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Sustainable Energy NGO Seminar in Denmark
August
17-21, 2021
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| INFORSE-Europe
organized a one-week European NGO Seminar at the Nordic Folkecenter
for Renewable Energy in Denmark on August 17-20, 2021. The Seminar focuses on transition to sustainable energy, community power and development of ideas for how we can push forward with new initiatives and projects. In the program there are presentations, workshops and Guided Tour at the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy and its windmill test station, two Guided Bus Tours in the area to see energy communities with wind, solar, biogas, heat pumps, and the the world's biggest and smallest windmills. After the Seminar, INFORSE-Europe has its General Meeting on August 21, 2021. Download: -- Brochure and Detailed Program (Version 4, pdf) -- Online Part of the Program August 17-20, 2021 (pdf) |
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| PROCEEDINGS (pdf files under upload) | ||
| Energy
Transition Day (17 December) Energy Transition: How far are we? What can we expect from European New Green Deal and other European policies? Progress on national level, new developments with the corona crisis. Gunnar Boye Olesen, INFORSE-Europe (GBO-INFORSE pdf file 0.7MB) Limits of the current policies and the blind spots in policy-making for sustainable energy, by professor Frede Hvelplund, Aalborg University, Denmark (FH-AAU pdf file, 0.7 MB) Progress in Sustainable Energy Solutions: Energy Efficiency and Ecodesign in Europe, by Gunnar Boye Olesen, (GBO-INFORSE pdf file, 0.9 MB) Solar Energy, Local Power and Heating in Germany, by Ursel Beckmann, Ecoact (UB-Ecoact pdf file, 0.9MB) |
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Energy
Communities Day (18 December) Experiences
and Examples of Energy Communities: |
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Municipalities and Local Authorities as Keys for the Transition: |
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| International Cooperation: - Global Climate Negotiations; North-South dialogue, eco-villages in the global south by Judit Szoleczky, INFORSE-Europe (JS-INFORSE pdf, 2.8 MB) - Experiences from Uganda by Lumu Tonny Junior, Green Ambassador's Club of JEEP in Uganda. (LTJ-Uganda pdf, 2 MB) |
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| Sufficiency Day (19 December) Transition to Sustainable Energy with Energy Sufficiency, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy: - Introduction of energy sufficiency as a third driver for the transition. Scenarios for the transition, in Western Europe, Belarus, Ukraine. Results of SELNEE Project. - Experiences on how to make the energy and climate transition happen. The wicked problems we face and wicked solutions we can use -, from national scenarios such as Zero Carbon Britain to county and local plans, including what citizens and local grassroots groups can do by Paul Allen, CAT, UK. (PA-CAT-UK pdf, 3.9 MB) - Energy sufficiency and energy transition in Denmark and EU by Gunnar Boye Olesen, (GBO-INFORSE pdf, 0.5 MB) - Transition of Eastern European countries, Dima Buronkin INFORSE - Europe, Olexandra Tryboi, Renewable Energy Agency, Ukraine. (OT-REA Ukraine pdf 1.3MB) |
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| GUIDED
TOURS: Prospective Sustainable Energy Developments, Energy
Communities: Tour 1: Walking tour at the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy (NFRE) by Jane Kruse, NFRE Tour 2: Bus tour: Osterild Off-shore wind test site, with the world’s biggest windmills, and exhibition at the visitor center; Snedsted solar district heating with solar thermal collector field of 6500 m2 of 512 panels; Small windmill Test Center of Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy. Tour 3: Bus tour: Lemvig community biogas plant; Hvide Sande District Heating consumer owned cooperative, windmills at the beach, heat absorber for heat pump, combination with thermal solar; Lem Distrct Heating Consumer owned non-profit cooperative with thermal solar and air-water heat pump, combined with burning wood chips and gas. Placed next to one of the Vestas production facilities in the municipality; Norhede-Hjortmose Wind Farm (over 100 mio. Euro local investment) and PV farm (almost 17 mio. Euro), visitor center; Tvind International School Centre: 1-MW wind turbine, the longest operating modern windmill, heat pump, solar PV systems on 3 roofs, solar cooker, stand-alone system with small solar cells and a 400 Watt wind turbine, vegetable garden, and bio waste water plant. Short description of the sites visited (Study Tour information pdf, 0.5 MB) |
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| Pictures from the Guided Study Tour of the INFORSE-Europe Seminar in 2021: | ||
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