1 PILOT CASE: Championship for energy saving in public buildings GRANOLLERS-LAG: Local Working Group on Savings and Energy Efficiency (LWG_SEE) interdepartamental group: technical personnel of Granollers City Council; External members: collaboration and synergies with other european projects in the energy area 17 Schools, april march Cultural centers, april 2014-march 2015 Leader: Province of Barcelona Leader: Regional Government of Catalonia

2 STARTING POINT: Schools and cultural center, causing more than 40% of consumption in the global electricity consumption of Granollers City Council; large number of users; public target with great potential to adopt best practices. SOLUTION PROPOSED: creation of a “Championship for energy saving” in public buildings. COOPERATION ESTABLISHED: between environmental department and responsibles of municipal departments (education, culture), and with a local company who brings technical suport to the development of “Chamionship”. Collaboration and synergies with other european projects (Euronet 50/50-Province of Barcelona and MARIE-Government of Catalonia). TARGETS SET: energy consumption reduction; behavior changing to better energy culture; 17 schools and 13 cultural centers involved; 14 working groups created in schools; participation of more than 230 students; almost 40 managers of public buildings involved. KEY ACTIONS TAKEN SO FAR: energy analysis and benchmarking between buildings; proposal of action program to save energy for every building and implantation of “technical” measures (low-cost); awareness campaigns oriented to different public target (educational community, municipal personnel and users).

3 LESSONS LEARNT BEHAVIOR is a “key factor” in the potential energy savings in public buildings. Investments in “NON TECH” measures are necessary and have good ROI. MAIN BARRIERS IDENTIFIED USERS: little information about energy consumption of buildings (ENERGY as the great “unknown dimension” of the buildings); if you don’t know WHAT and WHY, you have no reasons to CHANGE BENEFITS FOR THE COMMUNITY Methodology to record meter readings knowledge about the energy consumption: WHAT and WHY Reasons to contribute to CHANGE habits in order to SAVE energy “Championship” as a “methodological legacy” to managers and users

Creation of an “Award” based on the 50/50 concept, and focused on public schools. June-july 2014 Training sessions with coordinators, maintenance managers or janitors, services companies providers (maintenance, cleaning, other) October 2014 Small, smart and not expensive complementary projects applied at cultural centers Nov Design and implementation of “energy saving” campaign at cultural centers Dec Final report and presentation of results to stakeholders January – march 2014 Creation of Local Strategy for Energy Saving in Public Buildings NEXT STEPS BY THE END OF THE PROJECT