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European City Facility to support 70 sustainable energy investment plans with a total budget of 4.2M EUR

European City Facility to support 70 sustainable energy investment plans with a total budget of 4.2M EUR

The 5th EUCF has just opened today, 28 April 2023. The deadline for submitting your application is 30 June 2023, 17:00 (Brussels time).

Energy efficiency & Buildings
Heating & Cooling
Urban planning & Vision
Energy retrofitting
Emissions reduction
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Fossil-free cities

28/04/2023

The European City Facility (EUCF) supports European local governments in developing sustainable energy investement plans, by funding activities required to build up an investment plan. […]
News
Balkan Solar Roofs, a campaign to inspire and enable 500 new solar roof installations in Balkan cities

Balkan Solar Roofs, a campaign to inspire and enable 500 new solar roof installations in Balkan cities

Renewables
Energy savings
Decarbonisation
Solar energy
Local governments
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Fossil-free cities
Community energy

04/04/2023

Balkan Solar Roofs is an EUKI-funded programme that is being piloted in three cities – Poreč-Parenzo (Croatia), Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Kragujevac (Serbia) and […]
News
Join a unique capacity-building programme on innovative financing!

Join a unique capacity-building programme on innovative financing!

H2020 PROSPECT+ is launching its third call for applications. Don’t miss the opportunity!

Energy efficiency & Buildings
Mobility
Finance & Divest
Renewables
Tools & Capacity building
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Fossil-free cities

24/03/2023

Would you like to explore new ways of financing your energy and climate measures? Would you like to learn about energy performance contracting, municipal green […]
News
RePowerEU: The time has come to deploy the transition in territories.

RePowerEU: The time has come to deploy the transition in territories.

Cities have a multitude of specific needs in order to deploy the transition within the territories.

Climate neutrality
Society
Local governments
Policy measures
Local energy
Local governance
Fossil-free cities
Fair economies

16/03/2023

Growing anger, depleted public services, deteriorating social benefits, increasingly limited purchasing power, battles over water and water sharing, and a persistent sense of not being […]
Advocacy
Beyond mere implementation: Policy design principles for local energy and climate agencies

Beyond mere implementation: Policy design principles for local energy and climate agencies

Policy brief to design local energy and climate agencies

Policy measures
Local energy
Local governance
Fossil-free cities

14/03/2023

In the spirit of the French definition, local energy and climate agencies should be agencies of “partnership and territorial engineering”. Using the territory as a […]
Publications
The evolving glossary of a fair and resource-wise local economy

The evolving glossary of a fair and resource-wise local economy

Decoding sufficiency

Local governments
Local energy
Fair economies

21/02/2023

In its “Resource-wise and socially-just economy” Hub, Energy Cities aims at giving local governments all the tools they need to shift their economies towards a […]
News
Cities’ response to the energy crisis paving the way for Europe’s energy transition

Cities’ response to the energy crisis paving the way for Europe’s energy transition

How can the EU further support cities in their efforts to tackle the energy crisis while implementing the transition?

Energy efficiency & Buildings
Heating & Cooling
Renewables
Energy democracy
Lifestyle & Behaviour
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Local governance
Fossil-free cities
Fair economies

03/02/2023

This year’s Covenant of Mayors Conference on March 30, 2023, will focus on the local response to the energy crisis and how it is paving the way for Europe’s energy transition.
Publications
Stories of Change – Energy Cities’ Impact Report 2022

Stories of Change – Energy Cities’ Impact Report 2022

Participative governance
Energy democracy
Cooperation
European policies
Quality of life
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Local governance
Fossil-free cities
Community energy
Food systems
Fair economies

02/02/2023

“Staying on course for our mission amidst somuch turmoil requires a great deal of agility and humility, as we need to constantly recalibrate the tools, […]
News
Launch of the EU Energy Communities Map

Launch of the EU Energy Communities Map

Whether you are looking for an overview of Europe's energy communities, willing to discover the energy communities around you, or part of an energy community yourself... This map is for you!

Participative governance
Renewables
Energy democracy
Citizen engagement
Economic models
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Community energy

30/01/2023

The European Commission’s Energy Community Repository has just launched its interactive map of energy communities in Europe. Based on an inventory created by the EU-funded […]
News
What you need (to boost your community energy project), do you know we’ve got it?*

What you need (to boost your community energy project), do you know we’ve got it?*

The EU's Energy Communities Repository has a diversified technical assistance scheme for you

Tools & Capacity building
Energy democracy
Citizen engagement
Energy self-sufficiency
Local energy
Community energy

19/10/2022

Support from experts, national capacity-building activities, peer-learning… The Energy Communities Repository, funded by the European Commission, offers support to energy communities regardless of their development […]