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In Czech Republic, POWER UP implemented a pilot scheme in the city of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm.
The city is one of the 4 European pilots that acted as “living labs”: each of them designed novel business models around renewable energy or energy efficiency services together with households affected by energy poverty and with local stakeholders (municipalities, social organisations, energy utilities, citizen cooperatives etc.).
Although a definition of energy poverty and pilot studies on the issue exist in Czech Republic, energy poverty is still not officially measured. Currently there is a Czech pilot in the city of Litoměřice as part of the European project SCORE. It’s the testbed for a prosumer model that explicitely includes women and low-income households. In POWER UP, the Czech partner SEMMO will mostly work with energy poverty groups and also other socially vulnerable groups affected by the Covid pandemic such as young families and pensioners.
For almost 10 years SEMMO and its members have been implementing RES and EE projects. In the POWER UP pilot city of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm installed PV on a municipally owned social housing apartment building. Residents experiencing energy poverty benefit thanks to direct self-consumption.
The city lies at the Eastern tip of Czech Republic, 17.000 inhabitants.
SEMMO is the Czech Association of Energy Managers of Towns and municipalities. Based in Prague, it gathers 13 cities and one region with strong interest in sustainable energy, energy efficiency and community projects. Most of its members have signed the Covenant of Mayors to which SEMMO is committed as a supporting organisation.
Each pilot organisation has found a ‘sparring partner’ organisation in its region which expressed its intention to replicate the pilot scheme. SEMMO members were informed about the POWER UP model and its replicability in other Czech towns.
