DISTRICTS of GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME Girona, March 2011

DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME Girona, March 2011

With the support of:

DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

REPORT TEAM:

Jordi Codina. Biologist Miki Rubio. Environmental scientist Mireia Vilaplana. Environmental scientist

MONITORING COMMITTEE

Jordi Mulà, vice-president of CILMA and head of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies Committee Jaume Hidalgo, Environment and Territory coordinator for Girona Provincial Council and technical secretary of CILMA Judit Vilà, CILMA technician

DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

1 DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME...... 4

2 DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME...... 5 2.1 INVESTMENT POTENTIAL ...... 5 2.2 CURRENT INVESTMENT AND INITIATIVES ...... 6

3 PRINCIPAL NEEDS, OBJECTIVES AND AMOUNT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE INVESTMENT PROGRAMME...... 8

DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

1 DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

The districts of Girona are one of the seven functional areas defined in the General Territorial Plan for Catalonia. With a population of 732,918 inhabitants, the area includes the districts of Gironès, Selva, Pla de l'Estany, Garrotxa, Ripollès, Alt Empordà and Baix Empordà, as well as part of the district of Cerdanya.

The province of Girona has a total of 221 municipalities, most of which are likely to be interested in forming part of this EU initiative and signing the Covenant.

The Girona Provincial Council (Ddgi) is the public management body in charge of providing administrative and legal support for municipalities, channelling sources of funding, identifying what needs to be done and promoting new initiatives and services to ensure the area is managed correctly. Its Environment and Territory department is behind an ambitious programme to promote sustainability specifically at a local level.

The Council of Local Initiatives for the Environment of the Districts of Girona (CILMA), which was created in 1999, is currently made up of 180 municipalities, 8 regional councils and the Girona Provincial Council itself, and it is responsible for taking into consideration the needs, demands and growing interest of municipal councils in environmental matters.

At present a number of initiatives are being undertaken in various municipalities of the districts of Girona to improve energy efficiency and promote renewable energies –on a local and regional scale– in order to favour the use of sustainable energy in this area.

Within the framework of the EU's climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives, with the commitment adopted in March 2007 to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% before 2020, one of the mechanisms proposed by the European Commission to achieve this target is to increase energy efficiency by 20% and increase the establishment and use of renewable energy sources by 20%.

This strategy, known as the 20-20-20 strategy, is the basis of the Covenant of Mayors, where the European Union gives local authorities the leading role in their governance.

The Girona Provincial Council believes it is a good idea to promote this EU initiative in the districts of Girona and it has therefore decided to support the Covenant of Mayors and encourage local authorities in the Girona region to participate by creating a support structure that provides the technical and economic means to ensure that the Covenant is properly implemented. To do this, it has analysed the current situation in the area to find out what initiatives are being carried out or are in the pipeline for the next 3 years in terms of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

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2 DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

2.1 INVESTMENT POTENTIAL The local initiatives that have revealed investment potential in the Girona districts are just a sample of the potential for investment in energy efficiency and renewable energies of some of the local councils in the Girona region.

Bearing in mind that this is an area with 221 municipalities and over 500,000 inhabitants, we have also decided to present the potential for investment between the region's different municipalities.

To ascertain this investment potential, the data obtained in the market study prepared by lavola for the European Investment Bank in October 2008 on “Potential for investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy in the network of local councils for the sustainability of the province of Barcelona” have been extrapolated.

This study made it possible to determine the percentage of investment assigned by different municipal departments to energy efficiency and renewable energies projects and to apply these percentages to projects that could be carried out in the Girona region. The data are as follows:

INVESTMENT POTENTIAL EUR 121,500,000.00 Energy efficiency in municipal buildings EUR 18,500,000 Energy efficiency in public lighting EUR 13,000,000 Renewable energies in municipal buildings EUR 90,000,000 CURRENT INVESTMENT INITIATIVES EUR 72,570,162.59

These data show that the current investment programme represents 60% of the investment potential in the Girona region.

DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

2.2 CURRENT INVESTMENT AND INITIATIVES

The Girona Provincial Council presents the following investment programme, which considers the initiatives that are currently scheduled to be carried out in the districts of Girona in the short and medium term (2011-2013) to improve energy efficiency and promote renewable energy sources in the different municipalities. The investment cost is approximately EUR 72.5 million.

The time scale for implementing these local and regional initiatives covers two periods, as shown in the following diagram, and there will be various different sources of funding, which are also specified (internal and private sources of funding, loans from other authorities, etc.):

2011-2012 period 2013-2014 period

Credit Barcelona Provincial Council Credit Girona Provincial Council

Internal sources of funding

Private sources of funding

ELENA (3 years)

The following table shows the actions to be taken, grouped by type, the implementation period envisaged and the total cost of the investment, stating whether the available funding is public (owned by local councils themselves or subsidies from other public bodies), private and/or “yet to be determined” (it is not known whether the source of funding will be public or private). These actions include:

• Initiatives to install biomass boilers in public facilities, mainly in the districts of Ripollès, Garrotxa, Pla de l’Estany, Selva and Gironès, as well as one-off activities in the municipalities of Girona, Santa Cristina d’Aro, Palafrugell and Riells.

• Initiatives to improve energy efficiency in municipal facilities and/or in outdoor lighting facilities (Figueres, Camprodon, Palafrugell, Girona, Lloret de Mar, Santa Cristina d’Aro and Castell-Platja d’Aro).

• Initiatives to install photovoltaic solar energy panels (Figueres, Ordis, Girona, Lloret de Mar, Santa Cristina d’Aro and the Garrotxa district).

• Initiatives for cogeneration facilities (Lloret de Mar, Palafrugell, the municipalities of Garrotxa and the Pla de l’Estany).

• Other initiatives to promote the implementation of renewable energies and making the best use of energy: - Figueres (creating a mini-wind farm) - Girona (district heating, modernising hydroelectric power stations, etc.) - Ordis (biogas plant, micro wind turbine) - Sant Gregori (geothermal energy) - District of Garrotxa (facilities to reduce the use of fuel and micro wind turbines)

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3 PRINCIPAL NEEDS, OBJECTIVES AND AMOUNT OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

The actions to be taken to promote the Covenant of Mayors in the districts of Girona can be divided into two broad areas:

- Preparing Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) in the municipalities of the Girona region. - Carrying out local initiatives to promote energy efficiency and renewable energies as a result of SEAPs and the initiatives to be undertaken. The total cost of the technical assistance requested to carry out the investment programme is shown in the following table:

DISTRICTS OF GIRONA INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

Local funds Funds from ELENA COST OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE in 3 years (EUR) programme (EUR) Girona Coordination and technical management of Provincial the support structure 150,000 Council Technical support in promoting the 10,500 programme Training activities 12,090 Designing material to raise awareness about 7,500 CILMA local actions Supramunicipal studies 60,000 Monitoring to ensure objectives are met 36,000 Alt Empordà area technical dept. 14,000 Baix Empordà area technical dept. 40,000 Gironès area technical dept. 31,000 Selva area technical dept. 6,500 Pla de l’Estany area technical dept. 6,500 Local bodies Garrotxa area technical dept. 31,000 Ripollès-Cerdanya area technical dept. 31,000 Administrative support 75,000 Support for contractual procedures and 150,000 assistance with financing Assistance with viability studies, preparation 500,000 of SEAPs and/or master plans Expert assistance regarding renewable 105,000 energies and biomass Expert assistance regarding energy 105,000 efficiency Coordination with the programme to create 150,000 carbon reservoirs ELENA programme Methodology, application and harmonisation of emissions calculations (University of 45,000 Girona) Monitoring of SEAP and Local Agenda 21 40,000 indicators Cost of technical assistance 436,090 1,170,000 (27%) (73%) TOTAL INVESTMENT EE AND RE 72,570,162.59 € TOTAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 1,170,000.00 € REQUESTED Leverage factor 62.00