Compete4SECAP has ensured involvement of 31 LAs that developed and implemented Energy Management System according to ISO 50001 (except eea in Germany) and 20 of then have also certified the system (and additional three have passed the audit and are waiting for the certificate (2 for ISO 50001 and 1 for eea). Throughout the project Compete4SECAP has ensured all LAs with an access to Energy Monitoring Platform to ensure energy monitoring in public buildings, public lighting and public fleet. 16.8 million EUR investments have been allocated for implementation of 123 energy efficiency (EE) actions in the framework of the energy management system.
On January 1st, 2019 Compete4SECAP launched energy competitions in 97 public buildings (with more than 6800 employees and users) in eight countries with clear guidelines, awards, trainings, challenges and monthly newsletters. In total achieving 6.44% (1717.6 MWh) of energy savings and 176,433 EUR savings by avoiding 512.6 tons of CO2 emissions. Implementation of the energy management system and energy competitions has insured cost savings of more than 1 million EUR over the project lifetime.
Compete4SECAP has ensured that LAs also upgrade their existing SEAPs to SECAPs and plan new measures until 2030. The upgrade of SEAPs to SECAPs not only forced LAs to be more ambitious on EE and RES activities, but also included a very significant and newer field of action part for many LAs – climate adaptation activities. This required the LAs to be more aware of the risks of climate change on local level, and to plan corresponding actions that will help them to become more resilient. More than 700 sustainable energy actions (EE and renewable energy sources (RES)) have been foreseen within SECAPs (finalised and planned) with the total investments of 2.9 billion EUR.
By the end of the project, the C4S partners had carried out 400 dissemination activities, distributed a total amount of 8.742 flyers (or other promotional materials, such as stickers, sweets, handbooks, posters, door hangers, posters, handbags, indoor/outdoor thermometers, among others), and published 980 social media posts that registered 1.722 likes, 2 scientific publications, 74 articles and 25 press releases. The partners gave 53 presentations done in external (non C4S) events (conferences, etc.). The C4S website registered 35.648 views. The national newsletters were delivered to a total of 1.989 people, while 202 contacts (198 of them subscribers) received the EU newsletter. More than 3 million recipients have been reached.
The following achievements were reached:
● Total energy savings – 264.8 GWh/year
● CO2 emission savings from EnMS and energy saving competition – 5765.6 tons
● CO2 emission savings by 2030 from 29 SECAPs – 2.5 million tons
● Increase of RES capacity – 33.2 GWh/year
