Implementation: In the early 1990’s, Sweden shifted from oil to district heating. This helped to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions in the housing and ...
Implementation: The Swedish Island of Gotland is committed to having a climate-neutral energy supply by 2025. The objective is to use 100% local, renewable resources to meet all of ...
RES: Biomass cogeneration and district heating system.
Implementation: Güssing is a small town in Austria, near the Hungarian border. Years ago, the town was struggling to pay for energy costs, today it is a trendsetter ...
Target: 100% renewable energy target in the electricity sector
Status: Achieved - >99% of the electricity production and >70% of the total energy production come from hydropower and geothermal sources. The country´s buildings are mostly heated with renewable energy and overall 81% ...
RES: Hydropower, windpower, cogeneration and biofuels.
Implementation: Jämtland County is the third largest county in Sweden. The largest share of electricity production in Jämtland (93%) is generated from hydropower (11.2 TWh in 2013). The county ...
Implementation: Wildpoldsried is a small village located in Lower Saxony in Northern Germany. In 2006, Jühnde became the first village in Germany to be energy self-sufficient. The municipality is using ...
Implementation: Knežice is a small village located around 80 km from Prague) in the Czech Republic. Today it is energy self-sufficient thanks to a bioenergy facility, which consists of ...
Status:In progress - To date, the energy-self-sufficiency coefficient (the ratio between regional energy demand and regional renewable energy generated) is around 75%.
RES: 21 small hydropower plants, 3 ecological storage lakes, 4 district biomass ...
