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POWERTY - Renewable energy for vulnerable groups
National projectThe POWERTY project worked to increase access to renewable energy for vulnerable groups to tackle energy poverty. This was done primarily by improving regional policy instruments targeting 4 topics: new innovative technologies, new formulas for financing, improving the regulatory framework and empowering vulnerable groups. Over the project's 4 year duration, the partners developed a complete learning process to facilitate an effective knowledge flow between these regions.
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Xarxa per una Transició Energètica Justa (XTEJ)
National projectThe «Xarxa per una Transició Energètica Justa» in Castelló aimed to mobilise the different groups that make up the ecosystem of community based organisations of the city to make the social problems associated with the climate and energy crisis visible. It also aimed to promote a new energy culture that contributed to reducing energy vulnerability of families through a fair energy transition.
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Green Energy Community (GECO)
National projectThe Green Energy Community (GECO) was a demonstration project in the Pilastro – Roveri district of Bologna. It comprised the creation of an energy community, an entity introduced by the EU Clean Energy Package (CEP). The GECO project intended to tackle social, technical and economic aspects related to the creation of the green energy community in order to increase sustainability, reduce energy poverty and generate a low carbon economic cycle.
The project is carried out by AESS, ENEA, UNIBO, CAAB/FICO and Agenzia Pilastro, with the Emilia Romagna Region, GSE, RSE, City of Bologna, local associations, businesses and citizens and with the financial support of EIT Climate-KIC.
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Generació Dones
National projectGeneració Dones was an innovative job placement plan aimed at promoting the energy rehabilitation of buildings and energy efficiency targetting unemployed women in Barcelona. The objective was the promotion of female employment in a highly masculinised sector such as construction and renewable energies through a transferable and replicable pilot proposal that, on the one hand, ended the sector's horizontal segregation, and on the other, contributed to the investment in rehabilitation and energy efficiency coming from the European Next Generation funds having an impact on the groups that require it most, and specifically, on women.
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Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes
National projectWarm Up New Zealand was a government-subsidized residential energy efficiency and clean energy program, addressing respiratory illnesses and winter mortality rates. The Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (EECA) collaborated with home insulation companies, regional councils, energy trusts, and other partners to provide low-income households with grants covering 60% of the cost of insulation.
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New Zealand
Warmer Kiwi Homes
New Zealand
Healthy Homes Initiative
Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes Rental programme
National projectWarm Up New Zealand is a government-subsidized residential energy efficiency and clean energy program, addressing respiratory illnesses and winter mortality rates. The Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (EECA) collaborated with home insulation companies, regional councils, energy trusts, and other partners to provide low-income households with grants covering 60% of the cost of insulation.
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New Zealand
Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes
New Zealand
Warmer Kiwi Homes
New Zealand
Healthy Homes Initiative
Warmer Kiwi Homes
National projectWarmer Kiwi Homes was a four-year Government programme offering grants covering two-thirds of the cost of ceiling and underfloor insulation.
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New Zealand
Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes
New Zealand
Healthy Homes Initiative
EnergyMate
National projectEnergyMate is all about helping ahānau get the most out of their electricity. For some, that’s a reduced power bill, for others, it’s a warmer, drier, healthier home. EnergyMate is delivered through in-home coaching and community hui by EnergyMate coaches. All EnergyMate coaches are community-based financial mentors who are trained through an energy hardship training module to equip them to provide education and support. Following the success of the initial pilot in 2019, EnergyMate is operating in 13 locations across Aotearoa, and to date has supported almost 1,000 households with energy advice and targeted support.
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New Zealand
Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes
New Zealand
Warmer Kiwi Homes
Energy Hardship Expert Panel
MeasureThe Energy Hardship Expert Panel brings together 5 leaders from a range of backgrounds who collectively hold key insights, connections and experience working directly with households living in or at risk of energy hardship. The objective of the panel is to recommend to government, policy priorities and actions to alleviate energy hardship and provide impartial evidence-based expert advice. The Panel’s work programme will in part, be drawn from the Electricity Price Review’s findings and the government’s response to its recommendations.
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New Zealand
Electricity Price Review
New Zealand
Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes
EnePoMAP: Mapping and providing cost effective solutions for tackling energy poverty
European projectThis project aimed at developing a GIS-based methodology, using information available in different public databases for detecting areas at risk of energy poverty, and identifying potential solutions for reducing it.
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Germany