Best Practices

Innovative financing for energy efficiency and renewables

Here you can find the detailed presentation of successful projects across Europe, which are developing new ways to set up and finance investments in public buildings, street lighting and housing. Different funding schemes (i.e. ELENA, JESSICA) contributed to the implementation of the following initiatives. 

• Energy efficiency - Covenant of Mayors (Province of Milan, Italy)
• ESCOLimburg2020 (Province of Limburg, Belgium)
• Jessica soft loan scheme (Lithuania)
• OSER (Rhône-Alpes, France)
• OxFutures (Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Posit'If (Ile de France region, France)
• REDIBA (Province of Barcelona, Spain)
• RE:FIT (Greater London, UK)

Sustainable Energy Action Planning

Sustainable Energy Action Planning: learning from each other (a report on successful peer-to-peer working experience from the Intelligent Energy Europe projects LEAP, Conurbant, Covenant CapaCITY, CASCADE and eReNet)

Community Energy

• Community Energy for Local Authorities - Introductory Guide
• UK Community Energy Strategy - Full Report

Towards2030-dialogue Platform

• How can renewables and energy efficiency improve gas security in selected Member States?
• Implementing the EU 2030 Climate and Energy Frame-work – a closer look at renewables and opportunities for an Energy Union