Engineer

The project aims at ensuring that vulnerable households have access to renewable energies, helping to cover energy needs, and supporting multiple policy goals, such as affordable energy, job creation, and improved public health. Although the need is great, many households may not be able to afford RES installations or may be inhibited from participating in the energy transition for other reasons such as lack of access to information, difficulties to access finance or ownership patterns.

The project was based on the territorial need to address social participation and the creation of ties the situation of poverty and vulnerability. The innovative element of the project was the participation of vulnerable people in public photovoltaic installations. Through a social billing system, it was intended to develop a new energy culture linked to the values ​​of the territory and the communication of social activities aimed at improving cohesion from diversity.

The project aimed jointly tackling the topic of housing deprivation and energy efficiency in the scope of social housing sector towards a lower carbon economy. The overall objective of the project was to improve regional policy instruments targeting the link between social housing sector and fuel poverty with green building interventions considering policy, institutional, financial and technical levels.

The project offered training to a group of local government officials to auditing the sustainability level of a sample of 100 low-income homes, weatherized them and measured impacts and results.

The project stimulates sustainable renovation in the third sector. SER intends to design, set up, and implement an innovative de-risking financing mechanism that entails financing and technical standardisation, project aggregation, social impact assessment and credit enhancement.

The municipality developed a support scheme for people in a situation of energy poverty using money raised during the traditional public run.

The project aimed to assist local authorities and other stakeholders in small sized rural municipalities in Rhodope Region of Bulgaria in successfully launching and implementing sustainable energy projects.

RHEPOB aims to analyse the relationship between hidden energy poverty, the adaptive behavior of occupants associated to thermal conditions and the architectonic features of dwellings in Central-Southern Chile, to generate architectonic design and usage criteria that help identify and reduce energy poverty.

The project aimed to create an innovative employment plan and to promote energy education and a new energy culture, especially aimed at people in a situation of vulnerability to unemployment (women outside the circuits of formally paid work) in Nou Barris, a district of Barcelona especially affected by energy poverty.

The project focused on the private rental market and aimed to give landlords extra support in making sustainable choices. With a budget between 100.000 and 1M€, it involved the renovation of 30 terraced houses in Kortrijk, Harelbeke and Menen.