Vote for Brussels in the Energy Championship

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The first edition of the Energy Championship encourages municipalities to start an energy policy. Citizens can vote for their municipality and thus support it and help it to win. The City of Brussels is one of the participating municipalities.

Belgian municipalities compete from 1 October 2011 to 29 February 2012 for the title of (renewable) Energy Champion, divided into three categories of cities. Municipalities have five months to improve their final results, take action and gain the support of their citizens.

How does the championship work?

One winner in each category is indicated on the basis of an objective scoring. The municipality that collects the most points, wins the first edition of this championship.

The scoring takes into account:

the installation of renewable energy
municipal politics in terms of energy and sustainable development
the support of the inhabitants of the municipality

The Belgian league is part of the European League of Champions (RES League).

Energy policy of the City of Brussels

By means of the competition the people learn more about the energy policy of their city or municipality. Thus, the City of Brussels created an Energy unit (in June 2010) which studies the energy consumption and gives recommendations for saving energy and water.

In recent years the City took several measures to increase energy saving:

new energy market: since 2010, Brussels has green electricity for all 330 buildings
more than 200,000 euro has been saved by the energy saving, in the coming months this reaches half a million euro
isolation of energy consuming buildings, such as the swimming pool of Laeken, the Brussels City Hall,...
installation of cogeneration (simultaneously and thus efficiently generating heat and electricity) in different buildings (sports, Housing Management, CPAS)
political support for travel on foot and by bicycle: bikes for city officials and Villo!
use of hybrid vehicles in the car fleet of the City
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More information can be found on the website of the Energy Championship.