It’s worth the effort of exchanging experience
The council of European Municipalities and Regions made together with EnergieCities and Climate Alliance a nice guidebook for regional and local authorities this spring. It contains a pool of ideas, measures and good practice examples to develop and implement action plans for sustainable energy. You find it on the web at http://ec.europa.eu/energy/green-paper-energy/index_en.htm It’s worth considering, I think.
In Karlstad we have just finished up the work with a revision of our Energy plan and also produced a new Transport strategy paper for the city. In that work we used the experience from several European cities. You can gain a lot by using experience from others. I hope our plans soon will be translated to English so that I can publish them for you to look into.

Should you want to give your opinion on the European Commissions Green Paper “Energy”? Just visit this link http://ec.europa.eu/energy/green-paper-energy/index_en.htm and you can answer the online questionnaire. The consultation is open until the 24 of September. It’s quite a broad questionnaire but of course a temptation for the interested.