SEAP-PLUS (IEE/11/978/SI2.615950) Good practice and recommendations for twinning activities Guidance for information exchange on energy and climate Developed within the framework of the IEE co-funded project SEAP+: Adding to SEAP – more participants, more content across Europe IEE/11/978/S12.615950 www.seap-plus.eu For political and technical decision-makers of local and regional authorities as well as Coordinators and Supporters of the Covenant of Mayors 1 SEAP-PLUS (IEE/11/978/SI2.615950) Table of Contents INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 4 1. GOOD PRACTICES ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ................................ 5 1.1. Energy is Our Future: Enhancing local renewables – 100% renewable energy for the region Römerland Carnuntum ........................................................................................................................ 5 1.2. The Town Full of Energy: Enhancing local initiatives in energy efficiency and climate protection by implementing innovative energy policies ..................................................................... 6 1.3. Energy Loupe: A tool for planners, evaluators, politicians and curious ones to reach reliable energy data on regional and local level .............................................................................................. 8 1.4. Common strategies, joint solutions: Energy Management Services for small municipalities 10 1.5. Energy assessment in households: Reducing energy consumption in the residential sector by promoting behavioural changes ................................................................................................... 11 1.6. Enhancing sustainable transport: Nicosia’s Integrated Mobility Master Plan ...................... 12 1.7. Performing industry: Renovation a textile factory out of the 1970s .................................... 14 1.8. “Marathon 2020 - start the long run for a green future”: Planning and implementing coherent energy measures locally to reach the EU 2020 objectives ................................................ 15 1.9. Scaling up the quality of life by creating green spaces in municipalties ............................... 16 1.10. Raising awareness and fostering commitment at regional level: How to involve energy stakeholders ...................................................................................................................................... 17 2. GOOD PRACTICES ON KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND PROCESS RELATED ISSUES .............................................................................................................. 19 2.1. Joint SEAP elaboration: Meeting the requirements of CoM for a group of small neighbouring municipalities .............................................................................................................. 19 2.2. Learning on differentiated needs of small municipalities in rural areas ............................... 20 2.3. Practical learning on Swedish CoM supporting structures´ working experience ................. 21 2.4. Efficient knowledge transfer and capacity building: SEAP-PLUS catalogue of measures for small and medium-sized municipalities ............................................................................................ 22 2 SEAP-PLUS (IEE/11/978/SI2.615950) 2.5. Developing a “Covenant of Mayors” Supporting Office within the Covenant Coordinators’ structure ............................................................................................................................................ 23 2.6. Efficient knowledge transfer: Roundtables as a means of direct transfer of knowledge to local authorities ................................................................................................................................. 24 2.7. Promoting implemented actions and interventions: Technical visits to specific projects ... 25 2.8. Learning to network and the importance of coordination ................................................... 26 2.9. Energy Service Companies – Overcoming the barrier of financing sustainable actions and enhancing private public partnerships .............................................................................................. 27 2.10. Reliable energy data on local level: The Energy Database of the Municipality of Genoa..... 29 2.11. Relate energy measures to local needs: Analysis of a local territory for transport sector with Geographic Information System ....................................................................................................... 30 2.12. Easy to deal public procurement procedures ....................................................................... 32 2.13. Covenant capaCITY - Selected lessons learnt on capacity building and stakeholders’ involvement ....................................................................................................................................... 33 CONCLUSIONS & FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................. 36 3 SEAP-PLUS (IEE/11/978/SI2.615950) INTRODUCTION The SEAP-PLUS project (April 1st 2012- 30th September 2014) is a project co-funded by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme of the EU. The project comprises thirteen partners from eleven European countries: Greece, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Cyprus, Austria and Slovenia. SEAP-PLUS aims at the enhancement of the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) results and impacts in both quantitative and qualitative terms by: Bringing more Signatories and Covenant Supporters or Coordinators in the CoM; Assisting them in the preparation of more and better Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs); Triggering cooperation of Local Authorities with Regional Authorities and Energy Stakeholders and cooperation between experienced and learning CoM participants. More information is available at the project website: www.seap-plus.eu This report is an outcome of Work Package 2 ’Twinning partnerships at regional level’, which divided partners to “experienced” and ”learning” organizations and created twinning pairs to facilitate the exchange of experiences. The aim was to create a common foundation for both experienced and learning European regions to enhance the integration of sustainable energy policies into regional authorities’ operations through capacity building activities. Learning regions became familiar with sustainable development and the Covenant of Mayors initiative, whilst all partners benefited from the transfer of good practices related to the compilation of SEAPs. These included: structure and standard of the content of SEAPs, energy sectors of SEAPs, Baseline Emission Inventory (BEI) methodologies and tools, energy data sources and quality, local and regional policies, important energy measures, SEAP implementation process, stakeholders’ engagement process, internal organization and coordination of municipal climate action, provision of technical support for the preparation and improvement of SEAPs, knowledge transfer etc.. This report has been developed to support regional and local authorities that intend to replicate the SEAP-PLUS twinning process and to further disseminate good practices related to the SEAP development process. The report presents a compilation of good practices and recommendations from the SEAP-PLUS twinning activities and is twofold in its structure: 1. Good practices on energy and climate change: Good practices, methodologies and tools on energy and climate change, which were exchanged during the twinning activities. 2. Good practices on knowledge transfer and process related issues: Good practices of transferring knowledge and experience identified during the twinning process. 4 SEAP-PLUS (IEE/11/978/SI2.615950) 1. GOOD PRACTICES ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE 1.1. Energy is Our Future: Enhancing local renewables – 100% renewable energy for the region Römerland Carnuntum Partners: Black Sea Regional Agency for Energy Management and Climate Alliance of Austria Target group: Politicians and/or technical staff of local and regional authorities, Covenant Supporters The town of Bruck an der Leitha (7,700 inhabitants) won the European RES Champions League 2013 in the category of 5,000 – 20,000 inhabitants, a European competition between 10.000 towns and 100 million people in 12 countries. The regional energy agency of Energy Park of Bruck/Leitha was established in 1995 and was the first that made wind measurements in the region. The vision of the organisation is to achieve 100% renewable energy for the whole region Römerland Carnuntum - a climate and energy model region comprising 30 municipalities with 70.000 people - by using exclusively the regional sustainable energy resources (RES) in order to satisfy the regional demand. The main pillars of the philosophy of the region build on the utilisation of all forms of renewable energy sources and a higher transfer of respective knowledge within the region. In 1999 the construction of a biomass plant started in Bruck/Leitha with the installed capacity of 6 MW. The biomass district heating system Bruck/Leitha is organised as cooperation between farmers of the region Bruck/Leitha and the local energy provider for electricity and gas – EVN AG. The farmers are providing fuel for the plant which includes wooden chips, shrubbery from the region and sawmill by-products. They also operate the heating station whereas EVN takes care of the district heating grid, customer relations and invoicing. The