• Start year: 2012
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: Completed

On 5 March 2012, Brest Métropole Océane launched Tinergie-
Brest, the first public internet portal that supports thermal
renovations for individuals. Tinergie-Brest is a one-of-akind,
independent and free tool that supports individuals’
household thermal renovations projects. It is a joint effort
with the local energy agency that constitutes a unique interlocutor
that presents projects in all their phases and details.
It includes participation on the part of an expert network
that is highly aware and trained with regard to energy-management
issues.

• Start year:
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: Completed

In winter, thermal façades help inhabitants raise awareness
about their energy savings by creating infrared images
of their houses (heat loss, stagnation defects). When
the images are delivered, inhabitants benefit from tips on
feasible priority thermal upgrade projects as well as a report
that shows their residences’ main problem areas on
thermograms. Six twenty-residence “thermal façade”
campaigns have been undertaken and the program will
continue next winter.

• Start year: 2011
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

The urban heating network, owned by the city of Brest
since 1985, is run on 85% renewable energy. Extending 24
km it provides approximately 117,000 MWh, avoiding the
emission of nearly 15,000 metric tons of CO2 annually. Four
expansions are planned toward neighborhoods and equal
approximately 55,000 MWh of supplementary heat along
a 20.5 km line to be realized. Starting in 2012, work was
begun on a 1200-meter extension and the network connection
to a senior care facility, two schools, residences and the
network connection to the Capucins neighborhood (560
residences and tertiary activities).

• Start year: 2011
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: Completed

The area’s first streetcar line, extending 14.3 km, was completed
in June 2012 and began running in Brest on 23 June
2012

• Start year:
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status:

For the last two decades, Brest Métropole Océane has overseen
a water-resources protection and preservation policy via
its “Blue Plan” bay agreement and
its forestry/water-management plan
for the Élorn River, which completes
the agreement. A local urbanism
plan, currently underway, (that is
integrated into the Brest Métropole
Océane regional climate plan)
supplements this policy that seeks to
respect the overall water cycle and
adapt the region to climate change
(flood risk, for example).