Works In Progress

Sontra, Germany

Sontra, Germany

  • Target: 100% RE
  • Status: In progress - In 2011, 40% of the energy demand was from RE, with 242 RE installations integrated into the grid.
  • RES: Windpower, solar power, and EV-charging stations.
  • Implementation: The city of Sontra is located in the German state of ...
Steinfurt District, Germany

Steinfurt District, Germany

  • Target: 100% climate protection and 100% renewable energy by 2050.
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Wind power, solar power and biomass energy.
  • Implementation: The county of Steinfurt in Germany has implemented a 100% Climate Protection masterplan or  “Masterplan 100% Klimaschutz” with the ...
Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden

  • Target: Fossil free by 2050
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: District heating, renewable fuels in public transport, biogas, infrastructure for e-vehicles.
  • Implementation: The City of Stockholm in Sweden is implementing policies across all sectors in order to  reach the goal of ...
Sumba Island, Indonesia

Sumba Island, Indonesia

  • Target: Electrify 95% of the island and exclusively provide  power from renewable energy until 2025
  • Status: In progress - 10% of electricity production from solar, biogas and hydro.
  • RES: Most of projects rely on solar PV, biogas, or micro-hydro systems.
  • Implementation: The ...
Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia

Tasmania, Australia

  • Target: 100% renewable energy by 2020.
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Hydropower, windpower, rooftop solar photovoltaics.
  • Implementation: In 2013, the Tasmanian Government launched a climate action plan the "Climate Smart Tasmania: A 2020 Climate Change Strategy" which outlined the 100% ...
Traunsee, Traunstein, Germany

Traunstein District, Germany

  • Target: 100% renewable energy
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Hydropower, solar power and biomass energy.
  • Implementation: In 2007, the Traunstein district in the state of Bayern, Germany set the 100% target but it was only formally confirmed by the local government years ...
Trier, Germany

Trier (Region), Germany

  • Target: Transition from an energy-importing to an energy-exporting region
  • Status: In progress - To date, the RES-plants in the region supplies more than 60 % of the regional electricity demand, thereby saving more than 1.2 Mio. tonnes of CO2.
  • RES: Solar, ...
Pretoria, Tshwane, South Africa

Tshwane, South Africa

  • Target: 50% renewable energy at community-scale by 2030, geared towards a 100% renewable energy pathway
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Biogas from waste and solar power
  • Implementation: The City of Tshwane in South Africa has a target to reach 50% renewable energy at ...
Tuvalu

Tuvalu

  • Target: Achieve 100% renewable electricity and increase energy efficiency by 30%, by 2020
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar photovoltaics, and biogas from pig manure.
  • Implementation: In 2009, the government of Tuvalu adopted the National Energy Policy (NEP) setting out its 100% target. The National ...
Hallstatt, Upper Austria, Austria

Upper Austria Region, Austria

  • Target: 100% renewable electricity and heat by 2030.
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Hydro power, biomass and solar energy.
  • Implementation: Upper Austria is one of 9 regions in Austria. It is the fourth-largest in the country by land area, and the third-largest ...
Uralla, Australia

Uralla, NSW, Australia

  • Target: Become a decentralized, off-grid town, meeting 100% of the town's energy demand via local renewable energy generation.
  • Status: In progress - 10% of electricity from solar photovoltaics.
  • RES: Solar photovoltaics
  • Implementation: Reduce the town's energy needs  via energy efficiency upgrades to buildings ...
Valley View University, Accra, Ghana

Valley View University, Accra, Ghana

  • Target: 100% renewable energy
  • Status: In progress
  • RES: Solar energy and biogas
  • Implementation: Valley View University is located in Accra, the capital of Ghana. In 2001, it became the first ecological university in Africa. An ecological master plan was the ...