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Rural communities engaged with positive energy PLUS

COMPOSE PLUS is a 16 months project with the main objective to increase the share of renewable local energy sources in energy mix strategies and plans from 7 MED countries. The project builds upn an existing COMPOSE tool which was developed trhoughout the previous project COMPOSE. It aims to provide a synthesis model for RES development planning and therefore for the increase of RES in energy mixes of selected areas, encouraging the development of local business in combination with the development of local added value chains. As a horizontal principle the project composes the knowledge, sectoral policies and financial instruments to promote and invite green investments based on local potentials.

Objectives

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COMPOSE PLUS key objective is to increase the capacity of local communities for efficient planning and implementation of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Energy Efficiency (EE) measures as a development opportunity within the EU Green Deal. The project consortium works on transferring, mainstreaming, and broader uptake of the COMPOSE TOOLBOX (https://reselplan-toolbox.eu).

During its lifetime, the project will capitalize on the successful implementation of the COMPOSE model for sustainable development planning, demonstrating its practical use with a focus on co-creation bottom-up approaches and new business models and by combining social and technical innovation. It will support policymakers and development planners to mature projects towards clean energy transition, focusing especially on rural and island communities of the MED area.

Core activities

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  1. Integration of RES and EE measures in development planning in MED regions.
  2. Holistic testing of RES development planning
  3. Transferring the use value of the COMPOSE model to the Mediterranean Region as a whole and promote the COMPOSE planning model on the EU policy level.

EXPECTED RESULTS

  1. COMPOSE Tool uptake by respective organisations, public institutions, especially focusing on municipalities, with operational capacity to recognise local development opportunities of RES and EE in terms of energy savings but also socio-economic opportunities, this will by definition lead to increased share of renewable energy from local sources in energy mix of MED rural areas.
  2. Over 35 courses will be implemented, reaching directly over 100 decision makers, 200 experts and 100 potential trainers of the COMPOSE tool. 
  3. The COMPOSE PLUS main result is Memorandum of Understanding signatures, committing to using the COMPOSE tool in their development planning, which will, by definition result in increased share of renewable local energy sources in energy mix strategies and plans in specific MED territories.

 

 

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