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COMUNE DI ANDORA

Covenant of Mayors: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ACTION PLAN (SEAP)

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ANDORA ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4

ANDORA TERRITORIAL DATA ........................................................................................................................................ 4 DEMOGRAPHIC AND EMPLOYMENT SITUATION……………………………………………………………….….................5 TOURISM ..........................................................................................................ERRORE. IL SEGNALIBRO NON È DEFINITO. BUILDINGS STOCK OF ANDORA……………………………………………….……………………………………………………………..……………….….…..7

COVENANT OF MAYORS ............................................................................. ERRORE. IL SEGNALIBRO NON È DEFINITO.

ORGANIZATION AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS..........................................................ERRORE. IL SEGNALIBRO NON È DEFINITO. BASELINE EMISSION INVENTORY

(BEI).........................................................................................................................Errore. Il segnalibro non è definito. OPERATING METHODOLOGY………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………….….…9

ACTION PLAN………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12

MONITORING:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Errore. Il segnalibro non è definito.

ACTION GENERAL SURVEY:

STRATEGY………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………..Errore. Il segnalibro non è definito.

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The Municipality of Andora has been the first European country to sign the Covenant of Mayors

The local government has subscribed the project on 28th May, 2008 with Resolution of the town council n. 45, with the aim to address the area towards a sustainable development and to pursue the target of energy-saving, use of Renewable energy sources and CO2 emission reduction, involving the whole citizenship in the stage of development and implementation of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan; so that from the support to the Covenant could emerge a virtuous circle to spread on the area the awareness of energy-saving and environment sustainability.

The key elements of the plan qualification are:

- Conducting a suitable baseline emission inventory - Ensuring directions of energy policies in the long period involving also government councils - Granting a suitable qualification of the involved staff - Being able to plan and implement long-period projects - Arranging suitable financial resources - Integrating the plan in the daily matters of the Municipality (it must be a part of the

knowledge of the Town Council) - Gathering information and get ideas from other councils supporting the covenant of

Mayors - Ensure support to stakeholders and citizens.

The plan identify, therefore, weakness factors, risks, strengths and opportunities of the area, linked to the promotion of the sources of renewable energy and of energy efficiency, allowing to define the following interventions suitable for reduction of CO2 emissions.

The target is focused in 2020: since the time is particularly important, a compulsory biennial monitoring has been expected to carry out .

The political choice draws, in this case, fully and directly on the operating and administrative strategies led to direct the area towards a sustainable development and to obtain the target of energy saving and promotion.

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ANDORA

Andora is a town placed at the west end of Savona Province between Laigueglia and Cervo, with 7657 inhabitants (at the date of 31st December 2011). It is a small town opened on the seashore, with a wide hinterland deeply wedged in the mountain and it is crossed by the Merula river. Along the river winds the provincial road for 12 km. which from the sea, opens the way with the state highway Aurelia and from the mountain, it leads, through some slip roads to the close valleys, of Cervo and Dianese. The valley is enclosed in a double series of mountains and hills, sloping and waving, that gives to it a slight curved shape.

The town is characterised for the excellent quality of sea water and for the wide sandy shores which are considered

among the best of the West Liguria and that develop for nearly two kilometres long.

Andora is easily reachable with the A10 motorway Genoa-Ventimiglia, along the state highway 1 Aurelia or by the railway Genova-Savona Ventimiglia line.

Andora is provided with one of the most important tourist seaport of the region, it counts 800 boat moorings (it is the 5th tourist harbour in size of the region after Lavagna, Imperia Sanremo e Marina degli Aregai ANDORA TERRITORIAL DATA

SURFACE ALTITUDE HOUSING DENSITY

CLIMATIC ZONE DAILY

TEMEERATURE

kmq min (m) max (m) ° C

31,61 0 691 242 C 1195

The town had a great development particularly in the late 30 years doubling the number of resident people. From an economy mainly founded on its wide hinterland (peach, olive tree and other farming) the town has steadily acquired its tourist identity, starting from the sixties. This due to a building boom which led to many new buildings, especially holidays homes for many families from the North of Italy. Today, during the summer the population of Andora reaches nearly 70.000

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inhabitants, due to the presence of many villas and holidays homes. It’s moreover, the destination for whoever wants to practise bicycle, MTB, diving, whale watching, sail, wind surf and trekking.

Local economy, that hasn’t abandoned farming, produces in addition, vegetables, feed, grapes, olives, citrus and other fruits, olive oil, basil, herbs, artichokes, tomatoes and local wines, they rear cattle, equine and poultry. The industrial fabric is composed of companies working in food section, construction, papery, chemical, electrical, metallurgical, printing, furniture, jewellery industry, gas production and distribution.

The service sector is made of a good retailing (founded mainly on retail sale) and from other services including banking. Among social facilities we register the presence of a day nursery and an old people’s home. Significant is the of accommodation capacity that, with the restaurant industry, offer a wide range of holiday stay.

DEMOGRAPHIC AND EMPLOYMENT SITUATION

In 2001 the resident population was about 6767 inhabitants. In the last years the Andora population is constantly growing reaching 7113 inhabitants in 2004 and 7657 in 2010. Andora resident population had a growth of 13% owed on one hand to an inflow of foreigners, from UE or extra UE, and on other hand to the displacement of people from neighbouring town, from UE or extra UE. During these year it is recorded a displacement from the centre to the neighbourhood, of the town particularly in the area of Molino Nuovo, facilitated by the new realised housing settlements.

Living in population

� N. foreign residents � N. non foreign residents

TOURISM

As previously said, Andora economy is mainly founded on tourism; the actions made to create the more favourable conditions to the sector are numerous:

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Quick procedures to open new accommodation facilities such as farm holidays, B&B and for the enlargement of already existing accommodation.

Events organisation to increase the value of the territory both at environmental level and naturalistic, cultural and sporty.

Exploitation of traditional and original elements of Andora, in joint effort with the tour operators, trade and accommodation sector.

For what concerns the sum of tourist flows, they are shared in a 30% of foreigners and the remaining 70% of Italians. We have to consider that, since the high amount of holiday homes, the town of Andora, in the period of highest tourist flow, has a great increase of population. This phenomenon brings, of course, remarkable unbalances both in term of infrastructural offer (i.e.: parking) and environmental (rising of pollution levels). According to national statistics of ACI (Automobile Club Italia) and of ONT (Osservatorio Nazionale del Turismo) indeed, the 63% approximately of Italian tourists (64% of foreigners), move by car to reach seaside towns, while only the 10% (6,4% of foreigners) use the train as main mean of transport. Additional phenomena of amplification of these statistics are to be taken back to the problem of holiday homes and to the typology of average tourist usually represented by families or senior citizens who use car as mean of transport nearly at 100%.

Tourist Movement in Andora 2004/2010

ARRIVAL ATTENDANCE

Among the initiatives that aim to preserve the coastal scenery and the tourist – recreational vocation of the Andora coast, there is the Project for the use of seashores of the Municipality, named PUA, representing the carrying out of the Coastal Plan and of the Use of state-owned areas (P.U.D.) of Region Liguria. With this tool the municipality management wants to preserve its beaches for citizens and tourists. This involves necessarily a planning of intervention that allows to harmonize existing activities with environment and landscape. The political choice has been not to “cement” further our beautiful seashores, but, on the contrary, to exploit their natural beauty preserving them from speculative intents.

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BUILDINGS STOCK OF ANDORA

Andora is characterised by the existence of a wide building asset devoted to holiday homes use, it is proved that of the 12.379 homes in 2010, about 9.000 are holidays homes: this leads the Municipality to live a significant variation of the anthropic charge inside the town. The phenomenon has its effects on the foresight approach to services (network of infrastructures, waste collection, park sizing,….) and during the season of traffic flows, where the borders of the municipality aren’t directly involved, as great infrastructures don’t’ fall there, but conditioning on a large scale great linking networks (over local roads, motorways, which aren’t involved by this actual SEAP).

From the last population census came out that a significant percentage of the building stock dates back to the period 60-80s. The presence of buildings equipped of infrastructures for a proper thermal insulation is rather poor as only more recent buildings have these characteristics. It’s therefore adequate to direct incentives and support measures not only towards interventions over the equipment but even with actions on the construction wrapping, using thermal insulation, double windowpanes, bioclimatic building techniques and Passive House Planning Package.

The reference framework for the aspects linked to building efficiency is founded on the following legislation:

- The actual D.LGS 192/2005 on building energy performance

- Ministerial decrees of July 2004 on energy-saving

- Testo unico of legislative regulations in building matter

Plenty national and international experiences show that urban planning such as land use and building regulations have crucial importance in this context as, through the enforcement of minimum requirements of building and energy quality, are able to influence in decisive way the behaviour of trade operators and building constructors working on the market.

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COVENANT OF MAYORS

ORGANIZATION AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS

In order to coordinate activities linked to the Covenant of Mayors, the municipality provided since the beginning an organization structure selecting a special team to plan and monitoring activities.

The teamwork that developed the baseline and action proposals include the political commitment with proposal and decision-making power represented by the Mayor, the manager of Administrative Area with the role of coordinator of contributions coming from different municipality departments and of stakeholders who are consulted from time to time, and the executive of Environmental policy office.

The Municipality signed the European project IEE Come2Com gaining from SPES consulting srl the necessary technical support to the compilation of the requested documents. We foresee to keep the same teamwork to communicate and monitor PAES

BASELINE EMISSION INVENTORY (BEI)

According to a previous search on data availability, the reference year fixed for Andora is 2004 as it is available for the same year, the energy plan of Savona province. The Provincial Plan for Energy and Environ (PEAP), approved with Resolution of Province Organization n. 4 of 23rd January 2007, is set up as an instrument aimed to reach actions to promote and the spread of renewable energy sources and energy saving, according to the higher in pecking order Energy and Environment Regional Plan of Liguria (PEAR).

Provincial intervention actions can be framed in three main lines:

- Exploiting of renewable energy sources: use of wooden biomasses, in solar collector facilities and of photovoltaic cell, realisation of wind power mills and Hydroelectric power;

- Promotion of energy efficiency: introduction of high efficiency technologies and equipment; actions addressed to the use and improvement of prescriptive laws such as energy certificate and municipal building regulations:

- Spread of a correct energy-culture. Training and information activities such as refresher training and job training, awareness campaign and voluntary subscriptions.

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OPERATING METHODOLOGY

It has been chosen to use standard emissions factors following the IPCC (guide lines IPCC 2006) principles, that involve all CO2 emissions coming from energy waste inside the municipality both directly, through fuel burning inside local authority, both indirectly, through fuel burning linked with electricity use and of heat/cool inside the town area. Emission inventory concerning the ground of Andora Municipality has been prepared with reference to information detected from the following sources:

Municipality Consumers:

Andora Municipality Departments

Residential, industrial, service Consumers and more:

ENEL DISTRIBUZIONE, ENEL ENERGIA, ENEL SOLE,ENEL RETE GAS

ISTAT

TERNA

MINISTRY OF ECONOMY

Energy and gas Authotrity

Provincial Plan for Energy and Environ (PEAP)

Depuratore Ingauno Scarl

Public and private transports consumption:

TPL Linea

Riviera Trasporti

Automobile Club Italia

Alternative Energy:

GSE Administrator Energy Service.

These data are, in some cases, available with in aggregation with the Province ones, it was therefore necessary to go on with a standardisation towards a municipality scale, using from time to time the more adequate criterions and variables, such as resident population and sector operators.

For what concerns the transport consumption of the municipal freight, they have been determined on the range of available data related to the quantity of fuel burnt, making a difference between petrol and diesel fuel. For what concerns the TPL LINEA freight, relating on a general uniformity of the waste of all the means of transportation used for this service (0,5 l/km), it was rather simple to find among the documents made available by the administrator of the service. Through the timetable of the lines it was possible making an assessment of consumptions founded on the kilometres run every year only on the Andora ground. From the survey made presently (2011).

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We don’t detect great alterations on the routes, stops or in the number of lines compared to the service given in 2004

For what concerns on the contrary, private transport, consumptions have been determined starting from the fuel waste at provincial level and on the range of the amount of means of transport belonging to the population of Andora at 2004.

In the baseline we didn’t include the harbour consumers, as it is foreseen an enlargement of the port in the next years and the industrial ones as the low influence that the municipality can have on the section, even if it’s expected a growing trend.

The total emission for the municipal ground in 2004 appear to be equal to 39.239 t of carbon dioxide, with a per head value of 5,52 t CO2/per year.

The emissions are so shared among the different sectors:

SECTOR tCO2/per year %

PUBLIC SECTOR 1116 5,0 RESIDENTIAL SECTOR 9020 23,0 INDUSTRIAL SECTOR 9640 22,4 SERVICES SECTOR 2848 7,3 PUBLIC TRANSPORT 552 1,4 PRIVATE TRANSPORT 16063 40,9 TOTAL 39239 100,0

ENERGY VECTOR tCO2/ per year %

ELECTRICITY 12337 31,4 NATURAL GAS 8022 20,4 HEATING OIL 2409 6,1 DIESEL 10170 25,9 PETROL 6300 16,1 TOTAL 39239 100,0

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The consumptions are mainly ascribable to the transport sector, followed by the industrial and the residential ones. It is difficult, however to intervene and to reduce the energy consumption of the industrial/agricultural sector where energy saving ins not a prior target: presently the sector is indeed suffering from negative effects of economic crisis as there’s a lack of resources to invest in low environ impact projects and products; therefore we decided not to involve it in the SEAP. In this case, the total amount of CO2 emissions at 2004 has to be considered equal to t 30.444, with a subsequent emission per head of 4,28 t/per year that will have to be reduced at least of 0,86 t to reach the value of 3,42 t/per year at 2020 for every citizen.

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ACTION PLAN

The local government of Andora has planned since long time the administration of activities and services under its own jurisdiction in the aim to protect the environment, developing management and government policies of the territorial system directed to the safeguard and development of environmental resources, with the aim of promoting the growth of life quality and competitiveness of the territory. To actuate an environmental sustainable local development, it worked in a continuous way, proportionally to its nature, to its means and to the arising impacts from activities done and from offered services. In the awareness to provide a public interest service, targeted to satisfy the community needs, it introduced inside its organisation a System of Environmental mMnagement (SGA) as an instrument of knowledge and control of concerning environmental activities and since 2002 has obtained the Certification for Environmental Accountability according the law UNI EN ISO 14001:96. This system is perfectly compatible with the project IEE to which we are referring, with the only difference that the ISO regulations don’t preview a minimum mark of improvement. After nearly ten years of use of this system, according to the issues obtained both from the point of view of employees and citizens’ participation, both from that of the efficiency of the local authority, the actual local government is engaged to pursue what outlined by the previous administration always inspired by the constant search of “ constant improvement”. The present European ISO regulation is founded on the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) – method.

PDCA Method can be briefly described as follows:

Plan: establish targets and necessary steps to give results according the energy policy of the local government.

Do: carry out the projects Check: supervise and measure the projects as

regards the energy policy, the targets and the goals, the law regulations and other requirements signed by the local government, and report the goals.

Act: undertake actions to keep improving the performance of the energy system management.

To reach this aim the local government, detected the prior areas of intervention, has the following targets

1) rationalize water woks system, sewage system and purification plant according the law D.Lgs. 267/art. 113;

2) improve the management of drain water according to the principle of efficiency, effectiveness and cheapness;

3) improve the necessary structures for the collection of waste water with special interventions on loss prevention

4) Rationalize the use of water system after the improving of the distribution network of the aqueducts.

5) Promote further on the growth of waste sorting through a continuous to sensitize public awareness and a continuous improving of the service offered to the citizens

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6) Implement strategies targeted to optimize the road system inside the municipality ground as spotted in the urban traffic planning;

7) Develop activity of spreading around/information to citizens and tourists, with the aim of environmental aspect with particular attention to the school students.

8) Monitor the energy resources consumption, implementing further on the recourse of low cost technologies and renewable energy;

9) Improve the answer to citizens’ requests in environmental field , even through a software to check the activities of maintenance and management of the operators

10) Improve prevention and answer to environmental emergencies 11) Complement urban planning tools with the necessities of environmental protection and to

promote the development under a point of view of sustainability 12) Assume and keep on efforts to protect the coast and the seashore

Andora Municipality reasserts its commitment to

a) Detect and update the aspects and the environmental impacts coming from activities, products and services carried out on the territory, identifying a priori the potential impact of all new or already existing activities, upon which the local government has action, control and/or influence power.

b) Operate in a congruent way to the existing regulations, to the environmental laws and other body of treaties voluntarily signed;

c) Pursue the continuous improvement of its own environmental performance and prevent possible forms of pollution, even sensitizing citizens, tourists, employees, supplier and contractors;

MONITORING:

Andora Municipality commits to the constant monitoring of the fixed targets achievement carrying out yearly checks of the deeds put as the base of the action plan.

The teamwork created for the drawing of PAES, composed of internal structure and supplemented by the technical support of SPES consulting, will be kept for the monitoring and implementation actions which will be brought in the Environmental resource management and assessed every year inside the annual audit of ISO 14001 standardization.

There it could be possible to evaluate to adopt ISO 50001 standardization, which is complementary to the 14001 and more specific about the energy sector, as a quality guarantee of the followed practice for the drawing, implementation and monitoring of the present Action Plan.

The progress and the checking of targets achievement will be held with project management techniques and with the settlement of a dashboard to support the decision-making part of the teamwork.

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Every two-year period a summary will be sent, enclosing an updating count of MEI

ACTIONS OUTLOOK: THE STRATEGY

The Municipality intend to reach an emission saving per head equal to, at least to the 20% compared to the referring year 2004 going down under 3,36 t of CO2 per year/per citizen.

In particular, conveying the 6788 t of putting out CO2 through the enforcement of the actions later on described on the baseline 2004 data, we could obtain a value per head of 3 t per year (precautionary always with the value of inhabitants dated to 2004 that actually is raised of 7,6%), equal to 22,3% of reduction (that it could reach 27,6% considering the demographic growth).

To obtain this result is necessary to operate over all possible sectors competent to municipality, involving private operators and citizens in “the challenge” undertaken by the local authorities that will have to apply for itself and to set a good example.

The divisions of intervention concern first of all the public sector, with real properties, street lighting plants and sewage treatment, residential buildings (homes and services), transport modes and operation of renewable energy sources.

The municipality has been the first to operate energy-environmental policies that will go on with scheduled actions towards 2020 with the involvement of private subjects even through territorial planning actions and particular communication/training.

The result that are foreseen to be achieved for every sector are:

- Public sector: - 39,8%

- Private sector: (residential and services): - 23%

- Transport modes: - 16%

- Energy production from renewable sources: + 9%.