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SEC-Tools
Introduction
Communities
in New EU Member States (NMS) and Accession Countries are
faced with a big need for energy efficiency improvements and
further utilisation of renewable energy.
The
SEC Tools action has entailed a systematic approach to meet
this challenge in form of
Refining
and elaborating generic tools for communities in NMS
Undertaking
pilot actions in selected communities defined in relation to
the process of developing sustainable energy communities
Targeted
dissemination to communities in all NMS
The
key target group is small and medium-sized communities of
3,000-40,000 inhabitants. Such communities are in NMS most
often characterised by limited capacity to develop
sustainable energy communities and social and financial
related problems are relatively bigger than in larger
communities.
A
core part of the action concerns elaboration of generic
tools, a ‘Toolbox’ with a view to encourage
qualified sustainable energy thinking and practice.
Pilot
projects, including testing of tools used within the pilot
actions, have been tested in nine communities in
respectively Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic and
Bulgaria on the three axis of SEC practice: energy planning,
activation of the energy market and mobilisation of
end-users.
Further
the action has included a broad set of dissemination
activities to help ensure the spread of the developed tools
and lessons learnt in the targeted regions and at broader
scale.
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