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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As conferências Investor Days juntam diferentes intervenientes do mercado da eficiência energética, nomeadamente Empresas de Serviços Energéticos (ESE), proprietários, arquitetos e investidores.
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.
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.
Joule: /jool/ noun. The standard unit of energy.
