Jana Cicmanova

The Brussels Green Loan: another incentive encouraging Brussels citizens to energy retrofit their homes

What do I do if I am a homeowner or tenant residing in the Brussels Capital region and want to make my home more comfortable and healthier while reducing my energy bill? First of all, I get a personalised advice from independent energy advisor (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 11 October 2016 | 15h35 | 1255 visits
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Riga to support the energy renovation of 6,000 houses

The fund is planned to start with EUR 34.5 million, where EUR 4.5 million would be a contribution from Riga municipality and EUR 30 million would be a loan from the European Investment Bank. It is expected that additional capital would come from (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 1 July 2016 | 11h38 | 1237 visits
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Almada's Less Carbon Climate Fund becomes revolving

In 2009 the Portuguese city of Almada set up the “Less Carbon Climate Fund” which aims at reducing Almada’s carbon footprint by financing energy efficiency and renewable energy investments. Almada’s Local Development Strategy has been framing the (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 7 June 2016 | 15h20 | 787 visits
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The Udine Climate Fund: another step towards a sustainable energy city

It has been a long successful story: from the Municipal Environmental Management (first EMAS registration and ISO 14001 certification in 2008) through the Municipal Energy Action Plan and the signature of the Covenant of Mayors (2009) to the (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 23 May 2016 | 15h36 | 700 visits
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Portuguese city of Águeda sets up a local Fund for Energy and Water Efficiency

In the framework of the Covenant of Mayors, Águeda developed a Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) aiming at improving the city’s energy efficiency and autonomy. The focuses on increasing energy efficiency and using renewable energy, intelligent (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 11 February 2016 | 14h52 | 824 visits
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Croatia's first local energy revolving fund is in Koprivnica!

Just before the Christmas break, the City Council unanimously adopted the proposal for establishing an energy revolving fund that is operating since January 2016. The initial size of the fund - seed money - is €20,000 but the city already plans (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 28 January 2016 | 11h44 | 1172 visits
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Frederikshavn, Denmark: Mobilising savings ‘sleeping’ on citizens’ bank accounts

Indeed, as a side effect of the global financial crisis, house owners are reluctant to using or borrowing funds as a result of the uncertainty they feel towards their own economic situation in the near future. Moreover, stagnation of property (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 13 January 2016 | 17h10 | 1054 visits
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Zagreb, Vienna and Bielsko-Biala sharing their experience with Bratislava, Prešov and more...

The cities and regions have a new challenge in front of them but are all of them ready to face it ? This was also the discussion taking place at a Covenant of Mayors capacity building workshop organised by Energy Cities an its member Citenergo (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 20 novembre 2015 | 06h59 | 1046 visits
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