Scaling up smart and clean energy solutions for affordability in EU cities

Expected Impact: Proposals should present the concrete results which will be delivered by the activities and demonstrate how these results will contribute to the topic-specific impacts. This demonstration should rely on a solid analysis of the current situation, realistic assumptions and baselines, and establish clear causality links between activities, results and impacts. In terms of qualitative impact, proposals under this topic should demonstrate how they will contribute to empower local ecosystems to bring to scale smart, clean and energy efficient energy solutions that contribute to improving energy affordability for European citizens, amongst others by facilitating local consumption and production of renewable energy. In terms of quantitative impact, proposals should quantify their results and impacts using the indicators provided for the topic, when they are relevant for the proposed activities. The results and impacts should be quantified for the end of the project and for 5 years after the end of the project. The quantitative indicators for this topic include: Number of scale-up roadmaps developed and finalised, in line with the requirements Number of smart local energy solutions (projected to be) implemented Number of local authorities and stakeholders supported by EmpowerEUcities Number of peer-to-peer/capacity building activities Number of local authority staff and stakeholders with increased capacity on the planning, design and implementation of smart local energy solutions Number of citizens involved in the activities and Scale-Up Roadmaps Proposals should also provide indicators which are specific to their proposed activities. Proposals should also quantify their impacts related to the following common indicators for the LIFE Clean Energy Transition sub-programme: Investments in sustainable energy (energy efficiency and small-scale renewables) triggered by the project (cumulative, in million Euro) Primary energy savings triggered by the project (GWh/year) Renewable energy generation triggered by the project (GWh/year) Reduction of greenhouse gases emissions (in tCO2-eq/year). Funding rate Other Action Grants (OAGs) — 95% Objective: This topic aims to set up the EmpowerEUcities support initiative to accelerate the roll-out of smart distributed energy solutions that help to provide tangible economic benefits for citizens in European cities. The recently published Citizens Energy Package communication [1] includes an action point aimed at boosting the use of clean and energy efficient technologies that will contribute to improving energy aff…