The Holistic project

Is a consortium made of 3 municipalities: Dundalk (Ireland), Modling (Austria) and Neuchatel (Switzerland). They strive to:

• Take efficient energy saving measures
• Increase their ratio of sustainable energy consumption
• Increase their local sustainable energy production
• Create wealth and local jobs

The partners network is completed with so called “observants”: Aachen (Deutschland), Ministry of environment (Italy), Newry and mourne district council (Northern Irland).

In Neuchatel, within a 1.5 km2 area, the objective is to save 22 GWh of non renewable energy per year. This is the equivalent of the total energy consumption of 700 housholds:

• Retrofit old buildings and build new efficient ones
• Produce electricity through sustainable energies
• Optimize energy management for both buildings and distance heating networks

The Mail/Maladiere/Station area is made of a number of non energy efficient buildings such as the municipal swimming pool, university buldings, business, shops and famlz houses as well as flat buildings. The area makes 17% of the whole city surface and is the home of 4700 inhabitants.

Holistic is one of the 18 projects gathered within the CONCERTO EC program.