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Sustainable energy Practice at Community Level in EU's New Member states and Candidate Countries
Communities in New
Member States and candidate countries are facing a large need renewable energy. The SEC-Tools
action entails a systematic approach to to meet this challenge:
Refining and elaborating generic tools for communities
Undertaking pilot actions in selected communities
Targeted dissemination to communities in all NMS
The project’s interaction of elaborating
generic tools in combination of undertaking pilot actions in 9 committed
communities is expected to provide a strong push to improving the basis
for SEC operations around NMS/EU.
SEC-Tools entails comprehensive and
proactive dissemination to a large share of
communities in
especially
NMS in order to promote sound SEC operations
SEC Toolbox
The SEC Toolbox
is to facilitate qualified sustainable practices at community level. Its basic content and structure is shown below:
| Local energy planning |
Market analysis tool
Development options tool
Scenario analysis tool
Energy planning methodology tool |
| Local energy market |
Guidelines on project development & external requirements
Project analysis tools
Financing catalogue
Guidelines on energy services |
| Mobilising end-users |
Concepts for involvement of end-users in local service companies
Energy management tools
integrated information systems
Energy saving campaigns |
The SEC Tool box will be made in co-operation of EU10 and NMS/CC experts. It will take point of departure in typical needs of communities in terms of developing a sustainable energy system.
SEC Tool will partly consist of software tools and supplementary guidelines following the above structure. The relevance and usefulness of the tools will be tested via the project's pilot actions.
The complete results of the project
are available on:http://www.sec-tools.net
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