A description of the S.M.A.R.T. project is also available in the following languages:
Italiano
24 Nov 2010: Final meeting in Cremona (8 Oct 2010): documentation available.
5 Jul 2010: The Provincia di Cremona and its Strategies to proMote small scAle hydro electRicity producTion: download a video (AVI format, 85 MB; in Italian).
S.M.A.R.T.
"Strategies to proMote small scAle hydro electRicity producTion in Europe"
is a project of the Province of Cremona - Environment Division,
co-financed by the European Commission through the 2006 Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme,
which aims at promoting the spread of distributed power generation. The Intelligent Energy – Europe Programme 2003-2006 (decision no. 1230/2003 of
the European Parliament - article 5)
has been designed to support the energy policies of
the European Union as set in the Green Paper on Security of Energy Supply,
in the White Paper on Transport and by the European Community legislation.
The programme is structured into four specific fields and the SMART project is part of the
ALTENER programme - Vertical Key Action 7 - Small-scale RES applications -
which concerns the promotion of new and renewable energy sources
for the decentralised production of electricity and their impact on the local environment.
For further information please visit the European Union website: http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html
The methodology of the SMART project is a replicable path that is (shortly) organised in the following steps:
Have a look at the public cadastre of the pilot regions of the project