The EIE Work Programme defines Sustainable Energy Communities as follows:
Local communities in which politicians, planners, developers, market actors and citizens actively co-operate to demonstrate and develop high degrees of decentralized energy supply, favoring renewable energies as sources, together with a conscientious application of energy efficiency measures in all end-use sectors.
The SEC-BENCH project has adopted one simple working hypothesis:
Local authorities can increase their competencies and provide a better public service by adopting a sustainable energy strategy, developing an action plan, implementing its specific actions and monitoring results by benchmarking their own performance against others on a regular basis.
The SEC-BENCH project will seek to verify this through pilot benchmarking of municipal energy performance indicators.
VisionSustainable Energy Communities will play the lead role in developing sustainable energy systems. |
Main objectiveThe SEC-BENCH project will seek to establish a web-based tool for monitoring and benchmarking of local energy performance, and thereby stimulate groups of municipalities to move together towards more sustainable energy systems at local level. |
