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EnR Library of best practices

Welcome to our online library of best practice projects of our member agencies. We have a portfolio of diverse projects relating to energy efficiency, renewable energy, behavioural insights, and links with all relevant elements of the European Green Deal. By selecting a particular project which may be of interest to you, you can click further to navigate you to a more detailed factsheet about the project. The factsheets provide more information about the main goals of project, who was involved, the main results and to which part of the Green Deal it is related.

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Factsheets

National factsheets – examples of best practices

• AEA – Austria
  > e-Radl project: Modal shift pilot campaign to change people’s habits (car to e-bike)
  > e5-programme for energy efficient municipalities: provide municipalities with practical support in the fields of EE & climate protection

• ADEME – France
  > The FAIRE Service: information & advice public service that provides free-of-charge tailored guidance on energy renovation works
  > Communication and awareness-raising campaign for the public on FAIRE service
  > SARE programme: Accompanying energy renovation of housing
  > EVE programme: Business support for reducing energy use & emissions from freight, shipping, logistics, & passenger transport
  > Exploring the experience of a home renovation works: from households’ point of view
  > A typology of households engaging in energy-efficient renovation work: studies to describe human factors to take into account when implementing EE policies
  > Operation “I ditch my car”: support system encouraging the reduction in the use of most polluting vehicles
  > The “Mobility Challenge” initiative: collective challenge to promote alternative modes of transport
  > “Innovation for off-grid access to sustainable energy” calls: Calls for proposals to support innovative energy access projects through small/medium grants
  > Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB): to transform the building sector by promoting sustainable building design & construction
  > “Positive energy Families” Challenge: Behavioural change applied to EE in companies
  > ACT-Assessing Low Carbon Transition: training materials, tools & methodologies for companies, consultancies & financial institutions to assess & support their low carbon strategies

• ADENE – Portugal
  > CERTAGRI: Circular Economy label for the agriculture sector
  > Awareness raising and promotion campaign for EE in households

• CRES – Greece
  > Green Island: Whole island energy system decarbonisation
  > PrioritEE: set of tools to strengthen the policy-making & strategic planning competencies of local & regional public authorities in the energy management of municipal public
  > MetroHESS: to reduce the energy consumption of selected metro stations

• DENA – Germany
  > Database of energy efficiency experts for government funding programme
  > Energiesprong: To develop zero-energy renovation solutions for apartment buildings

• ENEA – Italy
  > Energy audits implementation for Large Enterprises and Energy Intensive Enterprises: establishes a common framework of measures for promotion of EE through audits
  > Energy and Sustainability for Public Administration (ES-PA): improving the skills of targeted regions & local authorities in the implementation of policies & design of instruments for energy saving in public sector
  > Italy in Class A – National Training & Information Programme: to encourage large companies and SMEs to perform energy diagnostics

• ENOVA – Norway
  > Large scale demonstration of smart energy infrastructure in North-Senja: whole island smart energy infrastructure

• EST – United Kingdom
  > Efficiency for Access Coalition & Low Energy Inclusive Appliances programme (LEIA)
  > CARES & WGEs programmes in Scotland and Wales: Community energy support programmes in Scotland and Wales
  > Powerloop: Vehicle to grid demonstrator project
  > Energy Redress Scheme – Social Justice: Redistribution of voluntary payment to support vulnerable energy customers
  > Home Energy Scotland: support service to help people improve home EE, reduce their energy bills & lower their carbon footprint

• EWA – Malta
  > Investing in energy: energy audits for businesses to create a network between enterprises to work on EE measures
  > Learning your way to a greener future: provide children with an interactive educational experience on renewable energy and EE

• HEA – Hungary
  > EE awareness raising actions: to support the improvement in EE in the residential & public building usage, and business sector

• IDAE – Spain
  > Energy Renovation of Existing Buildings Programme (PAREER)
  > Energy efficient building renovation

• KAPE – Poland 
  > ELENA-Support for small and medium sized DH Companies

• MOTIVA – Finland
  > After Work-Learning from failures as a support for energy transition
  > Consumer Energy Advise: Free-of-charge advise for Finnish households
  > Solar Power for Households: consumer energy advice delivery through website to promote the use of renewable energy sources & reduction of emissions for households

• RVO – Netherlands
  > Sustainable renovation in stacked residential buildings 
  > Cloud energy optimizer: for private building management systems to reduce energy consumption
  > Expertise Centre for Heating: provides municipalities with required expertise related to heating & supports policy-making
  > The Renovation Accelerator: stimulates large-scale renovation projects of corporation homes through innovation on both demand & supply sides
  > Green Wedge: to improve the capacities & capabilities of suppliers of sustainable energy technology from SMEs in the process industry
  > Personal & up-scalable approaches for preservation of residential areas: to persuade residents to invest in sustainable preservation of their dwelling

• SEDA – Bulgaria
  > Operational programme “Innovation and Competitiveness” 2014-2020 (OPIC): energy audits & financing for EE for SMEs/business in the manufacturing sector

• SIEA – Slovakia
  > Live by energy: Information & awareness-raising programme towards citizens & public sector
  > NP Green to households: Increase of RES share on final energy consumption
  > Inovujme.sk Project: increase the innovative performance of the Slovak economy through implementation of targeted activities in all regions of the Slovak Republic

• SwissEnergy
  > Data center efficiency: EE audits, measures and label for data centres
  > Renewable heating programme: Support, information & awareness-raising to replace fossil fuels heating systems for renewable ones
  > Make Heat Simple: to extend the use of remote controlling of heating systems in secondary residences in Switzerland
  > Behavioural science informed catalogue of suitable interventions for increasing EE in SMEs
  > 2000W-Site Label: to evaluate large site developments in terms of building quality, density, mixed usage and mobility

European factsheets – examples of best practices
The factsheets present the European projects EnR members have been involved in. They provide more information about the main goals of project, who was involved, the main results and to which part of the Green Deal it is related.

• eMobility Works: integration of e-mobility in European municipalities & businesses
• EMB3RS-Heat and Cold matching platform: user-driven Energy Matching & Business prospection tool for industrial excess heat/cold reduction, recovery & redistribution
• EU Heroes-Connecting Communities: to increase deployment of community-owned solar PV systems
• LABEL2020: new label driving supply & demand of energy efficient products
• IMPULSE: integrated management support for EE in Mediterranean public buildings
• LEAP4SME: energy audits policies to enhance & support SMEs towards EE
• SHERPA: shared experiences for energy renovation in buildings by public administrations 
• STEAM-UP: Steam & management under pressure – to assess substantial & easy to reach energy-saving potential of steam systems in heavy industries 
• STRATENERGY: strategic cross-border cooperation & capitalisation of a common approach to energy saving in public buildings 
• TRACER: smart strategies for the transition in coal intensive regions