Velika Gorica Solar City - COUNTDOWN
City of Velika Gorica ·Croatia
About this project
<p>The "<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Velika Gorica Solar City - COUNTDOWN" project aims to increase solar energy usage for electricity production in city of Velika Gorica in public buildings and thus promote the use of renewable energy sources, as a means to contribute to the city's transition to carbon neutrality. Solar electricity power plants are located in 22 public buildings in the city of Velika Gorica, including primary schools, kindergartens and sports facilities. Special attention will be given to promoting renewable energy sources among young citizens (kindergarten and school age) by holding <span style="font-size: 11pt">12 targeted workshops for children in kindergartens and primary schools. An additional </span>three<span style="font-size: 11pt"> workshops are planned to promote projects' results and RES to the general public</span>. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The implementation of this project took the vast majority of buildings owned by the City of Velika Gorica, where the available roof area and with satisfactory construction condition. The total installed power of all power plants is 588,4 kWp. The expected reduction in electricity consumption from the electricity grid is 604.452 kWh. The implementation of the project will lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions by 95,9 t / year. By implementing the project, the city will mitigate the risk of increasing the unit price of electricity in the coming period. The electricity produced from solar power plants is sufficient to cover 37% of the electricity needs of the buildings involved in the project. The implementation of the project will also strengthen the internal capacity of the City of Velika Gorica to manage and promote renewable energy sources for entrepreneurs and individuals (family houses and apartment buildings) in the city of Velika Gorica. For this purpose, an application for monitoring of installed solar power plants will be developed in accordance with the Digital Agenda of the European Union, in order for Velika Gorica to achieve intelligent, socially responsible and sustainable growth with advanced technologies. </span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
Within the framework of the project proposal, the following contributions to bilateral immediate results were foreseen: • Number of study trips, workshops, round tables organized in cooperation with donor countries with a target value of 3 • Number of projects involving cooperation with a donor project partner with a target value of 1. Immediate result The number of projects that include cooperation with a donor project partner was achieved by concluding a Partnership Agreement, and the immediate result The number of study trips, workshops, round tables organized in cooperation with donor countries was achieved by the implementation of three workshops of bilateral cooperation, which achieved all the planned bilateral immediate results and target values. Through the bilateral partnership, experiences were exchanged regarding the implementation of renewable energy sources in Norway and Croatia. The partner from Norway introduced us to the ways of implementing similar projects in their country, as well as to the sources and methods of financing projects of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency in Norway. Through the application of good practice, he introduced us to the technologies used in Norway and the ways in which they use new technologies and their impact on the local community. The main challenge of bilateral cooperation relates to the reporting procedure by the Norwegian partner. Namely, the Norwegian partner is used to different reporting methods that, among other things, require less administrative burden. The Norwegian partner also stated that he is used to being part of EEA projects grantees receive pre-financing, which was not the case in this project. The challenges were overcome through continuous communication and regular information meetings enabled the exchange of knowledge and experience on administration and reporting, which ultimately facilitated the overcoming of procedural differences.
Project partners
- Energy Farm International Foundation, EFIF Donor project partner· Norway
- Velika Gorica Tourist Board Project partner· Croatia
- Polytechnic of Velika Gorica Project partner· Croatia