One of the most important outcomes of the project are the integrated transport, land-use and energy plans. The 24 committed cities and some volunteer forerunner cities will develop optimal energy efficiency solutions for their own model district and develop fully-fledged integrated energy plan for the planned construction or restructuring.

The energy plans based on SECAP goals should include: integrated energy, mobility and land-use concepts for energy efficiency improvements, long-term visions, concrete short-term implementation measures, realistic financial strategies and a governance and communication strategy promoting the participation of local stakeholders.

For this task a qualitative and a quantitative template has been developed. The qualitative template is a Word-file to describe the vision, measures, budget and strategies. The quantitative template is an Excel-file programmed to quantify the reductions in CO₂eq emissions and energy savings. The template can also be used for monitoring.

The template for energy plans serves to achieve the following three main objectives:

• To show how much energy is consumed at the base year
• To show how much energy is saved in a predicted way
• To show how much energy was actually saved (monitoring system)

Here you can download the PDF file (english)