LOCATEE is a three-year European project funded by the LIFE Programme that aims to support local municipalities in tackling energy poverty through the renovation of private multi-apartment buildings for vulnerable households. LOCATEE will achieve this goal by providing a toolkit for identifying energy-vulnerable households, matching tailored interventions to their needs, and integrating energy poverty alleviation activities into long-term strategies of municipalities such as Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans.
More specifically, LOCATEE will use administrative data to create household and building typologies to identify priority intervention locations. This process will help authorities and social partners address local energy poverty through coordinated solutions, including contact points and focus groups with housing entities, to facilitate knowledge exchange on renovation programs and targeted solutions.
LOCATEE aims to make energy poverty more visible and measurable at local and regional levels, developing and co-using a toolkit that supports stakeholders in addressing energy poverty through enhanced renovation efforts in multi-apartment buildings, especially for vulnerable households. By implementing a pilot, evidence-based approach, the project tackles financial, regulatory, social, and technical barriers to these renovations and strengthens local authorities’ roles as intermediaries in the energy transition, enabling collaborative development of targeted interventions and support initiatives for vulnerable households.
This evidence-based and collaborative approach will be implemented in three pilot municipalities in Central, Southern and Southeastern Europe: Rumia (Poland), Torres Vedras (Portugal) and Piraeus (Greece), while ensuring scaling up the LOCATEE framework to 32 more municipalities and then to further regions and municipalities in Europe.
TEESlab plays a pivotal role in direct collaboration with the Municipality of Piraeus, a full project partner, to enhance methods for measuring and monitoring energy poverty at the local level. TEESlab research and modeling works are instrumental in developing an urban monitoring system specifically designed for energy poverty assessment and actively contributes to monitoring and synthesizing key project outcomes.
The Consortium of the project includes partners from 7 Member States (Poland, Greece, Portugal, Netherlands, Austria, Slovakia and Belgium).
Budget: ~2 M. Euros
Duration: 3 years
More information: https://ibs.org.pl/en/research/locatee-local-authorities-tackling-energy-poverty-in-private-multi-apartment-buildings/
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With the contribution of the Green Fund.