- 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% 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: Powered by 100 % renewable energy.
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Solar and windpower.
- Implementation: The city of Georgetown in Texas is powered by 100 % renewable energy through long-term deals to supply the city with solar and wind power. The decision ...
- Target: 100% renewable energy
- Status: Achieved
- RES: Wind farm, small solar installations and biogas and biodiesel generator, LEED Buildings, geothermal heating, charging stations for electric vehicles.
- Implementation: Greensburg is a small rural town in Kansas, USA. It is a story of triumph ...
- 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 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: 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 ...
