W4RES - Women as leaders in renewable energy shift

The heating and cooling market represents 50% of the total energy consumed in Europe per year – either for domestic or industrial purposes. Based on its high dependence on fossil fuels, the market-oriented action plan W4RES tackles the need of replacing fossil fuels by renewable energy sources (RES) in a gender-responsive scenario.

The project “W4RES – Women as leaders of renewable energy shift in heating and cooling” aims to scale-up the involvement of women in the market deployment and uptake of Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC) solutions. Mostly by means of replicable support measures tested and validated across the 8 respective countries.

The basic project concept stems from the recognition that women hold great promise as agents of change, helping us progress faster towards our climate and energy targets for 2030.

The Project outcomes

RHC Market Uptake Reports

W4RES reports´geographical scope is Europe with focus on 8 diverse yet representative markets within the heating and cooling sector: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, and Slovakia.

These reports will focus on:

current European conditions hindering or favouring the uptake of RES in heating and cooling;
challenges and recommendations for the beforementioned countries;
how women can tackle market uptake barriers and drive the deployment of RHC solutions.

The W4RES observatory and regional hubs

A global online hub will showcase national RHC networking initiatives, relevant RHC networks, findings, good practices and co-creation activities to define new measures to boost the RHC market uptake. Concurrently, Regional hubs will be established to engage regional stakeholders and to facilitate the delivery of RHC market uptake support measures.

Support schemes for promising women-lead RHC projects

W4RES will select 50 European RHC projects led by women who will benefit from W4RES’ hands-on market uptake support services adapted to their challenges.

W4RES support measures will include:

technical assistance & consultancy to help women to set-up and deploy gender responsive RHC solutions;
business & innovation support services to facilitate and accelerate RHC market uptake.

RHC National Campaigns

The consortium will coordinate national campaigns oriented towards civil society, market actors, the academia, authorities and policy makers to raise awareness about the particular uptake challenges of each region. This will be done through social media, seminars, webinars as well as networking and matchmaking events.

The W4RES learning toolkit: hackathons, training workshops and the W4RES guide

In order to share the findings and best practices of the project, the W4RES consortium will organise a series of hackathons and trainings. Finally, an exclusive guide will be created to show how policy makers can replicate W4RES’ support measures. It will also incllude actionable recommendations for more informed and gender responsive RHC policy, market support and financial frameworks.

The W4RES kick off meeting took place on 12^th and 13^th November 2020. The European Association of Renewable Energy Research Centres – EUREC is the project´s communication leader. To stay informed about the project news subscribe to the project newsletter and, follow the hashtag #Women4RES on social media. The project website will be launched in February 2021.

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