In the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen (Dec 17-18th) we’ve updated the PEPESEC website to make it a more useful resource for anyone involved in energy planning to combat climate change in their own municipality.

New features on the site include -:

• RSS feeds from COP15 site, the Guardian Environment and other sources (see lefthand column)
• Sign up to our RSS feed (sign up on right hand colum)
• Links to key websites of interest to city’s involved in Energy Planning (see PEPESEC bookmarks to the right)
• Publications section to easily find newsletters, Best Practice Guide and other PEPESEC publications (see top menu.)

Funded by the the EU’s Intelligent Energy program, the PEPESEC project has seen the Swedish model for Energy Planning disseminated to partners in the UK, Greece, Italy, Spain and Poland over the last two years.

A series of study visits took place, where energy planners from Malmo and the Skane Energy Agency provided workshops for local energy planning – and got to see some of the environmental initiatives in each municipality. In addition, local stakeholders were often invited along to engage with programme.

A best practice guide for Energy Planning has been developed and is now available as a finished version for your consideration. Over the next few weeks we will be making available more resources for you to use in your own energy planning programme – particularly tailored to the experiences of each country.

Please have a look at our Publications section to see newsletters, best practice guide, study visit, and useful templates that may be of use to you.

In addition a comprehensive “knowledge base” with over 170 case studies from around Europe is provided.

This website has recently been enhanced to be more outward facing – it now lets you sign up for “updates” via RSS (see the right hand column), which means you’ll get details of new articles added sent to you as an email.

In addition we have tried to bring in feeds from other useful sites such as the Guardian newspaper and the official COP15 site.

Part of PEPESEC’s role is to pilot the use of ICT as an aid in energy planning – and further “demonstrations” of this will be made available shortly. The majority of EU environmental websites don’t currently provide information in a feed that can be easily accessed using RSS – so we’ve added them as bookmarks.

If you’d like to contact us for more information about the project please find our details on the contacts page.