ABSTRACT

This chapter reviews four of the best-known and successful projects: ZERO home in Sonderborg, ESCO-light in Middelfart, MyClimatePlan in Middelfart and Green Business Growth (GBG) in Kolding, Middelfart and Odense. It provides these four energy renovation models as inspiring examples of social technologies that create synergies between citizens and institutions to reduce energy consumption at the local level. The four models represent different ways of motivating private households to conduct energy renovation. All models have met their own targets in the sense that they have resulted in numerous energy renovations in private households. But these models differ in terms of the role of the energy adviser, the financing model, the project evaluation methods, the value of community vs individual approaches and the strategy adopted to motivate private households.