Title	European Public Local Authorities’ Network for driving the Energy Transition
Acronym	ePLANET
Start date	01/09/2021	End date:	31/08/2024
Program	H2020	Grant Agreement ID: 101032450	View Cordis file card
Subprogram	Societal Challenges – Secure, clean & efficient energy

SUMMARY

ePLANET introduces a new opportunity to enhance the governance of Energy Transition by public authorities. The project has forged a novel framework wherein local and regional authorities within a specific area can collaboratively identify, address and overcome shared barriers and concerns regarding the definition and deployment of Energy Transition action plans.

Resources

Results

Accelerating energy transition in European municipalities

ePLANET proposes to embrace an innovative clustering governance strategy, complemented by the introduction of novel roles within public authorities. This visionary approach fosters collaboration and synergies among all stakeholders within a given cluster, thereby enhancing the efficacy of decision-making processes and reducing the necessary investments to deploy Energy Transition actions within the designated area.
ePLANET makes a significant advancement in Energy Transition governance. Through the introduction of the novel methodology, coupled with a suit of tailored instruments, ePLANET is poised to facilitate public authorities in realizing a seamless and highly efficient energy transition.

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The ePLANET platform helped pilot and follower regions to implement energy transition measures, making local energy policies and decisions on evidence-based facts and figures.

Challenge

One of the principal challenges to reaching targets of the Energy Transition (ET) is to improve the coordination between local authorities and regional governments with the aim to enhance decision-making process, coherence and consistency of the implementation of energy efficiency measures.

ePLANET will meet this challenge by encouraging the digitalization of measures and plans enabling an interoperable ecosystem of data and tools supporting energy transition decision making, putting it into practice from the public sector.

Documents

ePLANET public deliverables

D1.1 – Collaborative Working Environment
D1.2 – Guidelines and Quality Assurance
D1.3 – Data & Ethics management
D2.1 – Report on user needs and requirements for ET at public level
D2.2 – Report on existing governance structures and list of available tools for the monitoring of ET projects
D2.3 – Data fields for ET harmonization
D2.4 – Report on ePLANET clustering governance
D2.5 – Report on KPIs and existing ET plans & measures databases in the pilot territories
D3.1 – ePlanet platform specification
D3.3 – Platform available for all stakeholders
D3.4 – Sharing system report
D4.1 – Main user requirements and needs for training material
D4.2 – Strategies to tackle prioritised ET barriers
D4.3 – Report on training materials
D4.4 – Consolidation of training materials into ePLANET repository
D5.1 – Replication and networking plan
D5.2 – Stakeholder’s forum engagement reports
D5.3 – National Webinars’ recordings and reports
D5.4 – CoM ePLANET workshops reports

D5.5 – EU Open Call
D5.6 –Evaluation report with assessment criteria matrix
D5.7 – Follower Regions Evaluation Questionnaire
D5.8 – Reports on join exchange activities experiences
D6.1 – Completed ePLANET M&V tools for ET
D6.2 – Impact analysis and evaluation report on ePLANET implementation
D6.3 – Memorandums of Adhesion
D6.4 – Joint agreement
D6.5 – Repository of best practices and solutions for ET
D6.6 – Policy recommendations at EU level
D6.7 – Roadmap for long-term sustainability
D6.8 – Exploitation plan
D7.1 – Dissemination and Communication Plan
D7.2 –Visual identity handbook
D7.3 – Project website with manual
D7.4 – Project leaflet
D7.5 – Project brochure
D7.6 – Communication&dissemination activities report
D7.7 – Constitutional video
D7.8 – Scale up video (english+regional language)
D7.9 – Replication video (english+regional language)

News

Press Release

ePLANET website

Project Zenodo’s community

INTRODUCTION

ePLANET H2020 is a European project to facilitate and ease the deployment of coordinated energy transition actions by the public sector. The project uses the most innovative tools in big data together with an innovative clustering governance to boost Energy Transition Plans at the municipal level. Besides, it fosters the digitalisation of energy data available in dispersed data sources, of the energy transition measures and of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs), enabling an ecosystem of data and tools to support decision-making on Energy Transition.

ePLANET builds on an existing infrastructure enabling massive data gathering, making the data and measures comparable and interoperable with existing local initiatives (CoM) and regional/national plans, analysing this data and offering relevant results to key stakeholders. This will support better (more informed, more transparent and faster) decision-making, contributing to improved monitoring and verification schemes. Enabling interoperability across the local and regional authorities to joint application of the energy efficiency measures favouring more efficient use of public spending.

The ePLANET Platform

A set of tools to help pilot and follower regions implement energy transition measures, making local energy policies and decisions on evidence-based facts and figures. Includes the data harmonisation layer to make data interoperable, and perform data cleansing and anomaly detection.

SECAPs digitalisation and monitoring: Monitoring the progress of active energy transition plans by public administrations to specify and periodically update the status of completion of each of their planned energy transition measures.
Analysis of the energy performance of the public building stock: A database of public building energy use and energy efficiency measures applied to them. The database is targeting public administrations looking for data that can back the effectiveness of different actuations and management strategies used on public buildings, allowing also to benchmark the energy efficiency’s buildings.
PV potential analysis for public buildings: To determine the PV
potential installations on public buildings and the self-consumption ratio they can achieve.
GEO-Tools for the promotion of energy communities: GIS-mapped visualisations to support the definition of the energy transition strategy at municipal level. Users are able to switch between different visualisation scales (building block, municipal, postal code levels) and perform benchmarking comparisons in areas of interest.

The ePLANET clustering governance approach

Clustering governance refers to managing and governing a cluster of entities from different structural levels, working together towards a common goal.

Effective clustering governance in Energy Transition involves designing and implementing policies and procedures that encourage collaboration and cooperation among cluster members. In addition, it involves creating a supportive environment that facilitates innovation and growth in Energy Transition.

The innovative approach of ePLANET clustering governance requires some new actors to be deployed within the governance structure, together with the use of specific tools to facilitate data mining and information sharing, and fostering dialogues and common initiatives between the different cluster members.

PARTNERSHIP

The project consortium is composed of 10 partners from 6 countries, 4 of which are Catalan: the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), as general and technical coordinator of the project; the Catalan Energy Institute (ICAEN) and the Girona Provincial Council, as building data providers and responsible for the Catalan pilot; and the LIMA association, as a consultant in innovative energy solutions and responsible for the communication and dissemination of the project.

The project also includes the Regional Development Fund of Crete and the Centre for Renewable Energy and Saving (CRES) from Greece, the European Federation of Energy and Environment Agencies and Regions, the European Network of Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), the Energy Agency of the Region of Zlín (Czech Republic) and Three O’clock (France).

COORDINATOR