Digital Agenda Funding

Project Status: Live Project

Project Leader: Roksana Oliinyk

EU Programme: Northern Periphery and Arctic (2021 - 2027)

Project Budget: €1,249,498

Start Date: Sep, 2026

Finish Date: Mar, 2029

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The aim of the project is to:

All 3 regions face common challenges on energy resilience, remoteness, obstacles to energy sharing, along with ways to reduce wastage of energy and resources. We will demonstrate how sectoral integration with green hybrid combinations such as private wire, district heating and heat accumulators can be adopted across 3 NPA regions in Ireland, Finland and Sweden.

Specific objectives are to:

Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Lead Partner)
ERNACT will be a key partner cooperating and contributing to all WPs to achieve the project objectives. As a lead partner, we will be in charge of project coordination and the main contact point between the NPA secretariat and the partners.

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Donegal, Ireland
Donegal County Council(Partner)
DCC will develop one of the green energy pilots of WP2 in the rural town of Carndonagh and pioneer potential partnership to extract surplus power from local industry to service demand at the Local Authority owned Fire Station facility


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Dublin, Ireland
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland(Associate)
SEAI is Ireland’s national Sustainable Energy
Authority and has a policy advisory and technical support role for energy


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Galway, Ireland
Udaras na Gaeltachta(Partner)
UDARAS will contribute across all WP's and lead on WP1 engagement strategy, provide an Irish/Gaeltacht context in the designing of suitable frameworks for Energy sharing/integration from RE generation/DH schemes.


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Jyväskylä, Finland
Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu Oy(Partner)
JAMK will provide capacity building through technical workshops on Sectoral integration technologies, District heating a


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Jyväskylä, Finland
ALVA-yhtiöt oy(Associate)
They share their experience and provide sites for technical visits to the project.


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Jyväskylä, Finland
Regional Council of Central Finland (Associate)
Regional Council of Central Finland is a joint
municipal authority in charge of regional
development.


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Northern & Western, Ireland
North West Energy Agency (Associate)
NWEA have strong synergy with RE-SPRINGS and will support and advise on building assessment, RE and local engagement.


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Saarijärvi, Finland
Saarijärven Kaukolämpö Oy.(Associate)
SAAVEKA is an advanced district heat producer of the rural town of Saarijärvi. Their role is to introduce dynamic distri


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Sollefteå, Sweden
Adven Sverige AB(Associate)
Adven is a key stakeholder for PP5. They own thedistrict heating in Sollefteå and will add technical knowledge in the pr


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Västernorrland, Sweden
Sollefteå Municipality(Partner)
Sollefteå Municipality will fully participate across all WP's.


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Västernorrland, Sweden
ALAV(Associate)
ALAV is the interest and service organisation for the seven local authorities in the county of
Västernorrland.


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The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

2.1: Promoting energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions

The objective is to empower rural NPA communities to decrease energy wastage, enhance energy self-sufficiency, resilience & sustainability via pioneering of new innovative green energy integration opportunities.