BEA-APP
Baltic Energy Areas – A Planning Perspective
Project activities: In the project, 11 partners from eight countries around the Baltic Sea cooperate to support the transition towards low-carbon energy systems.
BEA-APP brings together two perspectives: spatial planning as well as regional energy policy. The project aims at increasing the capacity of regional and renewable energy planning actors by:
– Providing adjusted spatial planning instruments targeting renewable energy development;
– Developing innovative stakeholder involvement methods and financing systems to increase social acceptance through local ownership;
– Applying the developed measures to pilot cases, studying the features of suitable renewable energy production sites and, thereby, setting the scene for concrete projects.
BEA-APP is a flagship project under the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR).
Project is supported by Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme.
Project budget: 2 700 000 €
TREA budget: 239 000 € (incl ERDF support 203 150 €)
Project duration: 2016−2019
Project aims: Increasing the capacity of regional and renewable energy planning actors.
Project results: one of the project outputs in Estonia is the reconstruction project for Rõuge village cultural centre: The reconstruction project of Rõuge village hall
Project partners:
- Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and State DevelopmentMecklenburgVorpommern (Germany)
- Skåne Energy Agency (Sweden)
- Region Blekinge (Sweden)
- Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden (Sweden)
- Regional Council of Central Finland (Finland)
- Tartu Regional Energy Agency (Estonia)
- Zemgale Planning regioon (Latvia)
- Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia (Latvia)
- Lithuanian Energy Institute (Lithuania)
- Regional Office for Spatial Planning of Westpomeranian Voivodeship (Poland)
- Roskilde University (Denmark)
Project website: http://www.balticenergyareas.eu/
Contact persons in TREA: Antti Roose (antti.roose@trea.ee, +372 5332 8233); Martin Kikas (martin.kikas@trea.ee, +372 524 5225)
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