Karelian Villages – Intelligent Energy Services (Tacis)

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The goal of the project was to gather current background information from Russia, particularly in the Republic of Karelia, in order to develop an Intelligent Energy Services -concept (”Virtual Village”), which could be used to design and develop an entire heat supply chain of a community and real estates. The concept could be used to ensure the functionality and sufficient service level of community and real estate heating and to direct and select investments in maintenance and repairs. The concept was planned to contain support material and tools for developing the heating energy management in communities. The model was to be created in a simplified format on the Internet, where Russian residents and future cooperation partners could review the energy management solutions for their respective areas. The project also intended to assemble information regarding Finnish guides/instructions, procedures and tools, which could be used in the projects in Russia. The villages of Olonets, Kostomuksha, Pudos and Prääsä were selected as the pilot villages for the project. The benchmarks in Finland were Kuhmo, Suomussalmi and Oulu.

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