In Sweden, the Swedish Road is assigned by the government to work with measures that affect the demand for transport in a sustainable way, i.e. a more efficient, more environmentally adapted and safer way of travel than the individual travelling by car. It’s also assigned the Swedish Road Administration to co-operate with other actors to pursue this work, i.e. municipalities. In context of what the Swedish Road Administration calls Sustainable Travel, focus is set on changing of attitudes and emphasize on and marketing of alternative ways of travelling. In this context the regional West division of the Swedish Road Administration started up a co-operation project called “KUSTOM” – Municipal co-operation for safety and environment – in 2004. The ultimate aim of the ”KUSTOM” project is improve safety and environment issues related to transport through co-operation between a number of municipalities and the West Division of the Swedish Road Administration. Groups of municipalities with 3-4 municipalities in each grouping were formed. Each group hired an informant; one municipality in the grouping was responsible for the employment. The whole “KUSTOM” project was led by a coordinator. In total, 44 municipalities, divided in 16 groupings, was taking part in the project.

Objectives and target audience

The “KUSTOM” project aims at providing inhabitants of the municipality, companies, decision makers, employees of the municipality, organizations etc within a number of municipalities with facts and understanding of traffic safety and the environmental impacts of transportation. The intention is to increase the awareness level about traffic safety and through this achieves a safer and more environmentally sound society.
The project also aimed at, through dialogue, improving the channel of information for decision makers and employees to reach out to inhabitants, companies, organizations etc. In addition, this created a channel for the Swedish Road Administration to reach out to the municipalities.
The informants have a central role in the project. Their task has mainly been to keep a dialogue with decision makers, employees and inhabitants in the municipality concerning traffic safety and environment related transport issues. Great focus has been put on speed, belts, alcohol and carbon dioxide. There has also been a coordinator keeping in contact with the contact person at the Swedish Road Administration.
Target groups and areas:

• Children 0-18 years
• Youths 18-24 years
• Employees
• Disabled and elderly
• The public, inhabitants of the municipalities
• The local transports of the municipalities

Overall, the “KUSTOM” project directly provides a structural work methodology to tackle safety and environmental related issues within municipalities.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

The project was funded partly by the municipalities themselves and partly by the Swedish Road Administration.
The budget for the project was 5,5 – 5,6 M SEK per year.
The informants have a central role in the project. Their task has mainly been to keep a dialogue with decision makers, employees of and inhabitants in the municipality concerning traffic safety and environment related transport issues. Great focus has been put on speed, belts, alcohol and carbon dioxide. There has also been a co-ordinator keeping in contact with the contact person at the Swedish Road Administration.

Process

For starting up, the municipalities met in their respective groups discussing direction and tasks for the work.
Basically, a work programme was set up for each municipal grouping. Participating in this process was the person responsible for safety issues in the municipalities, the informant of the project and the co-ordinator for the project. During the project, these persons have kept in contact to do necessary adjustments of the work programme and to keep in contact with the Swedish Road Administration.
The process can then be divided into two parallel and interacting activities – co-ordination activities and local activities.

Co-ordination activities
Throughout the project period meetings with the co-ordinator and the informants for the municipal groupings have taken place, as well as a couple of meetings each year between responsible staff in the municipalities, the informants, the co-ordinator and staff from the Swedish Road Administration in order to exchange experiences and transfer knowledge. Education about new experiences has also been held in connection to these meetings. The co-ordinator of the project has provided advice, help and support to the informants and the work programmes have been followed-up and revised. In addition, two local group meetings have taken place where the municipal representative, the informant and staff from the Swedish Road Administration have gone through achieved results, evaluation of the work and what can be further done within the project.
The co-ordinator has also provided the informants with knowledge reinsurance, tips and ideas and information about news. In addition, the co-ordinator has also provided the informants with information material such as brochures, video tapes, exhibition material etc.
Local activities
The work programme is the basis for the focus of the local work. The work within the local municipal grouping is planned 6 months ahead and evaluated semi-annually.
The informant has informed the target groups through dialogues adapted to the specific target group.
Depending on the group, each “session” has taken about 1-2 hours. Exhibits, worked out by the Swedish Road
Administration, have also been shown in the municipalities.
The concrete actions, aimed at the specific target groups, that have taken place are:

• Children 0-18 years: In schools, the informants have focused on awareness rising activities on traffic safety through information material, support for teachers etc. Parent groups have also been formed to inform about the traffic safety environment around the school, but discussions about the transportation of children to and from school has also been held.

• Youths 18-24 years: Youths have been informed about traffic safety through campaigns such as “Don’t Drink & Drive”.

• Employees: Activities towards employees of the municipal organisation have taken place and focused on work place seminars where issues related to the environment and safety within transport has been discussed. The seminars have been very appreciated and inquired for. The seminars have contributed to focus on safety and environment issues within the work places and amongst employees.

• Disabled and elderly: Study circles have been held for this target group, focusing on environment and safety contributing to rising of awareness.

• The public, inhabitants of the municipalities: Information has been spread at traffic events and through a common exhibition about safety, as well as smaller exhibitions and activities in the local area to raise awareness.

• The local transports of the municipalities: The work with transports within the municipal organisation has been called quality assurance for transports, and has involved support to municipalities on how to achieve economic gains from analyzing ones transports and how to follow-up and evaluate actions.

Analyses of the present situation has been done in several municipalities which shows there is a potential to save both money and environment through efficiency actions such as use of car pools, clean vehicles, establishment of transport and purchase policies etc.

Results

The results of the ”KUSTOM” project so far has mainly been qualitative, but will strategically contribute to change in behaviours resulting in a more energy efficient, less fossil dependent and safer transport sector. The results so far:

• 44 municipalities in 16 groupings interacting over geographical borders with environment and safety related challenges in the transport sector.
• A successful work methodology to raise awareness about safety and environment in the transport sector, and the interacting between these two, has been established. This has created a local platform for these topics, which is very valuable since there are often little resources to deal with these topics locally.
• The informants have been given great response from both inhabitants of the municipalities and municipal bodies.
• Positive networking and coordination effects; between the municipal groupings and the between all actors participating in the projects. The ways for channelling information and contacts have been very appreciated. The co-operation within “KUSTOM” has also triggered co-operation within other areas in the municipalities.

Other conclusions from the project were that this type of project needs to proceed under a longer period of time due to several reasons. One is that creation of networks is one important, time consuming, factor. Another is that traffic safety and sustainable travel take a long time to implement. In addition, continuity is of high importance in this process.
Through the work of “KUSTOM” traffic safety and environment have been put on the agenda and a channel for information has been created between the Swedish Road Administration and the municipalities. Political decision makers have been very positive to the project, the work methodology and the use of working structurally in this way.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

The lessons learned from the “KUSTOM” project is mainly that the structural work methodology of the project – having a specific resource (the informant) working with the topics that employees in the municipalities seldom have time to focus on otherwise – is working very well. This model can be repeated in most municipalities throughout Europe and at the same time be adjusted to local conditions.
One common problem is the financing of a person such as the informant, and this is solved within “KUSTOM” through the dividing of cost between the Swedish Road Administration and groups of municipalities. This solution is not only positive from a financial point of view, but also from a co-operation and coordination point of view – creating a common platform for these topics.
The project has also used several information tools, such as brochures, videos, exhibitions etc that can be translated and adapted to local conditions.
Overall, the model of the “KUSTOM” project is easily repeatable in European municipalities and from a Swedish point of view considered a good way to tackle the challenges municipalities are facing in the transport sector – with safety, air quality and climate change.

The City of Växjö (southern Sweden) is moving closer towards the vision of zero emissions

Objectives and target audience

What was the project trying to achieve? Who was the project targeted at (if applicable)?
In the City of Växjö, the emissions of fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) shall decrease by 70 percent per capita until 2025, compared to 1993, and the long-term vision is a totally fossil fuel free Växjö.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

Please give an overview of the budget, and an outline of the funders.
Which organisations were involved in shaping and delivering the project.
Since Fossil Fuel Free Växjö is a programme covering everyone and everything within the geographical borders of Växjö, and is all the time supplemented with new actions, it is not possible to define a budget or total costs for it. Therefore it is also difficult to say the total amount or share of national or international contribution, except for some specific projects.

The Fossil Fuel Free Växjö programme was worked out through intensive dialogue with local NGOs, companies, the university and citizens. In 2007, a local climate commission was started, in order to identify actions that needed to be carried out to reach the goal. The commission consisted of representatives from politicians, city administration, Växjö University, Växjö Energy Ltd, Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden, and three companies.

Process

In 1997, the Government of Sweden announced that they would allocate around 600 million € to local environmental investments. This turned out to be a good opportunity to gather local actors to different thematic dialogues to discuss; a) what kind of projects could be part of Växjö’s Local Investment Programme, and b) what actions would be implemented in a local Agenda 21 strategy. This was the start of the drafting of a local action plan for a Fossil Fuel Free Växjö which mainly focused on the following areas:

• Renewable heating and cooling
• Renewable power production
• Efficient use of energy
• Renewable fuels for transport
• Reduced climate impact of transport

Växjö’s strategy for a change to a fossil fuel free community has comprised a combination of changed behaviour, energy efficiency, and transition to renewable energy in heating, power and transport.

Results

CO2 results
Thanks to all the actions mentioned above, the result is so far a reduction of 32 percent until 2007. However, one should remember that 32 percent wouldn’t be so much if Växjö wouldn’t have done anything before 1993; but the CO2 levels were low already in 1993. In 2007, the emissions were 3,131 kg per capita in Växjö, compared to 4,630 kg per capita in 1993. This means that already in 1993, Växjö had less emission level per capita than Sweden has today.

Energy results
Växjö is supplied by about 2,400 GWh in 2007. Transport, heating and power is supplied by roughly one third each. Of all the energy, 54 percent comes from renewable energy sources, 35 percent comes from fossil fuels and the rest is non-renewable power, mainly nuclear power imported from other parts of Sweden.

Socio-economic results
It is impossible to quantify the savings of money due to the Fossil Fuel Free Växjö programme. But one interesting thing we can see in Växjö is that the economic development did in no way suffer from the city’s shift to biomass-based energy.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

The first, and probably the most important one, is the political commitment and political unity. All political parties agree that environmental issues, not at least the ones concerning climate change, are very important
The second aspect is the broad cooperation. The Fossil Fuel Free Växjö programme was worked out through intensive dialogue with local NGOs, companies, the university and citizens. In 2007, a local climate commission was started, in order to identify actions that needed to be carried out to reach the goal. The commission consisted of representatives from politicians, city administration, Växjö University, Växjö Energy Ltd, Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden, and three companies.
The third aspect is financing. Växjö has managed to receive funds for many of the actions carried out here. Some of it has come from the national Government, some of it from European Union.

In 2005, legislation prohibiting the deposition of organic waste came into effect. The national Swedish goal is that 35% of organic waste is to be recycled by 2016. A plant will offer a long-term solution to the problem by handling waste from the wastewater treatment plants and at the same time produce biogas to be used by upgraded into vehicle gas.

Objectives and target audience

The project goal is to identify a long-term and sustainable solution for handling industrial biosludge and organic waste and also to investigate their use as raw materials to produce biogas for vehicles. This will be achieved through the building of integrated bio-gas plant which will allow large-scale composting.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

Partners involved are: Municipality of Sundsvall, SEAB (Sundsvall Energy), MittSverige Vatten AB (water) Fokusera Utveckling Sundsvall AB (development), Municipality of Timrå, County Council Västernorrland, SCA

Process

This initiative first aims to produce a feasibility study that indicates an appropriate and sustainable solution for the long-term management of sludge and waste in the municipality.
The Preliminary time schedule for the integrated biogas plant is:

• Production of material for environmental impact assessment January -08 to June -09
• Decision to realise an integrated biogas plant June -09
• Preliminary projecting and production of material for building permit, June -09
• Planning June-09 to May –10.
• Plant construction June –10 to November –11
• Commissioning trials November –11 to January –12
• Commissioning February – 12.•

Results

It is anticipated that the biogas plant will allow biosludge generated by the paper mill to be used as compost material and subsequently be upgraded to, for example, vehicle gas. The municipal waste management company, REKO, may have the opportunity in the project’s initial phase to process 540 tonnes of organic waste, currently being incinerated, from household refuse and large-scale kitchens. This practice would potentially be an indicator of environmental consciousness in the community. Furthermore, the fertiliser produced could be of interest to stakeholders involved in forest fertilisation and in tree nurseries.
The municipality will campaign for the establishment of a filling station for vehicle gas in autumn 2008 which will initially be used by the Municipality and associated companies. A number of biogas cars for the municipal vehicle fleet and two refuse collection trucks will be purchased in the first phase.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

To be able to make it a large-scale plant and to find the right raw materials in the region.
Initially by reports spread regionally and at regional seminars.

Hammary Sjöstad is a former brownfield in Stockholm now transformed into an exciting new district where the City has imposed tough environmental requirements on buildings, technical installations and the traffic environment, from day one.

Objectives and target audience

The main objective is to convert an old industrial and harbour area into a modern, sustainable neighbourhood.
The overall environmental goal is that the impact placed on the environment by emissions from Hammarby Sjöstad shall be a massive 50 % lower than the corresponding level for newly constructed housing areas dating from the early 1990s.  The project sets strict environmental standards on land usage, energy, water & sewage, waste, transportation and building materials.
In terms of energy, the main target is that by the time the site is fully built, residents will produce half the amount of energy they need.  This will be accomplished by e.g. reusing the heat from the purified waste water, and by utilising the energy from the combustible household waste which has been separated at source.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

This project has been financed by the ordinary planning budget.
The key partners involved in the project are: Stockholm City Administration, developers, proprietors and several public and private companies as for example: Fortum (power and heat company), Stockholm Water Company and the Stockholm Waste Management Administration.

Process

At Hammarby Sjöstad, the environmental programme was an integral element of the masterplan.  This clearly set out key objectives and requirements which had to be addressed at both the planning and implementation stages of the development.  By having clearly stated objectives from the outset, these requirements were already taken into account during the detailed design discussions between the plot developers, architects and city planning team.
The project team designed a local ecosystem known as “Hammarby Model” which shows how the relationship between sewage processing, energy provision and waste handling can be structured to deliver wider social and environmental benefits.

Results

This new city neighbourhood has delivered an attractive place to live and work and it has become a successful example of how new development can minimise their environmental impact and enhance its setting through careful planning, joined up thinking and strong leadership.  The project has already delivered homes for almost 10,000 people and will deliver 9,000 homes and 10,000 jobs by 2015.

In terms of energy use, different solutions for supplying energy have been tested in Hammarby Sjöstad; as for example: solar cells and panels for electricity supply and hot tap water, the installation of a fuel cell in GlashusEtt – the area’s Environmental Information Centre and biogas cookers for approximately 900 households.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

Setting high environmental goals fundamentally contribute to a more sustainable and attractive living environment, while at the same time adding constraint to the planning process.  Key factors for successful planning and implementation include:
An institutional (municipal) involvement with a clear organisational set-up;
Visions and strategies around which consensus among stakeholders is achieved;
The establishment of incentives, catalysts, and trademarks to support development;
Access to land and appropriate planning tools;
Environmental considerations through the entire planning process.

Solar City Malmö is an organisation working towards the increase of solar energy installations in Skåne.

Objectives and target audience

Objectives in the Skåne region:-

• To ncrease the interest about solar energy;
• To increase the knowledge about solar energy;
• To increase solar energy system installations;
• To increase the use of energy from solar energy systems;
• To support the solar energy business.

Target groups include:-

• Installation professionals;
• Architects;
• Consultants;
• Property owners;
• Property managers;
• Municipalities;
• Private persons;
• Tourists;
• Students.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

Process

To achieve the required objectives, Solar City Malmö arranged:-

• Educational practices;
• Seminars;
• Exhibitions;
• Study visits;
• Thematic events;
• Conferences;
• Technique contests;
• Information meetings by companies, installation professionals and municipalities;

And work actively with:-

• Counselling with regards to solar energy installations;
• Informational dissemination;
• To support both private people as well as businesses and organisations in solar energy installation projects.

Results

Revival meetings:-

• Over 2000 professionals attended the revival meetings;
• The revival meetings were held in over 70 different places;
• 18 of the meetings were hosted at participating companies;
• In Skåne, 70 – 80 % of meetings occurred within the private sector.

Courses:-

• 12 different courses were offered, at least 10 participants were required and a  maximum of 25 were allowed to attend each course;
• Each course was held at least once.
• In total 34 course days were carried out, with a total 614 participants.

Seminar:-

• A total of 65 people attended the seminar which Skåne Energy Agency arranged with regards to energy efficient windows and sun protection for buildings.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

Success factors:-

• Marketing is very important and a considerable amount of effort was committed to secure good marketing events;
• The presenting of short seminars (revival meetings) appeared to be successful in a business although in normal circumstances, these are do not normal occur;
• A variety of interesting and intellectual subjects were reviewed at these revival meetings;
• Good timing and there was excellent focus by the participants regarding the energy matters issues that were brought to the revival meetings;
• There was plenty of positive response from media i.e. there was approximately 20 articles presented in the local press including the professional press.

This purpose of this project was to increase the knowledge base of energy efficient buildings for professionals within the building sector of the south of Sweden.

Objectives and target audience

Objective:-

• Increase the knowledge about energy efficient buildings for professionals in the building and property sector.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

When the first reactor of the Swedish nuclear power plant Barsebäck was closed down in 1999 the Swedish parliament decided to fund energy saving projects in the south of Sweden instead.  The Delegation for Energy Supply (DESS) was created to supervise projects and was in charge of over 40 M€.  The project “Revival meetings – Energy efficient buildings” had a budget of approximately 600 k€.

Process

Revival meetings:-

• 2 hour cost-free breakfast and lunch seminars, talking about energy efficient buildings with professionals;

Meeting issues included:-

• Energy use in buildings today and in the future;
• Directive of energy declaration;
• Lifecycle calculation;
• Importance of a good climate shell;
• Profitable, energy efficient installation;
• Results from research;
• How should energy matters be handled within a building project;
• The result from a selection of approximately 200 energy analyses’
• Presentation of courses to follow spring 2004.

• Companies had the possibility to have the seminars in their host buildings which was an option that many used.

Preparations:-

• A presentation for the revival meetings was arranged by the three energy agencies, an advertising agency, universities and DESS;

• Test seminars where performed to discover the relevant view-points about the structure of the seminar and to gather experience for the up and coming tour in autumn.

Promotions:-

• Before every revival meeting a dispatch was made by email and post to companies and organisations within the building and property sector in relevant municipalities.  The dispatch contained a folder with a short presentation of the campaign, information about the revival meetings and information about up and coming short courses.

Results

Revival meetings:-

• Over 2000 professionals attended the revival meetings;
• The revival meetings were held in over 70 different places;
• 18 of the meetings were hosted at participating companies;
• In Skåne, 70 – 80 % of meetings occurred within the private sector.

Courses:-

• 12 different courses were offered, at least 10 participants were required and a  maximum of 25 were allowed to attend each course;
• Each course was held at least once.
• In total 34 course days were carried out, with a total 614 participants.

Seminar:-
A total of 65 people attended the seminar which Skåne Energy Agency arranged with regards to energy efficient windows and sun protection for buildings.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

Success factors:-

• Marketing is very important and a considerable amount of effort was committed to secure good marketing events;
• The presenting of short seminars (revival meetings) appeared to be successful in a business although in normal circumstances, these are do not normal occur;
• A variety of interesting and intellectual subjects were reviewed at these revival meetings;
• Good timing and there was excellent focus by the participants regarding the energy matters issues that were brought to the revival meetings;
• There was plenty of positive response from media i.e. there was approximately 20 articles presented in the local press including the professional press.

The climate advisory board of Region Skåne has the task to investigate the tasks that need to be accomplished in relation to climate change in Skåne.

Objectives and target audience

• To perform a survey of relevant conditions for Skåne and to observe the specific problems seen from a climate change perspective;
• To describe and suggest measures regarding how the activity within the region of Skåne can lower greenhouse gas emissions;
• Elucidate the work against climate change that the Region of Skåne will carry out internally;
• Investigate and describe the initial tasks that have previously been completed in Skåne and to fulfill future tasks that will have to be carried out regarding the issue of climate change in Skåne;
• To decide upon suitable measures that will have to be carried out with an appropriate starting-point from different fall-outs with regards to the issue of climate change, taking into consideration the positive and negative points;
• Suggest measures and investments that need to be made within the energy business branch;
• Coordinate the work with the Skåne Association of local authorities and the county administrative board of Skåne;
• Put a broader perspective on the challenge involving the Öresundscommittee within the work;
• The climate advisory board shall present their work at the international climate conference held by UN in Copenhagen at December 2009.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

Region Skåne is funding the advisory board and the task.

Process

• There are three essential steps in the work; survey, coordinate and suggest;
• The tasks will be performed between November 2007 to October 2009;
• Meeting within the board each month;
• Close cooperation with private and public actors;
• Investigation of risks and possibilities, and present climate change work in Skåne shall be finished spring 2008;
• Analysis of the investigation should be the base for suggested measures;
• During the existence of the board, public hearings will be held as well as participation in the regional energy fair;
• An active dialogue with public and private actors.

Results

Measured results:

• A list of approximately 1300 undertaken or on-going measures energy and climate measures currently existin Skåne;
• Participation at regional energy fair.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

Success factors are:-

• Brave decision makers;
• Skilful strategies;
• Good quality of the performed investigation;
• Skilful coordination;
• Humble approach to all partners involved.

The municipality of Kristianstad is working towards being a fossil free municipality and the district CHP-plant together with the district heating network will play an important part in for the success of this system.

Objectives and target audience

The municipality of Kristianstad has an outspoken aim of becoming fossil fuel free.  An important part within this work is to extend the district heating network, and to provide the CHP-plant with fossil free fuel.

C4 Energi has an extension plan to allow for the implementation of new facilities and housing within the municipality to be included within the district heating system.  A new 25MW bio-fuelled boiler will also be installed to meet the increased demand generated.

The target is to connect 400 single-family houses per year by 2010 and there after, 100 single-family houses by 2012.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

Kristainstad municipality is ownership of C4 Energi, which is the company that is currently governs the CHP-plant and district heating network.  Since the expansion of the net and due to the installation of the CHP-plant being having being since 1980, it is hard to determine the exact figure of the budget.

Process

The CHP-plant Allöverket was installed in 1994. The CHP-plant consists of a bio fuelled boiler of 50 MW.

The boiler is fuelled by biochips and biogas.

The biochips are supplied by timber cuttings, local sawmills, and wood industries.  The biogas is supplied by a decomposing-facility called Karpalund and other well known landfills.

The district heating net is always constantly being extended due to inclusion of new facilities and houses being part of the net.

Results

The results show (of 2008):-

• 99% of the fuels needed to produce heat in the district heating net is produced by renewable energy generation;
• Heat from district heating has replaced 350 000 m3 of oil since 1990;
• 1,750 facilities and houses are connected to the district heating system;
• 286 GWh heat energy is sold to customers;
  51 GWh electricity is produced from renewable energy generation.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

Success factors are:-

• The production of  high grade renewable generation work;
• Brave decision makers;
• A strategic energy plan;
• Skilful technicians.

RegionFastigheter has closed an EPC deal with ESCO TAC Energy Solution that guarantee energy savings worth 1.1 M€ per year.

Objectives and target audience

The main target for the project is to carry out energy savings in three hospital buildings, managed by RegionFastigheter.

1. Firstly, the ESCO will perform an energy analysis to determine the estimation energy saving of the building.

2. The analysis led to that of the ESCO could guarantee energy savings worth 1,1 M€ per year.

3. Within the project RegionFastigheter, that an investment of  8 M€ in measures and 4 M€ in maintenance is viable.

4. The agreement between RegionFastigheter and TAC continues for 7 years.

Financial Resources and Partners involved

All of the investments were produced by RegionFastigheter.  The project cost was approximately  12 M€ in total.  One possibility when using an EPC model to calculate the  energy savings was for it also calculate the investments needed.  Unfortunately, this was not the case.

Process

Undertaken actions were:-

Ventilation:-
-    The recycling of the ventilation;
-    The merging of the ventilation systems;
-    The installation of direct driven fans;
-    The installation of frequency control system for fans;
-    The adjustment of air flows;
-    The adjustment of air recycling flows.

Heat:-
-    New dimensioning and exchange of heat exchangers;
-    New dimensioning and exchange of primary valves;
-    Tuning of heat system;
-    The adjustment of radiators.

Building and automation control systems:-
-    The installation of attendance and CO2 sensors;
-    Frequency control of fans and pumps;
-    The change of valves.

Lighting:-
-    The installation of control systems.

Results

The results are as follows:-

-    19 964 MWh save of heat energy;
-    4 099 MWh save of electricity;
-    55 974 m3 save of water.

The amount of energy saved equated to approximately 1.1 M€ per year.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges

Success factors which are important for the operation of a good ESCO are:-

-    To fulfil the work commitment and ensure that all the deliverables outlined within the contract are met;
-    Can function with colleagues and external related clients professionally and can work in a supportive and confident manner;
-    To have the ability to react quickly if any problems occur during the installation phase.

Important requirements for the buyer are that:-
-    The buyer has good set of energy statistics which relate to their buildings;
-    The buyer has suitable information in relation to their energy tariffs;
-    Has relevant information about the buildings;
-    Has relevant information about technical installations.

Objectives and target audience
The main objective of Biogas Syd is to increase opportunities for biogas use and biogas production in Skåne through its strategic and operative work.

The future vision for Biogas Syd is as follows:-

-    By 2015 every municipality in Skåne will have a filling station for gas, with the majority of the pumps outputting 100% biogas, and the short remaining others outputting 50% biogas 50 % natural gas
-    By 2015 there will be biogas production plants in each municipality in Skåne, with the inclusion of several new farm-based production facilities.

-    By 2010, 10% of new cars sold in Skåne will be gas driven.
-    By 2010, 50% of new cars sold to the public sector will be gas driven.

-    By 2010, 99% of city commuter busses in Skåne will be gas driven (majority will be operate on biogas).
-    By 2010, 50% of regional commuter busses will be gas driven (majority will be biogas).
-    In 8-10 years time (from 2005) Skånetrafiken (regional commuter traffic company) will hopefully replace all diesel operated vehicles with gas.

Financial Resources and Partners involved
Region Skåne (county council) is currently the head finance funder of the Biogas Syd project.  In addition, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has also contributed  funding for the project through a local investment program.  All current members of Biogas Syd also help finance the project by contributing a small fee every year.  The budget is approximately 1,2 M€ over four years, which is divided to approximately 300 k€ per year.

Process

Working methods in Biogas Syd:

-    Meetings and seminars were organised with members and others participating to help disseminate knowledge and information about biogas, the qualities of biogas and the thought of the new traffic system.  The idea behind this was to increase the acceptance of using biogas as a fuel and the implementation of biogas production as a business.

-    With the knowledge and information collated, to identify the most geographically suited areas for production and to identify the sector that would have the most important and strategic development

-    To cause the merge of people from other sectors who would not normally co-operate with each other, to meet regularly and form related biogas projects.

Results
Since the project has not reached completion, there are no results that can be connected to the objectives.  Below state activities that have been completed during 2007 and 2008:-

2007:-

-    A 1 day course learning about farm-based biogas production;
-    A study visit to a farm-based biogas production facility;
-    Exhibitions at regional fairs;
-    Membership meetings;
-    A 4 day education experience in farm-based biogas production;
-    Study visits at different biogas production facilities;
-    Biogas Syd attended the international Clean Vehicle and Fuel fair in Stockholm.

2008:
-    A basic course learning about farm-based biogas production;
-    A course on how electricity is produced from a farm-based biogas facility;
-    The involvement in the international gas project ‘MADEGASCAR’;
-    The participation of a Swedish car fair in Malmö;
-    Promotion of gas fuelled vehicles.

Critical Success Factors / Challenges
Success factors are:-

-    The market development for renewable fuel uses but focussing on biogas in particular.
-    The willingness to risk in new energy production markets, e.g. farmers as energy producers.
-    Change of attitude in peoples mind to use gas driven vehicles
-    Technology development from car manufactures to improve gas driven vehicles cruising range.
-    Willingness from car dealers to sell gas driven cars
-    Good supply of raw materials for bio gas production
-    The need of users to demand biogas as fuel for vehicles, (Skånetrafiken plays important role)