The project is partly financed by the partners and the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI) of the European Commission, under the Intelligent Energy Europe Program. The project will run for three years until December 2009.Over that period, the partner municipalities (County of Cluj in Romania; Raciechowice in Poland; Riga in Latvia; Slovenska-Bistrica in Slovenia, and Voru in Estonia) will develop new tools to facilitate the switch to energy efficient street or office, fulfilling the following objectives:

1. To remove barriers to the uptake of energy efficient lighting systems;
2. To increase penetration of energy efficient street and office lighting in Europe;
3. To provide savings in term of energy and cost;
4. To help EU Member States to meet the Kyoto targets on CO2 emissions reduction;

To provide experience for other municipalities in Europe.

Our Federation, together with the Electrical Wholesalers (EUEW) and the Electrical Installers (AIE), and led by Berliner Energieagentur, will assist the five municipalities involved to overcome these barriers and to achieve significant energy savings at a local level.

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