This guide provides tools for initiative takers and planners to explore the potential in local resources and provide sustainable electricity and heating for the community. Step-by-step you are guided through the project development process, and you get an overview of advantages and challenges of optional technologies and energy systems, including heating and electricity from wind, sun, sea, fresh water, biomass, and the ground.
The focus of this guide is on the implementation of renewable energy solutions in small communities in areas and on designing reliable and affordable energy systems based upon proven technologies that are available in the market. Energy storage and smart energy management get special attention. Facts and numbers from a pilot project in Leirvik in the Faroe Islands illustrate how to use this guide.