Abstract
The development strategy of the European Union until the year 2020, Europe 2020, militates for an intelligent economy,
sustainable and favorable to inclusion. Following these principles, each Member State establishes its targets and action plans at a
national level. On the other hand, the rural zones benefit from diverse forms of renewable energy which can assure their
development and energetic autonomy, bringing important advantages to the rural community: the diminishing of energy bills,
stimulating new investments in the village, the new jobs possibilities, the decline of poverty, the development of access roads,
etc. Starting from these presumptions, the paper makes an analysis of the available renewable energy from the rural environment
and an evaluation of the way in which this energy can be exploited by the local community. For this study, an advanced
methodology is used, methodology which was developed within the Network of Small Rural Communities for Energeticneutrality,
IEE/07/547/SI2.499065/2008 project, financed through the Intelligent Energy Europe program. The necessary steps
are presented for the fulfillment of this analysis which is applied, through exemplification, on the actual case of a rural
community, community which benefits especially by biomass as renewable energy source. Quite laborious and requiring a
rigorous approach and expertise, the method is extremely useful for the local development strategy. It allows the mobilization of
the local community in attracting investments to optimize the potential of renewable energy of the area