Useful Links

EEnvest

Risk Reduction For Building Energy Efficiency Investments

The aim of EEnvest is the creation of a tool (a web-based search and match platform) which investors can use to evaluate the risk of investment in energy efficiency for buildings. The EEnvest platform will provide reliable information on the risk associated with energy renovation measures.

ESCO

INVESTOR

SME

EeMAP

Energy Efficient Mortgage Action Plan

The EeMAP is a market-led Initiative focussed on the design and delivery of an “energy efficient mortgage”

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

EIPP

European Investment Project Portal

EIPP Success Stories: Watch the testimonials of some of the companies who have received financing after being published on the EIPP

ESCO

INVESTOR

SME

MUNICIPALITY

eQuad

eQuad helps European energy efficiency project managers (ESCOs, engineering firms, and construction companies) access appropriate project finance while lowering upfront due diligence costs for investors.

Project origination , due diligence, certification
Financial analysis, performance insurance.
Introduction to investors, Investment support

ESCO

INVESTOR

SME

EUCF

European City Facility

Financial support (in the form of EUR 60,000 lump sums) and related services to enable municipalities in Europe to develop investment concepts related to the implementation of actions identified in their climate and energy action plans.

MUNICIPALITY

EuroACE

European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

EuroACE works together with the European institutions to help Europe move towards an efficient use of energy in buildings

ACADEMIA

POLICY MAKER

EuroPACE

Integrated Home Renovation Platform

EuroPACE ensures targeted advice and coordination for homeowners, as well as contractor training and verification, the availability of affordable, long-term financing accessible to all homeowners.

ESCO

POLICY MAKER

MUNICIPALITY

European Commission

Examples of Juncker Plan projects in the energy sector

ESCO

INVESTOR

SME

MUNICIPALITY

INNOVATE

Setting up One-stop-shops

Cases, guidance, videos

ESCO

POLICY MAKER

MUNICIPALITY

LAUNCH

Scaling up the market for Sustainable Energy Assets

PRODESA aims to assist seven major municipalities in Athens Metropolitan Area to launch showcase energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, utilizing innovative financial tools and attracting private investments.

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

NESOI

Funding mechanism

The European Islands Facility – NESOI, open to a community of 2400 inhabited EU islands, aims to fund 60 successful energy transition projects, mobilizing more than €100m of investment and reducing significantly Co2 and GHG emissions by 2023.

ESCO

POLICY MAKER

MUNICIPALITY

Press release

Το Εθνικό GREEN DEAL των 10 δισ. ευρώ στην Εξοικονόμηση Ενέργειας

Αρθρο του του Γιάννη Μανιάτη

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

SME

MUNICIPALITY

PRODESA

Energy efficiency projects in South Attica

Financing energy efficiency

ESCO

POLICY MAKER

PROSPECT

Peer-powered cities and regions

PROSPECT aims to create an easy and replicable peer to peer learning programme for regional and local authorities to learn with and from each other on how to finance and implement their sustainable energy and climate action plans using innovative schemes.

INVESTOR

MUNICIPALITY

QualitEE

Driving investements in energy efficiency services through quality assurance

QualitEE project aims to increase investment in energy efficiency services in the building sector within the EU and improve trust in service providers. To achieve these aims, quality assessment criteria and business cases for quality assurance schemes have been developed.

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

QUEST

Quality Management Investments for Energy Efficiency

QUEST project’s goal is to increase investments in sustainable and energy efficiency buildings by lowering the risk attributed by investors to this typology of investments.
To solve this issue and de-risk investments, QUEST is developing a reliable and clear methodology for evaluating the risks associated with energy efficient and sustainable buildings investments by integrating effective quality management services into these projects

ESCO

INVESTOR

ACADEMIA

REFINE

Development of refinancing schemes enabling EES providers to clean up their balance sheet,

Guaranty funds, Refinancing institution, Market facilitators

ESCO

INVESTOR

ACADEMIA

Residential building energy renovations with on-bill financing

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

SEFIPA

Sustainable Energy Financing Platform in Austria

A Finance Lab involving stakeholders from the areas of finance, sponsorship, administration and project development. Identification of potential projects/ initiatives that could be financed by the solutions developed by the Finance Lab. An investment platform for renewable energy and energy efficiency in Austria.

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

SEIF

Sustainable Energy Investment Forums

SEI Forums is an initiative of the European Commission working with stakeholders in EU Member States in order to boost large-scale investment and financing for sustainable energy.

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

SME

ACADEMIA

SENSEI

pay-for-performance (P4P) arrangements with the Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) model

SENSEI enables 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 (EPC) model and engages in negotiation games with preliminary stakeholders. This offers the possibility for stakeholders to shape the SENSEI business models according to their needs.

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

ACADEMIA

Smarter Choices

Smarter Choices Energy Initiative

Smarter Choices has been UK government funded to bring together and test the latest financing and monitoring technologies into a single online platform to provide straightforward building energy saving solutions. To develop this new service, SMEs with energy bills above £20,000 per year can now access a limited number of free energy assessments and free measurement & verification equipment for pilot projects which proceed to installation.

ESCO

Triple-A

Enhancing at an Early Stage the Investment Value Chain of Energy Efficiency Projects

The overall aim of the Triple-A project is to assist financial institutions and project developers increase their deployment of capital in energy efficiency, making investments more transparent, predictable and attractive.

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

ACADEMIA

ΓΓΔΕ

Γενική Γραμματεία Επενδύσεων και ΕΣΠΑ

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

SME

MUNICIPALITY

ACADEMIA

Ε.Ε.Τ.Α.Α.

Ελληνική Εταιρία Τοπικής Ανάπτυξης και Αυτοδιοίκησης

Διαχείριση των Επιχειρησιακών Προγραμμάτων του Ε.Σ.Π.Α.

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

SME

MUNICIPALITY

ACADEMIA

EUCF (in Croatian)

European City Facility

Detailed information in Croatian about EUCF

MUNICIPALITY

CitizEE

Scaling up Public Energy Efficiency Investments via Standardising Citizen Financing Schemes

The CitizEE project enables reaching full potential of innovative financing schemes for citizens by establishing national and/or regional Investment Platforms (IPs), which are backed by the European Fund for Strategic Investment. Up until now, several tools and reports have been developed, such as the Map of structured financial solutions for CFs4EE (Citizen Financing Schemes for Energy Efficiency projects) financing schemes, CFs4EE financing scheme Evaluation and Action Plan Report and Simulation tool and pilot projects simulations reports.

INVESTOR

MUNICIPALITY

POLICY MAKER

A coordinated regional effort to set up One-Stop-Shops across Europe to connect all stakeholders.

ESCO

INVESTOR

POLICY MAKER

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

Useful Links

EEnvest

The aim of EEnvest is the creation of a tool (a web-based search and match platform) which investors can use to evaluate the risk of investment in energy efficiency for buildings. The EEnvest platform will provide reliable information on the risk associated with energy renovation measures.

EeMAP

The EeMAP is a market-led Initiative focussed on the design and delivery of an “energy efficient mortgage”

EIPP

EIPP Success Stories: Watch the testimonials of some of the companies who have received financing after being published on the EIPP

eQuad

Project origination , due diligence, certification Financial analysis, performance insurance. Introduction to investors, Investment support

EUCF

Financial support (in the form of EUR 60,000 lump sums) and related services to enable municipalities in Europe to develop investment concepts related to the implementation of actions identified in their climate and energy action plans.

EuroACE

EuroACE works together with the European institutions to help Europe move towards an efficient use of energy in buildings

EuroPACE

EuroPACE ensures targeted advice and coordination for homeowners, as well as contractor training and verification, the availability of affordable, long-term financing accessible to all homeowners.

European Commission

Examples of Juncker Plan projects in the energy sector

INNOVATE

Cases, guidance, videos

LAUNCH

PRODESA aims to assist seven major municipalities in Athens Metropolitan Area to launch showcase energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, utilizing innovative financial tools and attracting private investments.

NESOI

The European Islands Facility – NESOI, open to a community of 2400 inhabited EU islands, aims to fund 60 successful energy transition projects, mobilizing more than €100m of investment and reducing significantly Co2 and GHG emissions by 2023.

Press release

Αρθρο του του Γιάννη Μανιάτη

PRODESA

Financing energy efficiency

PROSPECT

PROSPECT aims to create an easy and replicable peer to peer learning programme for regional and local authorities to learn with and from each other on how to finance and implement their sustainable energy and climate action plans using innovative schemes.

QualitEE

QualitEE project aims to increase investment in energy efficiency services in the building sector within the EU and improve trust in service providers. To achieve these aims, quality assessment criteria and business cases for quality assurance schemes have been developed.

QUEST

REFINE

Guaranty funds, Refinancing institution, Market facilitators

RenOnBill

Residential building energy renovations with on-bill financing

SEFIPA

SEIF

SEI Forums is an initiative of the European Commission working with stakeholders in EU Member States in order to boost large-scale investment and financing for sustainable energy.

SENSEI

Smarter Choices

Triple-A

The overall aim of the Triple-A project is to assist financial institutions and project developers increase their deployment of capital in energy efficiency, making investments more transparent, predictable and attractive.

ΓΓΔΕ

Ε.Ε.Τ.Α.Α.

Διαχείριση των Επιχειρησιακών Προγραμμάτων του Ε.Σ.Π.Α.

EUCF (in Croatian)

Detailed information in Croatian about EUCF

CitizEE

Europa One-Stop-Shops

A coordinated regional effort to set up One-Stop-Shops across Europe to connect all stakeholders.

Project origination , due diligence, certification
Financial analysis, performance insurance.
Introduction to investors, Investment support