GDF SUEZ DOLCEVITA and the city of Calais organize the big energy challenge

- From June 7th to September 29th 2013, GDF SUEZ DolceVita, in partnership with the City of Calais, proposed to local residents a program entitled "The Big Energy Challenge". This entertaining and instructive initiative is completely free of charge and open to all, in the aim of encouraging Calais residents to both adopt new daily habits like eco-friendly actions and save on energy consumption (a stand at the Calais Expo Fair to provide energy savings information, the Energy Saving Pavilion to enhance awareness of energy saving strategies, a stand at the Innovation in Housing Trade Fair to share energy management solutions). Locals are thus kept informed of energy conservation solutions and made aware of energy savings potential and "green" behavior, all in a spirit of collective accountability.- The City of Calais has already implemented many actions to favor environmental protection and energy cost-cutting, on behalf of its 74,000 population, including:• eco-driver training for municipal staff and renewal of the city's fleet of cars, partially with electric vehicles;• modification of public lighting to introduce LED lamps;• use of a timer in allocating public building energy consumption;• development of eco-districts in the city, with mobilization efforts already underway: several actions focusing on energy vulnerability involve GDF SUEZ. Best practice spotted by the World Forum Lille in 2013.