On November 21st ASTER and Emilia-Romagna Region organized the regional event “ENERCIDAY“. A more than than 50 stakeholders in energy efficiency themes participated at the event. During the meeting the good practices and practical tools developed within Enercitee, ActEE, Clipart, Grace, SCC, Fiprec, Leean have been presented.
The web search engine EESE (EnercitEE Search Engine) developed during these last months has been presented in the morning session (www.aster.it/enercitee/eese).
In the afternoon session, sub-projects partners held a follow-up one-to-one meeting devoted to the participants interested in having more information on the good practice and discussing possible further exchange.
Materials and guidelines produced by the projects have been disseminated during the event.
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The conference aimed to promote knowledge, exchange experience and present good practices that affect the efficient use of energy and the sustainable use of natural resources in the building sector.
Representatives of Lower Silesian local authorities, subordinate units, universities, associations, firms and companies interested in the topic of energy efficiency in the building sector heard a number of presentations.
In addition to the account of EnercitEE achievements, given as a fine example of Lower Silesian activities in the field of improving energy efficiency in the region, a current status of the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in Poland was presented, in particular with respect to the requirements for public entities. Participants also had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the role of energy efficiency in the Regional Development Strategy for the Lower Silesia up to 2020 and the priorities of the Regional Operational Programme for 2014-2020, with more than 2 billion euros available for Lower Silesia in the coming years. As a good practice the construction and working of the primary school in Budzów (Stoszowice municipality) was shown in details – an example of the successful implementation of Poland’s first public passive building. During the conference, a municipal energy expert explained the nature of his work, pointing to the large savings that a community can benefit from proper and responsible energy management. Participants also heard a presentation on the advantages and disadvantages of using different types of renewable energy sources in the construction of a modern energy-efficient residential building.
]]>Polish participants were presented with a brief description of the region and its current economic and social situation. Emilia -Romagna is a densely populated (4.4 million people with more than 22 000 km2) and well-developed Italian region, with strong industry (automotive, packaging, ceramics and food) and agriculture. Although it ranks among the richest regions in the European Union, it is currently facing the global crisis, which is reflected primarily in increased unemployment. Emilia-Romagna, like other Italian regions , has always been active in the field of energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources. It is enough to say that in the popular European Covenant of Mayors initiative, which brings together local and regional authorities voluntarily committed to taking action to reduce CO2 emissions in their area, there are 128 municipalities from the region (for comparison, there are two municipalities from Lower Silesia, all Polish are 35). Therefore, it seems a perfect place to watch interesting solutions.
The first part of the visit was a small biogas plant located in San Giovanni in Persiceto, a town not very far from Bologna. This pilot installation produces biogas from locally available maize silage which is then upgraded to biomethane. The generated gas is then pumped into the national gas grid or used as fuel in vehicles. Biogas plants of this kind can heavily rely on subsidies in Italy (such as Feed-in Tariff), which makes the investment profitable. Specifications: 500 m3/h of biogas produced (process temperature of 55°C), 1.2 MW installed power (only 0.9 MW used), consumes annually about 18,500 tons of biomass (mainly maize silage and agricultural by-products), the cultivation area of about 340 hectares.
The participants then visited one of the largest waste incineration plant in Italy, operated by a municipal company HERA. This modern incinerator meets even the most stringent EU regulations and requirements regarding emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere. Extensive monitoring system continuously monitors all operating parameters and displays them on a dedicated website available for everybody. Completely rebuilt and modernized in 2005, the plant has two independent lines, each of which processes 300 tons of mixed municipal and special waste (including hazardous) per day. Heat recovery is made possible by the operation of a special cogeneration station. 130 million kWh of electricity (serving 50 000 households) and 30 million Mcal of heat (serving 3 000 households) produced annually is then transmitted to the national grid and district heating system. Yearly production of thermal and electrical energy from waste equals to about 37,000 tons of heating oil, which would have to be burned. The plant serves as a fine example of a technologically advanced cogeneration plant, providing very much needed energy to the local population but also utilising the problem of waste.
The next point in the agenda was visiting the urban exhibition centre to see the current energy efficient solutions in the building industry and tour of the energy-efficient student building (a dorm), which, for the most part of the year, covers its demand for electricity and heat with its own resources (installed photovoltaic panels and heat pumps, the specific structure typical of passive houses). The building also houses cafeteria, a fitness room, a reading room, laundry and other facilities.
Finally, the program of the study visit was met with great interest from Lower Silesian local and regional authority representatives, who often discussed the presented sites and solutions in details. They also emphasized the need for more such events. After all nothing is so inspiring as watching others.
]]>Showing the implementation of EU energy directives into regional policies and practices as well as giving practical implementation examples – these were the main objectives of the final conference organized by the Mini-Programme Coordination Office, the coordinating team of the Saxon Lead Partner.
Many interesting examples of implementing energy efficiency into policies and translating energy efficiency into real practices have been given. The audience made use of the large break foreseen in order to enable discussions and all partners concluded at the end of the day that the final conference has been a successful one giving them the hope that the results presented will find their way into many other European region.
More information and all presentations are available for download here
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Die Broschüre steht hier zum Download bereit oder ist kostenfrei als print-Version erhältlich:
Ansprechpartnerin: Anne Schulz, anne.schulz@smul.sachsen.de, Tel.: 0351/2612 5510
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Themenschwerpunkte waren dabei energieeffiziente Gebäude, Bewusstseinsbildung und Sensibilisierung, Finanzierungsmodelle und –programme sowie konzeptionelle und planerische Maßnahmen für die Kommunalverwaltung. Viele dieser Ergebnisse sind übertragbar und stehen nun Kommunen, Bürgern und anderen interessierten Akteuren zur Weiternutzung zur Verfügung.
Nach der Eröffnung der Veranstaltung durch Staatsminister Frank Kupfer und einer Einführung in die Thematik durch den Geschäftsführer der Sächsischen Energieagentur SAENA GmbH wurden in kurzen Blitzlichtvorträgen die wichtigsten Ergebnisse vorgestellt. Anschließend hatten die mehr als 80 Teilnehmer auf dem Markt der Möglichkeiten Gelegenheit, mit den Projektbearbeitern und weiteren Akteuren ins Gespräch zu kommen, sich eingehender über die Ergebnisse zu informieren und diese auch in Form von Publikationen mitzunehmen. Am Nachmittag diskutierten Vertreter des SMUL und der SAENA sowie die Referenten aus den Teilprojekten im Rahmen des Programmpunktes Energieeffizienz im Dialog über die Nutzbarkeit und Weiterentwicklung der vorgestellten Ergebnisse sowie über den aus ihrer Sicht zukünftigen Handlungsbedarf in Sachen Energieeffizienz in Sachsen.
Die Broschüre „Sachsen trifft Europa: Innovative Ergebnisse für mehr Energieeffizienz in Kommunen und bei den Bürgern“ fasst die wichtigsten Aktivitäten und Ergebnisse in Sachsen zusammen. Die gedruckte deutschsprachige Version ist kostenlos und kann sowohl telefonisch 0351/2612 5510 als auch per E-Mail anne.schulz@smul.sachsen.de bestellt werden.
Für Online-Nutzer steht sie in Kürze zum Download im Internet bereit.
Die Präsentationen der Kurzvorträge sowie weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.
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On 24 April 2013 EnercitEE hosted a quite special dissemination event at the Committee of the Regions (CoR) Building in Brussels.
The idea of such an event was to ensure that interested European, regional and local authorities/stakeholders get to know EnercitEE, its activities and achievements and take this knowledge back to their regions. Therefore the EnercitEE partnership organised a lunch reception in connection with a meeting of one of the CoR commissions – the Commission for Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE).
The ENVE Commission allows for representatives from local and regional authorities to discuss the formulation of policies and to promote best practices in their fields of competence: Environment policy, climate change adaptation and mitigation; renewable energy, trans-European networks in the energy sector and new energy policies; and space policy. The ENVE commission cooperates with the European Commission, especially DG Environment, DG Climate Action, DG Energy (http://cor.europa.eu/en/activities/commissions/enve/Pages/enve.aspx)
The lunch reception offered EnercitEE and its project partners from Haute Savoie, Emilia Romagna, Lower Silesia, Smaland and Saxony the great possibility to give an overview of their personal commitments, ambitious tasks, challenges and outcomes of the project. Besides short statements from 5 European regions, the audience was provided with material, achievements and practical approaches from the project and the 11 sub-projects:
More than 130 participants joint the reception and seized the opportunity to talk to EnercitEE partners about the project’s achievements. All in all a successful day for EnercitEE’s partnership spreading the great results and valuable outcomes reached by a European cooperation network.
For more information see on the EnercitEE website.
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Since both EU-projects deal with the topic of energy efficiency (and renewable energies for EmPower as well) a cooperation was planned to bring forward the topic to additional target groups and to add some additional aspects to the own point of view. While EnercitEE addresses its activities to citizens and communities, EmPower reaches additionally the target group of entrepreneurs and companies. While EnercitEE works rather on the political-strategic level, EmPower is dealing mainly with innovative technologies in the field of sustainable energy generation and distribution. However, thematic priorities and target groups of both projects meet at several points and synergistic effects should be used. This plan was successfully put into effect with the joint organisation of this technical conference.
Please find the programme here.
The presentations are available for download here.
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