- Target: Energy self-sufficiency by becoming independent from fossil-fuel based energy sources.
- Status: Achieved
- RES: 32 wind turbines with a total wind power capacity of 68,9 MW, nine solar power plants, biomass-based heating systems, and household solar collectors.
- Implementation: Dardesheim has pioneered ...
- Target: Phase out fossil fuel use entirely in all energy sectors (including transportation) by 2050.
- Status: In progress - In 2011, the share of renewable energy in the transportation mix was less than 1%, compared to a share of approximately 40% ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Solar PV and thermal collectors, hydro power plant, biomass district heating plant and biogas facility.
- Implementation: The city of Dobbiaco is located 1,256 m above sea level, in the Pusteria Valley in the northern ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Biogas plant, wood chip boiler, cogeneration units, district heating network and solar PV.
- Implementation: Effelter is a small rural village located in the northern part of Bavaria, Germany. Today, the village is producing 200% ...
- Target: To become a self-sustaining island in the face of the global climate crisis and persistently high fossil fuel prices.
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Five turbine wind farms and hydro plant supplies 80% of the island’s energy demands, 20% is generated through solar ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Solar energy, wind power and hydropower.
- Implementation: The region of Extremadura in southwestern Spain is one of the country's leaders in renewable energy installation. In 2010, its electricity demand was met by entirely renewable sources for ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy self-sufficient, climate neutral village.
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Wind farm and biogas-fired thermal power station.
- Implementation: In 1997, Feldheim local council began by installing four wind turbines together with local residents and start-up company “Energiequelle”. By 2015, the ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: In progress
- RES: Combined heat and power (CHP), solar thermal and PV, wind power, and the use of local organic wastes for both heating and power generation.
- Implementation: The city of Frankfurt is a global financial hub ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy by 2030
- Status: In progress
- RES: Wind farm, thermal solar collectors, heated water storage, heat pump systems, geothermal energy, and district heating.
- Implementation: Frederikshavn is a town located in Northern Denmark. In November 2006, a group of Danish ...
- Target: 100% reliance on renewable sources for power and heat.
- Status: Achieved - Freiamt consumes 12,000 MWh annually and generates 15,400 MWh annually with renewable resources.
- RES: Wind power, biomass, biogas, solar, hydropower and a district heating system.
- Implementation: Freiamt is ...
- Target: Freiburg Green City, using 100% renewable energy by 2050.
- Status: In progress
- RES: Net-zero and passivhaus building practices, combined heat and power (CHP) generation, solar thermal and photovoltaics systems, and a district heating grid to provide domestic heating and hot water.
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- Target: 100% renewable electricity target by 2035
- Status: In progress
- RES: Solar energy
- Implementation: In 2005, 24 municipalities in the district of Freising, north of Munich, Germany decided to create the “Solar Region Freisingerland” with the target of 100% renewable ...