The Mediterranean library of knowledge
Explore the ENI CBC Med Programme's library of deliverables: a comprehensive digital repository of diverse resources tailored for the Mediterranean region. Discover in-depth studies, innovative strategies, and practical tools spanning tools addressing key environmental, economic, and social issues. The library is your go-to source to find valuable knowledge to inspire new collaborative projects driving fair, sustainable and inclusive development across the Mediterranean.
Toolkit for innovative and eco-sustainable renovation processes
The Toolkit is a guideline to support university building and energy managers on planning and implementing sustainable retrofit measures within university buildings based on a collaborative approach enabling the co-creation and co-innovation of the renovation process. The process involves the university community of innovators, users, and stakeholders in exploring, experimenting and evaluating the best retrofit scenario for their university building. Two additional products are provided inside the Toolkit, supporting the central design phase with Best Practice of innovative projects in university buildings, and the Abacus guiding the selection of the most appropriate retrofit strategies, technologies and materials for the Mediterranean area.
D3.1.1_Adaptation of CESBA MED
The key ending results of this deliverable are two innovative tools for evaluating the sustainability of neighbourhoods and buildings in the whole Mediterranean region, with particular attention to the needs and specificities of the South and East sides of MED.
The two innovative assessment tools mentioned before are:
- Sustainable Building Tool (SBTool)
- Sustainable Neighbourhood Tool (SNTool)
Both tools will enhance the capacity of public administration in delivering, implementing and monitoring efficient measures, plans and strategies to improve the sustainability of neighbourhoods and buildings.
SMC_D4.2.2_Co-Creation Labs
The sustainable Mediterranean cities project based on the sustainable retrofit of urban areas is a challenging task requiring careful planning and a high level of engagement between all stakeholders throughout the different phases of the process to ensure that the expected targets are met and that the project is financially, environmentally, and
socially successful.
For this, the Co-Creation Lab is important to be created in the three municipalities. A co-creation lab will be set up in each participating city to support a participatory approach to the development of urban retrofit plans.
SMC_D4.1.2_Contextualised decision-making method
This document describes the contextualised decision-making methodologies for Sousse ,Irbid , and Moukhtara municipalities as partner within the Sustainable MED Cities project.
For this, the contextualised decision-making methodologies for partner cities based on the use of the assessment tools SNTool, (urban scale) and SBTool (building scale) in order to prepare the optimal retrofitting concept for an urban area and single buildings belonging to it, will include the determination of specific caracteres for each phase process of decision-making methodologies.
SMC_D3.2.1_Assessment Tools Manager
An online tool to support cities in defining their own way towards integrated and sustainable urban development.
The Sustainable Med Cities online Platform enables you to:
develop your own sustainability assessment tool based on the transnational generic versions of SBTool, SNTool, SCTool;
carry out sustainability assessments at building, neighbourhood or city scale using your contextualised tools;
visualize the results of the sustainability assessment.
The SMC Platform is a tool to support participatory planning processes. To involve the citizens in the decision-making process through the Sustainable MED Cities participative platform: https://adhocracy.plus/sustainable_med_cities/
Cost & Benefit analysis (A4.3.1)
The incorporation of renewable energy sources (RES) in the building sector has been a growing trend in recent years. This trend is driven by a variety of factors, including rising energy costs, a growing awareness of climate change issues, and the implementation of government policies and incentives. In this way, governments worldwide have implemented various policies and incentives to promote the integration of renewable energy in the building sector. These measures include tax credits, rebates, and financial incentives provided to building owners who choose to install renewable energy systems. Moreover, many countries have established building codes and regulations that mandate specific energy efficiency and renewable energy standards for new constructions.
A Cost-Benefit analysis for various combinations of PV and battery capacity systems is implemented to provide the most profitable system for each examined building and country.
Creating and running the Intelligent Utilization of PV Technology in the MED region (UPVMED) Hub (A4.4.1)
The Intelligent Utilization of Photovoltaic Technology in the Mediterranean (MED) region (IUPVMED) Hub was created under the BERLIN project. The purpose of the Hub is to bring together key stakeholders to exchange knowledge and discuss challenges and opportunities for the wider adoption of cost-effective policies, which are related to the increase of the photovoltaic (PV) energy share, increased local consumption of PV-generated electricity, and the integration of PV, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), and Demand Side Management (DSM), under the concept of a hybrid nanogrid system.
Establishing country-specific procedures/roadmaps (A4.3.3)
This report includes information on the country specific procedures/roadmaps detailing the steps in order to reach higher resilience based on PV+ESS+DSM utilization. These steps include conducting a building energy audit, designing the BESS system, incorporating DSM strategies, integrating the PV+BESS+DSM hybrid system, etc. Each step will be implemented to have the required adaptations of regulations and technical guidelines and proposals to use specific financing instruments (including dynamic tariffs). A cost-benefit analysis was conducted following a hybrid solution in each partner country. This report includes country-specific insights from a cost-benefit analysis of the solution. Finally, recommendations are presented for securing the necessary funding to rehabilitate existing public building stock.
Developing of regional dynamic electricity tariffs (A4.3.2)
Static tariffs do not encourage the widespread of RES without large incentives, which however transfer the RES costs to non-RES owners. One important goal of the BERLIN project is to propose new dynamic tariffs that better reflect the actual dynamic cost of electricity generation in each participating country with a pilot. The current report begins with an overview of the existing tariffs in the four participating countries of the BERLIN project (Cyprus, Greece, Israel, and Italy). Subsequently, information is provided on the proposed dynamic tariffs that can be developed and implemented in each pilot based on electricity market prices.
Joint case study focusing on replication (A4.2.2)
This report presents a joint case study, offering valuable insights into the potential for replication in all regions that fall under the MED area, including non-participating countries. The primary focus of the study is to highlight the regions where the combination of PV, BESS and DSM proves to be a cost- effective and sustainable solution. Additionally, it sheds light on regions where this combination may not be the most viable option and the underlying reasons behind it.
Development of a policy makers’ tool for policy recommendations (A4.1.2)
The policy makers tool provides recommendations for policies and regulations that promote the adoption of the photovoltaics (PV) and energy storage systems (ESS) in public buildings with the potential for demand side management (DSM), referred here as PV+ESS+DSM scheme. Except from recommendations, it offers numerical results about (i) the profitability of PV+ESS+DSM systems in certain building types and (ii) the energy self-sufficiency of the building.
A tool for building integrated energy systems design (A4.1.1)
This online tool aims to promote self-sufficiency in buildings with flexible loads, by properly sizing the photovoltaic and battery storage systems to be installed in a building, and providing an efficient schedule for the flexible loads. The tool has been developed in the framework of “Cost-effective rehabilitation of public buildings into smart and resilient nano-grids using storage - BERLIN” project.