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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Regional facilitation service for Energy Performance Contracting in Podravje

ENERGAP provides efficient support for municipalities, companies, ESCOs and SMEs as potential ESCOs by offering advice and useful tools (quick-checks, guides), running an enquiry service, holding regional events and assisting project development and implementation.

The online tool for energy statistics, Energiluppen

The free online tool Energiluppen is created to help the municipalities in Northern Sweden to get an overview of their energy usage and CO2 emissions.

Energy Efficiency Through Social Innovation in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region

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 in order to create a digital application for the monitoring of energy consumption.

Tipperary Healthy Homes case study – Aileen McCarthy

The 2018 Tipperary Healthy Homes scheme is aimed at Tipperary homeowners in pre-2006 built homes with a goal to move the homeowner away from fossil fuel heating systems and replace them with a heat pump, along with other measures that will raise the Building Energy Rating to a near A3.

SuperHome case study – Yvonne Doyle

A SuperHome is an energy-efficient home that has implemented all the cost-effective and sensible energy measures, including insulation, airtightness and advanced ventilation.

SuperHome case study – Neil & Aileen Walker

Learn the story of Neil & Aileen, fromp County Tipperary, who decided to entrust Superhomes and Tipperary Energy Agency with the renovation of their 1995-built timber frame house.

Southeast Pedals Blekinge, Sweden

SydostTrampar is a bicycle competition for working places that focuses on replacing ”unnecessary” car driving by cycling.

Building bicycle tracks in Northern Hungary

The project aim is building a local network of bicycle tracks connecting villages and small towns in three neighboring municipalities.

AGIR

AGIR is a public initiative in Region PACA, which uses a 70 m€ public fund to promote energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) actions inside the Region.

Reconstruction of a boiler plant in the district heating system with cross-border cooperation

Reconstruction of an out of date boiler plant combusting mainly natural gas in the district heating system of the small town Brumov- Bylnice aims to the improvement of energy self-sufficiency of the target region and reduction of CO2 emissions.

Copenhagen – Carbon Neutral Capital 2025

The City of Copenhagen has set the target of becoming “The World’s First Carbon Neutral Capital” by 2025, with the first step to reduce carbon emissions by 20 % by 2015, compared to 2005.

ENER-SUPPLY (Energy Efficiency and Renewables Supporting Policies in Local level for energy)

The main objective has been to strengthen the public local administration expertise within the field of energy and to create attracting investments in renewable energy sources (RES) and energy efficiency (EE).