retour à l'accueil 















 
This project intends to develop a suitable management framework for assisting public bodies and especially local authorities to implement energy services including energy efficiency, and thus to enhance the market of energy efficiency and energy services, by providing efficient tools to meet the needs of public bodies and facilitating the work of ESCOs. The major outcome of this action would be an increased number of public bodies using energy services.

Direct outcomes / results / products / benefits of the action

Create and develop market conditions for third party financing and energy performance contracting in 8 regions in 8 countries targeted to public bodies and local authorities by:

  • disseminating of 8 000 brochures and leaflets (including best practice examples) and 3 350 CD-ROMs in seven languages (English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish) to a targeted public as defined under 3.1
  • involving the major stakeholders of public buildings and ESCOs in eight advisory committees at the regional level during the lifetime of this project
  • inciting through the realisation of fourteen feasibility studies to concrete project implementation
  • training the civil servants of local authorities and public bodies in dedicated seminars in each region/country, touching a minimum of 120 persons with a set of contract models adapted to the specific needs of local authorities
  • spreading the projects results and demonstrate the benefits of energy performance contracting through eight well known and already existing web sites, the organisation of eight seminars with national wide invitation and a European seminar in cooperation with the European network of regional energy and environment agencies.
  • ensure that several public bodies and local authorities would decide, by board decision or equal, to implement or to study the implementation of energy services schemes.

Potential impacts of the action

The action will help to improve the market condition for energy performance contracting and third party investment in the participating regions/countries. By providing large-scale information and useful tools, it will have the following impacts:

  • better apprehension of the importance of energy management by public bodies and local authorities
  • request for energy efficiency performance in more energy services contracts
  • implementation of new financing schemes.

The final means is to mobilise the huge energy saving potential with in the public buildings, which can amount as stated in several studies to economies between 15 and 35%.

The obtained results in this project will give a new impetus in the participating regions and countries and create the conditions for replication demand and dissemination of the energy efficiency services concept. The implementation oriented approach in this project will facilitate the transferability of the project outcomes.