ALEM does not manage a single service: it governs a transition. It is the technical authority that measures the city's emissions, promotes clean generation across municipal assets, coordinates electric-vehicle charging and brings renewable energy to people who do not have a suitable roof of their own.
Start year
Created in 2007 as a pioneering body in the region. Its evolution towards data-driven governance was consolidated with approval of the SECAP.
Target groups
Quadruple-helix model: municipal departments, SMEs and technology providers, homeowners' associations and citizens, with a focus on households experiencing energy poverty.
Scope
100% of the population: emissions mitigation, climate adaptation of the urban environment and the energy transition benefit everyone through public health, air quality and lower energy bills.
Funding
Municipal budget allocations with substantial co-financing from competitive programmes: Horizon Europe, LIFE, ERDF and NextGenerationEU. ALEM acts as the specialist technical liaison.
The challenge
Fragmented urban management
Mobility, urban planning, lighting and waste were historically managed in silos, by separate departments and without a unified climate vision. No one could answer the basic question with precision: how much does the city emit, and why?
The city needed an agile, technically capable authority able to measure greenhouse gases accurately, centralise the transition to renewables, educate citizens on efficiency and coordinate access to complex European funding for climate resilience.
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Binding commitment to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions before the European Union.
2007
Nearly two decades as a pioneering local energy agency in the region.
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Strategic pillars: data, self-consumption, electric mobility and citizen empowerment.
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First Local Energy Communities, in Vistabella and La Alberca.
Four strategic pillars
Climate intelligence and integrated governance
ALEM ensures sustainability is embedded in every aspect of urban management. Its work is organised around four pillars that run from data to the street, and from the street to household energy bills.
01 · SECAP
Climate monitoring and analytics
As the body responsible for the SECAP, ALEM maintains high-precision emissions inventories. Integrated with the smart-city ecosystem, it cross-references mobility, lighting and waste data, moving beyond static reports to dynamic climate governance that identifies emission hotspots and evaluates policy effectiveness in real time.
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Public self-consumption
Technical driver of the transition across municipal assets: it turns the roofs of public buildings, schools and sports facilities into clean-generation nodes. It manages the full cycle, from engineering design and photovoltaic sizing to operational maintenance.
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Municipal electric mobility
It coordinates expansion of the public-street charging network, ensuring fast chargers at strategic locations throughout the municipality. Beyond the physical equipment, it integrates those points into smart-management platforms to accelerate the transition to a zero-emission municipal fleet.
04 · Green Office
Citizen empowerment
Energy sovereignty and social equity. The Green Office provides technical and administrative advice to families and homeowners' associations to optimise electricity contracts and combat energy poverty. Its distinctive feature is leading a model that makes public rooftops available so neighbourhood groups in the city and outlying districts can install shared generation.
“Democratising access to renewable energy for people who do not have a suitable roof of their own.”
Results by 2026
From passive consumers to active producers
ALEM's centralised governance has ensured compliance with Murcia's binding targets, particularly its commitment to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 40% before the European Union.
But the most significant milestone is community-based: democratising energy in the face of economic volatility. ALEM has enabled the pioneering use of public-building rooftops to create the first Local Energy Communities in neighbourhoods such as Vistabella and La Alberca. Residents stop being passive consumers and become active prosumers of clean energy.
Binding target
More than a 40% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions, committed before the European Union and verified through the SECAP inventory.
EnerAgen Network
The agency has held the secretariat of Spain's national network of energy agencies and has secured and allocated significant European funds for energy renovation and urban resilience.
Energy communities
Vistabella and La Alberca: the first in the municipality, installed on public rooftops made available to residents' communities. They complete the cycle of social equity and urban sustainability.
Quadruple helix
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