Nimsec Project

Description of work:

An in depth analysis of the current energy outlook on the territory of all participating partners will include compiling the raw data on the local energy consumption, production and the types of energy available as first step towards the formulation of a new Sustainable Energy Communities (SEC) model. Available data will be scanned and utilised.

LEA Pomurje and APEC are of course the Energy Management Agencies with a three year long program set at dissemination, education and training related to energy efficiency and renewable energy. These entities are doing so in a pre-determined territory and under a pre-set work program. Nevertheless, the work program of both of them is a broadly set group of objectives, leaving a lot of room for the more punctual initiatives such as NIMSEC.

In other words, where the Agency would perhaps leave its activities on a more generic basis of efficiency only, the Project NIMSEC gets into the detail and carries out specific actions aimed at creating a new type of local community which not only saves energy, but also strives to implement and support concrete measures of turning around the current rates of energy consumption. Furthermore, instead of limiting itself to the local know-how, the project allows to incorporate and share all useful experiences and good practices from other partners from elsewhere, e.g. of forerunner projects (such as SECTOOLS, 3-NITY, MUSEC). .

Tasks:

2.0: It will include an extensive data collection of the following information within the areas in question:

Total KWh of energy produced.
Total KWh of energy consumed.
Any existing classification of the data concerning the previous two categories.
Data on the consumption/production of the project's target groups (local authorities, industry, agriculture and buildings including insulation, heating and cooling, passive house technology, hot water boilers and household equipment.
The partners will collect the data on these categories whenever possible and to the best of their abilities, as some of the relevant data has never been gathered, recorded, classified and/or analyzed.
The actual extent, size, volume and complexity of the data will be formulated once the core partners analyze the existent data and locate the existent gaps. At this point in time, the partners will be able to formulate exact and quantified goals on the number of buildings, households, industries and so forth, maintaining a relatively unified standard. By doing so, fixed evaluation criteria will allow for the constant control as well as progress evaluation of the task at hand.
The exact criteria will be elaborated in coordination with the figures given in table 5.4 (Performance Indicators) and in the Appendix
Sources and/or supply of energy within the given territory with the special emphasis given to the RE sources, allowing for the differences between the core partners' territories and the regional RE focus.

Task will be co-performed by all of the participant Energy Agencies, local authorities and associations (SOS, Association of Municipalities and Towns of Slovenia). The goal of data collection is to cover as many of the sectors as possible (depending of the available resources).

2.1. Once the partners have a set of raw generic data at their disposal, they will perform a series of probe energy audits (initial/test audits) in several sectors sparking the interest among the target groups and establishing the initial track record, especially in a filed of such large potential as public administrations, industry and even agriculture.

2.2 Final task in this WP will examine the entire collected data and will perform an in-depth analysis of the energy outlook of each of the participant territories with a goal of establishing the following:

Exact consumption rate of the given local territory as a whole.
Production output of RE in relation to the total energy output.
Cost estimates of possible pilot projects deemed as the most viable to perform in a determined area taking into consideration the local climate conditions and the availability of the appropriate RE sources.
Any current deficiencies, whether technical, and/or market standing in a way of improvements in the field of energy efficiency and RE.

Outcome of this work package:

Detection of the current energy outlook in the participant territories as well as the identification of all barriers whether market, technical, and/or training standing in a way of formulating and enacting a successful SEC model later on in the project.
Cost estimates of possible pilot projects deemed as the most viable to perform in a determined area taking into consideration the local climate conditions and the availability of the appropriate RE sources.
Any current deficiencies, whether technical, and/or market standing in a way of improvements in the field of energy efficiency and RE.

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