CLEAN project partner, the Region of Crete is a second grade local public authority that designs and implements policies for sustainable regional development at socioeconomic, environmental and cultural level. Knowing that energy affects every aspect of social and economic life, the Region of Crete sets high energy efficiency goals and implements initiatives to reduce energy cost, using all the existing and new financial tools. As a first step, it facilitates the Municipalities and the Local Irrigation Agencies to accelerate the implementation of Net Metering and Virtual Net Metering measure and install photo-voltaic systems to produce energy in the energy-intensive infrastructures.
Mr Nikos Kalogeris, Vice Governor of Crete for Energy, Environment and Spatial Planning made a short statement: “Crete is a Greek island with great history, natural beauties and high potential for further sustainable development. Despite the fact that it is located far away from Greek mainland, Crete is disposing a large variety of social and economic activities”.
“Our vision is a dynamic and sustainable region, developed in the context of the European Energy Policy implementation in relation to the penetration of renewable energy, energy saving, energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This could be implemented through rational energy consumption, RES production and aware citizens”.
“Our target is to promote green strategies for energy consumption and energy saving, in order to achieve sustainable growth in our Region. The public sector should have an exemplary role to that. Through integrated actions we try to mobilize the public entities to use all the available means towards energy efficiency. We communicate with the public, the pupils and the citizens to raise awareness and inform about the benefits of energy saving. Through our activities we reinforce all stakeholders in our Region to implement appropriate actions for a dynamic and sustainable future.
We strongly believe, that renewable energy and energy saving are the main pillars of long-term perspective in the context of reducing dependence on fossil fuels and significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions”.
