Outputs and Results

This project will cluster 3 international projects approved by the Northern Periphery and Arctic Programmes to increase awareness, gain critical mass, and transfer knowledge about the latest energy solutions to public authorities, communities and businesses across the NPA area. The clustering activities planned will lead to:

  • Increase dissemination among end users to increase number of households and buildings with improved energy consumption.
  • Increase public authority awareness of energy efficiency, renewables and smart energy management solutions, by transferring knowledge and good practices from other NPA Areas.
  • Create a transnational cluster of public authorities, knowledge centres, community groups, citizens and businesses.

Energy Good Practice & Innovative Service Map

Energy Good Practices

The aim of this energy efficiency action was to unify the monitoring of energy consumption and increase the energy and cost efficiency by utilizing the energy management system (EMS) in Sievi municipality, and to reach the targets of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan.

Contact:

Simo Mäenpää

Centria University of Applied Sciences

simo.maenpaa{at}centria.fi

The pilot project called “EVAKOT - Best practices and tools for energy storaging and usage optimization” build a pilot installation of a seasonal thermal energy storage.

Contact: Fabian Sander

Centria University of Applied Sciences

fabian.sander{at}centria.fi

The aim of the project is to develop anew technology that will enable the small-scale liquefaction of biomethane in a cost-effective way. The liquefaction solution is based on the principle of cryogenic processing, which utilizes very low temperatures instead of high pressures to condensethe gas.

Contact: Matti Ojala

Centria University of Applied Sciences

matti.ojala{at}centria.fi

Point and Sandwick Trust was established after a series of public meetings in 2005 and went on to build, and now operate the UK’s biggest community wind farm, Beinn Ghrideag. The 9MW wind farm is the largest community wind farm in the UK and is built on common grazing croft land on the Isle of Lewis.

Contact:

Markku Kananen

University of Oulu

markku.kananen{at}oulu.fi

The Irish Street Pilot was funded through the SECURE Interreg programme in 2019 to trial how solar and battery storage could work in practice within a community centre building. The battery storage system was installed by The Electric Storage Company and the data analysis from the project was used as part of a fit and tell study developed by the company. The installation of the system has seen a reduction of electricity consumption of between 30% in the first year and 40% in the second year. The building can generate the majority of its electricity consumption during the summer months.

Contact:

Heather Young

Derry City and Strabane District Council

heather.young{at}derrystrabane.com

10 MW heat pumps in Vestmannaeyjar island were installed in 2018. Seawater is used in those heat pumps. The seawater is cooled down and heat is delivered in fresh district heating water at 77°C to customers on the island.

Contact:

Ragnar Ásmundsson

Orkusetur

rka{at}os.is

The Sundsvall hospital is a massive structure that covers about 190000 m² and, naturally, requires a heavy-duty cooling system in order to maintain a comfortable indoor climate as well as keeping a variety of technical equipment from overheating. The county council of Västernorrland committed to a more environment-friendly and energy-saving alternative in making use of a natural resource that is easily available in the north of Sweden, namely snow.

Contact:

Jan Lindberg

Region Västernorrland

jan.lindberg{at}rvn.se

Solar collectors were installed on the roof at the site. The detached house was built in 1985 and has a floor area of 125 cubic meters. The house has a water-circulating underfloor heating and a wood boiler. Due to the collectors, it is no longer necessary to produce hot water by other methods during the period from late spring to early autumn. The collectors work as well in the winter when the sun is shining. Previously, domestic hot water was produced solely by burning wood in a boiler also in the summer. The example shows that solar collectors apply to Finnish conditions as well.

Contact:

Markku Kananen

University of Oulu

markku.kananen{at}oulu.fi

The house has had a ground source heat pump since 2008. After the failure of the first pump, the house was heated by direct electric heating and wood for a little over a year until a new ground source heat pump was installed in the house. These steps are clearly visible in the measurements of electricity consumption.

In January, with direct electric and partial wood heating the consumption was 6,8 kWh while average temperature being -12.8 degrees of Celsius. With the approximately same average temperature in a month consumption with the old and the new heat pump were 3,6 kWh and 2,9 kWh. This clearly shows the benefit exploitation of geothermal energy.

To date, the new pump has delivered 58 MWH of the heat of which 8 MWH for domestic hot tap water and used 16 MWH of the electricity. Thus, the pump’s coefficient of performance (COP) is 3.625. If a house has underfloor heating instead radiators, heating water temperature is lower and COP would be better.

Contact:

Markku Kananen

University of Oulu

markku.kananen{at}oulu.fi

Energy Innovative Services

Affordable Warmth Scheme funded by Department of Communities Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Housing Executive to improve energy efficiency in homes and address fuel poverty for home owners in low income households. Measures include: cavity wall insulation / loft insulation / hot water jacket / draught proofing / boiler and radiator replacement / installation and commissioning of a heating system.

Contact: 

Affordable Warmth Team – Stephanie Roulston, Sinead Brolly, Kieran Shanks

Derry City and Strabane Council

affordablewarmth{at}derrystrabane.com

Local and municipal energy counselling is a free of charge service, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency. It provides households, companies and organisations with independent energy advice, mainly by email, phone or direct consultations. It is key to empower those who are seeking advice to make sound decisions and a focus lies on an integrated approach to energy efficiency and renewable energies.

Contact:

Silva Herrmann

Jokkmokk Municipality and Lapplands Kommunalförbund

silva.herrmann{at}lapplands.se

Motiva Ltd. is a state-owned development company that promotes the efficient and sustainable use of energy and materials to businesses. Motiva has been very successful in implementing energy services and advising to the general public in Finland. Many regular citizens, and especially businesses refer to Motiva when some energy related topic needs to be solved. The good reputation has been slowly developed over many years, and due to continuous funding from the government, a real institution of knowledge has been created.

Contact:

Kirsi-Maaria Forssell

Motiva Ltd

kirsi-maaria.forssell{at}motiva.fi 

The majority of Finns want to live in their own home. The Home Owners' Association wants to promote small housing and bring more real options to Finnish housing policy. The Association honours individual housing, a sense of community, and comfortable living environs. Being part of larger coalitions like the International Union of Property Owners (UIPI) and benefiting from the co-operation of the Nordic brother organisations - the Swedish and Norwegian home owners' associations Villaägarnas Riksförbund and Huseiernes Landsforbund - , we are able to receive crucial information beforehand and are thus able to make initiatives early on in the process. International co-operation is the way to knowledge and results.

Contact:

Marju Silander

Home Owners' Association

marju.silander@omakotiliitto.fi 

ECO Concept offers total energy service solutions including addressing soaring fuel costs by converting petrol vehicles to bi-fuel and diesel vehicles to dual fuel.

In practice, it is possible to install a gas conversion in most cars. Most common conversion is to make a petrol-engine to work with gas. In diesel fuelled cars, diesel is needed to ignite the gas. Mixture is typically half and half. An aftermarket conversion is becoming more and more common due to rising fossil fuels prices.

Contact: 

Arto Rautevaara

ECO Concept

arto{at}ecoconcept.fi

 

ÖkoFEN is a specialist in pellet boilers and one of the leading suppliers of different solutions for various application areas based on renewable energy sources. From economical and convenient pellet heating systems through to space-saving pellet tanks. A typical pellet boiler replacing an oil boiler saves 8.5 to of CO2 in a year which is as much as 45 000 km by car.

Contact

Mauritz Ketola

Wifotek Oy

info{at}wifotek.com