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.
WORTH THE RISK? AN EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE FINANCE MECHANISMS FOR RESIDENTIAL RETROFIT
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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NEW FINANCING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY
A new online platform, eQuad, makes it much easier for small energy efficiency projects to find investors.
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ATTRACTING ENERGY EFFICIENCY INVESTORS: STANDARDIZING THE PROCESS
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.
NOVICE PROJECT PROPOSES NEW ENERGY EFFICIENCY BUSINESS MODEL
The NOVICE project offers the development of an innovative business model for energy efficiency and demand response programmes.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: THE MISSING LINK
Finance shortfalls threaten EU’s 2030 clean energy goals. Improving energy efficiency in Europe was meant to be easy — and affordable.
EQUAD PLATFORM SUCCESSFULLY MATCHES FIRST PROJECTS TO INVESTORS
FINANCE EXPERT: SMALL-SCALE ENERGY EFFICIENCY LOANS DESERVE MORE EU ATTENTION
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.
A eficiência energética pode ser um investimento atraente e lucrativo
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.
Techno-economic and business case assessment of multi-energy microgrids with co-optimization of energy, reserve and reliability service
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.