On 30 March 2017, the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) organised in Brussels a workshop with the title Financing energy efficiency - Lessons from successful Horizon 2020 projects and other initiatives across Europe.

This event presented a selection of on-going initiatives -mostly funded under the Horizon 2020 Energy Efficiency programme- at local, national and European levels, which demonstrate that energy efficiency can be financed on a large scale through the mobilisation of private financing.

Presentations

1. Aggregation and assistance to deliver successful investment programmes

• Public building renovation through energy performance contracting - Rüdiger Lohse, Klimaschutz- und Energieagentur Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
• Deep renovation of multifamily buildings through EPC - Harijs Švarcs, Latvian Baltic Energy Efficiency Facility (Latvia)
• The Danish experience of Energy Efficiency Obligations - Nikolaj Nørregård Rasmussen, Dansk Energi (Denmark)

2. Making energy efficiency attractive for the financial sector

• Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG) activities to de-risk energy efficiency - Peter Sweatman, Climate Strategy and EEFIG Rapporteur
• The Investor Confidence Project Europe - Dave Worthington, Verco and Alex Gilbert, Amber Infrastructure (UK)
• The Energy Efficient Mortgage Initiative - Luca Bertalot, European Mortgage Federation

3. More effective use of public funds

• Scene setter: using European Structural and Investment Funds in the form of Financial Instruments - Ricardo Pinheiro, DG for Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission
• Use of Cohesion funding for home renovations - Justinas Bučys, Public Investment Development Agency - VIPA (Lithuania)
• EIB support to energy efficiency, including the European Fund for Strategic Investments - Isidoro Tapia, European Investment Bank

To download the presentations, please visit the relevant European Commission webpage at the link below.