Best practices

Exemplary projects and initiatives are implemented and replicated at local and regional level. The following best practices are categorised by topic and geographic area.

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2017

EPC Streetlight Refurbishment in the Kilkenny County

The Kilkenny Streetlight LED Retrofit Pilot Project: an ambitious project to retrofit 1,300 street lights to LED across the city…

2017

The Energy Saving Competition for Public Authorities, save@work

Save@work was an energy saving competition between 176 public office buildings over 9 participating European regions. It is about bringing…

2017

Public procurement of buses with 100% renewables target

As part of the objective of becoming 100% fossil fuel free by 2030, Kalmar County, in Sweden, has purchased biogas…

2017

Thermal Rehabilitation in Bucharest

Thousands of residents of Bucharest have benefitted from the Bucharest Sector 1 programme which aims to improve the energy efficiency…

2021

Energy Efficiency Improvement Program in Prahova County

The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Agency “AE3R Ploiesti-Prahova” is supporting 10 municipalities in the Prahova County to elaborate the…

Energy Academy Upper Austria

The OÖ Energiesparverband (OÖ ESV) offers over 30 seminars and training courses each year covering subjects in the fields of…

2017

Promoting the Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources and Energy Efficiency

The main objective of the RURES project is to exploit the potential of renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency…

2014

The fight against fuel poverty in Reunion Island with the SLIME project

Energies-Réunion SPL (Reunion island, France)

2016

Smart Islands Initiative in Greece

The Smart Initiative is a bottom-up effort of European island authorities and communities. It builds on years of collaboration between…

2015

New Passive University Building in Upper Austria region

The Anton Bruckner Private University, was built according to passive house standards, meets high requirements in terms of acoustics and…

2016

Zagreb Smart City Strategy

The main purpose of the Strategy is to determine the vision and strategic goals of the future development of smart…

2019

SIMPLA Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector PLAnning: harmonising SEAPs and SUMPs

SIMPLA is the project for Sustainable Integrated Multi-sector PLAnning that aims at empowering public authorities to develop and implement sustainable…

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