Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-09-18

Description

Description (EN):

Civic society is the key driver of the transition to renewables-based energy but civic energy still plays an underdeveloped role in the energy market. The project supported progression from niche to mainstream by enabling a shift of energy value chains from centralised utilities to community-owned renewable energy enterprises that provide tangible economic, environmental and social benefits to enrolled citizens. Such benefits include profit sharing, rebates, investment in social services, community infrastructure and climate protection. A systematic process management approach involving local energy operations, innovation centres, municipalities, SME clusters and cooperatives helped mobilise local energy potentials in representative North Sea Region communities and generate sustainable business models for civic entrepreneurship in the energy sector as a means to greening the North Sea Region economy. Participating communities and regions will be supported by a transnational network equipped with the needed process management expertise for taking on a leader role in the transformation of energy production, infrastructure, distribution and consumption. Pilot business schemes will be implemented locally in the partner regions and disseminated as transferrable blueprints for guided adoption throughout the North Sea Region. The project’s mainstreaming strategy takes off beyond the planning stage; it learns from civic energy innovators and focusses on the influential group of early adopters.

Achievements (EN):

METHODOLOGY: THE CIVIC ENERGY CYCLE COBEN developed and applied a successful methodology for supporting community engagement in green energy projects. PROVEN BENEFITS The project showcased community benefits of civic energy. This included a range of business models that were tested and validated in the pilots. POLICY INFLUENCE COBEN left its mark on national, regional and local policies across the North Sea Region. Its policy instruments are useful in any development based on local ownership principles.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Thematic information

Renewable energy Climate change and biodiversity

Specific Objective: Promote the development and adoption of products, services and processes to accelerate greening of the North Sea Region economy

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (11)

Lead Partner: Universität Oldenburg, COAST

Address: Ammerländer Heerstr. 114, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://coast.uni-oldenburg.de

Total budget: EUR 886 380.00

ERDF budget: EUR 443 190.00

VEOLIA nv-sa

Name: VEOLIA nv-sa

Address: Brusselsesteenweg 445, 9090 Melle, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.veolia.be/nl

Total budget: EUR 744 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 372 000.00

Energy Savings Trust Scotland

Name: Energy Savings Trust Scotland

Address: Ocean Point, 94 Ocean Drive, EH6 6JH Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.energysavingtrust.org

Total budget: EUR 844 644.00

ERDF budget: EUR 422 322.00

Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Viken

Name: Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Viken

Address: Vogtsgate 17, 1502 Moss, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.fylkesmannen.no/-og-viken

Total budget: EUR 160 262.00

Gemeente Emmen

Name: Gemeente Emmen

Address: Postbus 30001, 7800 RA Emmen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.emmen.nl

Total budget: EUR 1 308 974.00

ERDF budget: EUR 654 487.00

Hochschule Osnabrück

Name: Hochschule Osnabrück

Address: Albrechtstrasse 30, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.hs-osnabrueck.de/about-os-uas.html

Total budget: EUR 450 890.00

ERDF budget: EUR 225 445.00

Landkreis Osnabrück

Name: Landkreis Osnabrück

Address: Am Schölerberg 1, 49082 Osnabrück, Germany

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.landkreis-osnabrueck.de/klima

Total budget: EUR 285 750.00

ERDF budget: EUR 142 875.00

Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen

Name: Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen

Address: Woodrow Wilsonplein 2, 9900 Gewnt, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.oost-vlaanderen.be

Total budget: EUR 697 598.00

ERDF budget: EUR 348 799.00

Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune

Name: Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune

Address: Ved Fjorden 6, DK-6950 Ringkøbing, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rksk.dk

Total budget: EUR 1 374 533.00

ERDF budget: EUR 687 266.00

Uppsala kommun

Name: Uppsala kommun

Address: Kommunledningskontoret, 753 75 Uppsala, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.uppsala.se/

Total budget: EUR 423 219.00

ERDF budget: EUR 211 609.00

Viken fylkeskommune

Name: Viken fylkeskommune

Address: Oscar Pedersens vei 39, 1702 Sarpsborg, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: https://viken.no/

Total budget: EUR 292 782.00

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VEOLIA nv-sa

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University of Oldenburg, COAST

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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Energy Savings Trust Scotland

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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Viken County Governor

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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Local authority of Emmen

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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Landkreis Osnabrück

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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Ringkobing-Skjern Municipality

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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City of Uppsala

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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Viken County Council

Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

Lead partner

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Summary

Project name (EN): Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

Project acronym: COBEN

Project start date: 2016-10-01

Project end date: 2022-09-30

Project status: closed

Relevant precedent projects:

COAST

Relevant subsequent projects:

Cleancon II
PentaHelix, Horizon 2020
AquaCOM
GOVENER
WaterWarmth

Relevant linked projects:

Stronghouse
EMPOWER2.0
CleanMobilEnergy
Coordinet
SEREH
COME-RES, Horizon 2020
ECCO
DOEN
RHEDCOOP

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 7 469 032.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 507 993.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, .

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Interne nota COBEN Modellen lokale meerwaarden bij windprojecten

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2022-09-30

Languages: nl

Attachment file: Download

Transitievisie Warmte - Duurzame Warmte Voor Oostveld - Eeklo

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2020-04-20

Languages: nl

Attachment file: Download

Warmtevisie Eeklo - De uitdaging “Duurzame Warmte” in beeld gebracht

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2020-05-25

Languages: nl

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

A guide to developing local energy plans

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2018-03-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

A Process Approach to Mainstreaming Civic Energy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2018-10-26

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Local Energy Plan for Barra and Vatersay

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Local Energy Plan for Brae

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Local Energy Plan for Drumnadrochit

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Local Energy Plan for Oban

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/coben

Publication date: 2024-11-14

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.northsearegion.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20 and 2023-01-12.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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Delivering Community Benefits of Civic Energy

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