The Municipality of Aigialeia has been selected for implementing SEACAP 4 SDG phase 1 activities, i.e. to utilize project’s toolkit towards the update of SECAP and/or another energy-mix plan. The pilot action implemented by the external consultant for the Greek case refers to the following activities:

–          Review of the SEACAP 4 SDG toolkit in relation to the needs of the Municipality

–          Selection of the optimal tools for the Municipality to use which will help to plan transition to low carbon economies through exploitation of local energy plans

–          Use of the selected tools for showcasing the best ways to update the Municipality’s SECAP and also to respond to the ongoing challenges imposed by the legal framework specifically regarding the energy-efficiency improvement of the public-building stock

–          Training to Municipality’s responsibles on planning energy efficiency measures for Municipal buildings

The major goal is to finally produce a report which embeds SECAP contents in accordance to CoM platform, completed with priority Municipal buildings’ data and KPIs for scenarios of energy efficiency improvements towards a gradual energy upgrading plan. The report shall also include aspects of the Climate vulnerability sections as required by the SECAP, as well as coherence with the Ministerial guidelines for developing the building energy efficiency action plan in the framework of the energy efficiency L.4843/2021.  

The actions planned to achieve pilot goals are as follows:

–          Elaboration of the existing SEAP of the Municipality towards setting up the energy balance of the existing situation, and specifically to extract KPIs for the public building stock

–          Identification of priority Municipal buildings based on the existing 2019 1^st version of the building energy efficiency action plan. The plan identifies 10 Municipal buildings which are of priority for energy upgrading projects. These buildings is adopted in the current project as the pilot sample for demonstrating SECAP improvements using SEACAP 4 SDG toolkit

–          The KPIs produced by utilizing the selected SEACAP 4 SDG tools are further used to complete the required CoM platform for paving the way for the transition of the current SEAP to a SECAP in accordance to the new CoM for Climate and Energy

Finally, instructions are provided on how to use the selected tools and produced KPIs for updating the 1^st version of the building energy efficiency action plan in compliance with the guidelines in the framework of Article 6 of L. 4843/2021.   

After thorough review of the available tools from the project toolkit, the Municipality selected the IMPULSE (Interreg MED 2014-2020) tools to use to conduct pilot actions planned, for the following major reasons:

•      Provision of Templates for recording energy-related data for all buildings and for grouping buildings into representative Typologies.

•      Special MS excel tool for automatic projection of KPIs from one Typology Ambassador building to all buildings of the same Typology, which accelerates the production of KPIs’ database for the whole building stock.

•      Include a Specialized MS excel tool which automatically provides the energy renovation plan i.e. which buildings and what measures to implement each year.

•      A practical Financial-scheme assessment tool is also included which estimates financial progress of utilizing alternative financial schemes.

They are recommended by the Greek Ministry for Energy and Environment for the conduction of Municipal building energy efficiency plans in the framework of Art.6-L.4843/2021. 

So far, the following results have been achieved:

–          An updated SECAP draft report in compliance with the contents and guidelines of the new CoM for Climate and Energy, with completed sections for the selected priority buildings.

–          The SECAP also includes the required sections with instructions on how to conduct climate-vulnerability assessment.

–          Instructions on how to use IMPULSE tools for updating the building energy efficiency action plan in the framework of L.4843/2021.

–          A baseline emission inventory completed for the priority buildings revealing CO2 emissions around 430 tns due to consumption of conventional energy sources

–          Recommended interventions including feasible deep retrofits towards NZEB priority buildings, educational and office buildings, associated with cost indicators.

–          A gradual renovation plan is concluded referring to: (a) Estimated total investment: € 3 Million; (b) Primary energy savings: 1.877 MWh; (c) Avoided CO2 emissions: 412 tns; (d) Estimated attenuation period: 18 yrs.

–          Financial processing further showed that even at the worst scenario or limited subsidies, a margin of around € 2 Million is feasible to be covered by loan-type funds.