A European Story built on a strong basis:

Results and perspectives

A European Story built on a strong basis:

Results and perspectives

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Executive summary« After three years of RURENER project, it is time to draw results and perspectives. The current RURENER members are benefiting from tools and methods to concretize their local energy action plan. Meeting every year, they have built confidence and started to cooperate. Activities in Brussels have allowed RURENER to start to fill in the gap between energy and rural atthe European level. This report shares the results, lessons learnt and perspectives of the RURENER project. I hope it will convince the reader to come onboard and participate in the RURENER adventure! »

Aline Brachet, RURENER coordinator, MACEO, France

« Small rural communities have a huge role to play in terms of energy at Europeanlevel. Firstly because renewable energy sources are in rural areas. Secondlybecause when well managed, energy is a key for sustainable rural development, adding value to environment, creating activity. At the time of building territorial cohesion in Europe, we definitely need to take in hands the development of clean energy in rural areas, show the benefit for a long term development, drive policymakers to identify the clear link between energy and rural development, so thatenergy is not only a way to produce electricity and move cars, but a real key point on integrated sustainable development. This is the ambition of the RURENER Association, created and managed by small rural communities and supporting

structures. You are welcome to join and bring your stone. »Jacky Aignel, Mayor of Saint Gueno, President of the RURENER Association

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RURENER at a glance

• Funded by IEE programme: – RURENER 07/547 grant agreement

• Dates: – from 01.12.2008 to 30.11.2011

• Budget: – 1.077.250 €

• Eight countries actively involved:– Hungary, Spain, Italy, Romania,UK,

Greece, France and Germany

• Name: RURENER– European Network of small RURal

communities for ENERgy neutrality

• Key stakeholders– small rural communities committed to

energy neutrality

– supporting partners specialized in energy issues, rural issues, networking, training and ICT

• Main Output :

– 80 members of a European Network supporting small rural communities to achieve concrete energy strategy and actions

• Website :

– Visit Rurener.eu, translated in 8 languages and contact us atinfo@rurener.eu

– rurener.eu; de.rurener.eu; fr.rurener.eu; hu.rurener.eu; es.rurener.eu; it.rurener.eu; el.rurener.eu; ro.rurener.eu

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Summary

• What we have done? ……………………………………………………….a practice of « act local, think global »

– Supporting small rural communities towards energy neutrality: concrete resultsand successes

– Sharing experiences and networking at EU level: meetings, twinnings, cooperation, feel stronger being numerous

– Representing small rural communities at EU level: dissemination and lobbying

• What perspectives for the future?........................................................... a door open to more ambitious rural energy strategies

– RURENER association: a legal entity to continue the dynamic– activities and identity: att regional, national and european level : projects,

activities, organisation– An ambitious Network : development, ambition and vision

• Conclusion……………………………………………………………………– Rural energy is a crucial issue for Europe– Bottom-up process is necessary– RURENER has a high potential for development

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Part 1

What we have done? A practice of « act local, think global »

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I. Supporting small rural communities

« RURENER brings me expertise, engineering to build a project, a strategy, and when I need some help, I have someone to call ! I feel lesslonely!»

Pierre Coutaud, Peyrelevade, France

« We were attracted by the fact that the project approaches in a serious manner all the possibilities to produce renewable energy, considering the specific conditions of each partner. The project gives us the impulse to evaluate the wind and solar potential of our city, an older wish of mine because, as profession, I am power engineer.»

Ilie Amuza, mayor of Calimanesti Caciulata (Romania)

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Awareness in Kavala school (Greece )

• Story of our awareness campaign at high school of NikiforosDramas.

– Through the campaign, a cost-efficient way was implemented • to increase awareness of families on issues of energy consumption, energy

saving and renewable energy sources by helping their children in school to fill in a specifically designed questionnaire handed out to them during their environment class and

• ii) generate data for the energy balance tool used in the community. – Successful in this campaign also was the prize winning poster contest

between the students of the high school of Nikiforos titled “My energy neutral rural community”.

– Thirty seven students in 9 groups took part in the contest. • All were very enthusiastic and spent many hours after their classes under

the supervision of their equally enthusiastic teachers to search information and generate ideas for their posters to show how their rural community should function as an energy rural community!

• The students’ awareness on energy saving and use of renewable energy sources issues was certainly increased and they became more familiar with the concept of energy neutrality, as all the posters had a good coverage of the topic, conveyed well the concept of the energy neutral rural community and were from the artistic point of view very nicely presented.

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Awards in Nagypali (Hungary )

• Nagypáli won the silver medal in RES champions league in the category of communities from 0 to 5000 inhabitants.

• Nagypáli also received award of the Hungarian Suncrown Championship (The Energy Club awarded the municipalities pioneering in using solar energy).

– The special award winners of the competition were chosen not according to the solar energy use per capita but the commitment or the positive steps of the leadership of the municipalities.

– The mayor of Nagypáli, with 480 residents, Tibor Köcse created a great comprehensive plan to develop the village and the neighbouring settlements.

– An organic part of this is the manifold use of renewable energies.• The local Renewable Energies Innovation Eco-centre is a promotion centre, where

visitors learn the use of renewables (biomass, biogas, solar, wind) through pilot projects and trainings.

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Private /public partnership for woodchipsstorage hangar in Peyrelevade

• Innovative financial model for local invesment– Partners :

• local municipality (buying woodchips for its local heating grid)

• Regional and national institutions (subsidies)

• Local farmer (supply heating grid in wood and investing at a fixed price and renting the hangar)

• Local investor (investing in the hangar and the photovoltaic roof, selling electricity to the national grid, and renting the hangar to local farmer)

– Strong confidence between partners, being thinking about new projects and new partnerships!

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Local energy action plans in Keratea (Greece) and in Romania

• Let us tell you about the positive impacts the project had in Keratea:

– Energy matters are now higher in the Municipality Agenda and priorities.

– The dissemination activities (e.g. Energy day, awareness concerning national funding projects for citizens, High School capacity building) had a positive impact in the Community.

– A concrete Local Action Plan was developed and energy data were collected. Keratea was selected to be funded by the National programme "Energy Saving for Municipalities".

• Hear about good results locally in Romania

– Slanic Moldova developed an integrated plan of using RES for the whole community, which is going to lead it, in the next five years, to become 100% energy neutral.

– Tasca included in its territorial development plans the illumination of a leisure area with photovoltaic systems, which will be extended in the future, depending on the future financial resources.

– Calimanesti Caciulata has plans to extend its geothermal energy plant, meanwhile they intend to realize a wind park (with turbines with horizontal axis)

Discover more good practices on RURENER

roadmap!

Discover more good practices on RURENER

roadmap!

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Methods and tools :the RURENER Roadmap

• A 6 steps roadmap illustrated by advice, toolsand experiences from the field

• Translated in 8 languages

• Published as guidelines for paper reading!

– >> Order some copies in your languagesat info@rurener.eu

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Activities performed in the field

• 14 energy diagnosis and 14 local action plans realized and evaluated after 2 years in 8 countries

• 21 local energy days organised to raise awareness among the population and disseminate results

• 12 public buildings renovated to reduce by 20% the consumption (average)

• 13 new RES projects with 166 million euros invested and more than 4000 toesaved

• 160 hours of training performed towards local authorities

Biogaz plant in Hungary LED street lightening in Germany RURENER Roadshow in Germany

Wind park in France

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Energy neutrality rate : more than a concept

• Energy neutrality means you produce from renewable sources the equivalent of what you consume at the level of your community

• Both private and public data and activities are concerned

• The objective is to reduce globally your energy footprint, not to produce more and more energy!

• Even if your energy neutrality rate is high (thanks to a big wind plant for example), you still need to improve your energy activities to reduce your footprint!

• Here you can know about the energy neutrality rate of RURENER pilot communities. More important than comparing each other's rates is to learn from each other how to achieve the resultsand to compare the results within each community every 3 years.

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Socio -economic impacts of local energy strategy

• RURENER does not talk about energy but energy AND rural development. When

evaluated (every 2 years), the local action plans are analyzed through 15 indicators

allowing the community to assess its results from 0 point to 135 points

– Energy neutrality

• Energy neutrality increase achieved through RLAP from a baseline evaluation period

• Energy savings achieved through RLAP from a baseline

evaluation period

– Local sustainable development

• Economic impacts (4 indicators)

• Institutional impact (1 indicator)

• Social impact (3 indicators)

• Environmental impact (5 indicators)

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Lessons learnt 1

Specificities of local energy action plan in small rural communities

– To start an action within a community, complex tools are not needed and can even frighten the community. The first important step is to make a qualitative assessment of the resources of the territory, including the people's desire to carry out actions.

– It is essential that this first step is mainly carried out by the community itself. The RURENER tools fulfil this requirements, and the RURENER network providesexamples and « moral support » to give a community the will of starting.

– Nevertheless the stakeholders should have a fair idea of the energy amounts spent, and do not confuse in orders of magnitude.

– Once their projects are defined, they also need technical guidance. As the communities are small, they may not have internal resources; they need external technical advice at regiona/local level.

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Lessons learnt 2

• Project time and field time .– High charge for local decision makers while small teams! Even if very committed,

someone external is useful to make sure things are still moving.• “what I really like in RURENER is that there is someone pushing me every 2 months to go ahead; and then this

someone helps to make things real!” (a RURENER mayor)

– participatory approach needs time to make sure that the activities are well integrated and that local stakeholders are actually empowered:

• activities in the field (collect data, set-up a blog, ...) take more time than foreseen to make sure that the project is established with strong groundwork/on a reliable data basis.

– Energy neutrality can be turned into a new model of local sustainable development for rural communities,

• taking into account local development and the environmental, social, economic and institutional impacts.

• More time and coordination is needed to allow the integrated approach, rather than a sectorial energetic-only approach.

– Decision making and planning processes are very time consuming.• For example, once a community has decided to go for wind energy on their territory, it takes a least 5 years

from the first political discussions until the electricity is fed into the grid.

• Field time has to be respected as “fast does not al ways mean successful”!

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Lessons learnt 3

• Expectations from new members

– Generally the communities we contacted were enthusiastic and liked the Rurenerprinciples and activities. They are asking for 2 main concrete added value :

• Financial aid for investment when activities and strategy are ready

• Continuous technical support (build the action plan, support the diagnosis, build the weblog…)

– Thus we conclude that RURENER

• needs local/regional partners to support the communities in the field.

>> supporting structures are members of RURENER together with the communities they support.

• has to participate in identifying and disseminating financial innovative models to fund the projects in the field

>> a first survey has been done to collect good practices in terms of financial models.

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II. Experience sharing and networking

RURENER European

conferences

RURENER European

conferences

Twin and cooperateTwin and cooperate

ICT tools for dialogue and knowledge

sharing

ICT tools for dialogue and knowledge

sharing

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A growing network : from 14 to 78

• RURENER Network keepsgrowing!

• When having signed the charter, new membersregister online to beidentified by others and appear on the map

• More communities are close to join in the Netherland and Scotland

Become a Member!Become a Member!

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In 2009, visit Saint Etienne de Lugdares(France)

• Kick-off meeting with official speeches

• Introduction of partners and communities

• Experience sharing between communities– “How to raise awareness within the population? »

• Field visits– wind power plant,

– « Moulin des énergies » (ancient windmill renovated in energy information center)

• ICT training session– How to build the RURENER website?

– Definition of the needs

• Start to know each other

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In 2010, visit Tirano (Italy )

• Signature of the RURENER Charter

• 3 technical workshops– WS1 – “How to produce sustainable renewable

energy in rural communities? Impacts on local development”.

– WS2 – “How to make the most of my public buildings in terms of energy efficiency, what impacts locally?”

– WS3 – “Planning local policy for energy, how can weimplement the 7 steps of the RURENER Roadmap?”

• Field visits– biogaz plant

– Woodchips heating grid (connecting 80% of the population)

– Innovative energy renovation of ancient building

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In 2011, visit Wesendorf (Germany)

• Field visits– Solvis company producing integrated systems for solar heating.

– Inutec solarzentrum: distribution and installation of solar thermal and photovoltaic panels.

– Sustainable energy Beuchte: biomass plant powered by woodchips, short rotation poplar trees plantation and severalphotovoltaic panels covering the whole energy demands

– New high-efficiency LED lamps in Schöningen

• High level conference– more than 90 participants (energy policies, concrete information

about street lightening and e-mobility).

– small fair with professionals and information stands about new street lightning conceptions, electric cars to be driven, energyefficiency in building…

• Mayors participative evaluation of the RURENER Network

Clemens von Koenig explains the biomass plant Beuchte (Schladen)

Experimentation of thermal camera atthe European conference event.

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In 2011, visit Nagypali (Hungary )

• Closure event for RURENER Project

• Mayors sessions about cooperation activities : – « what do you want RURENER to achieve for you? »

• Creation of the RURENER association

• Field visits– ALMA 2000 Ltd.

– Japanese willow tree energy plantation

– Photovoltaic plant called Sunflower

– Logistic centre

– Exhibition of wooden art work and paintings in the social centre

– Biosolar heating system

– Energy saving houses in Nagypáli residential area

– Wall heating system of the renovated church

Willow tree energy plantation

RURENER conference: presentations and dialogue

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In 2012, visit Brussels!

• In 2012, RURENER will bring its members to know better European institutions and spirit

• After the success of the 2011 event about rural energy in Brussels, RURENER isorganising a new event to gather together stakeholders at EU level and share vision on rural energy

• Meetings are planned also with European policy makers

• A field visit is planned too, close to Brussels, to allow RURENER members to continue learning from experiences

• More information soon on rurener.eu!

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Share with your twinand learn from your mentor!

• A twin is a small rural community with whom you wantto become closer, start cooperation, share activities. Between pairs, one can be confident and buildconcrete European cooperation : answer to bids, organise exchanges between schools, answer to technical questions…

Keratea (Greece) and Nagypali (Hungary) mayorsgetting twins in Hungary (sept 2011)

• Advanced communities in both technical and organisational issues are mentoring beginners duringEuropean meetings and through the website. Informalmeetings (during lunches, evening) appeared to be verysuccessful mentoring sessions!

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Any question? Ask our experts on the Knowledge bank !

• RURENER on-line knowledge bank is able to raise your question towards national or European experts

>> raise your questions in your national languages on the website

• Being disseminated on-line, the answersbuild step-by-step a real bank of knowledge about rural energy issues

>> read the answers and visit the many topics on http://rurener.eu/knowledge-bank/

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Lessons learnt 4

• European meetings: a powerful tool to challenge mayo rs and overcome the language barrier

– There's no substitute for face-to-face networking and collaboration. A few mayors were hesitating to come and participate to RURENER meetings, as not speaking English

– EU meetings are the best way to overcome the language barrier, as knowing each other better and better, the rural mayors could take more and more confidence.

– Here grew up a real European spirit and very much awareness of the political decision makers about the importance and the chances of green energy for their rural communities.

– There was expressed the need for them to have a common voice, and RURENER was identified to play this role.

• ICT tools used as a result of collective dynamic– Later, ICT tools could make it possible for isolated communities who do not share a common

language to share experience and work collaboratively (the knowledge bank and on-line roadmap are made for that; video-conferences and e-mail sharing are accessible too),

– face-to-face contact is key to initiating that relationship. ICT tools are used as a result of continuous training, awareness and specific target groups’ involvement.

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Lessons learnt 5

• Major participation of new comers

– New comers may be very active, even though they have not benefited from the project directly.

– An example in Britany (France) as the mayor of Saint Gouéno has become the first President of RURENER Association!

– This means that RURENER is now being built not only on 14 pilars, but actually on 78!

• Twinnings and cooperation between communities

– Communities don't really know what to expect from twinning, as they often don't have means even to visit their twin. Still it is attractive to them to have a friend out of their country, concerned by energy issues and willing to innovate. This is the heart of RURENER and the twinnings should increase in the coming years thanks to new cooperation with mayors.

– A few mayors have for example shared the idea to buy collectively the seeds for speed-rotation trees. That's more than sharing experience at EU level!

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III. Communication and representation at EU level

ENERGY RURAL

RURENER

Local energypolicyin rural

communities

Sustainable local development – EU

territorial cohesion

202020 Energypolicy

RURENER walks on its two feet, energy and Rural and adresses the 2 issues at EU level, starting from local action in the field.

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A multi-language interactive website

• 8 languages for all tools and main content

• set of valuable resources to rural communities– Members factsheets

– Interactive map

– Knowledge bank (see above)

– Road-map, yearly updated

– Resources can be updated by communities themselves and comments are welcome!

– Last news, events

• Increasing number of visitors from across Europe

– including countries without pilot communities, such as the Netherlands and the UK

– has grown steadily to over 600 per month.

– expected to continue to grow as membership of the newly formed RURENER Association increases.

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Meeting withEuropean Parliament members

• RURENER was invited by the FREE initiative (Future of Rural energy in Europe) in February 2011 to shareresults and needs from the field at the European Parliament in Brussels.

• Meeting under the presidence of Mrs Danuta Hubner

• Opportunity to disseminate the greatassets of rural areas, and needs of rural decision makers : more support from EU level!

• 40 participants

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RURAL ENERGY EVENT in Brussels

• A joint event co-organised in April 2011 by RURENER and the

FREE Initiative (Future of Rural Energy in Europe)

• Invitation to a broad range of rural energy Networks to be

represented at a fair : RES Champions League, Farmagas, Euromontana, Efficient 20, Province of Silesia…

• High level speakers from DG energy, DG agriculture, DG Region, Committee of the

Regions, European Parliament

• 80 participants

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RURENER key messages

Local energy policy= positive

sustainable impact on local

development

Local energy policy= positive

sustainable impact on local

development

Bottom-up approachand coherence betweenlocal, regional, national

and EU actions

Bottom-up approachand coherence betweenlocal, regional, national

and EU actions

An apoliticalposition and free sharing of ideasand experiences

An apoliticalposition and free sharing of ideasand experiences

Public commitmentand private/public

action!

Public commitmentand private/public

action!

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RURENER articles and Newsletters

• 65 press articles published in the 8 countries

• 5 RURENER Newsletters disseminated to

EU decision makers and Networks (500

destinatories)

• >>To receive RURENER News, subscribe

to our mailing list at the bottom right of the RURENER home page! http://rurener.eu

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RURENER, a network connected to… networks

• PRACTISE (IEE project) on sustainable energy communities

• EUROMONTANA (European association for mountains) on moutain energy

• NORTH SEA – SEP Sustainable Energy Plan (Interreg IVB project)

• COVENANT OF MAYORS

• ICLEI (Local Government for sustainability)

• AIP: association of European Islands on island energy issues

• CEMR (Council of European Municipalities and Regions) and EPRO (European Platform of Regional Offices)

• EURO-TOPTEN PLUS Network and BIG-EAST project (project under IEE), dedicated to biogas in rural areas.

• ENERGY CITIES, supporting big cities towards energy policies.

• FREE INITIATIVE• FORUM SYNERGIE, bottom-up approach to

participate in the construction of the new CAP• SMALLEST project , (North East Interreg):

RES technologies for small rural isolated communities

• CES, Community Energy Scotland; hundred small isolated communities in the Highlands and Islands

• RES CHAMPIONS LEAGUE consortium : energy awards

• Network of rural development at national and european level

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Lessons learnt 6

• Rural energy is a key issue to be identified at EU level– Rural communities represent a great potential and their involvement and active support is

crucial in reaching European objectives in the field of energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources. From the other side the “energy neutrality” actions is an indispensable factorcontributing to the innovative rural development.

• Small communities want to have a voice at a European level – Most of the rural communities met in the frame of the project have expressed the necessity

to be represented at European level, as they need visibility for the concrete actions carried out (and very often not sufficiently promoted) and wish to be supported in the indispensable RES and RUE investments.

– This lobbying work requires specific skills and organisation because the represented communities are small and numerous. RURENER association is designed for that.

• RURENER has to go to EU representatives– The difficulty and time needed to reach rural places has made it impossible to have EU

representatives come at RURENER meetings.

– Thus, RURENER has to go to Brussels to meet there, and will still have to in the future!

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Part 2

What perspectives for the future? A door open to more ambitious rural energy strategies

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I RURENER Association

• A long term and legal entity gatheringthe RURENER members to

− Build on the Network dynamic, − carry out some activities (new projects,

events…)− answer to the members needs as

expressed at the launching event and written in the charter:

− Experience sharing− Cooperation− Territorial marketing− Information and reporting− Representation− Funding research

• 9 executive committee membersamong which 5 mayors

− Meet 4 times a year

− Daily management by the Secretariatmeeting every month

− Give the power to members every yearthrough General Assembly

RURENER Executive CommitteeMr Pietro DEL SIMONE (Italy).Mr. Tibor KÖCSE (Hungary)Mr. Sotiris IATROU (Greece)Mr. Jacky AIGNEL (France)

Mr. Jose BARBERÁ CENTELLES (Spain)Mr. Lorenzo LIGUORO (Italy)Mrs. Vassiliki KAZANA (Greece)Mrs. Wiebke ABELING (Germany)Mrs. Aline BRACHET (France).

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RURENER Membership

• New RURENER Charter– Join RURENER Association!

– Express your interest by email info@rurener.eu or contact yournational contact point (see contacts on RURENER website)

• What members?– Active members

• Small rural communities

• Structures supporting them (BringRURENER members towards the Covenant of Mayors

– Associate members• Sponsors

• Friends supporting the Network

• Private companies suppling or managing energy

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II RURENER activities and identity• Facilitate access for rural communities to the Covenant

of Mayors, main European institution about municipalities and energy

– 100% RES COMMUNITIES project (under evaluation)

– RURENER becoming a supporting structure of the CoM

• Annual events (field visits, experience sharing, policy debates…)

– 2012 event in Brussels

• Training sessions and consultancy services

– To new comers about RURENER tools, methods

– For example : survey on innovative financial models in rural communities;

• Awareness raising in new areas

– Upon invitation from decision makers

• Continuous support to current active members

– Support local action plans

– Build partnerships with local/regional structures

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III A ambitious network : from 80 to … thousands !

• RURENER Network plans to grow throughinternal (new members) and external (connectionwith existing networks and dynamics) growth to ensure a sustainable development

• New countries joining

• Participation to European policy throughrecommandations and lobbying

• New projects and new funding

• Strong values : bottom-up; concrete action in the field; articulation between energy issues and rural development

• Promoting rural communities committed to energyneutrality

This wasjust a start!

This wasjust a start!

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Part 3

Conclusion

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Main conclusions 1

• Rural Energy is a crucial issue– Local action for energy in rural areas is a crucial issue for both

European 202020 Strategy and 2020 Strategy

– Renewable Energy potential is mainly in the rural areas and these areas have the “key” forsustainable development.

• The rural area will produce the energy needed in the cities, which don’t have the space or resources to do so. The energy consumers rely on the rural area.

– And rural areas are not only a good producer of RES, energy is for them a key potential to stay alive and to innovate.

• The added economic value strengthens the rural area and its development. Saving energy, therefore saving money and producing energy.

• RURENER was a good opportunity for such Communities to create a network, communicate with each others and build a common vis ion.

– The network gave to them knowledge, confidence, common ground and new ideas, opportunities and new incentives.

– The barriers (ex. communication problems due to language; difficulties to collect data) are less than the benefits of the network.

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Main conclusions 2

• Bottom -up process is compulsory to raise a common voice a t EU level– There is definitely a need for a Network of Small Rural Communities at European level.

• Need for cooperation, representation, support to the field. • Need for a neutral area where no other interests are shared than the willingness to set-up sustainable

local development, balance between urban and rural, climate resilience and value given to local resources.

• There are a lot of organisations born from industries, born from big cities, born from EU institutions. What RURENER is offering is very complementary.

– Communication by word of mouth has worked very well, carried by all the RURENER members and partners, with a real sense of owning and belonging to the Network.

• The new-born association’s President, Jacky Aignel i nsisted on this principle in last September in Hungary, noticing:

– the great capacity of rural areas in the past decades to build the cities; and that now again they were asked to provide energy for cities.

• “With RURENER is the opportunity to decide for ourselves the way we want rural areas to participate in this big energy and climate issue at European level.”

– This speech was a real foundation for all RURENER members to make sure that bottom-up dynamic will stay as a main principle not only in terms of energy policy, communication and dissemination, local projects for energy saving and RES, etc…

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Main conclusions 3

• The development of RURENER will imply that– RURENER may have to change its model in the coming years

• being for example not only an association of small rural communities but also the association of associations of small rural communities.

– The technical guidance may not be a basic service offered by RURENER association • as it will be connected to local and national competencies already existing,

• but according to the network resources, training sessions or consultancy services could be integrated in the association's activities in the futures.

• Moreover, taking step by step its role at EU level to represent small rural communities and stakeholders, RURENER have the capacity to build a bridge between energy policy and agriculture/rural policy, so that integrated approach is facilitated.

• This development of RURENER dynamic may take some more years to happen, but the 3 first years of setting-up the Network were an enthusiastic starting point of the adventure!

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RURENER Partners

MACEO, Aline Brachet (FR)

AILE - Association of local initiatives for energy and environment , Sophie Merle (FR)

BZAKA - Bay Zoltan Foundation for Applied Research, Andrea Molnar (HG)

CRES - Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, Kostas Sioulas (GR)

INTERCOOP Group, Jesus Martinez Almena (ES)

KAIROS SpA, Lorenzo Liguoro, Aleksandra Kicela (IT)

ERSAF - Maria Grazia Pedrana, Alessandra Gelmini (IT)

EnerMaTec GmbH, Werner Neumann, Ralf Hönick (DE)

Ruralnet Futures, David Ellis (UK)

TEI KAVALAS - Technical Engineering Institute of Kavala, Vassiliki Kazana (GR)

U.A.N. - Municipal Environmental Campaign, Wiebke Abeling (DE)

University of Bacau, Liliana Topliceanu (RO)

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