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Renewables Update Newsletter 04 | 2011 | July RETS project news At this half way point through the RETS project, the Spring 2011 has been marked by extensive knowledge sharing and exchange in the partner regions. Three RETS seminars were organised including one in the Upper Rhine (French-German cross border region), a first seminar module in Maribor, Slovenia, and one in Cardiff (Wales, UK). These seminars provided excellent opportunities to share European experiences and develop specific themes on renewables important to local regions. Themes such as energy-mix or training were developed during the Upper Rhine seminar, the Maribor seminar was centred on a study visit to Linz, and renewable energy in secondary education was the focus in the Cardiff seminar. All the documentation for these events is available on the rets website : www.rets-project.eu/en/seminar-offer/seminars.html Photos from the Upper Rhine Seminar This itinerant cross-border seminar took place from 10th to 12th May, starting in Kaiserslautern, Germany, passing through Lauterbourg (a small border town), and ending in Strasbourg (the capital of Alsace). The seminar organised co-jointly by ADEC and IHK ZETIS brought together in modules six major themes. In the morning of the first day in Kaiserslautern, the participants discussed acceptance, deployment and feedback on experiencies of Renewable energies in territories. The objective was to perceive ways to: implement and motivate private and communal changeover to renewable energies. This was reinforced with an intervention about public acceptance, supported by successful examples from the Germany territory. RETS regional partner seminars Good practice exchange Upper Rhine - Cross Border Seminar - 10th - 12th May 2011, Kaiserslautern, Lauterbourg, Strasbourg In the afternoon, the seminar continued at the Juwi Holding AG, a leading development company in Renewable Energies. The objective was to demonstrate how renewable energies create economic development. Practical experiences with the local authorities, and potentials and economic developments were presented, showing both German and French experiences. The day ended visiting the the wind and solar park at Wörrstadt (Germany) to illustrate the examples discussed.

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Renewables UpdateNewsletter 04 | 2011 | July

RETS project newsAt this half way point through the RETS project, the Spring 2011 has been marked by extensive knowledge sharing and exchange in the partner regions. Three RETS seminars were organised including one in the Upper Rhine (French-German cross border region), a first seminar module in Maribor, Slovenia, and one in Cardiff (Wales, UK). These seminars provided excellent opportunities to share European experiences and develop specific themes on renewables important to local regions. Themes such as energy-mix or training were developed during the Upper Rhine seminar, the Maribor seminar was centred on a study visit to Linz, and renewable energy in secondary education was the focus in the Cardiff seminar. All the documentation for these events is available on the rets website : www.rets-project.eu/en/seminar-offer/seminars.html

Photos from the Upper Rhine Seminar

This itinerant cross-border seminar took place from 10th to 12th May, starting in Kaiserslautern, Germany, passing through Lauterbourg (a small border town), and ending in Strasbourg (the capital of Alsace). The seminar organised co-jointly by ADEC and IHK ZETIS brought together in modules six major themes.

In the morning of the first day in Kaiserslautern, the participants discussed acceptance, deployment and feedback on experiencies of Renewable energies in territories. The objective was to perceive ways to: implement and motivate private and communal changeover to renewable energies. This was reinforced with an intervention about public acceptance, supported by successful examples from the Germany territory.

RETS regional partner seminars

Good practice exchange

Upper Rhine - Cross Border Seminar - 10th - 12th May 2011, Kaiserslautern, Lauterbourg, Strasbourg

In the afternoon, the seminar continued at the Juwi Holding AG, a leading development company in Renewable Energies. The objective was to demonstrate how renewable energies create economic development. Practical experiences with the local authorities, and potentials and economic developments were presented, showing both German and French experiences. The day ended visiting the the wind and solar park at Wörrstadt (Germany) to illustrate the examples discussed.

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The second day took place in Lauterbourg, a small town on the German- French border.In the morning the participants discussed Renewable Energies in the Upper Rhine and if a profitability analysis is possible. The framework conditions for Renewable Energies in Europe were presented including current funding guidelines to implement the EU Directive. This was complemented by an explanation on profitability calculations as a criterion for energy investments, using a free calculation tool

The last day of the seminar, in Strasbourg, was dedicated in the morning to Biomass. In fact, Biomass represents the biggest part of renewable energy production, however there is misconception with the idea that it depends on extensive forest. During the presentations it was demonstrated that there are other sources of biomass, with examples coming from Germany, the Netherlands and Romania. The objective was to help local authorithies to decide if biomass can be the right type of energy, in their cases.

3On the 12 May 2011, the Slovenian partner, the Energy agency of Podravje (ENERGAP) organised the first part of its seminar: an all day study visit to the Linz region in Austria. Many examples of good practice from the RES field were visited including:

SolarCity: Presentation and a guided tour Biomass heating plant in Kremsmünster Visit to the Municipality of Kremsmünster (Kremsmünster participates in the EGEM programme – "EnergieparGemeinde"-

“an energy saving municipalities” and has an electic fuel station

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The seminar ended in the afternoon with an essential question for renewables: Are there "green jobs" to build a new sustainable economy? After a general introduction on Green skills for renewable energies, different examples coming from France, the UK, and Germany were presented, to explain what is already done in this domain, how training is made and how can more people be trained at a technical level and/or a superior degree level.

Maribor Seminar - Study Visit to Linz, Austria - 12th May 2011

Study visit of «SOLAR CITY»

15 years after the idea for the project was born to develop a sustainable urban district, about 3.000 people now reside in the new urban development "solar city". During the years 2001 to 2005, twelve housing associations built a total of 1.300 dwellings on a 36-hectare site in Linz-Pichling. For the first time in Austria, an entire urban district was constructed as low-energy housing at costs accepted in social housing. In total, 3.500 m² solar thermal collectors are installed.

SolarCity, Linz, Austria

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An emphasis was also put on an optimised infrastructure: a variety of leisure possibilities were created, including a landscape park with the adventure playground, the "Traun-Danube-water-meadows", a new sports centre and the lake "Weikerlsee" was enlarged. the new infrastructure built within the centre of the solar city comprises schools, kindergarten, community centre, library and various stores which can be reached on foot. in autumn 2005, a new tramline went into operation, providing the solar city with a direct connection to Linz city centre.

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On the 7th June 2011, the Eco Centre Wales organised the RETS education seminar which was held in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. The seminar was attended by teachers, further education lecturers, universities, pupils, Local Authority Advisors and NGOs. RETS partners from Vesces presented on renewable energy education in their municipality and in particular a recent project to promote cycling to pupils. ADEC presented at the seminar on how the RETS tool could meet the needs of schools. RETS partner Staffordshire University, was also present at the seminar.

Contracting project biomass-heating plant Kremsmünster

In 2004 a biomass heating plant with total investment costs of 450.000 EUR and a construction time of 3 months was started up within the scope of a heat supply contracting project at the diocese Kremsmünster. The heating plant is installed subterraneous and operated with a wood chips boiler with a capacity of 1 MW. Additionally a heating oil boiler for an eventual failover and peak load covering is installed. With a current heat demand of 3.000 MWh/a, the actual fuel demand is at 4.700 Srm/a. The duration of the heat supply within the contracting project is at 15 years, with the possibility of an extension period.

An electric fuel station in the city Kremsmünster

West Wales Seminar - Renewable Energy in Secondary Schools - 7th June 2011, Cardiff, UK

The Cardiff seminar on Renewable Energy in secondary Schools

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the museum’s buildings ranging from traditional cottages to a state of the art energy efficient house. Pupils investigate how energy is used in each building, and what life would have been like for the people who lived or worked there.

Ann MacGarry and Jo Gwillam then presented their work with Coleg Llandrillo, a further education college. They again highlighted the benefit of making reviewed resources, information and available to professionals. Using the information they collaborated with the college’s staff to develop a design project for their engineering and design students. This project will involve students making using of the information and practical demonstrations at CAT’s visitor site.

The final session of the day was with Scott Sinclair of the Education for Sustainable Development Schools Network. Scott has been working closely with staff at Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest to develop a programme which will involve students visiting a number of energy related sites close to the school. Scott explained the importance of the energy industry in Pembrokeshire and how energy can be used as a theme for pupils to make connections from their local context to international issues. Scott finished his presentation by showing a video which prompted a great deal of discussion amongst the delegates over renewable energy and international development.

Eco Centre Wales started five working groups to work with professionals from secondary schools and one college. Each group was supported by a sustainable education specialist from organisations that had worked with Eco Centre Wales’ education programme in the past. We aimed to demonstrate a replicable way of collaborating with education institutions to improve renewable energy education.

Ann MacGarry and Jo Gwillam from the Centre of Alternative Technology (CAT) worked with the geography department at Peweddig School, Aberystwyth. Penweddig is a school for students who are 11-18 year olds in Aberystwyth. Lessons are taught in the Welsh language at this school. Existing resources were shared and reviewed with the teachers. The teachers were pleased to have good resources recommended to them and were unaware of some of the resources that CAT had produced. Ann and Jo then shared an activity they had developed with the teachers. This was based on CATs “Zero Carbon Britain” report. Using giant satellite pictures of the UK and the local area students engage in a planning exercise focussed on land use. Students consider how much land should be allocated to meet renewable energy needs, as well as our other needs such as food production and housing. They use the giant map to review how land is used now and how it could be allocated in the future.

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Jane Richmond from the National Botanic Garden of Wales (NBGW) worked with staff and pupils from Glan y Mor School. The NBGW attracts many visitors to its site including school groups. It recently has developed a renewable energy trail for visitors at its 80 hectare site. Jane in collaboration with staff at the school developed work to improve students’ comprehension of information on renewable energy. Students were asked to read a selection of articles on renewable energy, summarize the information and evaluate it. The group had hoped that this information could then be disseminated to other pupils through media such as Facebook or Twitter. Unfortunately this was not possible due to Local Authority policy on pupil internet use. However the school has set up a blog on its intranet where pupils can recommend website to each other in the school.

The two previous presentations set the scene for Arnaud Kehren’s presentation on the RETS tool. Competitive Intelligence is an unfamiliar topic to those working in education in Wales. Arnaud explained competitive intelligence, the RETS project and how the RETS tool works. The work with CAT and Penweddig School showed the potential benefit of getting quality reviewed information to teachers. The work with Glan y Mor school showed the educational benefits of pupils being involved in the process of refining and reviewing information on renewable energy. Arnaud showed the approach, process and technology to meet these needs already exists within the RETS tool.

Péter Práczki and Lazlo Olah of Vecsés Municipality gave an interesting and enjoyable presentation on renewable energy education in Hungary. Lazlo is an elected member of the municipality. They explained a project they had developed to promote cycling to pupils in the schools in their municipality. Péter explained the importance they placed on engaging pupils with planning for the future and the need for local solutions. Several organisations present expressed an interest in collaborating with Vecsés in the future.

Danielle Cowell is an education officer at St Fagan Museum of National Life. This is one of the busiest educational visitor attractions in Wales. This is an outdoor museum where buildings of national importance which are under threat in their current location are taken and rebuilt. Many pupils will visit this site as part of their studies. Danielle worked with teacher Nicola Pain to develop a resource for students. Pupils working through the pack visit several of

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Initial feedback from delegates has been positive both in the event itself and the quality of the work leading up to it. There is clearly scope for further development of the work connected to this seminar and for developing a tool based on RETS for use with teachers and pupils.

Regional zoom PEZENAS

Pezenas is a city of 8,500 inhabitants in the south of France known for its historical centre and its way of life.

Pezenas is one of the main Arts and Crafts cities in France.

The famous French author Moliere spent a long time in the city between 1646 and 1657 after his first failure in Paris. He founded the so called Moliere illustrious theatre. Marcel Pagnol himself wrote about this : « If Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was born in Paris, Moliere was born in Pezenas. »

The city shows a great interest for sustainable development and renewable energies.Since 1939, oil exploration campaigns have taken place in the Region, but no oil was found. However, a geothermal water spring was discovered in 1950.

This hot and drinkable spring was first used to heat the town swimming pools. In 2004, the installation was changed to suit the new european sanitary norms. From that time, the heating system has been connected to the town network. Now, the water is heated by the calories of the geothermal spring. In addition, the thermal potential has been used since 2007 to heat the gymnasium of the Town sports complex.

The City of Pézenas was leader in an Interreg Project: Med-Ecoquartiers (June 2006 - May 2008) which aimed to help managers and local authorities to program the creation of sustainable neighbourhoods in the Mediterranean area.

The municipality project, the future eco-friendly settlement of Saint-Christol is supported by the National Agency for Environment and Energy Efficency (ADEME) and the Region.

The city has been working closely with the local professional association for domestic waste (SICTOM) in order to create a recycling centre.

The SICTOM is a public institution for inter-city cooperation founded in 1976 by 12 cities. Today, the SICTOM covers 54 member cities and 110 295 year-round inhabitants.Since its foundation, the SICTOM’s missions have developped and now include :

The collection and processing of domestic waste The separation and sorting out of waste for recycling purposes including the management of the various recycling points The communication and prevention actions for the general population

One of the most challenging project of the SICTOM is the creation of a new installation base of the use of the ICP (Inductive Coupled Plasma) technology.

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Upcoming events

4 Steering Committee - Pézenas - 26 September 2011 - France

8 Seminar for local authorities - Pézenas - 27 and 28 September 2011 (organised by Pézenas - France)

9 Seminar for local authorities - Sittard-Geleen - November 2011 (organised by Sittard-Geleen - Netherlands)

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In each newsletter issue, the RETS project team will suggest links to other European and national funded projects dealing with similar themes. In this issue, seven German clusters working in the area of renewables, energy efficiency and sustainable development are highlighted.

Kompenznetze - Network of excellence (NoE)

Network of Excellence (NoE) is an instrument of a medium-sized research project co-funded by the European Commission in the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes (FP6 and Fp7). These projects are designed to strengthen scientific and technological excellence on a particular research topic through the durable integration of the research capacities of the participants.

Four Kompetenznetze focus on renewable energies and energy efficiency:

KUMAS : Bavarian Center of Competence in Environmental Technologies and Affairs

Founded in 1998, KUMAS is "a central interface for knowledge transfer, information, exchange of ideas and experience and cooperation among environmental companies and institutions in Bavaria".Renewable Energy is only one of KUMA’s area of expertise. In this field, the network’s goal "is the sustainable expansion of existing environmental competencies and generation of new ones, while working in close networking between industry and commerce, science and education, and administration and politics."

Umweltcluster Bayern

It is an initiative which facilitates collaboration between the actors of environmental technology and science in Bavaria. The Environmental Technology Cluster Bavaria concentrates on water and wastewater treatment, recycling and alternative energy production with a focus on energy from biomass and waste. Renewable energy is one of the cluster’s work packages.

Wind Energy Agency Bremerhaven / Bremen (WAB)

WAB is the wind energy sector’s leading industrial association in Germany’s northwest region. WAB is involved in a wide range of activities in four areas: repowering (replacing old wind turbines with new ones), offshore wind power development, training, and fostering international contact and cooperation. WAB's work in distributing information and managing events includes organising the annual international conference "WINDFORCE – Direction Offshore" on offshore wind power, initiating study trips, seminars and workshops on up-to-date topics of interest to the industry, finding opportunities for cooperation, and identifying needs for research. WAB also publishes a newsletter every two months in German and English.

http://www.kompetenznetze.de

http://www.kumas.de

http://www.umweltcluster.net

http://www.windenergie-agentur.de

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“LOOP“ – The Resource and Energy Efficiency Network

Located in Baden-Württemberg, the “LOOP” network focuses on improving resources and energy efficiency in industrial enterprises, especially in product design and production, but also in recycling and disposal processes. Having focused initially merely on the recycling of materials, the network now offers the entire range of efficiency improvement, from consultancy (technology, economics, ecology) to materials, product, and process development.

Spitzenclusters – Leading-edge cluster

Spitzenclusters are high-performance clusters formed by business and science that enter into strategic partnerships, set to boost Germany's innovative strengths and economic success.

Three Spitzencluster focus on renewable energies and energy efficiency:

Solarvalley

The federal states Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia have the highest density of photovoltaics companies in Europe. In the Solarvalley Mitteldeutschland cluster, the partners from industry and research work on optimising products and production technologies in photovoltaics. 98 co-ordinated projects are working on the fundamental issues along the entire value-added chain of crystalline and thin-film silicon solar modules and preparing their transfer to production. The cluster is striving to achieve a measurable breakthrough in the use of solar power in Germany. A mile-stone along the way is the grid parity of photovoltaically generated electricity from 2013 at the latest.

Forum organic electronics

The work of the Leading-Edge Cluster Forum Organic Electronics (based in Baden-Württember ) concentrates on environment-friendly energy production employing organic photovoltaics, the economical use of energy by means of organic light-emitting diodes and the resource-conserving production of electronic circuits, memories and sensors. The cluster pools the expertise of more than 20 companies and research facilities. The partners cover the entire value-added chain, from research into new materials and the design of components to the marketing of applications. The cluster aims to make Germany the world's leading research, development and production location in the field of organic electronics.

Cool silicon

Based in Dresden, the Leading-Edge Cluster comprises more than 60 companies and research facilities, including the Technical Universities of Dresden and Chemnitz, as well as the companies Globalfoundries, Infineon and X-FAB. In the long term, the cluster aims to make communications more climate-friendly and to become one of the world's leading locations for energy efficiency in electronics.

http://www.werkstoffkreislauf.de

http://www.hightech-strategie.de

http://www.solarvalley.org

http://www.innovationlab.de

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RES newsTech news

New Business: Offshore Photovoltaics

The juwi Holding AG, a specialist in renewable energies in Germany joins in the project development of large solar offshore projects in the North- and the Baltic Sea. So it occupies a new business area and there is virtually no competition.

What is true of wind should also apply to solar. Several 100 MW projects are already under development. The feed-in tariffs for solar power offshore should - as for wind power - be twice as high as the payments onshore. A huge advantage is that the very long and expensive high voltage power lines, that must be built for the offshore wind power onshore, can be shared for free. In addition, the solar power is generated complementary to the wind power at sea.

Technically, the plants are easy to construct for the solar experts from juwi. The Offshore Tracker can be built much closer to the beaches, as wind turbines. By the waves and the coastal winds, the solar modules are cooled very well, so the energy output is increasing considerably. For maintenance work, no expensive special vessels are needed. For the offshore solar power, there are no more risks than for offshore wind power. First test projects show excellent results. The yields are increased because of the water reflectivity.

RETS in EuropeRETS dissemination

15 April 2011: Dissemination of RETS project at the Round Table "Promotion of Green Energies in Constructions" organized by the Association of the New Energy Sources Employers - SunE within The international fair for construction technologies, installation, equipment and materials - CONSTRUCT EXPO 2011The themes debated on the occasion of the Round Table were:

The Romanian research input into the promotion of the green energy

Initiatives for promoting green energy

Practical solutions

During the Round Table Mr. Vasile Rugina presented the RETS project.

15 March 2011: Presentation of RETS and Renewable Energies in the Waldorf school,grade of school 13, advanced course geography, Otterberg, GermanyMarkus Bauer presented RETS and the subject of Renewable Energies in the 13th class in the advanced course geography in the "Waldorf school" in Otterberg near Kaiserslautern. The pupils were really interested in the subject of Renewable energies and Markus Bauer could answer them numerous questions.

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23 March 2011: 19 Technology and Innovation FORUM Palatinate, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany

The Technical University of Kaiserslautern held with the Chamber of Commerce Palatinate, an annual Technology and Innovation FORUM. The event is now with several hundred visitors and 30 exhibitors, the largest networking opportunity for science and economy in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The FORUM is conceptually a combination of moderated conference event and exhibition, supplemented by further training (workshops) on the topic of innovation. The Forum offers participants an excellent platform to initiate strategic partnerships and exchange of experience.

The motto of the 19th Technology and Innovation FORUM was "Under high voltage: from resource conservation to energy efficiency". The IHK Zetis GmbH represented the project RETS with a stand.

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16 -18 May 2011: DERBI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Perpignan, Franceth th

DERBI, associated with the Capenergies poles, S2E2 and Tenerrdis, annually organizes the DERBI International Conference for professionals in the sector of renewable energies. Since its creation, it brought together over 4000 participants from 45 nationalities, more than 500 stakeholders of 20 nationalities and has successively developed to honour the Spain, California, the Japan, the Germany, the Sweden and the Denmark. This Conference also hosts events related such as business meetings (Pro'Energy) and a Forum of investment (SMEs, investment fund, and networks of business angels meetings). This year, the conference focused on trans-Mediterranean cooperation and presented the work of the Mediterranean Institute for renewable energies (Imeder).

As a Mediterranean partner, the City of Pezenas was chosen to present the RETS project during this conference, in order to enlarge its network and to discuss the challenges of the renewable energies. The RETS project coordinator ADEC was also present.

The French cluster DERBI, whose headquarters is located in Perpignan in Languedoc Roussillon region, is dedicated to the renewable energy development in the building and industry. Its mission is to develop, at regional, national and international level innovation, research, training, technology transfer, development and the creation of enterprises in the field of renewable energy applied to the building and industry.To this day, DERBI has over 150 members:

84 companies including 80% of SMEs and 20% French and international groups (EDF, GDF Suez, Veolia Energie / Dalkia, Cofely, Poweo, IBM...) 21 centres of research, laboratories, universities, institutions of higher education, 39 professional federations and institutional partners 10 local authorities number of projects having received a DERBI label since its creation in 2006: 153 including 108 projects of research and development amount of investments of the labelled projects: 353 million euros

Solar thermodynamic concentration and solar photovoltaic concentration are part of markets especially put forward by the Derbi pole at the moment. The goal is to get a dynamic to export new technologies. In this regard the plateau Cerdan is the region where the quality of the Sun is the best in Europe to test these technologies.

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QuizHow much do you know about renewable energy. Check out your knowledge with the RETS quiz:

1) Using a wind mill to generate electricity was first demonstrated by Charles F Brush in:

a) 1788b 1888c) 1928d) 1938

2) The type of wind turbine shown here is named after which engineer?

a) Georges Jean Marie Darrieusb) Edward Henry Whiskc) Anton Flettnerd) Sigurd J Savonius

3) The type of wind turbine shown here is named after which engineer?

a) Sigurd J Savoniusb) Albert Betzc) Georges Jean Marie Darrieusd) Anton Flettner

4) The maximum theoretical power produced by a wind turbine can be achieved when the wind velocity downstream of the rotor is 1/3 of that upstream. Which engineer is this maximum named after?

a) Sigurd J Savonius (Finnish)b) Albert Betz (German)c) Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (French)d) Anton Flettner (German)

5) Which of the following might adversely affect wind velocity?

a) Increasing elevationb) Windward locationc) Absence of ground coverd) Proximity of built environment

Answers at the end.

Contact More information about the project and its activities can be found at:

Project coordinatorADEC (Association pour le dévelopment des Entreprises et ces Compétences)Site ADEC, 37, rue d'Engwiller, 67350 La Walck, FranceTelephone: +33-3 69 20 29 10 Fax: +33-3 69 20 29 19

Project coordinator:Catherine Ledig, Director ADEC & Associate professor, Faculty of Law, University of Strasbourg

Project manager:Alison Garnier-Rivers -

Contributors

Catherine LEDIG (ADEC)Alison GARNIER-RIVERS (ADEC)Margarida SILVA (ADEC)Marthe SONCOURT(ADEC)Jon FAIRBURN (IESR, Staffordshire University)Jérôme LE BEL (Pézenas)Vlasta KRMELJ (ENERGAP)Maria RUGINA (ICEMENERG)Markus BAUER(IHK Zetis GmbH)Tim BREW (Eco Centre Wales WWEC)Paulo FARINHA LUIS (Municipio da Sertã)

Answers:

1) 18882) Georges Jean Marie Darrieus 3) Sigurd J Savonius4) Albert Betz 5) Proximity of built environment

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