Europe’s commitment to the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development means that the EU must drive an energy transformation, but in Romania, inadequate financial support and a…
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These are stories of citizens and communities spearheading a sustainable transformation that yields multiple environmental and social benefits. The reforms to the EU Budget advocated by our campaign would enable many more of these kinds of stories to become the norm across Europe.
Renewable energy has gotten a bad rap in Latvia. Since the construction of hydroelectric power stations during the Soviet era to the recent installment of the first wind parks and…
By Juraj Melichar There is a sad joke in Slovakia that the country could become a museum for renewable energy sources (RES). Not because the Slovak physicist Aurel Stodola invented…
The story of Derelegyhaz, a town in southeastern Hungary, is one of the earliest and most inspiring examples of how EU Funds can develop and modernise village infrastructure. With the…
Germany pioneered broad support measures for renewable energy by the late 1990s. These measures, referred to as Energiewende or ‘energy transformation’, offer a valuable insight for other countries, which introduced…
The first solar district heating system in Latvia is being developed in Salaspils. The solar district heating system has a collector field with a total of 1.720 collectors or 21.672…
If one were to play a word association game, it is certain that the prompts ‘Poland’ and ‘energy’ would not immediately elicit a response of ‘renewables’. But the commune of…
A grant from the state-owned development financial institution ALTUM for multi-apartment residential building renovations in Salaspils, Latvia, is a success story about active residents and the support of their local…
Since the accession of Romania to the European Union in 2007, the country had access to various funds made available to support the process of eliminating the discrepancies between Europe’s…
40-50 years ago, the steam output from the coal industry was used to provide hot water for the district heating of Miskolc. Every tenth person, 20,000 people in the regional…
