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Smart Energy Community (SEC)
Increasingly, on a daily basis we hear terms such as "Energy Efficiency", "Green Lifestyle", "Smart Energy". It is essential to understand that a well-considered lifestyle, taking into account climate change and environmental changes throughout the world, is an indispensable contribution to the society' s common and healthy future. A sustainable society starts with each of us, therefore, the Vidzeme planning region, in cooperation with the Tartu Regional Energy Agency, Rouge municipality, Alūksne municipality, has united knowledge in the project "Smart Energy Society". Project participants will be citizens of the Vidzeme planning region, the Rouge and Tartu districts, teachers and their family members. They will learn the importance and benefits of energy-efficient lifestyles by practical examples and actions. Local energy companies will also be involved in saving energy and changing habits in order to jointly improve our everyday life and energy-efficiency habits.
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Title
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Smart Energy Community
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Abbreviation
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SEC
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Lead partner
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Tartu Regional Energy Agency, Estonia
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Project number
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Est-Lat 21
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Programme
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Interreg Estonia – Latvia 2014-2020
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Partners
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- Tartu Regional Energy Agency, Estonia
- Rõuge Municipality, Estonia
- Vidzeme Planning Region, Latvia
- Alūksne Municipality, Latvia
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Project aim
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- Increasing the awareness of the daily use of energy and improving energy saving in Estonian and Latvian households and communities;
- Increasing energy awareness at schools and introducing interactive learning-by-doing teaching methods in order to impact the energy consciousness of future generations;
- Promoting innovative and smart solutions and best practices for energy efficiency, using demo-units, support and ICT devices and instruments.
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Activities
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- School campaign: involve complex of surveying, auditing and experimenting with the energy consumption patterns on school premises as well at homes setting up and using test kits devices in the Rõuge, Aluksne, Valmiera and Lizums pilot schools and integrating energy lessons and tests to the school curricula. Energy management units (lighting controls and sensors, etc) installed to improve energy efficiency at pilot schools will be integrated to the learning process. The school campaign involves student workshops and after-school activities, setting energy days, exchange study tours and other in-house campaigns at schools and among students. The school management and teachers are trained for the energy efficiency and energy class programme.
- Community campaign: ‘Smart energy community’ will focus on energy savings regarding end-use energy efficiency at home on household level. The campaign will combine the informative and relevant components of households’ personalized behavior of energy usage. The set of communication activities, including real, virtual, hands-on and practical, event-based such as trainings and written instructions how to save energy will be distributed through multiple communication channels. Integrity of metering, monitoring, auditing of energy consumption and acting using simple but smart home technologies (control devices, wifi sockets etc) obtained by the project and deployed in the real life condition supports changing energy consumption behavior.
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Results
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- Two Schools of Vidzeme Planning Region equipped with “Energy classes”;
- Teacher training about energy efficiency;
- Scholars “Hobby groups” will be set up and trained about the energy efficiency;
- Participation at the Energy days in Rouge and Alūksne;
- Informative lectures about the energy efficiency in households;
- Video competition for scholars about energy efficient lifestyle.
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Budget
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Total Budget of the project – 289 730.00 EUR
- of which ERDF support - 24 6270.50 EUR
VPR budget – 59 150.00 EUR
- of which ERDF support - 50 277.50 EUR
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Implementation period
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01.03.2017 – 31.08.2018
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Contact person VPR
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Maija Rieksta
“Smart Energy Community” project manager in VPR
Tel. +371 26099521
maija.rieksta@vidzeme.lv
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