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Apply as a mentee and learn how to finance your project with innovative financing!
The call for mentees for the 1st cycle of the PROSPECT+ Capacity-Building Programme is now open. Local or regional authorities interested in learning from an experienced peer-mentor about getting their projects funded with reduced dependence on subsidies can now apply to the Programme. Are you the next mentee? To become a mentee, you should be […]
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[IEECP newsletter] December 2021: season’s greetings with great resources on P4P, energy poverty & more!
An important lesson from 2021 is that the global perception towards climate change and the urgency for undertaking actions has increased substantially. Next to the second year of COVID-19 and its impacts on energy and climate, the entire society has realized the aggressive impacts of climate change and new dilemmas appear in terms of how […]
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Video – a dive into Sensei’s key theme, Pay for performance, in 6 minutes
How would you define P4P – Pay For Performance? How can the adoption of such a model contribute to the achievement of energy efficiency goals in the EU? In this video, the H2020-funded project SENSEI partners answer and share useful information to fully grasp the P4P concept.
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Video – IEECP, for an energy transition that leaves no one behind
Discover how IEECP supports various policymakers in the energy transition implementation, why together we are stronger and how IEECP gathers stakeholders in capacity building for a to increase this power. In the end, the right energy transition is the one that leaves no one behind. 2 minutes to dig into one of IEECP’s key mission […]
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[Newsletter] Guiding SMEs and national authorities through the energy transition by taking profit of multiple benefits and energy management approaches
The DEESME newsletter is out! If you missed the first one, you can find it here: it introduced DEESME’s concept, objectives and activities. What happened since then? Over a year since the project start, we have released several publications, on the policies and multiple benefits of energy audits and management approaches, we provided guidelines for […]
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REGILIENCE – ambitiously supporting cities and regions on building climate pathways
As COP26 ends, leaving many wondering how the ongoing climate crisis can be tackled in a quicker and more efficient global way, the need to find impactful solutions despite the lack of significant change envisioned is more pressing than ever. Are there ways to tackle the changing climate, not only by cutting down emissions but […]
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The European project MICAT aims to develop a user-friendly online tool calculating diverse benefits of energy efficiency measures
Have you ever thought that energy efficiency measures can bring about a high number of benefits aside for monetary savings? Did you know that emissions reduction, improved health, better air quality, and new employment opportunities can be a direct result of energy efficiency measures? However, how can one assess and monitor these impacts on local, […]
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PROSPECT+ kicks off and launches the first call to join the Capacity-Building Programme for cities and regions!
Building on the success of the Horizon 2020 project PROSPECT, the new PROSPECT+ will continue to enable regional & local authorities across Europe to finance and implement their sustainable energy action plans with innovative financing schemes.Cities are the main contributors to pollution and climate change, but they also have the power and opportunity to deliver […]
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[Report] Policy developments in EU and strategies for P4P business models
Pay-for-performance (P4P) is the key concept behind SENSEI business models. In a P4P scheme for financing energy retrofit projects, financial flows between the involved parties are linked to the actual – metered – and weather-normalised energy savings. This approach encourages long-term investment and transparent cash-flows (pay) in energy-efficient buildings by metering energy savings smart and […]
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[Lunch seminar video] ENPOR – Energy poor households in private rented sector
In this IEECP Lunch Seminar you can hear from the Horizon 2020-funded project ENPOR – a project funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020 which increases the capacity of the decision-makers to understand and mitigate the effects of energy poverty, by designing and implementing ten policies. See our lunch seminar to hear about the project’s […]
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H2020 BEcoop project: News #1 – Unlocking the community bioenergy potential
In this newsletter, we would like to introduce you to the BECoop project, provide you with some background material, explain the ways of working and update you on past and future activities. You may always browse through the project website where you can find, among else, additional information with regard to the planned actions and […]
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Visit our Knowledge Transfer Platform on Article 7 EED
If you want to learn more on Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive implementation issues, visit our Knowledge Transfer Platform. It serves as a place of knowledge, learning materials, webinars, case studies, good practice examples and national level information. Our objective is to help national authorities in the implementation of the policies and the […]
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Priority areas of implementation of the Efficiency First principle: enefirst report
This report, delivered by the enefirst H2020 project, identifies promising policy approaches as regards Efficiency First (E1st) in several EU policy areas: buildings, power markets/networks, gas markets/networks, district heating, energy efficiency, climate and EU funds. The report screened the policy areas and approaches for each policy area by reviewing the EU policy context; conducting interviews and […]
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H2020 DEESME project: first newsletter out, guiding SMEs and national authorities to take profit of the multiple benefits from energy audit and energy management approaches
Dear readers, This is a pleasure to share the DEESME project first newsletter. Reaching the European Union’s net zero greenhouse gas emissions objectives will require a fundamental change in the coming decades. This change will impact enterprises of all types and sizes. Improving the efficiency of how enterprises supply and consume energy will be the […]
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[IEECP newsletter] February 2021: nudging consumers to energy efficiency behaviours, e-learning platform for F&B energy efficiency & more
Download as pdf View online in html —————————————————————————– We are coming at the end of February, and after two months of 2021, the European economy is still struggling with the COVID19 scars yet trying to escape the uncertainty and move on to a recovery phase. The policy trajectories will determine whether the EU […]
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IEECP and ABN AMRO collaboration for energy efficient projects in The Netherlands / IEECP en ABN AMRO werken samen aan energie efficiëntie projecten binnen Nederland
< Nederlandse vertaling hieronder > IEECP is glad to join forces with the ABN AMRO bank in The Netherlands to work on two interconnected projects funded by the European H2020 programme: ICCEE, seeking to identify and implement significant energy efficiency performance benefits in the food and beverage cold supply-chain sector, and the Triple-A project to […]
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Transferring global experience of “efficiency first” to the EU: enefirst report
This report, delivered by the enefirst H2020 project, highlights 16 international case examples of efficiency first in practice. Learning from international experience is key to helping policymakers in the EU and its Member States establish a level playing field between demand and supply-side resources, and thus embed the efficiency first decision-making principle in EU policy. […]
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The MICAT (Multiple Impacts Calculation Tool) project launches a call for Pilot Cities
Emissions reductions, improved health, better air quality, and new employment opportunities are only a few examples of Multiple Impacts of Energy Efficiency. What are other ancillary benefits of energy efficiency measures? And how can your city assess and monitor them? Join the MICAT team as one of their Pilot Cities and contribute to the MICATool! […]
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Column for eceee: “Let cost-effectiveness guide recovery funding to national efficiency programs”
by Vlasios Oikonomou, Jean-Sébastien Broc The EU has set ambitious energy efficiency targets for 2020 (32.5%), while the current trend (for the 2020 targets) shows a deviation of 4-6% annually (State of the Energy Union Report) and the IEA confirmed in its recent Energy Efficiency 2020 report that the energy efficiency progress is too slow at […]
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