WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Mediterranean islands and rural areas are facing several energy challenges, such as dependency, security of supply, interconnection with mainland and growing demand. Therefore, the Interreg Med Renewable Energy Community is about promoting the Renewable Energy Sources (RES) sharing ecosystem through innovative planning, management and governance tools. Its main goal is to promote a multilevel coordination of MED territories to bring an alternative roadmap for a clean-energy national regulatory framework for effective implementation at regional and local levels. They encourage bottom-up strategies to achieve a low carbon economy. The community is configured by six Modular Projects focused on the promotion of renewable energies in remote rural and islands areas, due to their vulnerability to climate change in terms of biodiversity loss, energy supply and risk of social exclusion.

TOPIC OF INOVATION

Technology & smart grids

Local Renewable Energy Cluster

Policies & Governance models

KEY TARGET GROUP

Public Authorities

Research Infrastructures

Enterprises

NGO/Civil Society

WHO LEADS COMMUNITY ?

Renewable energies Interreg MED horizontal project (2019-2022) is the continuation of GREENCAP Interreg MED horizontal project (2016-2019).

PHAZE 1

BUDGET

PROJECT TOTAL BUDGET:
1 450 534,32 €

PROJECT ERD BUDGET:
1 184 348,36 €

PROJECT IPA BUDGET:
48 605,81 €

DURATION

GREENCAP :
from 01/11/2016 to 31/10/2019

PARTNERS

LP : Scientific Research Centre Bistra Pjtuj (SI)
• Environment Park Spa (IT)
• Axelera (FR)
• Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona (ES)
• Zenica Economic Development Agency (BA)

PHAZE 2

BUDGET

PROJECT TOTAL BUDGET:
1 410 814,65 €

PROJECT ERD BUDGET:
1 199 192,45 €

DURATION

Renewable Energy :
from 01/11/2019 to 30/06/2022

PARTNERS

LP : SRC Bistra Ptuj – Scientific Research Centre Bistra Ptuj (SI)
• Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona (ES)
• ENVIRONMENT PARK SPA (IT)
• North-West Croatia Regional Energy Agency (HR)
• Latin Arc (ES)
• Aegean Energy and Environment Agency (EL)

WHAT RESULTS HAVE THEY OBTAINED ?

Territorial planning is at the core of the Renewable energy community, as a governance tool for energy adaptation in islands and rural areas. This Community created a new approach to implement renewable energies in islands and local communities: the Ecosystemic Territorial Units (ETU). It aims to involve populations, authorities and civil society in a positive dialogue to welcome energy infrastructures. Different components are part of these units: energy community (social component); energy planning (territorial component); energy governance (legal component) and energy facilities (technology component). Key policy recommendations and a manifesto synthetise the outcomes of this community.

RENEWABLE ENERGY

COMMUNITY

WHAT DIGITAL TOOLS HAVE THAY CREATED?

All tools from this community

Platform GIS - WEBGIS

Description:

In the framework of the Interreg MED programme, the MED Renewable Energy (RES) Community has been created, in order to disseminate, emphasise and capitalise the results of the different projects belonging to the latter and dedicated to RES. One of the tool realised for that goal, is the present WEBGIS platform.

Functionalities:

Platform is structured in 2 sections opened to the public:1) The WebGIS section is dedicated to the cartographic elements, and includes some thematic maps related to renewable energy and to MED RES Community;2) The Document Manager section, a selection of relevant documentation, where thematic reports and technical data related also to the map elements are accessible.

Project name:

Renewable energy (GREENCAP 1st call)

Project type:

HP

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PV and Storage Optimization Tool

Description:

PV and Storage Optimization Tool has been built in the framework of “Promotion of higher penetration of Distributed PV through storage for all - StoRES” project. The tool aims at calculating the optimal size of a hybrid PV+storage system in terms of net present value of the investment.

Functionalities:

The procedure that should be followed to get the desired results is divided into 8 separate steps: • Step 1: PV System Data • Step 2: Consumption Data • Step 3: Electricity Costs • Step 4: Storage System • Step 5: Policy • Step 6: Financial • Step 7: Validate Inputs • Step 8: Getting the results

Project name:

StoRES

Project type:

MP

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COMPOSE MODEL AND TOOLBOX

Description:

The Sustainable Energy Planning Toolbox navigates to the COMPOSE step-by-step, bottom-up COMPOSE methodological approach for designing, planning, implementing and evaluating sustainable energy projects.

Functionalities:

It offers insights on how to implement each development step and access to appropriate design tools, databases, practical guides and other useful resources, towards a sustainable development of local RES and energy efficiency measures, exploiting the local potential and integrating not only technical, but also socio-economic and environmental aspects.

Project name:

COMPOSE

Project type:

MP

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