Target Achieved

Pellworm, Germany

Pellworm, Germany

  • Target: 100% renewable electricity
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: Wind power, solar farm.
  • Implementation: Pellworm is the third largest North Frisian island and relies on tourism and agriculture. About 50 farms engage in livestock. 70 percent of the land is used ...
Prato allo Stelvio, Alto Adige, Italy

Prato allo Stelvio (Prad am Stilfser Joch), Italy

  • Target: 100% renewable energy
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: Biomass heating plant, 4 small hydroelectric plants, rooftop solar and a wind farm.
  • Implementation: In 2010, Prato allo Stelvia, a small Italian town in the mountains, won the RES Champions League title for having the best policies ...
Schönburg Castle, Flaggenwiese, Rhein-Hunsrück, Germany

Rhein – Hunsrück, Germany

  • Target: 100% renewable energy by 2020 based on local sources
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: Hydropower, wind power, solar photovoltaics, and biomass.
  • Implementation: The District of Rhein-Hunsrück is located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in southwestern Germany. When the District set the target ...
Rock Port, Missouri, USA

Rockport, Missouri, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable energy
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: Wind energy
  • Implementation: Rock Port Missouri announced itself as the first 100% wind powered community in the United States. Four wind turbines supplies all of its electricity. The turbines are located on agricultural lands ...
Saint-Julien-Mont-Denis, France

Saint-Julien-Montdenis, France

  • Target: 100% renewable energy
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: A 2 MW hydro plant, several medium photovoltaic plants, and small localised solar thermal panels and wood heating systems.
  • Implementation: The mayor of Saint-Julien-Montdenis Marc Tournabien was elected in 2008, and promptly turned towards implementing ...
Samsø, Denmark

Samsø, Denmark

  • Target: Move from a 100% RE island to a fossil free island by 2030
  • Status: Achieved - Samsø is the world´s first island powered by 100% renewable energy. In progress - It is almost totally carbon free and uses 100% RE in ...
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Schleswig-Holstein (State), Germany

  • Target: 100% renewable energy
  • Status: Achieved - 100% electricity supply from renewable energy in 2014.
  • RES: Wind power, solar power and biomass.
  • Implementation: The German Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein is located in the North of Germany at the border with Denmark. It ...
Scituate, Massachusetts, USA

Scituate, Massachusetts, USA

  • Target: 100% renewable power for the municipality by end of 2013.
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: One wind turbine and a 3 MW solar array.
  • Implementation: Scituate is a coastal town located between Boston and Plymouth in Massachusetts, USA. It achieve its target of 100% ...
Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands

Sint Eustatius, Caribbean Netherlands

  • Target: Reduce fossil fuel usage and establish a grid stabilizing energy supply based on renewable energies.
  • Status: Achieved - Produces 4.1 MW of energy, covering 45% of the islands annual energy share.
  • RES: Combination of a 2 MWp PV farm and diesel ...
Thisted, Denmark

Thisted, Denmark

  • Target: 100% self-sufficiency in electricity supply from renewable sources.
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: Wind power, geothermal energy, biogas, solar photovoltaics, and district heating.
  • Implementation: The municipality of Thisted is located in the north-west section of Jutland region in Denmark. Today it is ...
Fakaofo, Tokelau

Tokelau

  • Target: 100% renewable energy
  • Status: Achieved
  • RES: 1MW off-grid solar energy system across three main atolls of Tokelau. The project includes : 4032 solar modules, 196 string inverters, 112 DC charge controllers, 84 battery inverters and 1344 batteries in ...
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, Varese Ligure, Italy

Varese Ligure, Italy

  • Target: 100% of renewable electricity.
  • Status: Achieved - 100% of renewable electricity supply in 2001.
  • RES: 4 wind turbines, and solar thermal systems.
  • Implementation: In the 1980s, Varese Ligure and its surroundings suffered from unemployment and de-population. The number of inhabitants had significantly ...