EcoEnergy Municipal Energy Efficiency Network

change issues as well. In this connection EcoEnergy is envisaged to
continue to work for:
_____ Broadening of the opportunities for municipalities to apply
modern financing mechanisms for energy efficiency improvement
and the use of RES;
_____ Provision of opportunities for municipalities to retain the savings
made through implementation of energy efficiency projects and
programs and to use them for payoff of investments;
_____ Broadening of the opportunities of municipalities to influence
energy consumption by businesses and private end-users and to
collaborate with them for energy efficiency improvement based on
different forms of partnership.
Tasks ensuring the organizational strengthening of
the Network and conditions for its sustainable
development
The process of development and establishment of the institutional
structure of EcoEnergy should continue as a basis for institutionalization
of the energy efficiency activities in municipalities. It
is necessary to promote and consolidate the energy efficiency
offices in municipalities as driving motors of the municipal policy
for efficient use of energy and water resources and as active participants
in municipal planning for sustainable development of
municipalities. To this end, the management of the Network, in
cooperation with municipal leaderships, should support municipal
energy efficiency officers and the municipal energy efficiency
offices, promote their authority and ensure publicity of the
results from their activities. In this way prerequisites will be created
for improvement of the interaction among municipalities and
for influencing the national energy policy under conditions of demonopolization
and privatization. In order to consolidate the position
and the role of the municipal energy efficiency officers it is
necessary to alleviate them from some of the numerous other
responsibilities as municipal officers and to enable them to concentrate
better on the performing of the assignments related to
the energy efficiency issues. In the larger municipalities it is
necessary to increase the number of employees in the energy
efficiency offices.
The information system on energy efficiency in municipalities
should ever stronger get established and upgraded as a tool for
management of energy consumption and a basis for implementation
of targeted energy efficiency policies. The Secretariat of
the Network, EnEffect, should establish itself as an information
centre on energy efficiency for the needs of the member-municipalities.
The international contacts of EcoEnergy, which will promote it as a
reliable partner for joint participation in international and bilateral
energy efficiency programs and projects, should be ever further
broadened and enriched. It should be a permanent task of
EcoEnergy to strengthen the contacts and joint work with the
European network "Energie cites".
EcoEnergy should continue to work for broadening of the range of
partners and to create prerequisites for establishment of effective
public-private partnerships for implementation of packages of energy
efficiency projects.
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