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National Schemes for Energy Efficiency in SMEs
DEESME enables companies, especially SMEs to manage the energy transition by taking profit of multiple benefits from energy management and audit approaches and provides national authorities with guidelines and recommendations to empower their schemes under article 8, using the multiple benefits’ approach.
The project identifies and shares good practices from national schemes, EU projects, and other initiatives with national authorities and support them in developing more effective schemes dealing with energy audits and energy management systems. It assists SMEs to develop and test the technical DEESME solutions by organizing information and training initiatives, realising energy audits, and implementing energy management systems starting from international standard and adding the multiple benefits energy efficiency approach.
The project is built on a very strong consortium of academics, research organisations, consultancies and government offices from Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.
WHAT IS THE TOOL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MULTIPLE BENEFITS APPROACH?
WHAT IS THE TOOL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MULTIPLE BENEFITS APPROACH?
Conventionally, the most common approach for the energy efficiency assessment within projects is the financial and cost-effective analysis highlighting the investment opportunities that should bring a positive return. This approach though focuses more on cost and revenues produced by the energy efficiency project itself underestimating the multiple benefits deriving from non-energy benefits companies could achieve by aligning their decisions on energy efficiency to a specific business model and strategic objective.
Following the principle of the multiple benefits approach used by the MBenefits project, the evaluation of energy efficiency suggests about many environmental, social and economic benefits, which could be expanded beyond the traditional measures and perspectives of reduced energy demand or lower greenhouse gas emissions.
WHAT IS THE METHODOLOGY BEHIND?
The methodology includes four stages:
The methodology embraced is showcased in six different steps, described in detail in each of the excel sheets (from the left to the right), and could be imagined as a life cycle that begins and ends with the business model analysis, as a diagnostic and as a strategic tool, respectively. Each iteration of the cycle leads to improved levels of energy efficiency and business model sustainability through improvement and innovation.
As part of the D3.1, the DEESME project delivered the integrated Multiple Benefits tool for collecting data and results achieved from carrying out the six steps for assisting SMEs and companies to make their business decision.
HOW TO NAVIGATE?
If you are part of an SME or a company, you should follow the analytical procedure with the lead of an energy auditor/consultant and perform it in close collaboration with a team of managers within your company for connecting energy auditing results with your managerial and strategic decisions.
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