Act Now! in Practice
During the Act Now! project, nine municipalities of the Baltic Sea Region increased their energy efficiency capacities. Applying the Act Now! methodology described in Act Now! Learning Platform, they established local networks and processes to successfully plan and implement ambitious energy efficiency projects.
A result of the work in the municipalities are the actual energy efficiency projects they developed. The following feasibility studies describe each project, including the background, finances and different lessons learned.
Overview
Framework Paper for Feasibility Studies
This paper provides an overview over the nine feasibility studies performed in the ActNow! project, and explains the theoretical background and methodology. Furthermore, overarching observations are documented.
In order to read the actual feasibility studies, please click on the municipality names further below.
Feasibility Study
Report on Future Investments in Bremerhaven, Germany.
The city of Brmerhaven, Germany seeks to refurbish an entire urban neighbouhood, making it carbon neutral by 2050 while keeping the cost at an affordable level. As an initial step, an energetic refurbishment implementation manager shall be hired at acost of 300,000 Euro for three years.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
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Report on Future Investments in Elva, Estonia.
The Local Energy Efficiency Work Group in the municipality of Elva, Estonia, aims to introduce air-quality monitoring and building automation in six public buildings, such as schools, a kindergarten and a sports centre.
The planned investment volume adds to about 106,000 Euro.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
Feasibility Study
Report on Future Investments in Gdynia, Poland.
The city of Gdynia, Poland aims to introduce buildings management systems (BMS) to ten public school buildings and optionally seeks to implement thermomodernization of these.
The planned investment volume for the BMS is 226.000 Euro per building, including the thermomodernization, it addt up to 2.715 million Euro per building.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
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Report on Future Investments in Gulbene, Latvia.
The city of Gulbene, Latvia aims to install a total of 54.6 kW photovoltaic panels plus a 9 kWh energy storage to cover 35% of the building’s electricity consumption.
The planned investment volume amounts to 102,000 Euro.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
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Report on Future Investments in Kaliningrad, Russia.
The city of Kaliningrad, Russia aims to introduce an automated building monitoring system (ventilation, temperature, indoor CO2 control system) to a public school building.
The planned investment volume amounts to 61,000 Euro.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
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Report on Future Investments in Mönsteras, Sweden.
The municipality of Mönsteras, Sweden aims to retrofit 13 public buildings such as schools, kindergardens, day care centres and libraries.
The planned investment volume amounts to 3.9 million Euro.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
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Report on Future Investments in Sievi, Finland.
The municipality of Sievi, Finland aims to introduce a ventilation and cooling system into the municipality hall with a planned investment of up to 150.000 Euro.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
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Report on Future Investments in Silute, Lithuania.
The municipality of Silute, Lithuania aims to retrofit eleven public buildings, such as schools, kindergartens and a hospital. The planned toal investment amounts up to 9.5 million Euro, including 195,000 Euro for the technical studies (energy audits, economic appraisal, legal advice) aherad of the actual implementation.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study:
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Report on Future Investments in Sonderborg, Denmark.
In the danisch city of Sonderborg, the public-private partnership ProjectZero aims to support private homeowners to renovate their older single-family homes. The example
taken out for the Act Now! project includes an investment of about 160,000 Euro.
Read more about the project’s background, financing and challenges faced in the feasibility study: