The paper Local strategies for competitive, effective and secure energy uses: the RENERGY transfer tools and methods“ by C. Cosmi, J. Dvarionene, I. Marques, T. Ferrão, I. Bloomfield, K. Brix & D. R. Trummer (2014) was presented in the 9th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability that took place in the Certosa di Pontignano on 23 - 25 September 2014, organised by the University of Siena and the Wessex Institute of Technology .It was published in the WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Volume 191 and permanently archived in the WIT eLibrary (http://library.witpress.com/)