A City Capability Assessment Framework Focusing on Planning, Financing, and Implementing Sustainable Energy Projects

Spyridaki, Niki-Artemis; Kleanthis, Nikos; Tzani, Dimitra; Matosović, Mia Dragović; Flamos, Alexandros

doi:10.3390/su12208447

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“…Most CoM signatories (98% in terms of submissions and involving 40% of the EU population) are small and medium cities (less than 250,000 inhabitants), where the inadequacy of the skills of the municipal staff is certainly a widespread problem [33]. The lack of personnel availability and capacity for funding sustainable energy projects and the availability of training schemes has been confirmed [34]. The technical staff of small-and medium-sized municipalities do not possess the specific expertise for SECAP creation.…”

Section: The Problems Of Secap Implementation In Small-and Middle-siz...mentioning

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Development of Municipal Energy Management as Trigger of Future Energy Savings

Bačovský,

Karásek,

Kaločai

2024

Buildings

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Directive 2018/844/EU on energy efficiency claims that almost 80% of the final energy consumption in the EU is used within the buildings. The subsequent Directive (EU) 2023/1791 introduced in 2023 expected 68% of the world population to live in urban areas. Both directives enhanced the role of energy management (EM) applied to the city buildings. This paper introduces the development of energy management in Czech municipalities between the years 2009 and 2023. The main goal of this article is to present selected results of the unique national survey focused on the energy management in Czech municipalities conducted in 2023 and compare it with results of national surveys implemented in 2009 and 2018. The main method is the comparing of two surveys conducted among the municipal representatives or energy managers in the past with the new survey conducted in 2023. The results show that EM became a notably more important issue for most Czech municipalities. The number of cities collecting data on energy consumption grew by 288% and the number of city energy managers increased by 57%. On the other hand, the used potential of energy savings triggered by establishing EM was insufficient and only 4% of the respondents claimed high and exactly measured savings because of EM. This article should be applied to the stress power of municipal EM in performing energy efficiency and RES projects and encouraging the government to support municipal energy managers in their complex role.

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Section: The Problems Of Secap Implementation In Small-and Middle-siz...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Municipal Energy Management as Trigger of Future Energy Savings

Bačovský,

Karásek,

Kaločai

2024

Buildings

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“…The most signatories of CoM (98% in terms of submissions and involving 40% of the EU population) are small and medium cities (less than 250,000 inhabitants), where inadequacy of skills of municipal stuff is certainly a widespread problem [32]. The lack of personnel availability and capacity for funding of sustainable energy projects and the availability of training schemes is confirmed [33]. The technical staff of small and medium-sized municipalities do not possess specific expertise for SECAP creation.…”

Section: The Problems Of Secap Implementation In the Small And Middle...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Municipal Energy Management as Trigger of Future Energy Savings

Bačovský,

Karásek,

Kaločai

2024

Preprint

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Directive 2018/844/EU on energy efficiency claims almost 80% of final energy consumption in EU is used within the buildings. Subsequent Directive (EU) 2023/1791 introduced in 2023 expected 68% of the World population living in urban areas. Both Directives enhanced the role of energy management (EM) applied on the city buildings. The study introduces the development of energy management in Czech municipalities between the years 2009 and 2023. The main goal of this article is to present selected results of the unique national survey focused on the energy management in Czech municipalities conducted in 2023 and compare it with results of national surveys implemented in 2009 and 2018. The main method is the evaluation of deep survey conducted among the municipal representatives or energy managers in the past with the new survey conducted in 2023. The results show that EM became notably more important issue for the most Czech municipalities. The number of cities implementing EM significantly grew and the number of city energy managers increased too. On the other hand, the used potential of energy savings triggered by establishing EM is insufficient. This article should be applied to stress power of municipal EM in performing energy efficiency and RES projects and encouraging government to support municipal energy managers in their complex role.

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“…The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy was used to check whether the sample size was sufficient and the research could continue with PCA. A sample is considered sufficient when the KMO is higher than 0.5 [39,40].…”

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Development of a Local, Integrated Disaster Risk Assessment Framework for Malaysia

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This study developed an integrated disaster risk assessment framework (IDRAF) to measure disaster risk at the local administrative boundaries in Malaysia. The proposed framework can enhance government effort for disaster risk reduction by implementing an integrated disaster risk framework and guiding decision makers to properly evaluate and analyze risk for mitigation, preparedness, and planning. The framework was developed, expanding from the multi-hazard spatial overlapping and Methods for the Improvement of Vulnerability Assessment in Europe (MOVE) theoretical framework. There are five significant phases to develop this framework: problem formulation, data collection, multi-hazard characterization, multi-dimensional vulnerability characterization, and weightage determination. The IDRAF proposed for Malaysia consists of eight hazards and six vulnerability dimensions, which consist of 16 factors (or vulnerability group) and 54 indicators. The multi-hazard characterization has two components: frequency of occurrence and spatial interaction. The multidimensional vulnerability characterization reduces vulnerability indicators using principal component analysis (PCA). Measuring integrated risk is an effective strategy at the local level or national level to assess the potential disaster impacts in detail and accurately. This study will offer explicit knowledge and boost community competency, creating techniques and tools to analyze various risk factors and vulnerability indicators for decision makers and practitioners.

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A City Capability Assessment Framework Focusing on Planning, Financing, and Implementing Sustainable Energy Projects

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Development of Municipal Energy Management as Trigger of Future Energy Savings

Development of Municipal Energy Management as Trigger of Future Energy Savings

Development of Municipal Energy Management as Trigger of Future Energy Savings

Development of a Local, Integrated Disaster Risk Assessment Framework for Malaysia

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