Buildings are in the spotlight as the EU contemplates a long, hard winter on the back of an energy price crisis intensified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Already the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ climate package aimed to double renovation rates by 2030 and pioneer minimum energy performance standards for buildings.

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As a community, as a state, as a nation, and as a world, we are at a pivotal moment in the fight to slow climate change. The past few months have brought much speculation on how the coronavirus pandemic might help usher in the triumph of renewable energy over fossil fuels.

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Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals requires trillions of dollars in investments in sustainable energy infrastructure globally in the coming decades. This paper, written by our LAUNCH Partner, Research Institution TNO, explores the important role that institutional investors can play in providing these required investments, and thus in the transition to a clean energy system.

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Over the last three years, the NOVICE project, coordinated by IERC, has been testing the validity of a new business model for Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) that combines both energy efficiency and demand response services into a single service offering.

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The Club of Amsterdam invited our VP Finance, Michael Pachlatko, to talk about how Joule Assets is working to ensure a just energy transition and to accelerate capital deployment in energy efficiency through the LAUNCH H2020 project.

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Joule Assets Europe will co-organize a policy session during the European Sustainable Energy Week 2020 with REHVA, EFIEES, IERC, IEECP and the EPU-NTUA (Energy Policy Unit - National Technical University of Athens) to present the LAUNCH project.

Joule Assets Europe has proudly contributed to the February issue of the REHVA Journal with the article with an article on how to overcome the energy efficiency financing challenges in the HVAC and building sector.

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Joule Assets, via Joule Community Power, rolled out community choice aggregation (CCA) programs to more than 25,000 utility account holders in seven communities in New York State. 

Today, CAN Europe, CEE Bankwatch and WWF networks are publishing a letter co-signed by national NGOs, cities, regions and business associations calling for the EU institutions to ensure that cohesion policy excludes fossil fuel subsidies in order to support a sustainable and just transition to climate neutrality.

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With rising GDP, the European Union is once again at risk of missing the 2020 targets for energy efficiency, and yet more ambitious targets for 2030 lie ahead.

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Recent studies show that market potential for energy efficiency across Europe continues to grow; most countries have a market potential of at least a few billion euro annually.

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Improving energy efficiency, de-carbonising heating and cooling, and increasing renewable micro-generation in existing residential buildings is crucial for meeting social and climate policy objectives.

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A new online platform, eQuad, makes it much easier for small energy efficiency projects to find investors.

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The EU Commission estimates that an extra €177bn needs to be mobilized from public and private investment in energy efficiency every year to reach the 2030 climate and energy targets.

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The NOVICE project offers the development of an innovative business model for energy efficiency and demand response programmes.

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Finance shortfalls threaten EU’s 2030 clean energy goals. Improving energy efficiency in Europe was meant to be easy — and affordable.

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€5 million in SME-sized energy efficiency projects have been matched to finance

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There are many creative ways to finance small-scale energy efficiency projects such as building renovations, but they need to be discussed more at the European Commission level, and defined more precisely, Jessica Stromback told EURACTIV Czech Republic.

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No próximo dia 29 de Novembro, Bruxelas recebe a quarta edição do SEAF Investor Forum, um encontro que visa aproximar os investidores dos projectos de eficiência energética.

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In this work a new techno-economic framework to model and assess business cases for energy, reserve and novel reliability services provided by Microgrids (MGs) is presented. The framework combines a bespoke Transactive Energy (TE) approach that aims at co-optimizing these potentially conflicting services.

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A quarta edição do SEAF Investor Forum já tem data marcada em 2017: a 29 de Novembro, decisores políticos, representantes de instituições financeiras, potenciais investidores e outros agentes do mercado de serviços de energia juntam-se em Bruxelas para encurtar a distância entre o investimento e a eficiência energética.

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A group of energy services companies (ESCOs) and investors gathered in Italy in early March with the aim of building confidence in the energy efficiency sector. The Sustainable Energy Asset Framework (SEAF) Investor Forum in Milan attracted 100 delegates - the project’s largest audience yet, according to Jessica Stromback, Chairman of financial services company Joule Assets Europe and SEAF project coordinator.

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As an extension of the ‘energy trilemma’ of affordability/sustainability/security to also include social acceptance, the ‘energy quadrilemma’, is driving multiple and complex developments in energy systems, particularly at the level of distributed energy resources.

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Carrefour has become the first company to contribute demand side response (DSR) capacity towards French transmission system operator Réseau de Transport d'Electricité’s (RTE) grid balancing services. It is offering this much-needed demand flexibility to RTE with the implementation of a new demand response solution.

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Europe's energy management sector will receive a boost next week with the launch of a new online platform in Milan, Italy. The Sustainable Energy Asset Framework (SEAF), a two-year Horizon 2020 funded project, has developed the software to improve access for small- and medium-sized energy services companies (ESCOs) to project finance.

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In Europe, the market for energy savings companies (ESCO) is showing signs of growth. Revenues amounted to $2.7bn in 2015, according to Navigant Research. And the Energy Efficiency Directive in 2012 - with its target of cutting energy consumption by 20% less by 2020 - is a regulatory move to standardise and develop the sector.

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Portugal tem tudo para ter «um futuro vibrante» na área da eficiência energética, acredita Mike Gordon, CEO da Joule Assets, que também considera que «o mercado imobiliário está sentado em cima do ouro» no nosso país.

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As conferências Investor Days juntam diferentes intervenientes do mercado da eficiência energética, nomeadamente Empresas de Serviços Energéticos (ESE), proprietários, arquitetos e investidores.

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Last year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reported that the UK’s domestic policy landscape continued to limit utilities’ engagement in the implementation of energy efficiency programmes as suppliers’ confidence with regards to the government’s management of energy efficiency policy remained flat.

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A new European Energy Efficiency Platform has been launched as a one-stop-shop for energy efficiency data and knowledge. Its purpose is to help policymakers, researchers, industry, and public and consumer bodies to meet the strategy’s EU-wide target of 27 per cent energy savings by 2030.

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