The S. ENERGIA, the Regional Agency for Energy and the municipality of Barreiro, Moita, Montijo e Alcochete it is a private non-profit association, which was created in May 2007 with the support of the Intelligent Energy-Europe” and of the Municipal councils in its area of operations.
“The S.ENERGIA has been a driving force in the promotion of energy efficiency and sustainability in the four counties of the talk, Barreiro, Moita, Montijo and Alcochete.
The path up to it today, began with the development of the Renewable Energy of the four cities, and the corresponding definition of the priority areas of intervention. Later, in 2011, it took place on the accession of the county of Portugal the appointment of the The covenant of Mayors officeand then the rest of the municipalities in the years to follow. With the support of the Regional Energy Agency, and were then set out in the The Action plans for Sustainable Energy.
Today, the S,ENERGIA, is to co-ordinate the work of the drafting of the Plans by the city's Climate Action of the municipalities, Barreiro, Moita, Montijo and Alcochete, in accordance with the Law laid down in the Weather. It is important to note that this law is a milestone in the fight against climate change, both in Portugal and in the world, and to introduce in its Article 15, the recognition by the United Nations, the mood is stable, as the Common Heritage of Mankind”.
The strategy for action on the climate in the cities includes measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as to promote a just transition to a low-carbon economy, and to identify concrete actions aimed at fighting poverty. In this context, the S.ENERGIA, is the implementation of several projects, of which we will highlight: “NegaWATT – Less is More!”, “Maternal Energy”, “EduLUX and 2.3+ and Efficiency of H2O” (provided by the Plan for the Promotion of Efficiency in the Consumption of Electrical Energy (PPEC) of the ERSE and the Transition Point from the +NEXT to” to “and " give a Comfortable country House” with the financial support of the EPAH – Energy-Poverty action plan Hub.
The Point of the Transition, the +NEXT to it supports, as well as access to the Program is the Efficiency (stage 2), in which case the Agency will take on the role of a Facilitator, a Coach.
These projects are intended not only to improve the sustainability of the local power, but also to address the economic issues, by reducing the costs and promoting a circular economy. The S.ENERGIA reaffirms its commitment to an energy transition that is fair, and socially well-balanced, which is essential for our collective future. With this commitment, it is vital to respond effectively to the energy poverty is a complex issue, which is on the order of the day and it involves a number of different factors, such as the income of the families, and the quality of the construction, and the price of energy.
Also, I would like to highlight a project that is dedicated to a younger audience, the PeddyApp, with a variety of edits, and you want to prey on the young, and the entire school community to change the habits of mobility, and, through a competition in which if you want the most is the winner.
The S:ENERGIA, it will continue to work in partnership with the municipalities, which play a crucial role to play in raising awareness of, and information on the population and the development of public policies that foster efficient and sustainable.
Also, the introduction of renewable energy on public facilities in the city is becoming more and more important, not only to the sustainability of the local power, but also as a tool for cost containment in the face of rising energy costs. In addition, it can serve as a component of social support, and through the establishment of Units in Collective self-Consumption and Renewable Energy, in which a part of the production to be distributed in order to alleviate energy poverty.
In this context, the economic and the social, the challenging, the energy transition is a matter of urgency. And it is with great pride that I can say that the S.ENERGIA is in a position to cope with the various environmental issues and the energy in the room, with a number of initiatives are already under implementation and development.
The synergies are built over the last 16 years, with the continuous support and co-operation of the local authorities, and local of the areas where the Regional Agency for Energy, it works, we will continue to work towards a more sustainable future, and healthy for everyone.
Barreiro, October 7, 2024″
Rui Pereira
The chairman of the Board of Directors of the S.ENERGIA
Councilor of the Barreiro Municipality
Pedro Lavrado
“the Law on The Basis of the Climate, is a milestone in the fight against climate change, both in Portugal and in the World, and to introduce in its Article 15, the defense of the recognition by the United Nations, the mood is stable, as the Common Heritage of Mankind”.
By giving the body at the national level for the recognition, it is now established by Law, that the right to a climate change consisting in the right to defend against the impacts of climate change, as well as the power to require public and private entities for the fulfillment of the duties and of the obligations to which they are bound, in the field of climate”.
In that respect, either directly to the municipalities, the act established a requirement for the existence of the Plans, the city's Climate Action, it fosters regional cooperation, in order to ensure the complementarity of policies and investments in the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change, and provides an assessment of the performance of the policy and the actions to be implemented.
The S.ENERGIA, a body that brings together 4 of the counties surrounding the various topics of energy and the environment, and you need something to give the building a more sustainable future by promoting the energy transition in the region, with a view to the common goal of a neutral carbon. In the energy transition, which is essential for our collective future, it is essential to ensure that the transition is fair and socially well-balanced, which means to give a face to Poverty.
Being the result of three different factors (household income, the quality of the construction, and the price of electricity, this is an issue that goes beyond the traditional concept of poverty, including portions of the population who have a hard time to keep their homes in comfort. Making the housing stock in the public, there are specific programs supported by funds from the community, to promote the improvement, for the vast majority of housing is privately owned, there are loan programs that may be of appeal to those who need it most.
The role of the S.ENERGIA, it will always, in partnership with the municipalities, and, in fact, becomes more and more relevant, which is essential in the area of awareness-raising in the population, but also in raising the matter with the Central government, the definition of the public policies of the government. Looking to follow the guidelines for sustainability of rural areas, it is important to note that this involves, necessarily thinking about the conservation of energy and natural resources becoming increasingly scarce and expensive, therefore, we must be guided in our actions, present, and future in an environment in which the efficiency of the use of resources to walk hand with the use of strictly necessary to the various services, the energy that we have at our disposal to reduce the impact to the global environment, while respecting their boundaries, and the ability to regenerate.
The role of the introduction of renewable energies in public facilities in the city, it seems more and more like that of the greatest importance, not only from the perspective of the sustainability of the local power, but also as a tool for cost containment in the face of increasing energy costs, while at the same time it can take to be an element of social support, due to the possibility of building Units in Collective self-Consumption, or even of a group of Renewable Energy on the part of the production can be distributed, for example, as in the mitigation of Poverty.
It's just that, in this context, the economic and the social, in which we find ourselves, for the first time in many years we will have to cope with a shortage of energy, it will be necessary to quickly achieve a smooth transition of power. In order to address the various problems in the environmental and energy are the order of the day, and the urgent need for mitigation, have been prepared with a set of energy efficiency programs, and awareness of, the implementation of which is in progress will, in fact, and in a short period of time, to achieve the goals and objectives that it pursues.
Once in the program, with the support of the approval of ERSE in the context of the PPEC, submitted by the agency, with the support of the local Barreiro, Moita, Montijo and Alcochete, they also serve as a platform for the demonstration of best practices and models for replication at the national level. The challenges are numerous and the task that is presented to the S.ENERGIA, they are an important part of the response is needed at the local level.”
Barreiro, November 22, 2022
Pedro Lavrado
Councilor of the Alcochete Municipality
José Santos
“With the recent release of the National Climate and Energy 2030 (ROUTE to 2030), it's a new era of integrated policies for energy and climate, which will lead to 2050, with the attainment of a neutral carbon. This is a new cycle and provides the Energy Agencies as the key players at the local level, so in this case: “to The local agency for energy and the climate, given its close proximity to the local officials, and the citizens seem to be as fundamental entities in order to promote, in a logical spot, on the sustainable development of the area(s) in which they operate, taking on the role of key actors at the local level, for the attainment of national goals. They play a very important role in the field of sustainable development at local level through the promotion of energy efficiency, rational use of energy in various sectors, the use of the energy resources of indigenous and local, to promote the use of new technologies, the promotion of information and education, and contributing to the sustainable development of the region and the country.”
The S.ENERGIA, the Regional Energy Agency for the municipality of Barreiro, Moita, Montijo and Alcochete, which have been since the time of the on-site support for the construction of a common strategy for energy and the environment, for example, by the creation of the BREADS Plans of Action for the Sustainable Energy for all in our cities, and that by 2021 we aim to complete, with the introduction of the PAESC – the Plan of Action for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Montijo the opening of the port of the update of the BREADS in Barreiro, Moita, and People.
The challenge of the low carbon also for the production of the local area, and the next step is the creation of a group of Renewable Energy structures that will enable you to local groups of consumers to produce and consume, collectively, at least a portion of the energy that they need, and the management methods and technologies that are yet to be defined. However, this is a path of the S.ENERGIA, it wants to go, as a way to make the area more sustainable, resilient, and even if it was developed with these characteristics play a role in the minimization of energy poverty, a theme that is still a bit assessed in the Uk, but it is relevant to the environmental comfort and the quality of the indoor air quality of a large portion of the built heritage.”
José Santos
Councilor of the Montijo Municipality
Ricardo Bernardes
“Well aware that the climate-change, the rational use of energy and the diversification of energy sources is related to the security of energy supply, would be one of the biggest geopolitical challenges of the decade was drawing near, it was with great excitement that the City of Montijo has entered into the 28th of November 2008, the membership of the newly-built S.ENERGIA, it was set up, the Regional Agency for Energy and the municipality of Barreiro, Moita, Montijo and Alcochete, which has resulted in the approval of the application of the cities of Portugal, and the Bush in 2006, the Program to SEE – Intelligent Energy for Europe " by the European Commission, which, at the time, supported the establishment of a network of Agencies, Local and Regional governments to Power the whole of Europe.
In the period 2020-2022, in that the presence of the S.ENERGIA around you to focus on the Municipality of Montijo, it started in the last decade, from 2021-2030 to hold the global average temperature increase to a maximum of 2 ° C above pre-industrial levels, with the value set by the Paris – the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change, such as to ensure the continuity of life on the planet, no change is too disruptive, and with the recognition that only with the help of all of us is able to overcome the challenge of climate change.
To encourage the production and consumption of energy from renewable sources, it has been held recently, with the construction of the new legal framework established by the Decree-Law on the 162/2019 of the 25th of October, and that it enables, and encourages the consumption of the individual or of the collective, and the formation of Communities, Energy, enabling individuals, businesses, and other entities, both public and private, to produce, consume, share, store, and sell the energy produced from the renewable sources of energy to actively participate in the energy transition.
In the light of its close proximity to the local officials, citizens and businesses, all Branches of the Energy appears as the fundamental entities, to foster a logical development of the territory, the efficiency of the energy, by the use of the energy resources of the local sites, and the development of information and awareness can contribute to the changing patterns of consumption, and access to relevant information to support strategic decision-making and operational management.
There are many challenges faced by the Cities, the Villages, and in the Branches of Power in the period as well.
The Agency has a Regional Power will maintain an active role in supporting the energy transition of cities that make up the area of operations, administrative, and support the formation of Communities of Renewable Energy in the wards with the highest prevalence of the consumer in a situation of energy poverty, and adaptation to the gradual phase-in the park-buildings, public and private, needs to obtain the balances, the null energy accompanying, at the same time the process of the devolution of responsibilities to local authorities, which will have responsibility for the management of infrastructure and equipment formerly used in Central government, thus contributing to the achievement of the targets set out in the ROUTE by 2030 – the National Plan of Integrated Climate and Energy, to achieving a neutral carbon in the national economy by 2050."”
Ricardo Bernardes
Councilor of the Montijo Municipality
Miguel Canudo
“The Moita Municipality, on which it rests, the chair of the Board of Directors of the S,ENERGIA in the period 2017-2019 of a system of rotating presidency among the cities that are adhered to from the outset of this project, including the application of the Program to SEE – Intelligent Energy for Europe " by the European Commission, but at the time it was intended to build a network of Energy Agencies with the mission of promoting locally on energy efficiency and use of renewable energy resources within it, and in this way contribute to the goals of europe for the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The approval of this application has led to the creation of the S.ENERGIA, which today is in its application as a service to the public in the formulation and implementation of policies at regional, national and european energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Over the last 10 years, we have developed the themes and actions of the concrete, where it was possible to train the technicians and to raise awareness of the issues of energy and sustainability.
From the simple things in contact with the young people, in the days of the symbolic, as the European Day Without Cars, to the training of technical personnel in the System of Energy Certification of Buildings, it was possible to train and raise awareness of this, as it is possible to find sources of funding to respond to the consumption of the energy of the city.
In the future, as well as in the past, in addition to his work with the municipalities, which will be available to assist and cooperate with the companies and the institutions, and it is in the identification of potential improvements, whether it is in support of the selection of the best options is to just simply in the awareness-raising and training providers to support the building of applications for funding at national and european level. In the future, it requires a territory of more sustainable, and the S.ENERGIA that is there to help us through this process. “
Miguel Canudo
Councilor of the Moita Municipality
Bruno Vitorino
“The Energy Agencies activity is, in practice, a service to the public in the formulation and implementation of policies at regional, national and european energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. This feature comes easily be in the role of the Agencies of Power as a major catalyst for the growth and promotion of the "Covenant of Mayors", with technical expertise, crucial to ensure that not only is the development of Plans of Action for Sustainable Energy (PAES) in good quality, as well as its successful implementation.
The role of dialogue and collaborative work, especially with the local authorities, but also with the other actors at the local level and in the general population and proves indispensable in raising awareness of, and practical assistance in the implementation of the best behaviour, and the technical solutions for the construction of an area of more environmentally sustainable.
The activity of the S.ENERGIA, it is also influenced by the cycles of the program's funding, and in the year of 2016, it does not constitute an exception to this. The purpose of the project EcoBombeiros and to Learn&take Action match, too, for the establishment of new partnerships for the development of new applications for funding for the PPEC – the Plan for the Promotion of the Efficiency in the Consumption of Electrical Energy.
These have to be added to a set of proposals already submitted or in preparation, both on a national and european level, it is not a substitute for the role of the local authorities, and approved, will provide a substantial boost to the improvement of the quality of the intervention of the S.ENERGIA, as well as in its ability to operate in the region, and institutions, both in the promotion and education of the population and their associations, as well as to help companies and other organisations to adopt the practices of energy more sustainable. “
Bruno Vitorino
Councilor of the Barreiro Municipality
- President: C. M. Barreiro
- Vice-President: C. M. Moita
- Vice-President: C. M. Montijo
- Vice-President: C.M. Alcochete
- Managing Director: ADENE – Agência para a Energia
- Managing Director: Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
- Managing Director: E-REDES
- Managing Director: Alsa Todi Metropolitana de Lisboa
- President: C. M. Moita
- First Secretary: SIMARSUL
- Second Secretary: AFPDM – Associação para Formação Profissional e Desenvolvimento do Montijo
- President: AMARSUL
- Member: ETPM – Escola Técnica Profissional da Moita
- Member: Transportes Sul do Tejo