D2.4 – REPORT ON ePLANET CLUSTERING GOVERNANCE (First Version)

The ePLANET project is a Coordination and Support Action cofounded by the European Commission through Horizon 2020 program. This project aims to reframe the current governance model and design and establish a new clustering governance model to facilitate the deployment of energy transition projects, creating and improving coordination between different municipalities acting together. This needs to be based on a digital framework to share harmonised information, facilitating the adoption of coordinated energy transition actions by the European public sector.

All these targeted objectives will give the needed support for the energy transition decision-making process and its practical implementation.

Considering the outcomes from the T2.1 and T2.2, this document aims to design a new clustering governance methodology and specifications of the deployment procedures. Moreover, this document will define new figures and the definition of their roles, responsibilities and skills to be provided, depending on the public authority level.

The methodology followed to carry out this deliverable is based on meetings with the pilot site partners and through specific surveys. The three pilot regions, the island of Crete in Greece, the Zlín region in the Czech Republic and the province of Girona in Catalonia, have been consulted to understand how they implement ET projects and what mechanisms they have to achieve.

This document is the draft version, just the first steps in understanding the governance in the three pilot areas and a first glimpse and approach to clustering governance.

This document analyses and explains how each pilot region is currently governed and who makes it happen. The focus is on what we consider is the main tool for the Energy transition, which are the energy plans. Those Plans are performed by the different public authorities, whether they follow or not, the CoM methodology.

This first draft has a submission date for M10; however, a final version needs extra time and dedication to design the governance strategies validating the first identification of figures and a final and definitive governance structure and methodology. This final version has a submission date on month 20, April 30th 2023.