Smart Energy Community (SEC)

Title	Smart Energy Community
Abbreviation	SEC
Project number	Est-Lat 21
Programme	Interreg Estonia – Latvia 2014-2020

1. Tartu Regional Energy Agency (Estonia) (lead partner)
2. Rõuge municipality (Estonia)
3. Vidzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
4. Alūksne Municipality (Latvia)

The purpose of the project

1. Increasing the awareness of the daily use of energy and improving energy saving in Estonian and Latvian households and communities.
2. Increasing energy awareness at schools and introducing interactive learning-by-doing teaching methods in order to impact the energy consciousness of future generations.
3. Promoting innovative and smart solutions and best practices for energy efficiency, using demo-units, support and ICT devices and instruments.

Activities

1. School campaign: involve complex of surveying, auditing and experimenting with the energy consumption patterns on school premises as well at homes setting up and using test kits devices in the Rõuge, Aluksne, Valmiera and Lizums pilot schools and integrating energy lessons and tests to the school curricula. Energy management units (lighting controls and sensors, etc) installed to improve energy efficiency at pilot schools will be integrated to the learning process. The school campaign involves student workshops and after-school activities, setting energy days, exchange study tours and other in-house campaigns at schools and among students. The school management and teachers are trained for the energy efficiency and energy class programme.
2. Community campaign: ‘Smart energy community’ will focus on energy savings regarding end-use energy efficiency at home on household level. The campaign will combine the informative and relevant components of households’ personalized behavior of energy usage. The set of communication activities, including real, virtual, hands-on and practical, event-based such as trainings and written instructions how to save energy will be distributed through multiple communication channels. Integrity of metering, monitoring, auditing of energy consumption and acting using simple but smart home technologies (control devices, wifi sockets etc) obtained by the project and deployed in the real life condition supports changing energy consumption behavior.

Results

1. Two Schools of Vidzeme Planning Region equipped with “Energy classes”.
2. Teacher training about energy efficiency.
3. Scholars “Hobby groups” will be set up and trained about the energy efficiency.
4. Participation at the Energy days in Rouge and Alūksne.
5. Informative lectures about the energy efficiency in households.
6. Video competition for scholars about energy efficient lifestyle.

Budget

Total Budget of the project: 289 730.00 EUR

- of which ERDF support: 246 270.50 EUR

VPR budget: 59 150.00 EUR

- of which ERDF supports: 50 277.50 EUR

Implementation time

01.03.2017-31.08.2018

Contact person

Maija Rieksta
Mob. tel.: +371 26099521
e-mail: maija.rieksta@vidzeme.lv

More about the project

http://www.trea.ee/sec/lv/