Sustainable Marine Energy Communities in the Northern and Periphery Regions

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2023-11-16

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Description (EN):

To prepare Feasibility Studies concerning how Energy Communities (EC’s) can play a significant role in making Marine and Fishery regions more sustainable, significantly reduce their energy costs and control their energy-use profiles. Remote regions within the NPA area tend to be dominated by fishing-related industries which are central to their economic sustainability.Such regions face disadvantages including high-cost base, distance from markets, access to talent pools and limited economic diversity. New EU Directives will enable local regions to create EC’s to generate, store and sell energy to maximise their sustainability.SMEC will assess the criteria required for the optimum implementation of an EC in 3 remote areas in Ireland, Norway and Finland and complete Feasibility Studies in each. These studies will encompass all aspects of an integrated EC-renewable energy potential, energy profiling of industries, member assessment, development steps, economic models and legal frameworks. The studies will form an overall report detailing best practice. It will include a Design Framework for use by other coastal communities throughout the NPA in creating EC’s allowing them take control of their energy profiles and costs. It will include stakeholder mapping to ensure key stakeholders are engaged with in the upcoming Main Call. The project will specifically address Objective 2.1:Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. EC’s will develop the toolsets to ‘transfer and develop sustainable renewable energy generation suitable for cold climates and remote communities’. Inclusion of new mechanisms such as Peer to Peer trading under the new EU Directives will enable these local clusters to design renewable energy systems to meet the aggregated loads of these communities and to maximise their sustainability. This will ‘facilitate the use of place-based energy surpluses and development of smart energy management concepts in remote communities'.

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

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Energy efficiency

Specific Objective: Increased use of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions in housing and public infrastructures in remote, sparsely populated areas

Thematic Objective: (04) supporting the shift towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors by:

Investment Priority: (04c) supporting energy efficiency, smart energy management and renewable energy use in public infrastructure, including in public buildings, and in the housing sector

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: Údarás na Gaeltachta

Department: Research and Sectoral Development

Address: Na ForbachaGalway, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.udaras.ie

Total budget: EUR 25 179.20

ERDF budget: EUR 16 366.48

Waterford Institute of Technology

Name: Waterford Institute of Technology

Department: Walton Institute

Address: Cork Road, X91 K0EK Waterford, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.wit.ie

Total budget: EUR 23 480.60

ERDF budget: EUR 15 262.39

UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet

Name: UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet

Department: Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education / Department of Social Sciences

Address: Postboks 6050 Langnes 6050, 9037 Tromso, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uit.no

Total budget: EUR 23 735.00

Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Name: Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Department: Research and Development: Chemistry and Bioeconomy

Address: Talonpojankatu 2, 67100 Kokkola Kokkola, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.centria.fi

Total budget: EUR 23 735.00

ERDF budget: EUR 15 427.75

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Waterford Institute of Technology

Sustainable Marine Energy Communities in the Northern and Periphery Regions

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UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

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Centria RDI

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The Gaeltacht Authority

Sustainable Marine Energy Communities in the Northern and Periphery Regions

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Summary

Project name (EN): Sustainable Marine Energy Communities in the Northern and Periphery Regions

Project acronym: SMEC

Project start date: 2022-01-01

Project end date: 2022-06-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 96 129.80

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 47 056.62

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 47 056.62.

Third-country contribution: Norway: EUR 11 867.50 (ERDF equivalent only)

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

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

2023-11-02

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

152 / 152 (100%)

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

779 / 779 (100%)

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Sustainable Marine Energy Communities in the Northern and Periphery Regions

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