Use Case: Oradea Industrial Platforms, Romania, Oradea.
Trusted partner: https://www.adlo.ro/
Use Case Operator: Servelect (SVT) and Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN)
Located in the north-western part of Romania (just 4 km from the Western border), the Oradea Industrial Platforms manage seven Industrial Platforms with a total area larger than 230 ha. They are located in the north-western part of Romania, close to the Hungarian border. The platforms offer good infrastructure, with competitive costs, a skilled labor force, and tailor-made training programs through the dedicated vocational school. The above-mentioned platforms are managed by Oradea Local Development Agency (Agentia de Dezvoltare Locala Oradea – ADLO). The Oradea Industrial Platforms provide a full range of facilities and technical infrastructure, showing flexibility to address business needs and requirements.
The City of Oradea and Oradea Local Development Agency support the long term success strategy by working with companies to develop and implement the most suitable solutions. The region is subject to the European and Romanian Energy Efficiency norms and directives.
Oradea Local Development Agency’s core business is the administration of the industrial parks: investment in infrastructure, maintenance, electricity distribution. ADLO’s mission is to become an important supporter of the Bihor County economic sector, promotor of innovation and partnership between the private, public, and academic sector in order to increase local and regional competitiveness. Moreover, their efforts are concentrated on the relation with the investors providing support for the newcomers for establishing the business in Oradea and Bihor Country and in the relation with public agencies and structures.
There are a large variety of SMEs located in Oradea Industrial Platforms. They evolved from an exclusive industrial platform, in the past, nowadays including SMEs from different sectors: manufacturing, IT, services, craft activities and also academic activities (vocational and technical school).
Servelect and TUCN are the GEAR@SME consortium partners involved in the Romanian use case. The first will deal directly with the Trusted Partner (ADLO) and with the SMEs involved in the use cases generating support activities in order to provide a proper energy collective context (based on the proposed methodology). The second will deal with the multiplication of the implemented methodology within the use case by organizing national events in which examples of best practices will be disseminated.
Firstly, together with the TP, the GEAR@SME consortium, Romanian side, partners are preparing a preliminary energy scan procedure that will be applied to each individual SME. The individual approach outcome will constitute the triggering element for the future energy collective. Moreover, for a better understanding of the current situation of the use case, an individual energy profile of each SME will be made. We are confident that the outcome of the energy scan activity will generate requests from the SMEs side for detailed energy audits which in turn will provide the opportunity to implement individual and collective energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources.
The follow-up events following the energy scans would involve several workshops and training events which will mainly address the identified barriers, problems and possible individual and collective solutions applicable to the targeted SMEs group. However, future activities will be established after the preliminary energy scan outcome is analysed and will also be based on the results of the interviews.
The are several important ongoing projects involving academic and research institutions to accelerate the transition process of the area towards a smart sustainable district and to reach carbon neutrality up to 2050. In this regard, ADLO initiated strong partnerships with the University of Oradea, Technical University of Cluj Napoca. Moreover, as a dedicated source of the skilled labor force for the companies operating in the Oradea Industrial Platforms, the City Hall of Oradea founded in 2013 the Eurobusiness Vocational School, the grounds where private companies and education bodies bind to provide a competitive offer.