- Target: Fossil free by 2050
- Status: In progress
- RES: District heating, solar and wind power
- 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 ...
- Target: Climate-neutral energy supply by 2025
- Status: In progress
- RES: Wind power
- 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 ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: Achieved
- RES: A solar photovoltaics farm, a biogas plant, a cogeneration plant and a district heating network.
- Implementation: In the small Bavarian village of Großbardorf, local citizens invested and raised outside capital worth $19 million over ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy self-sufficiency.
- Status: Achieved
- 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% CO2 neutral by 2020.
- Status: Achieved
- RES: District heating system, biomass energy, and solar thermal and photovoltaic panels on all roofs.
- Implementation: The city of Hartberg in Austria has set a 100% CO2-neutral target to include all buildings, ...
- Target: 100% renewable electricity and heat by 2050
- Status: In progress
- RES: Wind power, hydropower, biomass, biofuels, solar thermal and PV and district heating systems.
- Implementation: In 2010, the State of Hessen in Germany made the commitment to transition to ...
- 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% ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: In progress
- 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 ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Mainly bio-energy, some solar photovoltaics.
- 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 ...
- Target: 100% renewable electricity
- Status: Achieved - The town achieved the 100% target in September 2014.
- RES: Three windfarms, a biomass CHP plant, a biogas power plant, and a district heating system.
- Implementation: The small town of Kisielice in northern Poland is ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Biogass and biomass plants
- 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 ...
- Target: 100% energy autonomous by 2020
- 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 ...
