Malevisi, Crete Honored With European Energy Award

The municipality of Malevisi, on Crete, apprently received an international award on energy saving at a two-day MEDEEA - Implementation of European Energy Award international conference which was held in Cyprus.

Malevisi was honored for the planned participation of the village of Keramoutsi in the "Green Villages" program. Keramoutsi is one of the six villages in Greece where ecological interventions are to be made in private houses designed to make them completely environmentally-friendly in terms of energy consumption.

The conference praised environment-friendly policies implemented in 320 municipalities in seven countries, including Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Cyprus and Greece. At the same time it served as a platform to draw up new strategic plans in energy policy until 2020 in the context of the Covenant of Mayors European network for the climate change.

Malevisi  was the first municipality in Greece to apply for the production of "green" electricity using a hybrid energy production plant.