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Study visit to Rijeka and Krk - PET South East European Energy Transition Platform

Energy transition of cities, advanced technologies and citizen energy communities

In the organisation the Association Without Borders, the City of Rijeka, the Rijeka Development Agency Porin i the University of Rijeka - Centre for Smart and Sustainable Cities, we will host a delegation from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on a study trip to Krk and Rijeka. The aim is to exchange experiences on the energy transition of the region, but also to present realized / future projects from this domain.

The event and the visit were made possible by PET - Energy Transition Platform i the Heinrich - Böll Foundation, and about 25 participants are expected.

A rich program has been prepared that will be held on October 9, 2024 in the premises the Rijeka Development Agency Porin:

8:30-9:00 Registration of participants

9 a.m. – 10 a.m. "PORIN & City of Rijeka" Block

  • Welcome address of the representatives of the City of Rijeka (Nenad Antolović)
  • Presentation of PORIN and EU projects CEKOM (Emira Brkić Karinčić) - 20 min
  • Strategy Green Urban Renewal of the City of Rijeka (Ivana Grabovac) – 20 min
  • SINERGANA project (Iva Ribarić) – 20 min

10:00 - 10:40 UNIRI Block (Centre for Smart and Sustainable Cities + EDIH ADRIA)

  • EDIH and regional cooperation potentials (Damir Medved) – 20 min
    • What is EDIH and how do we work
    • Examples of how we have helped small municipalities and cities
  • New technologies that can help with the energy transition (Damir Medved) – 20 min
    • What is the BECKN protocol
    • Examples from practice

10.40 – 11.00 Refreshment break

11:00-12:00 Block "Without Borders & ECSJ"

  • LIFE DISCOVER project  – presentation of the project and results achieved so far (Davorka Medved) – 15 min
    • Energy transition in partner countries
    • Instructions for the operation of support centres for energy communities
    • Establishment of OSS on Drenova
  • Energy transition – energy communities, benefits of connectivity, new models of financing activities, opportunities and barriers (Damir Juričić) – 20 min
    • Social Energy Communities
    • the Civic Energy Community
    • ESG - Energy communities to support the achievement of objectives
  • Presentation of the ECSJ (Damir Juričić) – 10 min
  • Q&A – 15 min

12:00 – 12:30 PORIN and 3D platforms tour

We look forward to exchanging experiences and future cooperation!


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Future of energy communities on islands

On Wednesday, October 2, in the town of Cres, Moise Palace, an international conference was held "The future of energy communities on islands“. The event was organised as part of the European project ISLET LIFE, which includes three pilot islands, Greece's Astypalea, Italy's Procida and Croatia's Cres, aims to design a model of renewable energy communities (provided for in the European Directive 2018/2001) that will be applicable on all small islands.

The conference brought together a wide range of experts in energy and energy policies, especially those dealing with citizen energy communities and encouraging the use of RES .

A round table was held and it was dedicated to the topic “Energy communities in Croatia: dream or reality?’, and they took part in it Kristina Celic the Ministry of Economy, Goran Čačić from the ZEZ and the Energy Communities Forum, Ugo Toić as a representative of the Cres energy cooperative Apsyrtides, Ivan Zoković from the island movement, Damir Medved the Association Without Borders the Northern Adriatic Energy Community, and Maja Bratko from the Society for Sustainable Development Design (DOOR). The round table was moderated by Franjo Toić from the town of Cres.

Damir Medved, as a representative and association Without Borders and the Northern Adriatic Energy Community he spoke about the experience and challenges that accompanied the whole process of establishing the ECSJ. This process is marked by numerous illogicalities, completely unnecessary financial and technical obstacles, and all this results in only 3 citizen energy communities currently operating in the Republic of Croatia and none of them is operational in the sense that their members can exchange energy.


The organisers of the whole event were the Town of Cres, the Island Development Agency (OTRA), the Island Movement and the Green Energy Cooperative (ZEZ).


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