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Rijeka: The energy transition of Croatia’s seaport

energydemocracy — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:26:30 +0000

Municipal planning and clever funding strategies In 2016, Rijeka adopted an Energy Efficiency Action Plan for the period 2017-2019. In February 2020, it moved to an Efficiency Action Plan for 2020-2022, which commits to investing 171.6 million kuna (€22.9 million) into climate protection measures over the plan period. The funding is a combination of…

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Nottingham’s plan to win the race to carbon-neutrality

energydemocracy — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:09:38 +0000

Putting solar panels on “everything that doesn’t move” The city itself is also producing local low-carbon energy. 5,000 homes and more than 100 businesses are being powered by energy created from the city’s waste via one of the country’s largest district heating networks. Additionally, the municipality is becoming a role model by equipping publicly owned…

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Bristol, United Kingdom

energydemocracy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:34:27 +0000

Bristol is also a divided city, with tackling inequality at the top of the Mayor’s 2015 manifesto commitment. It is a port whose historic wealth is associated with the transatlantic slave trade, and a place of arrival for Afro-Caribbean people in the 1950s. In the 1980s, racial tension erupted into riots. Much of the environmental…

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Dulas Valley Community Wind Partnership, Wales

energydemocracy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:32:44 +0000

Background A small group of dedicated people led by a woman with prior experience in the English wind energy cooperative Baywind and her three male companions – members, respectively, of the pro-tourism foundation Ecodyfi, the Mid Wales Energy Agency and the local Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) – started the initiative at the end of…

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Retenergie, Piedmont, Italy

energydemocracy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:22:57 +0000

Background The project Retenergie developed in the region of Piedmont in 2007. A group of friends and activists from various ecology movements decided to initiate a project and jointly invest in a set of PV panels. At first they called this project simply Solare Collettivo, solar collective. The commercial PV project “adopt one kilowatt hour” …

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