PLANtoACT

Bridging the Gap from Planning to Action: Capacity Building for Regions and Municipalities in Implementing Clean Energy Transition Strategies

📖 Project Description 

Local and regional authorities often lack the capacity, integrated approaches, and organizational structures needed to effectively deliver and implement clean energy transition plans and aligned sectoral strategies such as heating and cooling strategies.

To address this, PLANtoACT develops, demonstrates, and promotes a stakeholder-driven, action-oriented, spatially detailed integrated energy planning approach. This approach produces transition pathways and strategies aligned across multiple levels (national, regional, municipal) and sectors (electricity, heating & cooling, industry, transport), with a specific focus on comprehensive Heating & Cooling strategies.

Crucially, PLANtoACT emphasizes the Implementation Roadmap Phase, bridging the gap between conceptual planning and concrete action by defining detailed, time-bound actions and specifying the priority of intervention.

🎯 Key Initiatives & Deliverables

•  Knowledge Hub: An online repository of resources, best practices, and tailored capacity-building programs, enhancing LRAs' skills in technical, legal, financial, administrative, and social innovation aspects. It also features innovative multi-level governance structures and showcases insights from co-creation processes.
• Pilot Regions: Applying solutions in five diverse pilot regions across Europe, each involving a pilot city/province to test the multi-level approach.
• Strategy Development Developing or updating five regional-level and at least five city/province-level clean energy transition strategies, along with at least five heating and cooling strategies.
• Actionable Roadmaps: Creating concrete, prioritized actions tailored to local political timelines, alongside identified financing options from national, regional, and European sources.
• Monitoring: Establishing tailored frameworks to track progress and impacts of the clean energy transition in each pilot region.  

Awards

Bridging the Gap from Planning to Action: Capacity Building for Regions and Municipalities in Implementing Clean Energy Transition Strategies LIFE24-CET-PLANtoACT/101214506

European Commission