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How to become a zero net energy (ZNE) territory within the next decades by producing and delivering local, renewable and regulated sources of energy?

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  1. Circular economies
  2. Energy efficiency
  3. Low carbon

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At European scale, local authorities decide to embrace the ambitious aim to become a ZNE territory within the next 30 years (for heat,  transport, electricity), a place both producing and delivering the energy needed by its citizens, its public services, its companies, the whole society. But numerous challenges need to be improved: how to produce this energy in a short perimeter in and around the metropolitan area? what kind of energy mix has to be chosen? when does this production happen along the year? how to deliver these different sources of energy? how to store these ones? how to strengthen the links between energy production and consumption ? (What part should the delivery play?) and maybe the hardest issue : how to enhance citizens and all the consumers involvement in fair trade of their local energy systems? 1)how to raise awareness of the environmental footprint of our way of living? 2)how to increase the socioeconomic added value of the local energy loop and develop a fair-trade energy business ? EXCHANGE: Energy PACT project aims to concrete in a short period the absolute necessity of changing our way of consuming energy taking into account that we do belong to a local energy loop and thus how we could contribute to an "exchange" process: the short circuits permitting the development of new employments, skills and business in and around the metropolitan areas. The initiatives led in that will be meaningful and inspiring to build our ZEN actions plan.

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Clermont Auvergne Métropole (CAM Urban Community): 290 000 inhabitants / 300,62 km2 / 35 000 students / 156 000 workers / 14 000 companies (Head quarters of Michelin, world leader of the tyre industry)
Facing the huge risks related to climate changing and decrease of biodiversity,  CAM and the City of Clermont-Ferrand have decided to become a pioneer territory of the energy and ecology transition, testing and facilitating the emergence of new socioeconomic solutions.
In that way, CAM and the City have drawn up their first Energy and Environment Transition Scheme (EETS) which has been presented for approval by the Council of CAM on February 15th 2019. The EETS will be the policies framework guideline for the two institutions,  with half of the report dedicated to the energy challenges. Indeed, CAM has adopted October the 14th 2016 its commitment to become a zero net energy (ZNE) territory by 2050 reducing by two the energy consumption of the whole territory and satisfying the needs by local renewable energy.
The diagnosis carried out previously shows a potential reduction of energy consumption by 55%, especially for housing and transport  and so, the energy needs would be covered up to only 96% by 2050 with photovoltaics, wood and waste heat sources. Also, the strategy sets a production of renewable energy at nearly 3,000 GWh compared to 619 GWh in 2015, on a perimeter not yet defined but beyond the strict metropolitan area.
Our ZEN actions plan will guide our work.

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01 March 2019

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Institution: 
Clermont Auvergne Métropole
City: 
Clermont-Ferrand
Country: 
France
Type of region: 
Transition