REPOWERMAP

Repowermap.org Objective

repowermap.org is a non-profit initiative to promote renewable energies and energy efficiency by making visible real-world examples and related local information in each person's neighbourhood. To this objective, an interactive map is developed jointly by a large network of organizations, institutions, regional and local authorities and other energy actors. The idea of the initiative is to encourage people to use renewable energies and energy efficiency, by making them aware of concrete examples in their region, their city and in their own neighbourhood. The information presented on the map furthermore aims to facilitate information exchange and the spread of innovative technologies at local level and across borders. Take local action to contribute to climate protection and show it on repowermap.org! The examples and the accompanying information inspire others to take action as well and help them to take the first steps. From 2012 to 2014, the initiative has been supported by the European Union within the framework of the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme, as an initiative to promote renewable energies and energy efficiency by creating synergies in awareness raising between various energy actors and by facilitating information exchange for the related technologies. Within the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme, the initiative has gathered more than 40'000 concrete project examples for the use of renewable energies and energy efficiency and related local information.  The countries where most examples have been gathered within this programme are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, and Poland, as an initial focus had been put on these countries. Further information about objectives and achievements in building up the repowermap.org initiative within the framework of the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme can be found here. Based on these achievements, the initiative is on the one hand continued in these countries, and on the other hand extended to more and more other countries. Since 2011, the initiative aims to promote the use of renewable energies also in developing countries by facilitating know-how exchange and contributing to capacity building, in particular in Central America and West Africa, with financial support from the alumni organisation of students in environmental sciences from the ETH in Zürich, the Swiss Confederation through the REPIC programme, and the Lottery fund of the Canton of Bern, and since 2013 also the ECOWAS Renewable Energy Fund. The initiative was founded in Bern in 2008 by the non-profit association repowermap.org, which was specifically created to carry out this initiative and to maintain it in the long-term. In 2010, the non-profit association repowermap.eu was founded in Liechtenstein, with a view to advance the initiative in other European countries in cooperation with a network of European partners, and to ensure its continuation in these countries in the long term. From the beginning, the idea has been to make with this initiative a contribution to climate protection, by promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency with this common interactive map.

Who adds examples to the map?

People like you! If you have installed a renewable energy system or if you have constructed an energy efficient building, you are invited to add such project e xamples on repowermap.org. Make your example(s) visible to pass on your experiences and to motivate others to use these technologies as well. Each example is important!

Who has already integrated the map or has made a link to it?

The map from repowermap.org can easily be integrated into the websites of organizations, communes, regions or companies who take part in this initiative. Like this, the available examples are shown at the same time on different websites, increasing the number of people who see them and get inspired. If you integrate the map into your homepage, you can define the filters and settings you want, e.g. to show only a specific region or only your reference installations. + info https://www.repowermap.org/index.php?ln=en