The existence of data able to define reality is one of the most important steps in urban energy planning process. The work developed allowed to characterise in an understandable form the energy consumption and its evolution trends, allowing the development of initiatives with well supported goals and supported by reliable data.

On the other hand, emissions of gas with greenhouse effect are beginning to concern Local Authorities and they are finding that local energy and environment policies could perform an important role in a near future. For this reason, together with energy consumption accounting, ENERGAIA developed a study to the quantification of emissions.

The Project consisted in the development of the following activities:

The distribution of 5000 units of the brochure "Matriz Energética de Vila Nova de Gaia" and the development of a Web version had contributed to disseminate information related to energy, facilitating the population awareness.

The work consisted in gathering and analysis of data and development of methodologies that had allowed the quantification of inexistent data. The problematic sectors in terms of energy consumption and emission of gases with greenhouse effect had been identified and the main intervention guidelines in energy area were established.

The data and main conclusions of the work developed had been compiled and published in a document that was produced for public distribution (5000 units). Beyond these data, the document includes general information about the region, renewable energies and awareness information for the citizen.

A web page was developed in order to disseminate all the available information, with the particularity and advantage of being easily updated with last available data.

The main benefit achieved with the accomplishment of this project was a bigger integration between the Municipality and competent entities in energy field. These organisations worked in perfect cooperation in the search of a new strategy and an energy policy oriented to the action.

The distribution of 5000 units of the brochure "Matriz Energética de Vila Nova de Gaia" and the development of a Web version contributed to disseminate information related to energy, facilitating the population awareness.

The main beneficiaries of this project were the City council of Vila Nova de Gaia, as main partner intervening in the process of definition of an energy policy. Through the publication of the information in a web page, the citizen has also the opportunity to benefit from this important information of their City.

Energy Agencies will also benefit with this study, since methodologies, difficulties to overcome, were identified, allowing them to carry similar projects in an effective way.

The project had a total cost of 19.000 from which 47% financed by own capital and the remaining 53% was financed by sponsorships from entities associated to ENERGAIA.

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Financing:

ENERGAIA - Agência Municipal de Energia de
Phone: +351 223 71 97 39
lcastanheira@energaia.pt

01/01/2001

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Urban Policy > Urban environment > Environmental sustainability

Energy efficiency, Greenhouse gas emissions