Promoting renewable energies - RETS Project

RETS information by type of intervention
Business
support
Community
energy
Local
authorities
Planning
and
policy
Training and
accreditation
Good
practices
12 39 42 21 8
On site visits 6 15 23 10 12
Presentations 26 52 67 108 52
RESPedia 12 1 13 15 19
Total 56 107 145 154 92
Moreover, in addition to the project partners, the RETS
events have drawn more than 2500 participants.
However, the real success of RETS is the way that all of
the partners have managed to develop together a
common process for renewable energy information
management collecting, processing, transforming,
assimilating and disseminating information on
renewables. The RETS way of thinking and working is
especially beneficial to the small local authorities, giving
them a framework, ideas and skills for them to develop
their own renewable energy projects. Real affinities have
developed between the project partners. The members of
the consortium enjoy coming together for the different
meetings and it is rare for an organisation to be absent.
However, the force of RETS is to give its participants the
opportunity to see how even a small renewable
implementation matters. Collectively, a real critical
mass is being obtained and it is possible to see that an
“energy turnaround” is tangible. The RETS partners are
part of the development of this new European
consciousness. The sharing of bottom-up renewable
energy practices can stimulate a sense of belonging to
a common European vision and territory. It is now
important to continue this sharing and exchanging so
that others can capitalise from the RETS experience.
This dynamic on the project level can also be seen on the
European level. The project, through its activities, is
witness to a mass of experimentation in renewable
energy within Europe: implementation on a small and
large scale, by local authorities, regions, companies,
local communities, within education. Taken individually,
these practices may appear to have small impacts, how
can a farmer who produces biogas in a rural area of
Europe help reach the EU 2020 targets?
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