{"id":669,"date":"2018-02-27T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T05:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transformativecities.org\/?page_id=669"},"modified":"2020-09-03T05:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:16:14","slug":"atlas-20","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/transformativecities.org\/fr\/atlas\/atlas-20\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e1diz’s energy transition links environmental and social goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May 2015, a coalition of citizen-candidates, Por C\u00e1diz S\u00ed Se Puede (For C\u00e1diz, Yes We Can) and Ganar C\u00e1diz (Win C\u00e1diz) was elected to municipal government, with renewable energy as its platform. One of the new municipal government\u2019s main objectives was to take advantage of local resources \u2013 the port and shipyards \u2013 to promote an energy transition as a way to rebuild the city\u2019s social and productive life. This strategy is now paying dividends.<\/h3>\n

The four City of C\u00e1diz priorities for the energy transition are savings, efficiency and renewables in public buildings; the fight against energy poverty; the promotion of a democratic energy transition; and the promotion of energy-related job creation.<\/p>\n

These activities are carried out using profits derived from the local government\u2019s 55% share of \u00c9lectrica de C\u00e1diz, the largest private-public electric company in the country, and are informed by two working groups on energy \u2013 both of which involve local people\u2019s groups: The Mesa contra la Pobreza Energ\u00e9tica (the Roundtable to Fight against Energy Poverty) and the Mesa de Transici\u00f3n Energ\u00e9tica de C\u00e1diz (MTEC, Roundtable on the Energy Transition in C\u00e1diz).<\/p>\n

MTEC has created a permanent space for the participation and collaboration of municipal specialists, environmental organisations, individuals, workers from the University of C\u00e1diz and El\u00e9ctrica de C\u00e1diz, and members of the Som Energ\u00eda cooperative. It has also promoted the conversion of El\u00e9ctrica de C\u00e1diz into a 100% renewable energy supply company, developed an energy literacy campaign, and enabled \u00c9lectrica de C\u00e1diz to improve the environmental rating of all its municipal building contracts (and of 80% of the city\u2019s residents).<\/p>\n

El\u00e9ctrica de C\u00e1diz has managed to win the contracts of two other municipalities in the province, taking them out of the hands of oligopolistic companies. This was possible thanks to the inclusion of the requirement of 100% certified renewable electricity in the tender documents. MTEC\u2019s initiatives are all taking the energy model debate to the street and to local institutions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe participation of different ‘groups of citizens’, from users to technical advisors, in the Mesas was inspiring, as was the chance to be in government and have both objectives: the energetic transition to renewable energy and the social policies to guarantee the \u201cright to energy\u201d.
\n\u2013 Evaluator Erick Palomares<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Would you like to learn more about this initiative? Please contact<\/a>\u00a0us.<\/p>\n

Or visit transicionenergeticacadiz.es<\/a><\/p>\n

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