On 25th September 2013 EnercitEE’s final conference took place in the Saxony Liaison Office in Brussels. About 100 guests from DG Energy, the European Parliament, from many regional liaison offices and federations joined the EnercitEE partners, listened to their experiences made, to the good practices presented and discussed the results with them. 

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.

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Im Rahmen der regionalen Abschlussveranstaltung am 13.06.2013 in Dresden Hellerau gedreht, fasst der Kurzfilm Ziele, Aktivitäten und Ergebnisse von EnercitEE in Sachsen zusammen:

Das europäische Energieeffizienzprojekt EnercitEE zieht Bilanz nach mehr als dreijähriger erfolgreicher Arbeit. Bei einer regionalen Abschlussveranstaltung am 13.06.2013 in Dresden Hellerau wurden viele innovative Lösungen und Instrumente aus den 10 Teilprojekten präsentiert.

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.

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From 23^th to 24^th October 2012 EnercitEE Working Group and Steering Group members as well as the Lead Sub-Project Participants from all 11 sub-projects met in Leipzig, Germany.

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GRACE was presented through a poster presentation in the framework of the IEPEC conference (International Energy Program Evaluation Conference) held in Rome from 12 to 14 June 2012.

More than 140 participants from 24 countries participated in that conference.

AESS, along with partners contributions, developed the poster about the first GRACE’s results. The poster was illustrated by Mr Antinucci on 12 June and reports – along with a brief energy profile of each region – about cost benefits of 3 incentives/grants programmes in the 3 regions involved: Passive House in Saxony (DE), Solar thermal collectors in Lower Silesia (PL) and regional 55% tax rebate in Emilia-Romagna (IT).

PDF-version of the poster

                                                                                              Written by Marcello Antinucci

To support municipal staff, staff of housing associations and local energy and climate advisors in their work in counselling e.g. tenants is one of the overall objectives in the LEEAN project. The Energy Agency of South East Sweden has in cooperation with staff of housing associations and local energy and climate advisors developed an EE brochure that follows the topic and specific need specified by the parties involved.

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At the end of 2011 the Initial CLIPART Report was ready, basically in the form of a wiki web site (clipartwiki.wikispaces.com).

An edited and more readable version of the ICR is due within June 2012, in the form a pdf file downloadable from the EnercitEE CLIPART web page www.enercitee.eu/CLIPART. By the end of 2012 also the Final Report (the CLIPART Handbook, as we dub it) will be ready. The present draft is already more than 100 pages, and a first “editing tour” just started, so that a final draft will be ready early next autumn. The Handbook will be available in English but also in at least four other European languages (i.e. Italian, German, French and Polish) to enhance its circulation in the countries of the CLIPART partners and possibly others.
But what are these reports about? The ICR contains a collection of 51 examples of existing know-how and best practices about climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives and/or energy and environmental policies from the five project partners at their level of governance (regions and/or local authorities).

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In Germany and especially in Saxony there are many funding programmes which support the energy efficiency of citizens and communities. Within the EnercitEE sub-project GRACE three funding programmes will be analysed in detail. The aim is to find out the effect of the programmes in that way that we are able to make a statement how many CO2 emissions respectively energy is saved with 1 € out of the funding programme.

One of the selected programmes is the Saxon Passive house programme. It is part of the Saxon Energy and Climate Protection Programme. The Passive house programme supports builders of passive houses with a grant of 100 €/m² based on the energy reference area. For refurbishment of buildings with passive house components the beneficiaries get a grant of 130 €/m² energy reference area. Both grants are non repayable. In Saxony the Passive house programme was used by 136 beneficiaries since 2007. In comparison with the standard EnEV building the passive house saves much more energy. The EnEV house is a standard in Germany. All builders of new houses have to follow this regulation. An amendment of this standard is planned for 2012, which means stricter rules for future homeowners. In the diagram below, there is a comparison between an EnEV house of 2009 and a passive house with 150 m² each. In addition it is assumed that the rate of energy price increase has a level of 5 % per year. All in all the beneficiary saves more than 20,000 € until year 30 after building and nearly 90,000 € until year 50 after building the passive house in that scenario.

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On May 31^st, the award ceremony of E-FoxES took place at Prioriterre in Meythet. About 60 people coming from four junior high schools all over the department of Haute-Savoie participated, and they were all welcomed by a politician of Conseil General of Haute Savoie. Each of the four schools presented the actions they implemented during the challenge in 15 minutes. Some did it in the form of sketches, others brought the thermography results they did in their building.

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