Project description
Local politics as the main driver of energy transition
The shift from fossil-based energy systems to renewable energy sources hinges on successful coordination between local and regional authorities. The EU-funded ePLANET project encourages the digitalisation of measures and plans enabling an interoperable ecosystem of data and tools supporting energy transition decision-making, putting it into practice via new multi-level clustering governance within the public sector. The project employs the most innovative tools in artificial intelligence and big data to leverage and exploit the available energy data to boost energy transition plans. The project will first develop a proof of concept in regional pilots (Girona, Crete and Zlín), with a subsequent focus on extending these tools and the methodology across Europe.
Objective
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 transition measures (ETM). 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 by the public sector.
ePLANET builds on an existing infrastructure enabling massive data gathering, making the data and measures comparable and interoperable with existing local initiatives (CoM, Clean Energy for EU Islands Initiative) and regional/national plans, analysing this data and offering relevant results to key stakeholders. This will enhance decision-making -more informed, more transparent and faster decisions-, contributing to improved monitoring and verification schemes. Enabling harmonisation of plans and interoperability across the local and regional authorities to joint application of ETM favouring more efficient use of public spending.
ePLANET is a three-year project that will develop a proof of concept over three regional pilots (Girona, Crete and Zlín regions) during the first half of the project, to ensure the correct deployment of developed tools and to fit the real needs of public authorities in the energy transition. The rest of the project will focus on extending and implementing the ePLANET tools and methodology across Europe. To ensure new regions and local authorities’ engagement, the project will leverage existing initiatives (CoM and ManagEnergy) in which the project partners have strong influence (ICLEI and FED in particular).
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
08034 Barcelona
Spain