Renewables
Cities and regions are on the 100% renewables road. New technologies, new players, new governance and business models. We are witnessing a revolution. With locally-sourced renewable energy bringing numerous socio-economic benefits, Energy Cities' members are progressively shifting their energy mixes towards more renewables. The network is monitoring the advances in renewable policies at the EU, national and sub-national levels.
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European City Facility opens second call with even more resources for cities
Get financial and technical support for your local sustainable energy investment plans!
The infinite energy …of people
Policy op-ed by Claire Roumet
Helsinki Energy Challenge outcomes: an artificial island, salt and a HIVE will help decarbonise heating
Key lessons include involving citizens, market forces and combining existing technology with local resources
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inspiring minds View all portraits
Community energy from scratch
Voices from the ECF collaboration lab
2020 was a tough year and never before has the need for local resilience and solidarity been stronger. One extraordinary means for increasing solidarity while […]
It’s all in the mix…of consumers.
Claudia Carani (AESS) and Sara Capuzzo (enostra)
We have interviewed two amazing women and we have talked with them about the right political triggers for renewables in Italy, about the place of […]
“There is a kind of movement that cannot be stopped.”
Juan Eguidazu (E+P Cooperativa) and Javier Zardoya Pamplona (Municipal Energy Agency of Pamplona)
Since almost 20 years the region of Navarra in the North of Spain pioneers with wind and more and more with solar energy. Now, building […]
Best Practices View all Best Practices
Innovative energy solutions for subsidized housing
A developpers competition for energy efficient timber buildings
Crowd investing for solar roofs in Križevci
Publications View all Publications
Finance your sustainable and climate action: Experience from 195 public authorities in your hands for learning and replication
A comprehensive guide
Innovative financing is often an option for local energy and climate projects, but cities and regions need to know better how to activate and use […]
Success Stories from PROSPECT
Over the past months, almost 200 local/regional authorities and agencies got to exchange and learn about innovative mechanisms to finance their sustainable energy and climate […]
Investment needs for the local energy transition
The case of five european cities: Ghent, Frederikshavn, Bordeaux-Métropole, Sevilla and Tallinn
This publication is relying on five examples of European cities,that are frontrunners in the local energy transition and which have put a number on their investment needs by 2050 in order to succeed in their transition. Through our case studies of the cities Ghent, Frederikshavn, Bordeaux-Métropole, Sevilla and Tallinn, all signatories of the Covenant of Mayors-Europe initiative, we have identified the local investment needs for the energy transition in different geographical, socio-economic and sectorial circumstances.
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Renewable energy partnerships
Renewable community energy engagement
At present, many local governments in Europe are eager to support their citizens in getting renewable energy projects off the ground or in taking a […]
Renewables Networking Platform
Cities and regions on the 100% renewables road
If we want to increase the number of renewable projects in Europe, we need to set up the right policy frameworks and to connect the right actors (policy-makers, citizens, companies, NGOs…) with each other. This is, what the Renewable Networking Platform project aims at, while monitoring the advances in renewable policies both at national and sub-national levels.
PROSPECT
Peer-powered cities and regions
The overall aim of PROSPECT is to enable peer-to-peer learning in regional and local authorities in order to finance and implement their sustainable energy plans.
