Is Leitrim Energy Aware?
Be in with a chance of winning a Family Pass to the Cinema by spending 5
minutes telling us about your attitudes to energy efficiency (don’t forget to include your email if you
want to be in with a chance of winning) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/community_english Closing date is January
20th 2017.
Leitrim County Council is
looking for your input to assess awareness of energy efficiency by people in
their homes in Leitrim. We are asking Leitrim residents of Leitrim to complete
a short questionnaire which will guide us in providing better, clearer
information to our communities through Council website and social media as well
as in libraries. The questionnaire should take less than 5 minutes of your time
and all those who include their email address will be in with a chance to win a
family pass to Carrick Cineplex. Click on the link to complete the survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/community_english
This community survey is
part of the SECURE project which is a 3 year (2016 – 2019) transnational project. SECURE aims to foster energy-secure communities
through the promotion of energy efficiency and renewable
energy solutions. It is co-funded by the EU’s Northern Periphery and Arctic
(NPA) Programme. The learning across peripheral and arctic regions on energy
efficiency and use of renewable technologies will be shared between partners
and to communities they serve.
The project partnership includes eight partners across the
Northern and Arctic Region: Ernact, Leitrim and Donegal County Councils (ROI), Derry
City & Strabane District Council (NI), Association of Local Authorities in
Vasternorrland (ALAV) in Sweden, Karella University of Applied Sciences in
Finland, Umhvørvisstovan in Faroe Islands and the Ecology
Action Centre (Canada).
What are the benefits of SECURE?
Everyone is becoming more
aware of the need to become more energy efficient, to look at new ways of
lighting, heating and building which use less carbon and have lower running
costs. It is important that public infrastructure such as public lighting, heating
of public buildings and housing are using the latest energy efficiency and
renewable energy technologies.
It is equally important that
we share with other areas work that has already been done on energy efficiency
e.g. in public housing in Leitrim or renewable energy technologies e.g. biomass
boilers in some of the bigger energy users in the county.
SECURE offers the
opportunity to equip local authorities with the skills and capacity to
successfully use the latest energy efficiency and renewable energy
technologies, to learn from other areas and to share that information with
communities in Leitrim.
SECURE will also allow us to
examine energy usage in a number of public buildings in the County and trial
new technologies in order to assess the impact on running costs after a trial
period. This will offer the opportunity to test new technologies and share the
information with citizens, business and others throughout the county and become
a beacon region for best practice in energy efficiency and renewable energy
technologies.
What will SECURE Do for
Communities?
⌂ SECURE will provide the opportunity
for communities to access information on best practice in energy efficiency and
use of renewable energy in houses and public infrastructure.
⌂ It will enable
all community stakeholders to build awareness of the energy efficiency and
renewable solutions that can be applied to their build environment, e.g.,
housing and public infrastructure.
⌂ This
‘awareness’ will be increased as a result of the exposure to new concepts,
technologies and solutions from other regions, all stakeholders working
together to adapt them and successfully apply them in their own region and
experiencing success in terms of lower costs and more secure sources of energy.
What will SECURE Do for
the Broader Region?
⌂ Partner regions,
such as Leitrim, will have significantly increased their expertise, solutions,
technology and capability to act to improve energy efficiency and renewable
energy across their region.
⌂ It is
equally important to increase the capability of local authorities to transfer
the models and solutions shared from other partners to their region. The local
authorities in the project have responsibility for the built environment so
have the potential to make a significant impact on energy policy and its
implementation in housing, public buildings and other infrastructure (e.g.
public lighting).
⌂ Local Authorities involved will
develop their awareness and capability by learning what local authorities in
other regions are doing to:
-
raise awareness among all stakeholders,
-
develop and
pilot a number of energy services,
-
gain
expertise of new efficiency and renewable technologies and solutions and pilot
their use
-
explore the
best way of delivering new energy services, including encouraging private SMEs
to do so.