TEPOS positive energy territories in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in 2018

The “TEPOS — Positive Energy Territory” approach emerged from the territories in the late 2000s. It was taken over and promoted from 2010 by the CLER and then proposed by several regional councils to their territories, in partnership with ADEME in most cases. In the former Rhône-Alpes, a “positive energy territories” approach was launched in July 2012 at the initiative of the Region and the ADEME with the aim of selecting and supporting demonstrative territories (political portage and project animation based on triptych sobriety, efficiency, renewable energies), whose coherence and motivation commit them to convincing results. The territories selected had to follow a trajectory towards the target of producing local renewable energy up to the residual energy needs after dividing by two of the latter by 2050 at the latest. They are on the scale of “basins of life” and urban poles have been eligible to the extent that they established a partnership with one or more predominantly rural territories present in their geographical continuity. A regional support system has been set up to support these territories, mainly to support project engineering and result in two successive funding depending on the level of commitment in the process: * a support system for carrying out a preliminary study for territories wishing to enter into the TEPOS approach, called “the AMO prior TEPOS”. This study should include the following points: An energy-climate study, with a state of play and an assessment of the potentials of the territory The definition of a programme of immediate actions known as “without regret” The development of a shared energy strategy over the long term * a support scheme of EUR 100 000 (over 3 years) of grant for project management assistance (AMO) for territories (already) entered into the TEPOS approach, called “AMO TEPOS”. This AMO TEPOS can be internal (financing a new item), external or an intermediate solution.