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Report: BALANCE - Balance globally, evaluate locally

Website: http://www.european-energy-award.org/EU-Project-Balance.57.0.html

The European Energy Award® is a qualified instrument for steering and controlling communal energy policy in order to review systematically all energy-related activities. The eea® allows municipalities to identify strengths, weaknesses and potential for improvement and, above all, implement effectively energy efficient measures. The eea® has been successfully implemented in over 300 communities in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Lithuania since 2002.

Following the request of several communities, the BALANCE project team will further improve the existing eea® tools by adding the additional features of energy and CO² balancing and estimations. The BALANCE project, which is supported by the European Commission under the Intelligent Energy - Europe programme, officially started on January 1st, 2006 and is coordinated by B&SU - Beratungs- und Service-Gesellschaft Umwelt mbH, Germany.

The main aims of the BALANCE project are:

to develop and test tools to evaluate energy and CO² saving potentials at municipal level in general and of individual hard as well as soft measures in particular
to implement the eea® in two new countries (CZ and NL)

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Energy Efficiency : Intelligent Energy - Europe 2003-2006 : Local Government : Standardisation

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Österreichische Energieagentur - Austrian Energy Agency

CZECH REPUBLIC

SEVEn - The Energy Efficiency Center

GERMANY

B&SU - Beratungs- und Service-Gesellschaft Umwelt mbH Department International Cooperation & Project Development

IRELAND

SWS Group