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H2020 PROSPECT ends, with much resources for regional and local authorities to finance and implement their SECAPs
After three and a half years of hard work, this is time for the H2020-funded PROSPECT project to end, but not without great successes and achievements to look back at! Innovative financing is often an option for climate projects, but cities, municipalities and regions need to know how to activate and use it: PROSPECT filled […]
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Peer-Powered Cities and Regions: Success Stories from PROSPECT
In urban areas, significant opportunities are available for facilitating the energy transition. Many local and regional governments are implementing initiatives in sectors, such as buildings, lighting, and transport. Although there are political and economic incentives for undertaking such actions, many cities and regions face financial and technical barriers, such as insufficient financial resources and lack […]
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[Lunch seminar video] SENSEI, P4P to drive energy efficiency in Europe – news from the project
In this IEECP Lunch Seminar you can hear news from the Horizon 2020-funded project SENSEI, enabling energy efficiency to be rewarded as an energy resource and a new grid service while turning the energy efficiency retrofit project’s value into an investable asset for private financing. Latest releases include : – a video on how to […]
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Can energy efficiency investments become more transparent, predictable and attractive for investors, financiers and project developers? News from the Triple A project
What is the project about? To borrow the project words, energy efficiency projects could play a crucial role in transitioning to the future economy post-COVID19, where sustainable growth will be the centre of attention. But to secure and therefore boost energy efficiency investments, attractive project ideas should be identified properly: Triple A’s standardised methodology allows […]
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Experience and lessons learned from P4P pilots for energy efficiency: new findings from H2020 SENSEI
Europe’s buildings have the potential to play a key role in our future energy systems. Making them more efficient reduces the need for expensive power plant capacity, defers the costly upgrading of network infrastructure and enables this infrastructure to be used with more flexibility. Energy efficiency is still not adequately compensated for these benefits, acting […]
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[Lunch seminar video] SENSEI, PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE to drive energy efficiency in Europe
In this IEECP Lunch Seminar you can hear about from the Horizon 2020-funded project SENSEI, enabling energy efficiency to be rewarded as an energy resource and a new grid service while turning the energy efficiency retrofit project’s value into an investable asset for private financing. SENSEI combines pay-for-performance (P4P) arrangements with the Energy Performance Contracting […]
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[Newsletter] SENSEI, innovative transaction models to value buildings’ energy efficiency upgrades based on pay-for-performance
During the early 2020 World Sustainable Energy Days conference in Austria, DG Energy’s Radoš Horaček mentioned SENSEI as a new EU project standing out. What is SENSEI? SENSEI enables the compensation of energy efficiency as an energy resource and grid service, while turning the project’s value into an investable asset for private financing. SENSEI puts […]
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[Survey] Cities, municipalities and regions: what are the key factors for green financing to become a reality?
The H2020-funded project PROSPECT wants to know what the key factors are for green financing to become a reality. If you are working for a city/municipality or region, we would love to hear your opinion on the subject. The survey takes about 3-5 minutes. Submit your views before April 8! ABOUT PROSPECT started in 2017 […]
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[Report] Risks of Energy Efficiency Financing and Mitigation Strategies Typology
Energy efficiency is one of the key elements of the EU energy policy. This is reflected in the EU’s existing legislation and the targets to be reached by 2030 and 2050. Specifically, the EU has set the clear commitment to become the first carbon-neutral continent and remain the leader in the clean energy transition at […]
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[Report] Rewarding energy efficiency for energy system services through markets: opportunities and challenges in Europe
Energy efficiency provides a diverse set of values to the energy system, some of which can be rewarded through mechanisms such as capacity markets and network procurement programmes and others which require dedicated energy efficiency programmes. To turn this set of values into bankable energy efficiency projects a number of steps need to be taken. […]
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