy Sustainability and Strengthening of the Planning of the

Energy Use in Sustainable or Potentially Sustainable Municipalities
(ENERGY 21)
The populations increase together with economic development and industrialization in the world give rise to the
increasing of energy worldwide consumption. For this reason the necessity settles down to look at of integral form
all the questions relative to the environment and development and thus to reach Sustainable Development in the
Earth. As model of sustainable development it establishes the initiative of Agenda 21, settling down changes in the
activities of economic development. From European point of view it establishes the reach of an European
Sustainable Development by means of national, regional and local strategies with the obligatory to develop A21 on
different scales, concentrating itself in the premises, all and each one of the framed municipalities in European
Union. For a correct implementation of A21, the approach settles down therefore "bottom-up".
The main aim of ENERGY 21 is settling to reach the energy sustainability and the strengthening of the
development of A21. The Elaboration and Definition of a Plan of Performance that will fortify the process of Local
Agenda 21 in the section of Energy and Consumption will be the main result of the project.
Contact Details
Excma. Diputación Provincial de Huelva

Mr. Antonio CÁCERES MORA
+34 959 49 47 79
acaceres@diphuelva.org
Spain, Italy, Bulgaria, Lithunia, Greece
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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY COMMUNITIES

8 innovative projects for an energy-intelligent Europe

Status: December 2006

The three axes of Sustainable Energy Communities

3-fold Initiative for Energy Planning and Sustainable Development at Local

Coordinator: Hans Jacob Mydske

Municipality of Gotland, Sweden

Objective: To demonstrate the feasibility of “Sustainable Energy Communities” with

Keywords: Local energy planning, constant improvement

Duration: 01/2006 – 06/2008

Expected and/or achieved results

Building in Europe Local Intelligent Energy Forums (BELIEF)

Objective: To set up “Local Intelligent Energy Forums” and implement

Keywords: Sustainable Energy Communities; Local Intelligent Energy Forums;

Duration: 01/2006 – 06/2008

Expected and/or achieved results

Energy Self Supply In Rural Communities (ENSRC)

Coordinator: Waterford County Council,

Objective: To form four energy co-operatives & provide technical and

Keywords: Co-operative, communities

Duration: 01/01/2006 – 0/03/2008

Expected and/or achieved results

NEw Concept of local sustainable development in pilot communities (NEC)

Coordinator: AEA Energy and Environmental Agency of Province of Perugia, S.p.A.

Objective: To create a sustainable energy community (SEC) in every involved

Keywords: Save, awareness, clean transport

Duration: 01/2006 – 12/ 2007

Expected and/or achieved results

Integration of Renewable Energy Technologies in Rural Insular Areas

Coordinator: Dr Theocharis Tsoutsos

Objective: To address issues related to Sustainable Energy Plans for

Keywords: Sustainable Energy Communities, Insular & Rural Energy Planning

Duration: 01/2006 –12/2007

Expected and/or achieved results

Energy service communities in New Member States - Energy Planning and

Coordinator: Nils Daugaard

Keywords: Tool, pilot actions, dissemination

Duration: 01/2006 – 12/2008

Expected and/or achieved results

Sustainable Energy Communities in Urban Areas in Europe (SECURE)

Coordinator: Roland Zinkernagel

Objective: To create standards and tools to spread sustainable energy projects

Keywords: Energy action plans, energy efficiency, renewable energy

Duration: 01/2006 – 12/2008

Expected and/or achieved results

WISE PLANS Co-operation between communities for energy action plans

Coordinator: Dario Furlanetto

Keywords: wise energy plans

Duration: 01/2006 - 12/2007

Expected and/or achieved results

New Projects (start 2007)

Multiplying Sustainable Energy Communities - A Blueprint for Action

Coordinamento Agende 21 Locali Italiane

Italy, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany, Denmark

Energy-Conscious Households in ACTION (ECHO ACTION)

AGIRE - AGENZIA VENEZIANA PER L'ENERGIA

Italy, Portugal, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Bulgaria, Lithuania

Achieving Energy Sustainability in Peripheral Regions of Europe (ASPIRE)

Cornwall County Council

Renewable Energy Sustainable Planning and Use within public Bodies in

Italy, Germany, Hungary, Spain

Actions and Strategies for Sustainable Growth through Community

Municipality of Dals-Ed (Dals-Eds Kommun)