Introducing EU Peers Community and Membership

Through the Climate Alliance, nearly 2,000 member municipalities and districts covering more than 25 European countries as well as a variety of regional governments, NGOs and other organisations are actively working to combat climate change. In terms of members, Climate Alliance is the largest European city network dedicated to climate action. Our members, ranging from small rural towns to cities with populations in the millions, accept climate change as a global challenge that requires local solutions.

Énergies Demain is an engineering firm specialising in the operational implementation of public policies to reduce energy consumption, combat climate change and enhance health benefits. To this end, Energies Demain has developed innovative methods and unique data management tools that are used by numerous local authorities in France, state agencies and ministries departments.

Green Building Council España is a non-profit association that unites representatives from the entire construction industry, to work together towards an energy and ecologically-conscious approach to the design of the built environment.

Regione Piemonte promotes renewables (RES), energy efficiency and GHG emissions reduction through the implementation of a Regional Energy Plan. This has been recently endorsed by the regional council, defining targets and priorities for 2030 in order to pave the way to the energy transition to a low-carbon economy. Piemonte is responsible for the management of the Energy Performance Certificates of the buildings for the whole region and for checking the efficient use of heating boilers.

Ēku Saglabāšanas un Energotaupības Birojs (Ēkubirojs) is a non-governmental organisation that, for over ten years, aligned and supported different stakeholders for a single goal - energy-efficient building stock that supports the prosperity of the residents. To tackle the goal a mix of the local, regional, and global approaches and actions are taken to have a comprehensive impact on all the levels. This allows to widen the general scope and provide the best results for the public good.

ENEA is the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, a public body aimed at research, technological innovation and the provision of advanced services to enterprises, public administration and citizens in the sectors of energy, the environment and sustainable economic development (article 4, Law no. 22 of 28 December 2015).

GNE Finance is a high-impact investment company focused on providing financing for the built environment. GNE Finance is a leader at leveraging finance to deliver innovative solutions that maximise social and environmental impact while delivering sustainable returns to capital providers. GNE Finance provides advisory and financing solutions for home and building renovation to public and private programme managers. GNE Finance supports homeowners throughout the renovation process and offers affordable and customised financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation, safety, and accessibility improvements in homes and buildings.

Energy Cities (ENC) is a learning community for cities engaged in transforming their economies to become futureproofed. Our strength lies within the highly committed members to reach climate neutrality in their territories by 2050, aligning their local strategic development with the Paris Agreement. Energy Cities’ expertise built upon more than 30 years of deep exchange between pioneers from all over Europe, innovating to transform the energy systems towards a more democratic, distributed and decarbonised sector.

FEDARENE, the European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and the Environment is the leading voice on the energy transition and climate change for regions and energy agencies in Europe. The federation counts more than 80 members in 25 EU countries.

Energiaklub has remained true to its unique mission, having spent close to 30 years in creating a new awareness in Hungary. With our research, training courses, and wide-reaching communication, our aim is to make energy producers, users and perhaps even political decision-makers regard energy in a different way. A rational use of our dwindling resources, an economy based on diverse local resources, a change in energy-wasting consumer habits; these are all part of the solutions which our organisation supports through its work.

The South East Energy Agency will play a strategic role regionally by partnering with its members and supporting all stakeholders in their energy transition journey to 2030 and beyond. The South East Energy Agency coordinated and successfully implemented the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's Deep Retrofit Pilot Programmes for 2018, 2019, and 2020, and we provide coordination and quality assurance officers for the delivery of domestic programmes, including the National Housing Retrofit Scheme. As part of the Better Energy Communities and Communities' Energy program, South East Energy Agency has assisted in the construction of more than 250 homes during this time period.