Energy Efficient Communities & Advanced Local Energy Planning (ALEP)

Since the energy crisis in 1973 an increasing awareness in communities of their responsibility to optimise their energy supply and to minimise its environmental impact has developed. As a consequence, in a number of countries, new methods for the desing of 'energy efficiend communities' have been developed and applied, described using the expression 'Local Energy Planning' (LEP). Experience of using LEP has resulted in major changes in approach, methods, instruments, and objectives. However, because LEP has been based on practice rather than scientific activity these experiences have not always been disseminated a wider audience.