Welcome to Stronghouse's website. Stronghouse is a project co-funded by the North Sea Region Programme 2014 - 2020.
Energy transition
Stronghouse aims at sustainable housing for strong communities As part of the energy transition, Stronghouse analyses and redesigns measures to motivate and facilitate homeowners – individually and on a neighbourhood level – to invest in energy renovation/retrofitting their homes.
Enabling energy renovation
Stronghouse engages, enables and empowers homeowners and neighbourhoods to invest and reduce the environmental footprint of their homes. Stronghouse wants to support homeowners in their journey from initial interest, to planning, financing and contracting energy renovation. Therefore, Stronghouse develops, adjusts and redesigns measures that enable homeowners to invest, to organize scale and to gain access to services and products.
Focus on homeowners
This innovative focus on homeowner concerns reduces the footprint of 15,000 homes, generates a 100 million euro investment and 25 kiloton CO2 reduction. Stronghouse starts by analyzing existing instruments on their impact. By sharing, (re-)organizing and enhancing them with complementary tools, Stronghouse raises their impact and delivers four, related support measures:
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Instruments and tools that enable individual homeowners to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energies
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A neighbourhood-approach to organizing the necessary scale and drivers to invest
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Market access for regional SMEs specialized in energy renovation for individual homeowners
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Adoption strategies for implementing these instruments, approach and market access
Latest Project News
Natural gas-free home heating - how? Drents Engergieloket has some answers.
20 January 2023Starting the new year with a bang, the Stronghouse consortium has a hive of activities planned to inform, engage and support homeowners and neighbourh…
Read moreThe Energy Cooperative Noordseveld – giving back to the community
20 December 2022The Municipality of Noordenveld, one of the Dutch Stronghouse partners in the northern Netherlands, is building on the area’s existing sense of cohes…
Read moreStronghouse – some light in the dark
19 December 2022It’s that time of year again…the short December days when we could all do with some extra light and warmth. While working on the theme of energy effic…
Read moreSønderborg’s Energy Festival - an enlightening event
12 December 2022As the cold, dark days of winter close in, ProjectZero and the Muncipality of Sønderborg shone a light for locals at the Energy Saving Festival held o…
Read moreReady for more? Stage 3 of the Stronghouse E-learning Course
28 November 2022The Stronghouse E-learning Course Stage 3 is now online! While the previous course dealt with raising awareness amongst homeowners, this latest sectio…
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