LOCATEE

LOCATEE's overarching goal is to support local municipalities in addressing energy poverty through the renovation of private multi apartment buildings for vulnerable residents. 

The project will address the poor connection between the private housing owners and local climate and energy policies in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. LOCATEE will achieve this goal by providing a toolkit for identifying energy-vulnerable households, matching tailored interventions to their needs, and integrating energy poverty alleviation activities into long-term strategies of municipalities such as Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAP). 

Specifically, the project will use administrative data to develop typologies of households and buildings, which will contribute to finding priority intervention locations. This process will be in line with assisting authorities and social partners in addressing energy poverty locally through institutional, cross-sectoral coordination solutions, including the establishment of contact points and appointed focus groups with housing entities. These mechanisms will facilitate regular knowledge exchange on renovation programs and targeted solutions for people experiencing energy poverty. Using a pilot evidence-based approach, the project will address financial, regulatory, social and technical constraints in renovating private multi-apartment buildings while developing the capacity of local authorities to become intermediaries of the energy transition process. As a result, relevant stakeholders will collaboratively design and implement comprehensive interventions and support initiatives explicitly tailored to benefit vulnerable households. This evidence-based and collaborative approach will be implemented in three pilot municipalities in Central, Southern and Southeastern Europe: Rumia (Poland), Torres Vedras (Portugal) and Piraeus (Greece), while ensuring scaling up the LOCATEE framework to 32 more municipalities and then to further regions and municipalities in Europe.

Partners

Lead partner: Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Poland

University of Piraeus Research Center (UPRC), Greece

Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA), Portugal

Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP), Netherlands

Municipality of Rumia, Poland

Municipality of Piraeus, Greece

Municipality of Torres Vedras, Portugal

Austrian Energy Agency (AEA), Austria

Habitat for Humanity International (HFH), Slovakia

Euractiv Media Network (EURACTIV), Belgium