Energy Service Companies in the EU: Status review and recommendations for further market development with a focus on Energy Performance Contracting

Building on its previous reports, investigating the status of the ESCO market in the EU, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) reviewed the efforts made by Member States to stimulate the market of energy services, and in particular the market for EPC, during the period 2014-2016 and the current size of the ESCO market. The findings in this report show new developments since the last report published by the JRC in 2014 for the period 2010-2013.JRC.C.2-Energy Efficiency and Renewable

Practices and opportunities for Energy Performance Contracting in the public sector in EU Member States

The public sector is one of the key users of energy in Europe. Although, the relative energy consumption of the public sector is rather small, i.e. “only” about 5-10% of the total energy demand of European Member States, with an annual energy bill €47 billion (Borg & Co. et al. 2003), there are several reasons to focus on improving the energy performance of public buildings and public installations.JRC.C.2-Energy Efficiency and Renewable

Energy Service Market in the EU

Building on its previous reports, investigating the status of the ESCO market in the EU, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) reviewed the efforts made by Member States to stimulate the market of energy services in the broad sense, focusing on the compliance with Article 18, and has collected and updated current knowledge on the ESCO markets, in particular the size of the national markets with their main characteristics during the period 2015-2018. The findings show new developments since the last report published by the JRC in 2017.JRC.C.2-Energy Efficiency and Renewable

Energy efficiency, the value of buildings and the payment default risk

Energy efficiency delivers energy savings and therefore energy cost savings, as well as direct environmental benefits. Besides, as an indirect effect, it has smaller or larger consequences on other economic values. This report reviews current knowledge about the impact of energy efficiency improvements on the value of buildings. In particular, the methodology that can be applied to quantify the increase or decrease of property value linked to the energy performance and sustainability components is explained and different methods are compared. Secondly, the report demonstrates the impact of energy efficiency on the payment default risk namely the link between energy efficiency investment and ability of borrowers to repay their loans.JRC.C.2-Energy Efficiency and Renewable

Workshop on regional heating and cooling priorities and financing in the framework of the Smart Specialisation Platform (S3P-E H&C)

The Workshop on Smart Specialisation on Heating and Cooling was organised by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, with the support of DG ENERGY and DG REGIO, and held in Brussels in the Conference Centre Albert Borschette, between May 30th and June 1st 2018. The Workshop was focused on two key topics: (1) regional heating and cooling priorities from technology and energy planning perspectives, and (2) heating and cooling financing. The aim of the workshop was to understand the current state-of-play and the expected future of the heating and cooling (H&C) sector across EU regions, to discuss the role of regional authorities and their cooperation with national and EU entities on how to uptake the ESIF funds to decarbonise the heating and cooling sector — including barriers, opportunities and challenges. The Workshop was attended by 40 participants, 18 of them from the regional authorities and regional policy making bodies as regional energy agencies. The eight participating regions/countries were Sofia (Bulgaria), Bulgaria (country), Nord-est (Romania), Slovenia (country), Andalucia (Spain), Western Macedonia (Greece), Castilla-Leon (Spain), Lubelskie (Poland).JRC.C.7-Knowledge for the Energy Unio

Report on international experiences with E1st

The new report constitutes a step towards achieving the objective of making the Efficiency First (E1st) principle operational in EU decision making. The report includes 16 examples of how E1st has been applied in different contexts, from promoting the fabric first approach in buildings, enabling demand response to compete on electricity markets, requiring demand-side resources to be better taken into account in energy planning, to demand flexibility in district heating and avoiding new power plants. Each example details the implementation bodies, how the E1st principle has been implemented and the related barriers, replicability and scalability potential. The report also provides an overview about why E1st has been implemented, how the approach to E1st can be categorized, and what lessons can be learned from these experiences. The examples show policymakers, regulators, and energy policy actors that the concept of E1st can be implemented and can provide various benefits to the energy transition

GEO-6 assessment for the pan-European region

Through this assessment, the authors and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) secretariat are providing an objective evaluation and analysis of the pan-European environment designed to support environmental decision-making at multiple scales. In this assessment, the judgement of experts is applied to existing knowledge to provide scientifically credible answers to policy-relevant questions. These questions include, but are not limited to the following:• What is happening to the environment in the pan-European region and why?• What are the consequences for the environment and the human population in the pan-European region?• What is being done and how effective is it?• What are the prospects for the environment in the future?• What actions could be taken to achieve a more sustainable future?<br/

Innovations for Sustainability: Pathways to an efficient and post-pandemic future

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Feed-in Tariff for Energy Saving - Thinking of the Design

Financial incentives are important for the adoption of energy efficient technologies and overcoming certain market barriers to improved energy efficiency. Such incentives are broadly used in various environmental and energy fields and are usually associated with specific technology support, rather than a general sustainable behavioural change. While the declared goal of financial support schemes is to save energy or reduce harmful emissions rather than to foster new technologies per se, it is very often encountered that such financial support for energy efficient technologies does not ensure real energy savings due to the rebound effect and remaining barriers. It is common for financial support to be given to power producers for the verified production of renewable electricity, in the form of a guaranteed financial incentive (feed-in tariff). In the energy efficiency policy research little attention has been paid to the possible use of a feed-in tariff, in the form of a fixed financial incentive based on the kWh saved by the end-user. This paper discusses the possible setup of a feed-in tariff for energy savings. The paper first explores the rationale behind and the possible functionality of a feed-in for energy savings, giving examples of similar policy tools implemented or planned. The paper looks into additionality and persistency of energy savings and explores core interactions between the feed-in and existing tools for energy efficiency. Finally, key advantages and complexities related to a feed-in tariff scheme for energy savings are discussed, intending to open a discussion and foster further research on the topic.JRC.DG.F.8-Renewable Energy (Ispra