WRAP UP OF THE ONLINE EVENT “SMART AND ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS” INZEB and GIZ organised on Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 14.00, the online event “Smart and Energy Efficient Buildings”, in which the prospects and the framework for smart and energy efficient buildings in Europe, as well as strategies, political and technological developments in Greece were presented and discussed. The event was…
The SEI Forums The SEI Forums initiative has been active in 2020 despite the pandemic, moving all events, after the Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum – Energy Efficiency Finance Market Place which took place in February, to an online format. 3 webinars on sustainable energy investment in Member State recovery plans (part I and II) and on…
Did you know that #buildings in the #EU represent 41% of the total energy use and 36% of the EU CO2 emissions in 2019?Πίσω μέρος χεριού με το δείκτη να δείχνει δεξιά#SMAFIN H2020 project aims to make #energyefficiency renovation attractive for investors and further mobilise private #financing for energy efficiency measures.
How will the #energy efficient #renovation market arise?
The project #H2020 #SMAFIN will deal with this major challenge and will involve all relevant stakeholders through its complete roundtable methodology for enabling smart financing of #energyefficiency renovations.
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Roundtable on financing energy efficiency in Croatia, 28-29 October 2020 The European Commission in cooperation with North-West Croatia Regional Energy Agency – REGEA and under the auspices of the Croatian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development is organising the first SEI Forums – National Roundtable on Financing Energy Efficiency in Croatia. The objective of the…
#SEIForums hand over to SMAFIN national roundtables, and #energyefficiency investments in building renovation find their way to smart financing in the region of Balkans with the #SMAFIN roundtable methodology.
The improvement of buildings’ energy performance is a significant action of @EU_Commission #RenovationWave Strategy .SMAFIN has started working on this direction by connecting smart financing with Balkan buildings’ renovation with the first results to come the following months.
Combining investments on #energyefficiency in the building sector with smart financing is complicated but possible, and #SMAFIN will reinforce and encourage this endeavour by setting up permanent national roundtables and connecting key stakeholders.
This project perfectly incapsulates our topic of the month: financing #EnergyEfficiency of buildings.
Interested to know more on how to improve access to smart #finance regarding #EnergyEfficiency on building renovations in #Greece, #Croatia, #Romania and #Bulgaria? Stay tuned with #SMAFIN @EU_H2020 @CRES_HELLAS @RegeaAgency @NzebPro @DragomirTzanev @CentrulEnero @inzebORG
| A/A | GR |
| BEST PRACTICE | EFFICIENT ECO-FRIENDLY TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC LIGHTING AND BUILDINGS |
| Best Practice | |
| Financial scheme used | ELENA |
| Website/link | https://www.eib.org/attachments/documents/epirus_project_factsheet_en.pdf |
| Organisation | Ipiros Region |
| Organisation | |
| More Information on the BP | The project aims at improving the energy efficiency of public buildings and public lighting systems located in the Region of Epirus and deploy sustainable transport. The programme proposed has a substantial scale for the Region as well as a high level of ambition in terms of energy efficiency performance objectives set. It is a first project of that kind in Greece. The ELENA assistance contributes substantially to the implementation of the investment programme by bringing in missing resources and expertise. The ELENA support is designed with the aim of strengthening the Regions capacities |
| Categorise the bebeficiary Organisation | Public |
| Beneficiary sector | Buildings public |
| Potential of replication on national level | High |
| Potential of replication on Balkans countries | High |
| A/A | RO |
| BEST PRACTICE | Commercial loan granted to Chimcomplex S.A. Borzești to finance investments in a modern and efficient calcium chloride production plant and two cogeneration power plants |
| Best Practice | |
| Financial scheme used | Fondul Roman pt Eficienta Energiei Romanian Fund for Energy Efficiency |
| Website/link | https://free.org.ro/cel-de-al-39-lea-contract-de-finantare-si-cel-de-al-treilea-imprumut-acordat-s-c-chimcomplex-s-a-borzesti/ |
| Organisation | CHIMCOMPLEX S.A. |
| Organisation | |
| More Information on the BP | On May 17, 2018, The Romanian Energy Efficiency Fund awarded S.C. Chimcomplex S.A. Borzești, Bacău county a commercial loan worth 2,000,000 US dollars, to finance an investment totalling 9,985,000 US dollars The investment, aims to make the production and consumption of energy within S.C. Chimcomplex S.A. Borzești more efficient, by integrating into the company a plant for the production of calcium chloride granules with a capacity of 30,000 tons / year. The profile considered for the analysis of the opportunity, from the point of view of energy efficiency, to make this investment, included the calcium chloride production plant, the M electrolysis plant and the two co-generation plants. The analysis also took into account the favorable impact of the operation of the calcium chloride production plant on the operation with quasi-constant electricity consumption of the ion exchange membrane electrolysis plant (5th generation, among the best in the world), under the conditions of full use of the amount of chlorine resulting from the electrolysis process. At the same time, it was also considered that the entire amount of electricity related to the increase of electricity consumption in electrolysers and electricity consumption in the calcium chloride plant is produced by the company's cogeneration plants. Finally, it was taken into account the favorable impact of the operation of the calcium chloride plant on the production of energy in the company, through the energy recovery of a renewable energy source: hydrogen resulting from the electrolysis process, by producing electricity and heat in co-generation and for the production of steam in one of the steam boilers of the thermal power plant. The significant energy savings were estimated at about 14,777 toe / year, implicitly representing annual reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, amounting to 32,214 tons / year. This loan is the third of the same value, obtained by Chimcomplex S.A., the total value was of 6 million US dollars for investments exceeding 33 million US dollars. In total, the energy savings obtained by Chimcomplex, cumulated for the three investments, will be about 37,285 toe / year, representing annual reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, amounting to 84,703 tons / year. |
| Categorise the bebeficiary Organisation | Private |
| Beneficiary sector | Industry |
| Potential of replication on national level | High |
| Potential of replication on Balkans countries | High |
| A/A | BG |
| BEST PRACTICE | District 6 Energy Efficiency for Public Buildings |
| Best Practice | D6EEPB |
| Financial scheme used | ELENA |
| Website/link | https://www.eib.org/attachments/documents/d6eepb-factsheet-en.pdf |
| Organisation | Primaria sectorului 6 Bucuresti (District 6 of the Municipality of Bucharest) |
| Organisation | ELENA |
| More Information on the BP | Support to District 6 municipality in acceleration of the implementation of the EE investment programme for deep energy retrofit of 11 existing buildings, |
| Categorise the bebeficiary Organisation | Public |
| Beneficiary sector | Buildings public |
| Potential of replication on national level | High |
| Potential of replication on Balkans countries | High |
| A/A | HR |
| BEST PRACTICE | Energy Efficient Reconstruction of Public Lighting |
| Best Practice | RePublEEc |
| Financial scheme used | ELENA |
| Website/link | https://www.eib.org/attachments/documents/republeec-factsheet-en.pdf |
| Organisation | City of Zagreb |
| Organisation | |
| More Information on the BP | The ELENA Technical Assistance (TA) will be used for the preparation and implementation of modernization of at least 70% of overall public lighting system in the City of Zagreb by developing a PPP public lighting documentation, including innovative financial structure, for the most energy inefficient parts of the lighting system. In addition, ELENA TA activities will be used in preparation of technical specification for modernisation of the remaining lighting system, not used in the PPP structure. |
| Categorise the bebeficiary Organisation | Public |
| Beneficiary sector | Infrastructure |
| Potential of replication on national level | High |
| Potential of replication on Balkans countries | High |
| A/A | BG |
| BEST PRACTICE | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Sources Fund |
| Best Practice | EERSF |
| Financial scheme used | https://www.bgeef.com/en/ |
| Website/link | Municipalities | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Sources Fund (bgeef.com) |
| Organisation | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Sources Fund |
| Organisation | EERSF |
| More Information on the BP | Financed 110 municipal , 20 industrial, 24 ESCO, 2 other projects. |
| Categorise the bebeficiary Organisation | Private/Public |
| Beneficiary sector | Buildings public, private, industry |
| Potential of replication on national level | High |
| Potential of replication on Balkans countries | High |
