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This guideline serves as a support material for municipalities in the process of developing their local energy efficiency strategy for municipal buildings. The idea of this guideline is: how to find an optimal energy efficiency strategy for municipal buildings by the support of an organized and structured self-assessment tool made to define capacity constraints in energy management in municipalities. At best, this leads to defining specific Capacity Building Schemes. The starting point is the evaluation of the current strategic local energy plans (in terms of SEAP, SECAP or energy plans in municipalities). Further steps are dedicated to an organizational and process analysis at the administrative level in order to re-arrange workflows and municipal energy management systems. In this context, it is beneficial to build retrofitting strategies including either building refurbishment actions or IT solutions for energy monitoring which is harmonized with potential investments in energy efficiency projects. This guideline is created for local policy-makers, planners and experts contributing to the development and implementation of building energy efficiency strategies, policies and projects in municipalities. It is intended for representatives at various levels of local government: heads of local governments, heads and specialists of technical and development departments, heads and technical directors of municipal companies, as well as cooperating institutions and companies or other groups in society, eventually including citizens.

The study analyses the developments of retail energy prices in the EU and the factors driving prices. It also looks at the impact of energy prices on the budgets of European households and how energy costs affect European industry and its competitiveness, particularly for energy intensive industries. The report also provides international comparisons of energy prices and costs. This study provided input to the report on the "Energy prices and costs in Europe" which is part of the Commission's "Clean Energy for All" package. ; peer-reviewed