CITY OF DUBLIN ENERGY MANAGEMENT AGENCY LIMITED

Their core work

CODEMA is Dublin's local energy agency, advising the city's local authorities on energy planning, decarbonisation strategy, and the financing of renewable energy and efficiency projects. They develop transition roadmaps, aggregate smaller energy projects into bankable investment packages, and design instruments like energy performance contracts and energy bonds to unlock funding. Their work bridges municipal policy with on-the-ground project delivery, turning climate action plans into implementable programmes across Dublin's public and private building stock.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

CODEMA's early H2020 work (2016–2019) focused on governance frameworks and citizen engagement — how to involve local authorities and communities in energy transition through deliberative democracy and multi-stakeholder roadmaps. From 2020 onward, the focus shifted decisively toward practical delivery: district heating infrastructure, renewable project financing, energy bonds, and aggregating smaller projects into investable packages. The trajectory is clear — from planning how to decarbonise cities to actually financing and delivering the projects.

CODEMA is moving from advisory and roadmap roles toward hands-on project development and innovative financing — expect them to seek partners with investment structuring, district energy engineering, or municipal retrofit expertise.

How they like to work

CODEMA primarily participates as a partner (3 of 4 projects) but took the coordinator role on their largest and most recent project, DeliveREE, which received over half their total H2020 funding. With 40 unique partners across 18 countries, they operate in broad European consortia rather than tight repeat-partner clusters. This pattern suggests a well-connected organisation gaining confidence — transitioning from learning within large networks to leading projects in their home domain of Dublin energy delivery.

CODEMA has built a wide European network of 40 partners across 18 countries, reflecting participation in multi-city CSA projects where peer-to-peer learning between energy agencies and local authorities is the norm. Their network is strongest among municipal energy agencies and local government bodies across the EU.

What sets them apart

CODEMA occupies a rare niche as a city-level energy agency that combines policy advisory work with practical project finance — they don't just write roadmaps, they design the financial instruments (energy bonds, performance contracts) to implement them. Their deep embeddedness in Dublin's local government gives them direct access to municipal decision-making, making them an ideal partner for anyone needing a real-world urban testbed for energy transition solutions in an English-speaking EU capital.

Highlights from their portfolio

• DeliveREE
  Their only coordinator role and largest project (EUR 636K), focused on delivering real renewable energy and efficiency projects in Dublin through innovative financing like energy bonds.
• DecarbCityPipes 2050
  Addresses the often-overlooked challenge of decarbonising urban heating and cooling pipe networks toward zero-carbon by 2050, including green gas pathways.
• TOMORROW
  Pioneered citizen-centred transition roadmaps using deliberative democracy approaches, feeding directly into CODEMA's later project delivery capability.