Orexa has made energy an essential part of its local development strategy to ensure its own energy sovereignty. The energy community has smartly combined legal and technical solutions to ensure local production and consumption of energy.
Orexa has made energy an essential part of its local development strategy to ensure its own energy sovereignty. The energy community has smartly combined legal and technical solutions to ensure local production and consumption of energy.
The Rhodoshop initiative replicates the One-Stop-Shop concept at regional level to support stakeholders in identifying and accessing funds channelled towards energy efficiency.
Sunna Alm is the highest passive-energy restaurant of the Alpine region. It has opted for renewable energy to heat its building, thanks to a combined used of solar and geothermal energies.
Cozzano has embarked on its energy transition by investing in sustainable production, with the ultimate aim of becoming a positive energy village.
Cozzano is a community of 270 inhabitants located in the high valley of Taravo in southern Corsica. By using connected devices and collecting environmental data, Smart Paesi’s partners want to increase the climate and energy resilience of the village.
The actions undertaken adopt a global vision of the challenges associated with the return of the wolf, from the protection of its habitat to the problems posed by predation on livestock. Similar compensation models may be worth implementing in other areas.
In the 2010s, the Centrales Villageoises developed a pioneering model which, before the emergence of energy communities, enabled mountain communities to take ownership of the energy transition.
Euromontana's position provides recommendations to better support the development of energy efficiency measures and the use of the potential of renewable energy sources in mountain areas.