Supporting the delivery of actionable, integrated, and comprehensive local heating and cooling plans

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 proposed activities, results and impacts. In terms of qualitative impact, proposals under this topic should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following outcomes, as relevant: delivering actionable and integrated LHCPs, aligned with EU and Member State guidance and requirements empowering local and regional authorities and support them in creating lasting and institutionalised planning and governance frameworks engaging public and private stakeholders to accelerate the decarbonisation of heating and cooling at the local level. 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. Proposals are not expected to address all the listed impacts and indicators. 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 planning and governance frameworks established at local, inter-municipal or regional levels Number of LHCPs delivered, ideally adopted as local, inter-municipal or regional policy documents Number of policy makers/public officers with improved skills in heating and cooling planning, and average training hours per participant in capacity building programmes Number of public and private stakeholders engaged in LHCP planning processes and in structured dialogues on local heating and cooling planning at the local, regional, and national level Number of LHCP processes initiated in other municipalities during the action. 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. Primary energy savings triggered by the project in GWh/year Final energy savings triggered by the project in GWh/year Renewable energy generation triggered by the project (in GWh/year) Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (in t CO2-eq/year) Investments in sustainable energy (energy efficiency and renewable energy) triggered by the project (cumulative, in million Euro). Funding rate Other Action Grants (OAGs) — 95% Obj…