RHONALPENERGIE -ENVIRONNEMENT Regional energy and environment agency raee

1. RHONALPENERGIE -ENVIRONNEMENT Regional energy and environment agency www. raee.org

2. RHONE-ALPES REGION • 5 650 000 inhabitants • 44 000 km2 • 2 879 communes • 8 Départements • 3 urban areas : • Lyon, • Saint-Etienne, • Grenoble

3. OBJECT • Promotion of the rational use of energies and renewable energies • Conservation of resources and protection of the environnement • STATUTE • Non-profit association created in 1977 • ~ 40 members (Regional Council, counties, local authorities, energy supplier, associations etc.)

4. TARGETS • Local authorities and associated bodies : • towns, gathering of communes, of urban areas , • associations of communes • Social housing • Health sector : hospital, old people’s homes, etc… • Intermediary consultants bodies : • architects, consultants • Firms, in the framework of a territorial approach (ex. : Regional Nature Park)

5. LEVELS OF SERVICES • 1. Exchanges and resources centre • Regional observatory, • Information, training, • Actions of collective development monitoring (technological, organisational, European orientations,…) • Member of national and European networks (RARE et FEDARENE) • Support to regional networks of actors, creation of tools for these networks and support for professionnalisation. • 2. Accompagnying contracting authorities • Accompagnying contracting authorities for the setting up of operations and the follow-up, • Follow-up of pilot or experimental operations in emerging departments or sectors, • Evaluation of projects. • 3. Accompagnying programmes or collective actions at the territory level • Participation to the implementation of national or European policies at the territory level; • Participation to the implementation of regional programmes; • Participation to the setting up and the implementation of local innovative programmes; • Evaluation of programmes and policies.

6. INTERVENTION FIELDS • ENERGY • Management and energy conservation at the territory level • Local policies (town, territories, regional nature parks) : energy planning, development of energy departments ; • Assessment of investment policies for works in energy savings ; • Role of actors (contractual relations, local authorities, licensors and law aspects) • Rational use of energy (energy efficiency) • Energy savings and demand approach (studies, global energy audits) ; • Electricity Demand Side Management ; • Efficient technologies : District Heating, CHP ; • Support to energy management : technical management, maintenance contracts, energy accounting • High environmental quality buildings (local authorities, hospital, secondary schools, housing,…) • Cluster and Effinergie Label

7. ...ENERGY • Renewable energies • Wood energy (large wood energy plants, regional promotion plan) • Methanisation and biogas • Wind energy • Solar thermal energy • (bioclimatic architecture, direct solar floor heating, solar water heating) • Photovoltaic • Micro hydropower

8. ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT • Global approach at the territory level • Local Agenda 21 • Integration of sustainable development or role of territory integration in sectorial policies (Energy, Environnement) in local policies (structural funds, town policies, territories, regional nature parks, planners) • High environmental quality for development areas • Environmental attestation. • Air quality and ex post treatment • Fight against greenhouse effect, • Treatment of urban pollution (alternative fuels) • Collect and waste recycling • Transport • Voluntary Urban Transport Plan, • Alternative solutions.

9. EUROPEAN DIMENSION • Network • FEDARENE (European Federation of Regional Energy and Environment Agencies) • Projects in the framework of European programmes • DG TREN (Directorate General for Energy and Transport), • Energy Intelligent for Europe (EIE) • SAVE : specific actions for a vigorous energy efficiency • ALTENER : specific actions for the promotion of renewable energies • 6th P.C.R.D. : Framework Programme for Research and Development • Other General Directorate • DG ENVIRO : expert (climatic change, environment programme) • DG REGIO : regional policies • - INTERREG A (France-Italy) and B (Alpine Space) • Direct setting up of projects or assistance to partners of the Rhône-Alpes region (social housing companies, associations in Départements, etc…).