Regional Energy Agency Kvarner Ltd. Regionalna energetska agencija Kvarner d.o.o. Primorsko-goranske županije Darko Jardas, M.Sc., Director Invest forum of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County and the City of Rijeka Opatija, October 30, 2013

Regional Energy Agency Kvarner Ltd. has been established by the County of Primorje-Gorski Kotar, with the support of the European Commission, Intelligent Energy Europe program in 2009; The Agency is established as a single organization and institutionalized framework for more rational use of existing energy resources; The main objective and the role of the Agency is to promote and encourage sustainable regional development in the field of energy through the use of renewable energy sources and introducing energy efficiency; The Agency also supports the introduction of 'good practice' in energy management, encourages the concept of sustainable development, provides information and advice, as well as a range of other services based on specific local energy needs; The Agency's mission is to increase the share of renewable energy in total energy consumption in its region.

MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE AGENCY: proposing and implementing measures to achieve energy efficiency (EE) and the use of renewable energy sources (RES) – also known as Energy savings in buildings (energy audits, energy certificates, recommendations for increasing the efficiency of heating, lighting and installation) premanent citizen’s education monitoring and assessing the current situation and analysis proposing energy action plans with emphasis on EE and RES cooperation with local governments on energy projects and making of their SEAP’s project application to EU and other funds Greenhouse gass Energy consumption Renewables

Projects “Sun on your roof” in solar thermal collectors Project “Green energy in my home” in year’s project extended to biomass systems Projects are aimed to co-finance households in installing heating systems using renewable energy sources Total costs of equipment and installation of solar or biomass systems in households are co-financed in the amount of 40% of the investment. “Sun on your roof” and “Green energy in my home”

“Green energy in my home”

Psychiatric Hospital Rab Home for the Elderly and Infirm Persons „Mali Kartec”, Krk

Public building of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County The project involves investment in photovoltaic power plants with capacity of 30 kW each, suited on the flat roofs of buildings owned by the local government. The area of the county of Primorje and Gorski Kotar has a great potential to exploit the solar energy. The Power purchase contract gives the investor/project developer a proof that their electricity production will be incentivized for a period of 14 years. “Public flat roof market ”

Municipality of Čavle – sport hall City of Novi Vinodolski – elementary school Crikvenica – health institution Island Krk, City of Krk – secondary school Main County buildingIsland Cres, City of Cres – elementary school City of Crikvenica – secondary school

Installation of solar farms up to 50 hectares is adequate for planned Site, having a maximum power output of 10 MW per location. Physical planning documents: A portion of the site has already been defined by the Primorje- Gorski Kotar County Physical Plan and the remainder will be determined by physical plans of municipalities and cities.

Technical School of Naval Architecture and Engineering in Rijeka Participants of the training course for photovoltaic installers in Croatia Project PVTRIN (Eng. Training of Photovoltaic Installers) addresses the market need for skilled technicians by developing training and certification schemes for installers who who wish to activate in PV installation and maintenance.

PARTNERS: Trieste AREA Science Park Consortium, Italy CORTEA, Italy Province of Rimini, Italy ENEA - Italian agency for the new technology the energy and the environment,Italy GOLEA - Goriška Local Energy Agency, Slovenia Institut Jožef Štefan, Slovenia Community Piran, Slovenia University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Croatia Regional Energy Agency Kvarner, Croatia City of Dubrovnik, Croatia Institute of Economics, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina City of Drač, Albania TARGET GROUP: Public administration, research institutions DURATION OF THE PROJECT: 30 months PROJECT VALUE: 2.6 million euros EU projects – IPA programming framework IPA - ADRIACOLD

IPA – ADRIACOLD MAIN OBJECTIVES: - to promote and expand the use of renewable energy sources for cooling in the Adriatic area, in order to achieve greater independence from fossil fuels - A great potential for the development of solar cooling technologies; - Important project activity: the construction of pilot plants, one of which will be installed in the special hospital for rehabilitation Thalassotherapy Crikvenica The machine room SOLAR COOLING AND SANITARY HOT WATER HEATING – CASE STUDY THALASSOTHERAPIA CRIKVENICA IPA ADRIACOLD PROJECT EV. NO. 08/13

PARTNERS: AREA Science Park (AREA) – Italy Instituto Andaluz de Tecnologia (IAT) – Spain CAPENERGIES (CAP) – France Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS) – Slovenia Foundation CIRCE, Research Centre for Energy Resources and Consumption (CIRCE) - Spain Regional energy agency Kvarner (REA) – Croatia TARGET GROUP : SMEs DURATION OF THE PROJECT : 30 months PROJECT VALUE : 2.2 million euros EU projects – MED programming framework MED - EMILIE

University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering Solar cooling technology, principled scheme, example...

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