European Energy Award

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Association European Energy Award
(eea)
logo
legal form AISBL
founding 2003 (in Berlin)
Seat Brussels , Place du Grand Sablon 19 ( ⊙ coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 27.7 ″  N , 4 ° 21 ′ 11.7 ″  E )
main emphasis Energy saving and climate protection at the municipal level
Action space Europe
people Charlotte Spörndli (Managing director)
Members > 1500 municipalities

The European Energy Award , or eea for short , is a European quality certificate for the sustainability of the energy and climate protection policies of municipalities .

In the meantime, over 1500 municipalities across Europe with around 50 million inhabitants are involved, and over 800 municipalities are certified (as of 2018).

Emergence

E5 energy efficient municipalities logo.svg

The European Energy Award is based on the Swiss program Energiestadt , the Austrian (Vorarlberg) program e5 - program for energy-efficient communities and the German (North Rhine-Westphalian) action program 2000 plus , which agreed on a harmonized system as early as 2003. A more precise date of foundation cannot be found. As early as 2001, the Energy City label was transferred to other countries as part of European cooperation projects and distributed under the umbrella brand “European Energy Award”. The European Forum European Energy Award was founded in Berlin on September 25, 2003 ; today it is based in Brussels as the Association European Energy Award .

The initiative has also attracted attention in European politics; the 2012 awards were presented in Brussels by EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger.

The European Energy Award

European Energy Award Gold
Commemorative plaque European Energy Award (Delitzsch DE, 2012)

If a municipality can demonstrate particularly successful performance in climate protection after the assessment and the result is confirmed by an auditor , the municipality will be awarded the European Energy Award . The highest level is the European Energy Award Gold .

The certification process is based on a quality management system with which the corresponding activities of the municipality are recorded, assessed, planned, controlled and regularly checked in order to identify and use potentials of sustainable climate protection. This is a catalog of criteria, the EEA is awarded from 50% points fulfilled, EEA Gold from 75%. The EEA sees itself as an implementation-oriented instrument.

EEA award 2012

Certification with the award is valid for 3–4 years. Subsequently, a municipality has to prove again that further actions and initiatives in energy and climate policy have been taken in order to be certified again. In some federal states (e.g. Baden-Württemberg or North Rhine-Westphalia), a municipality that performs successfully in the EEA process can access topic-oriented funding. The sponsors (usually ministries for energy, environment and climate issues) praise the successful municipalities in their region. The respective minister hands over the certificates at an award event.

National

In the meantime (as of 2018) several European countries are working on this program: Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Italy, Austria and Switzerland as full members, Belgium, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine and that United Kingdom as pilot countries .

  • In Switzerland there are (as of March 2017) 418 certified municipalities in the Energiestadt program , the Swiss equivalent and label system on which the EEA is based. This means that over half of the population in Switzerland already lives in energy city communities, including 41 that have been awarded EEA Gold (the label is awarded from 50%, i.e. corresponds to the EEA).
  • In Austria (as of the end of 2018) more than 270 municipalities and cities take part, with over 20% of the population about the European average. More than 20 have EEA Gold (5 e in the e5 program correspond to EEA Gold, 3 e EEA). The national organization is e5 Austria in Vienna. The program is closely linked to the klima: aktiv initiative of the Ministry of the Environment (managed by the Energy Agency),
  • In Germany (as of March 2016) 276 cities and municipalities and 45 rural districts are taking part. In the federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia , Saxony and Thuringia , the municipalities are supported by special funding programs of the state governments in carrying out the European Energy Award. The program is coordinated in Germany by the European Energy Award federal office, based in Berlin. In some (currently eight) federal states there are supporting institutions that are available as contacts in the region for the network, from participating municipalities, EEA advisory staff and regional offices.
  • Liechtenstein (which is integrated into the Swiss Energy City Program) is a particularly outstanding member, where all municipalities in the small state have been EEA-awarded for several years (11 municipalities, but no EEA Gold).
  • The same applies to Monaco (only one municipality, not EEA Gold).
  • In Luxembourg, too, all 105 municipalities have been taking part since 2016, with almost 80 award-winning municipalities (as of 2017), 6 of them EEA Gold. The office is Pacte climat .
  • France operates the Cit'ergie program .
  • In Italy, the program is implemented as ComuneClima as part of CasaClima / KlimaHaus , and the South Tyrol Energy Agency is involved in South Tyrol .
  • Romania has set up the Romania Green Building Council .

literature

Web links

Commons : European Energy Award  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  1. ↑ energiestadt.ch
  2. ↑ e5-gemeinden.at
  3. ↑ european-energy-award.de
  4. ↑ pacteclimat.lu
  5. ↑ citergie.ademe.fr
  6. ↑ klimahaus.it .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Legal Notice. Association European Energy Award, european-energy-award.org (accessed February 3, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b European Energy Award. Factsheet. Association European Energy Award, 2018 (pdf, on european-energy-award.org).
  3. ↑ Organization ( Memento of October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , european-energy-award.org, accessed on March 18, 2012 (English)
  4. ^ E5 in Europe - the European Energy Award ( Memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , e5-gemeinden.at
  5. ↑ Organization ( Memento of October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , european-energy-award.org, accessed on March 18, 2012 (English)
  6. ↑ EU Commissioner Oettinger presents the European Energy Award , energyagency.at
  7. ↑ Quality Management ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , european-energy-award.de, accessed on March 18, 2012
  8. ↑ a b c d e Activities 2017. Association European Energy Award, July 2018 (pdf, european-energy-award.org).
  9. ↑ Facts & Figures , energiestadt.ch, accessed on June 20, 2017.
  10. ^ E5 parishes in Austria . e5-gemeinden.at (updated content).
  11. ↑ EEA-Kommunen , european-energy-award.de, accessed on March 18, 2012
  12. ^ Internet site of the Climate Protection and Energy Agency Baden-Württemberg , accessed on September 26, 2013.
  13. ^ Website of the project management organization ETN, Jülich ( Memento from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 18, 2012.
  14. ↑ Sächsische Energieagentur website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.keds-online.de  
  15. ↑ Sächsische Energieagentur website
  16. ↑ European Energy Award website ( memento of September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 26, 2013.
  17. ↑ ComuneClima. agenziacasaclima.it.