Design tools

 Wind energy

Solar energy
Biomass/bioenergy
Geothermal energy
Energy efficiency
  • CommonONEnergy Tool: Energy saving potential and economic benefits of retrofitting shopping malls estimation
  • REScoop PLUS toolbox: Toolbox of best practices that are implemented in RES cooperatives around Europe
  • NeZEH e-toolkit: Toolkit for hotels’ energy consumption benchmarking
  • Build up: The European Portal for Energy Efficiency in Buildings- Tools to support energy efficiency measures planning
Sustainable urban development
  • URBACT toolbox: Action planning process in five stages for integrated and participative sustainable urban development
Energy Communities
  • REScoop Project: A pool of tools for supporting a local, community-led, renewable energy revolution in EU
Circular Economy
  • Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS): management instrument for companies and other organisations to evaluate, report, and improve their environmental performance.
  • European Commission: Recommendation on the use of Environmental Footprint methods
  • EU Ecolabel: voluntary label that helps to identify products and services that have reduced their environmental impact throughout their entire life cycle.
Other energy planning tools
  • QuickScan software: Modelling environment combining expert knowledge with spatial and statistical data, which can serve as development scenario planning tool
  • RETScreen software: Decision support tool to evaluate the energy production and savings, costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for various types of RES of EE measures
Recovery and Resilience Plans