GREEN PARTNERSHIPS – Local Partnerships for Greener Cities and Regions
QUESTIONNAIRE ON PILOT CASES
1. Name/ title of pilot case:
(Product, service, project etc.)
2. Country:
Description (separately for each pilot case)
Installation of remote control systems for energy management in public
buildings participating in “championship”
Result/ indicator
Spain, Barcelona, Granollers city council.
1 countries; 1 local energy
strategies in pilot areas/ NR
Med Regions or/ and cities
(country, region, MED city, municipality)
3. Contact person:
(name, title, function, e- mail, telephone)
4. What kind of document addressing
energy efficiency do you have in
your region/municipality/area (if
any)?
3 local partnerships formed for
implementation of 1 measure
Virgínia Domingo, technician of Environmental Department in Granollers
city council, [email protected]
SEAP of Granollers 2009-2020, approved in 2009.
(SEAP, local energy concept, energy plan etc.)
5. Which of the measures from this
document does your pilot case
address?
The main activities of this pilot action:
- installation of smart meters in public buildings to measure decrease in use of electricity and
heating,
(key areas of obstacles are: Financial instruments with
- monitoring the energy consumption of public building in order to improve the energy
emphasis on PPP, regulative barriers, green public
management,
procurement, stakeholder involvement, technical
- reporting the analysis of energy consumption in different public buildings in order to decide
knowledge and data analysis as a basis for decision
making)
about new public investments in energy efficiency, reduction of energy consumption, and
implement solutions about abnormal consumptions o higher to the recommended ratios,
1
1 local step-by-step plans for
capacity buildings
are basically addressed to:
. technical knowledge and data analysis as a basis for decision making
1 local action groups;
1 improved local energy
strategies
1 reports on implementation of
the local energy strategies
6. Target group and beneficiaries in
charge of implementation of the
measures:
. Granollers City Council
(please, describe involved target group: public bodies, local
. Employees who works in public buildings
authorities, employees in public organisation responsible
. Users of public buildings (students, teachers, building administrators, local companies and providers, and
for energy management, users of the buildings, citizens
citizens in general).
. Maintenance staff of public buildings
etc.)
7. Selected measures for
implementation in cooperation
with local partnership:
- Installation of smart meters in public buildings, in cooperation with local companies, specialized in this kind
pilot testing of more efficient implementation of energy
developed specialized software to assess the evolution of energy consumptions and sending of alarms. Also, it
strategies by creating local partnerships
will be necessary the training of maintenance staff of this public buildings to manage this software and to
(please, describe addressed measures from local energy
interpret the results in order to apply them in the improvement of energy management.
strategy and used technical solution)
- Reporting the analysis of energy consumption in different public buildings in order to decide about new
of technology .
- Monitoring the energy consumption of public building, in cooperation with local companies which have
public investments in energy efficiency, reduction of energy consumption, and implement solutions about
abnormal consumptions o higher to the recommended ratios, in cooperation with maintenance staff of this
public buildings, external experts and public managers and politicians.
8. Renewable energy sources
Doesn’t apply in this pilot case
(please, describe used renewable source, used at pilot
case: wind, solar, biomass, water, thermal power)
9. Innovative technical solution(s)
The main innovative solutions applied consist on install information and communication technology (smart
(please, describe used innovative solutions, e.g.
meters), which registered energy consumptions and send them to a monitoring energy software. This
communication, technology, informing, dissemination ,...)
software allows to a public manager follow the evolution of energy consumptions in public buildings and
taking the measures necessary (energy saving or energy efficiency).
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20 local partnerships; 1
technical solutions for
realisation of pilot activities
10. Increased energy efficiency
This pilot action it is applied in public buildings, in the frame of “Championship or energy saving”, so it is
(please, describe estimated value of reduced energy
estimated that this pilot case helps to save between 5 and 15% of energy consumption in public buildings
consumption or produced energy in kWh or MWh/year)
where it is applied (public schools and cultural buildings), described in pilot case
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11. Photos
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(please, add the state of the art photography of your pilot
case- max. 2 photos in low resolution)
12. Target group and beneficiaries of
local partnerships:
25 local partnerships
. Granollers City Council
(please, describe, who will be involved in local
. Maintenance staff of public buildings
partnerships: local producers, experts etc.)
. Employees who works in public buildings
. Companies from energy sector, specialized in the smart meter installation and monitoring software
13. What is the result of partnership?
Procurement of companies specialized in the smart meter installation and monitoring software.
(Established non formal partnership, new association,
entrepreneur, other form?)
14. Investment (if known)
It is estimated a potential investment of 60.000 euros (2013 and 2014), carried out with public budget from
(Implementation of addressed measures is connected with
the Granollers City Council.
planned investments. Please, describe, how the pilot
implementation will be carried out- kind of investment
funds, private capital, PPP or other; and estimate the value
of potential investment)
15. Monitoring/ evaluation procedure
In this pilot case the evaluation procedure is the own monitoring system installed . Taking in count the
(Control system at your pilot case for evaluation of energy
evaluation of energy consumption in time and the reports about measures to improve the energy
efficiency and use of renewable source: remote control,
management in public schools (from September 2013) and in public cultural buildings (from September
counters, foot print, other?)
2014).
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2 local partnerships
16. Planned events/ dissemination
activities
The dissemination of this pilot case it will be in the frame of the awareness campaing planned during the
“Championship for energy saving”, designed especially for public schools and cultural buildings in Granollers.
(how will be theses activities carried out? How many
events, which dissemination activities do you plan?)
17. Are there any changes in the pilot
case compared to the application
form?
NO
If yes, what?
Max. 1000 characters
18. Activity plan
(please, fill in the Gantt diagram in excel – mark the time plan of your foreseen activities)
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