Presentation by Cécile Kerebel

1. 50000&1 SEAPs
- Webinar 3 November 2016 –
Financing Opportunities for Projects on Energy
Management and Planning
Cécile KEREBEL
Project Adviser – Finance for Energy Efficiency, Public authorities, Energy Services
Unit H2020 Energy
EASME

2. Energy Union
Making energy
more secure,
affordable and
sustainable

3. 3
Energy efficiency targets - progress?
• Report on the progress of Member States of
18 November 2015 as part of the State of the
Energy Union
• EU is achieving already significant progress: 100
Mtoe saved in buildings (43%), transport (33%)
and industry (22%) **
• The Commission remains optimistic that the 20%
target can be achieved, under certain conditions
• Legislative Review in 2016
**

4. Buildings
Products
Transport
Meeting the 2030 target and "energy efficiency
first" – implementation and review
Energy Efficiency
Directive (27-30%)
Energy
Performance of
Buildings
Directive
2010/31/EU
Energy
Labelling &
Ecodesign
Finance
Heating and
Cooling
4

5. IEE/H2020 Support to local leadership
• 40+ projects supported
• 350+ beneficiaries - 800 public authorities
supported
• 500+ Sustainable Energy Actions Plans created
• step-change in levels of understanding and
operational approaches to sustainable energy
planning in public authorities
• important ‘glue’ to help embed the Covenant of
Mayors and improve its implementation
• permanent changes - political commitments to
sustainable energy

6. • Aggregation / Project Development
Assistance – 28 projects delivering
650+ mio EUR of investment
• De-risking – Improving
financiability
• Market-based culture
IEE/H2020 Support for finance of energy
efficiency

7. Project Examples
87
€30m
49%
Public buildings
retrofitted or in the
process
• €30m
investment
• 49% savings
1-2 billion
EUR/y
SUSREG:
• Greater Region
of Copenhagen
• 2050 Strategy
• large regional
engagement
process
ZAGEE:
€ 2,3m
EPC Streetlight
Joint EPC for
streetlight retrofit
for 8 European
Regions

8. H2020 Energy Efficiency Call 2017

9. Outlook 2017
• 104 M€ provisionally earmarked for energy efficiency in
H2020/Energy WP 2017
• Several topics relevant for public authorities:
Code Funding Topics
7
June
2017
EE-09 Engaging and activating public authorities a
EE-22 Project Development Assistance (PDA) a
EE-23 Innovative financing schemes a
EE-19 Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) a

10. EE09 Engaging and activating public
authorities
We are looking for projects to either:
• Foster the engagement of public authorities
• Supporting EU policy implementation; innovative public
engagement; integrated planning; muti-level governance; quality
management/certification; financing strategies
• Develop peer-to-peer learning for public authorities
• Supporting to facilitating organisations (incl. Energy agencies)

11. EE22 Project Development Assistance
Leveraging EU funding
€1 in eligible costs  €15 or 20 investments
11
Project development costs:
 Technical specifications
 Financial engineering
 Public procurement
 Due diligence
 …
Investments:
 Private equity
 Loans
 Grants
€15
(EE22 in
H2020)
1€
€20
(ELENA)

12. See all EU funding sources on
www.covenantofmayors.eu

13. Inform yourself
• H2020 Participant Portal
• National Contact Points
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/
desktop/en/support/national_contact_points.htm
• Contact us – the EASME energy
efficiency team: (No pre-proposal checks)
EASME-ENERGY@ec.europa.eu
• Horizon2020 and FP7 projects:
CORDIS database
• 300+ Intelligent Energy Europe
(IEE) projects, including various
information platforms
ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/
Horizon
2020
Portal

14. THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Contact our Energy Efficiency Team:
EASME-energy@ec.europa.eu
Find out more
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
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