Technical assistance

Skiathos is an island in Greece, located in the northern Aegean Sea, and is part of the Sporades island group. With an area of 47.9 km² and a population of 5,802, it ranks among the more densely populated islands in the region. The island has a well-developed infrastructure designed to support its tourism industry, including hotels, restaurants, and a range of recreational services. It is positioned 2.4 nautical miles from the southern coast of Pelion, 6 nautical miles from Skopelos to the east, and 16 nautical miles from Evia to the south.

Kos Island is located in the South Aegean Sea, near Turkey's western coasts. It is the third-largest island in the Dodecanese, covering 290 square kilometres and with a coastline of 112 kilometres. It borders Kalymnos to the north, Nisyros to the south, Turkey to the east, and Astypalaia to the west. The island is 200 nautical miles from Piraeus and has the second-largest population in the Dodecanese, after Rhodes.The electricity demand of the Kos-Kalymnos electrical system in 2023 was around 360 GWh.

The Diapontian Islands, also known as the Diapontia Islands, are a group of Greek islands located in the Ionian Sea, northwest of Corfu. The main inhabited islands in this archipelago are Othoni, Ereikoussa, and Mathraki. The Diapontian Islands do not have conventional electricity production units or renewable energy sources (RES). Instead, they rely solely on their interconnection with Corfu for electricity supply. Heating on all three islands is primarily achieved using diesel, wood, air conditioning, and resistive heaters.

Prangli is the northernmost island of Estonia with a permanent population. It situates in the gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The island's year-round population is about 75 inhabitants and about 200-250 people are living here during the summer season.

Andros is the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades Archipelago. Andros municipality in cooperation with Network of Sustainable Greek Islands (DAFNI) applied to the Clean energy for EU islands technical assistance in March 2022, with the goal to develop a Clean Energy Transition Agenda (CETA). This CETA is a strategic roadmap for the clean energy transition, in which the local community must be involved.

Linosa is a small Italian island of volcanic origin in the Sicily Channel between Tunisia, Sicily and Malta. It is part of the Pelagie Islands (Lampedusa, Linosa, Lampione) and administratively belongs to the Municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa, in the Province of Agrigento (Sicily). Linosa has an area of 5.4 km2, about a quarter of the size of Lampedusa, but has just 430 inhabitants, which is only 7% of the population of the overall municipality.

The Greek Island Thira, also known as Santorini is located in the southern Aegean Sea in about 200 km distance from the mainland. 

Thira has participated in the 2022 Call for Technical Assistance and has received technical assistance by the Clean energy for EU islands secretariat. 

Venø is a Danish island  and the only island in the municipality of Struer (Central Denmark Region). Distance to the mainland is 256 m. The island is served by municipality owned ferry-service with 44 daily departures. Venø has 80 resident houses and 60 holiday cottages. The main economic activities are a boarding school, farming, seafood production facility, few active craftsmen and tourism.In mid-2022, the local citizen association began an energy transition project sponsored by the NESOI, Struer Municipality and the energy supplier.