WARES will provide a service that creates innovative renewable energy solutions for remote areas by finding unused or hidden opportunities for renewable energy generation within the activities and property of the water industry sector, establishing partnerships between the water industry and its neighbouring communities to exploit this potential, sourcing the capital investment required to commercialise these opportunities from the private sector, and creating Public Private Partnerships to implement the business opportunity; thereby providing the benefits of increased renewable energy generation, reduced energy costs for the water sector, enterprise and job creation for the local community, renewable energy for the local community, and finally a financial return to increase the prosperity of the local community by re-investment in other social projects. WARES synthesises the transnational expertise required to provide a service that delivers these outcomes across the NPP area.WARES has been approved as a strategic project. Achievements: WARES ServicesWARES is a service which aims to increase the generation of renewable energy by communities through leveraging the opportunities that exist within water utilities assets bases. WARES has uncovered previously unexplored opportunities for renewable energy generation from within the activities, property, and assets of the water utilities. For example, water utilities have land which has running water, pipes which generate heat and spaces with high wind potential where there is an opportunity to introduce renewable technologies.The overall objective of WARES has been to create, demonstrate and promote a new model for maximising the community and socio-economic benefits and secure local, sustainable development. The service that WARES has developed has been a public-private-partnership model (PPP), with a view to creating enterprises that are partnerships between utilities and their neighbouring communities to exploit the potential that exists.The WARES service is intended for use by a wide range of organisations, ranging from regional economic development agencies, communities, water utilities, group water schemes and local, regional and national governments.The overall objective of WARES was to create, demonstrate and promote a new model for maximising the community and socio-economic benefits and secure local, sustainable development. This has now been achieved by a combination of knowledge, experience and transnational co-operation across each of the partner regions, leaving a coherent, robust yet flexible service which is available to the intended participants listed above.WARES has a wide range of open source materials available to anyone who is looking to engage in local community sustainable development and they can be accessed directly from this website (http://www.waresnpp.eu/services.php). Resource Materials• WARES - Best Practice in Water Asset Utilisation• WARES - Brochure• WARES - Event report• WARES - Financial Support for Renewable Energy Implementation• WARES - Ireland Pilots• WARES - Ireland Pilots 2• WARES - Northern Ireland Pilots• WARES - Norwegian Pilots• WARES - Overview of Water Services• WARES - Policy Recommendations Presentation (3)• WARES - Scotland Pilots• WARES - Service [Compatibility Mode]• WARES - Service diagramhttp://www.waresnpp.eu/assets/documents/WARES%20-%20Brochure.pdf