following, we attempt to describe some of the tools that support municipal employees in realizing energy
reductions in practice.
aligning and integrating the political objectives in the daily
administration. The use of strategies in Egedal is effective,
because there is a reconciliation between politicians and
administration. At the same time the strategies also
maintain a responsive approach to the challenges. They
designate areas, which the administration can lift here
and now. Egedal Municipality e.g. have strategies for their
Plan and Agenda 21, energy work and properties,
data. The databases are specifically designed to systematically record and keep track of progress over time.
energy consumption. In Egedal the energy label is used
as a basis for establishing an energy saving catalogue
and calculating the investment potentials of the
individual buildings. A major challenge with energy
labels is that they are based on a number of
conditions. This means that only certain technical