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Compilation by NCP Energy Germany This document gives information on calls and funded projects of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 for the Societal Challenge – Secure, clean and efficient energy for the year 2016 and 2017. The data used in this document was extracted from the tables available at the website of the Cordis Information Service. More data is available in those tables.

Funded Projects under Horizon 2020 Secure, clean and efficient energy

Energy Efficiency Calls 2016-2017

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NKS-Energie 2 Projects funded under Horizon 2020 – Energy Efficiency Call 2016-2017


Table of contents

A – Heating and Cooling

Topic EE-01-Projects............................................................................................................ 4



Topic EE-05-Projects...........................................................................................................12

B - Engaging consumers towards sustainable energy





C - Buildings






D - Industry, services and products




E - Innovative financing for energy efficiency investments








List of Calls Energy Efficiency .............................................................................................67

List of Abbreviations ............................................................................................................69





Topic EE-01-Projects

Topic: EE-01-2017 Acronym: ReUseHeat

Call: H2020-EE-2017-RIA-IA Type of Action: IA

Title: Recovery of Urban Excess Heat

Starting date: 01.10.2017 End date: 30.09.2021

Total Cost: 4,883,673.01 € EU max. contribution: 3,998,062.00 €

Coordinator: IVL SVENSKA MILJOEINSTITUTET AB

Participants:

EUROHEAT & POWER FUNDACION CARTIF TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING SA HOGSKOLAN I HALMSTAD CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET

TECHNIQUE DU BATIMENT METROPOLE NICE COTE D'AZUR BRAUNSCHWEIGER

VERSORGUNGS- AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT & CO. KG

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

AALBORG UNIVERSITET D'APPOLONIA SPA ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE METROUL SA VEOLIA ENERGIE DEUTSCHLAND

GMBH GAS NATURAL SDG SA DANSK FJERNVARME FORENING

Countries: SE;BE;UK;ES;RO;DK;IT;FR;DE

Objectives:

There is enough waste energy produced in the EU to heat the EU’s entire building stock; however despite of this huge potential, only a restricted number of small scale examples of urban waste heat recovery are present across the EU. The objective of REUSEHEAT is to demonstrate, at TRL8 first of their kind advanced, modular and replicable systems enabling the recovery and reuse of waste heat available at the urban level.

REUSEHEAT explicitly builds on previous knowledge and EU funded projects (notably CELSIUS, Stratego and HRE4) and intends to overcome both technical and non technical barriers towards the unlocking of urban waste heat recovery investments across Europe.

Four large scale demonstrators will be deployed, monitored and evaluated during the project, showing the technical feasibility and economic viability of waste heat recovery and reuse from data centres (Brunswick), sewage collectors (Nice), cooling system of a hospital (Madrid) and underground station (Bucharest). The knowledge generated from the demonstrators and from other examples across the EU will be consolidated into a handbook which will provide future investors with new insight in terms of urban waste heat recovery potential across the EU. Innovative and efficient technologies and solutions, suitable business models and contractual arrangements, estimation of investment risk, bankability and impact of urban waste heat recovery investments, authorization procedures are examples of handbook content. The handbook will be promoted through a powerful dissemination and training strategy in order to encourage a rapid and widespread replication of the demonstrated solutions across the EU.






Topic: EE-03-2016 Acronym: MultiPACK


Title: Demonstration of the next generation standardised integrated cooling and heating packages for commercial and public buildings based on environment-friendly carbon dioxide vapour compression cycles.



Coordinator: NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU

Participants:

ENEX SRL SINTEF ENERGI AS MODELO CONTINENTE

HIPERMERCADOS S.A.

DANFOSS A/S CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE

RICERCHE SISTAVAC SA

Countries: NO;IT;DK;PT

Objectives:

MulitPACK will be the confidence building demonstrator for standardised integrated cooling & heating packages installed in high energy demanding buildings. The roll-out of new energy efficient plug-and-play units should reduce the specific energy consumption by more than 25 %, simultaneously reducing the total cost of ownership. A scientific-supported introduction of innovative packages, all parts made in Europe, applying the natural working fluid CO2 and the latest efficiency enhancing technologies will validate the suitability of the CO2 heat pumping and refrigeration technology for warm climate applications.

The EU F-gas regulation forces the end-users to request new heat pump solutions in the near future. The upcoming process of replacing non –renewable or F-gas based heating/cooling units, especially in Southern Europe, represents the business case for the industry. Especially South-European contractors have to be trained to become confident and motivated to offer innovative heat pumping solutions, as for example developed by MulitPACK.

Pack manufacturers, typically being SMEs like ENEX, do not have the possibility to shake down new developments in a laboratory environment representing real life conditions. Therefore, MultiPACK will reduce the risk and fear for the end-user accepting the installation of demonstration/validation units in their properties, solving the challenge of “innovation without risk for the end user”.

To this aim, six remotely controlled and monitored demonstration/validation sites (3/3) at several South-European locations at energy demanding end-users will be utilised. The real performance of new integrated packs providing refrigeration/space cooling & heating with high levels of indoor comfort and sanitary hot water demand will be measured and reported.

Training material supporting end users and contractors towards a successful implementation of integrated packs will become public via the MulitPACK communication centre.






Topic: EE-04-2016-2017 Acronym: Innova MicroSolar

Call: H2020-EE-2016-RIA-IA Type of Action: RIA

Title: Innovative Micro Solar Heat and Power System for Domestic and Small Business Residential Buildings



Coordinator: UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE

Participants:

UNIVERSIDAD DE LLEIDA ENOGIA ELIANTO SRL S.TRA.TE.G.I.E. SRL SINAGRO ENGINYERIA SLP

UNIVERSITA TELEMATICA E-CAMPUS

AAVID THERMACORE EUROPE LIMITED

USER FEEDBACK PROGRAM SL

Countries: UK;ES;IT;FR

Objectives:

Rapid expansion of utilisation of solar thermal energy for increasing energy efficiency of buildings have been adopted in short/medium- and long-term Energy Strategies of EU countries in line with regional actions with the European climate energy objectives as defined in the European Union’s “20-20-20” targets and in the European Commission’s Energy Roadmap 2050.

The overall objective of this project is to develop an innovative high performance and cost effective 2-kWel/18-kWth solar heat and power system for application in individual dwellings and small business residential buildings for on-site electricity and heat generation using solar thermal energy at temperature levels of 250-280 deg.C. The proposed technology will be laboratory validated and undergo filed tests on a demonstration site.

The project will utilise the expertise of the consortium members in the development of small Organic Rankine Cycle plants, linear Fresnel mirror solar energy concentrating collectors; advanced heat pipe technologies for the thermal management; high performance Thermal Energy Storage systems on the basis of Phase Change Materials; smart control units for integration of solar thermal and boiler heating circuits. Also participants of this Project are experienced in integration of Renewable energy technologies into buildings, optimisation of complex plants and in analysis and predictions of socio-economic impact and in commercialisation of new Renewable energy products;

It is estimated that the proposed technology will deliver 60% of domestic energy requirements and provide 20% reduction in energy costs and Green House Gas (GHG) emissions compared to the best existing low carbon energy technologies. In this way the project will also assist in improving the quality of life of population within and outside the EU and provide clean, efficient and secure energy to dwellings.





Topic: EE-04-2016-2017 Acronym: MPC-. GT


Title: Model Predictive Control and Innovative System Integration of GEOTABS;-) in Hybrid Low Grade Thermal Energy Systems - Hybrid MPC GEOTABS



Coordinator: UNIVERSITEIT GENT

Participants:

CLIMATE FUTURES LIMITED ENERGOKLASTR GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SL FEDERATIE VAN VERENIGINGEN

VOOR VERWARMING EN LUCHTBEHANDELING IN EUROPA VERENIGING

UPONOR OYJ VIESSMANN WERKE GMBH & CO

KG

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

LEMON CONSULT AG STUDIEBUREAU BOYDENS

RAYMOND UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT

Countries: BE;UK;DK;CZ;ES;CH;NL;FI;DE

Objectives:

The MPC-: GT project brought together a transdisciplinary team of SMEs, large industry and research institutes, experienced in research and application of design and control systems in the combined building and energy world. Based on prior research, supported by (joint) EU and national projects, and practical experience the bottlenecks where identified that prevent at this moment a real breakthrough of geothermal heat pumps (GEO-HP) combined with thermally activated building systems (TABS) - GEOTABS. Solutions, which need to be implemented in an integrated way, were identified and sufficient proof of concept was gathered to join forces in a RIA.

The innovative concepts aim at increasing the share of low valued (low-grade) energy sources by means of using low exergy systems on the one hand and aim at upgrading low/moderate temperature resources on the other hand.

The overall solution consists of an optimal integration of GEOTABS and secondary supply and emission systems.

To allow for an optimal use of both the GEOTABS and the secondary system, a split will be made between a so-called “base load” that will be provided by the GEOTABS and the remaining energy needs that should be supplied by the secondary system. A generic rule, eliminating case-by-case simulation work, will be developed.

The second part of the proposed solution aims at a white box approach for Model Predictive Control (MPC) to generate a controller model with precomputed model inputs such as disturbances and HVAC thermal power to avoid case by case development. Research is needed to assess the overall performance and robustness of such an approach towards uncertainties.

As such, the MPC-: GT consortium believes to have identified an integrated solution that will provide a near optimal design strategy for the MPC GEOTABS concept using optimal control integrated design. The solution will support the industry, especially the SME members, to expand their activities and strengthen their competitiveness.





Topic: EE-04-2016-2017 Acronym: LOWUP


Title: LOW valued energy sources UPgrading for buildings and industry uses



Coordinator: ACCIONA CONSTRUCCION SA

Participants:

FUNDACION CARTIF FUNDACIO EURECAT LGI CONSULTING SARL POZZI LEOPOLDO SRL FAFCO SA TiSUN GmbH WASENCO OY

ENDEF ENGINEERING SL GEA REFRIGERATION

NETHERLANDS NV HALTON OY RDZ SpA FUNDACION TECNALIA

RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Countries: ES;NL;FI;FR;IT;CH;AU

Objectives:

In the “secure, clean and efficient energy” initiative, it is stated that the most important milestones for such a transformation are the EU's energy and climate targets for 2030, which are: (i) at least 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990, (ii) at least 27% for the share of renewable energy consumed in the EU, and (iii) at least 27% improvement of energy efficiency and an electricity interconnection target of 10%[1].The LowUP Project has a two-fold strategy: 1) on one hand, to target goals (i) and (ii) of these climate challenge with a 42 months duration project where innovation will be the core activity, and 2), on other hand, to successfully present different technological solutions which will enable the participation of low grade thermal energy sources in the energy transition, and improve the efficiency of the Europe Low Exergy systems, not only at building level but also in industrial applications. Within the LowUP project three different heating and cooling systems will be developed and demonstrated at relevant environment: HEAT-LowUP (low exergy heating system directly fed by solar and sewage water recovered heat) COOL-LowUP (low exergy cooling systems directly fed by renewable and free energy sources) and HP-LowUP ( waste heat recovery and upgrading via heat pump.) The first two systems are focused on the rational and efficient use of low valued energy sources for direct implementation in low-exergy heating & cooling systems for buildings and the third one is focused on the exploitation of low temperature residual energy, wasted with industrial processes, by upgrading them to generate useful heat to be re-introduced in the process.

The project will be implemented using the Acciona thermal lab located in Seville where will be emulated different real cases as the industrial process of a Water treatment plant, an automotive factory and a retirement house.





Topic: EE-04-2016-2017 Acronym: COOL DH


Title: Cool ways of using low grade Heat Sources from Cooling and Surplus Heat for heating of Energy Efficient Buildings with new Low Temperature District Heating (LTDH) Solutions.



Coordinator: COWI AS

Participants:

KRAFTRINGEN ENERGI AB (PUBL)

LUNDS UNIVERSITET EUROHEAT & POWER COWI AB LUNDS KOMMUNS FASTIGHETS

AB*LKF

HOJE-TAASTRUP KOMMUNE LUNDS KOMMUN LOGSTOR AS HOJE TAASTRUP FJERNVARME

AMBA ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB

Countries: DK;SE;BE

Objectives:

The COOL DH project will innovate, demonstrate, evaluate and disseminate technological solutions needed to exploit and utilise sources of very low-grade ""waste"" heat for heating of energy efficient buildings via Low Temperature District Heating (LTDH) and show how the District Heating (DH) systems can be more resource efficient and more energy efficient. The demonstration covers both new developments and stepwise transition of existing areas with district heating and energy retrofitting of buildings. The COOL DH consortium consists of the utilities and municipalities of the two cities Lund (SE) and Høje-Taastrup (DK) and leading DH energy specialists as well as leading industrial manufacturers.

COOL DH will:

- Innovate, design and build cooling and heat recovery process systems, enabling heat recovery to a local low-temperature district heating grid. They will mainly be driven by renewables. Design work will start in 2017 and heat recovery will start in 2019.

- Design and build a low-temperature district heating grid with non-conventional pipe materials and testing of new innovative pipe components that will become new products introduced as a result of COOL DH.

- Innovate and design suitable innovative heating systems and controls inside buildings that combine LTDH with distributed integration of local produced renewable energy on the buildings. Erection of new buildings in Lund will start in 2018 and will continue throughout the time of this project, while LTDH in Høje-Taastrup mainly will be for existing buildings being refurbished including modification of the heating system.

- Develop viable business models and new pricing systems, that ensures a good (low) return temperature and provide the building companies with maximum flexibility regarding the choice of heating systems.

- Demonstrate a full system with all needed components suitable for ultra-low DH temperatures (40 oC) incl. demonstration of systems for heating of DHW without risk of legionella.





Topic: EE-04-2016-2017 Acronym: RELaTED


Title: REnewable Low TEmperature District



Coordinator: FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Participants:

TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT BEOGRADSKE ELEKTRANE METRO THERM AS NIBE AKTIEBOLAG ENTE VASCO DE LA ENERGIA MAZOWIECKA AGENCJA

ENERGETYCZNA SPZOO EL TALLER DE COMUNICACION Y

CIA S.COOP. PEQUENA

AS FORTUM TARTU GOBIERNO VASCO -

DEPARTAMENTO SEGURIDAD AVENTA AS INDUSTRIAS IMAR, S.A. Institute of Baltic Studies FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES

AGENCES ET DES REGIONS POUR L'ENERGIE ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT

Countries: ES;DK;EE;RS;SE;NO;PL;BE

Objectives:

District heating (DH) systems are one of the most energy efficient heating systems in urban environments, with proven reliability within many decades already. DHs have traditionally been designed to be operated in a hierarchized way, with central energy production facilities delivering heat to a variety of distributed consumption locations.

DHs are identified as key systems to achieve the de-carbonization of heating energy in European Cities. Renewable and waste heat sources are foreseen at the same time as de-carbonized heat sources and the way to guarantee competitive energy costs with limited influence of fossil fuel supply price volatility. To achieve this, conversion of DHs is needed regarding:

- The reduction of their operation temperature to avoid current technical constraints in the integration of low-grade industrial heat sources,

- The introduction of larger shares of renewable energy sources (RES) in the DH network.

- The introduction of distributed heat sources (reject heat from cooling equipment...).

- To guarantee economic viability with the trend of DH heat load reduction due to the evolution of the building stock toward NZEB (Near Zero Energy Buildings).

RELaTED will provide an innovative concept of decentralized Ultra-Low Temperature (ULT) DH networks, which allow for the incorporation of low-grade heat sources with minimal constraints. Also, ULT DH reduce operational costs due to fewer heat losses, better energy performance of heat generation plants and extensive use of de-carbonized energy sources at low marginal costs.

The RELaTED ULT DH concept will be demonstrated in four complementary operation environments (new and existing DH, locations, climatic conditions, dimension…) in Denmark, Estonia, Serbia and Spain.

RELaTED approach will follow the strategy of the electrical smart grids, in which energy generation is decentralized and consumers evolve to prosumers (they consume and produce energy).





Topic: EE-04-2016-2017 Acronym: TEMPO


Title: TEMPerature Optimisation for Low Temperature District Heating across Europe



Coordinator: VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.

Participants:

NODAIS AB THERMAFLEX INTERNATIONAL

HOLDING B.V. VATTENFALL EUROPE WARME

AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT ENERPIPE GMBH EUROHEAT & POWER

AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH

STEINBEIS INNOVATION GGMBH SMET-GROUNDWATER

TECHNICS A2A CALORE & SERVIZI SRL HOGSKOLAN I HALMSTAD

Countries: BE;SE;AU;NL;DE;IT

Objectives:

The technical and economic viability of today’s district heating (DH) networks are undermined by transitions to highly efficient building stocks and ineffective business models which fail to benefit all stakeholders. TEMPO tackles this by 1) innovations to create low temperature (LT) networks for increased network efficiency and integration options for renewable and residual heat sources; and 2) new business models to boost network competitiveness and attractiveness for stakeholder investment.

In TEMPO, six innovations related to networks, digitisation thereof and building optimisation undergo final development (TRL7-8). The innovations are combined into 3 solution packages suitable for 3 different application areas: new LT DH networks in urban areas, new LT DH networks in rural areas, and existing (HT) networks. The benefits of these solution packages to reduce network temperatures will be demonstrated in 3 selected representative demos. The Vattenfall demo is a new urban LT network whereby solution package 1 will be demonstrated to reduce temperatures and therefore to enable integration of a geothermal energy source and cooling. The Enerpipe demo is a new rural LT network whereby solution package 2 will be demonstrated to reduce temperatures and so can open up the possibility to integrate a renewable energy source at a later stage. The existing network of A2A currently operates at a very high supply temperature. By integrating solution package 3, with particular emphasis on end consumer engagement, reduction in network temperatures will be similarly demonstrated. A comparable monitoring approach will ensure optimal network performance (reliability and durability) assessment and to foster maximal replication options in other areas.

Each solution package will be coupled to an innovative business model, which can leverage cost savings due to improved energy efficiency to offset the investment costs. Stakeholder engagement and consumer empowerment will be high pr






Topic: EE-05-2016 Acronym: THERMOS


Title: THERMOS (Thermal Energy Resource Modelling and Optimisation System)



Coordinator: CENTRE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

Participants:

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

CREARA CONSULTORES SL KRAJOWA AGENCJA

POSZANOWANIA ENERGII SPOLKA AKCYJNA

JELGAVAS DOME AALBORG UNIVERSITET DEUTSCHE ENERGIE-AGENTUR

GMBH MUNICIPALITY OF ALBA IULIA

GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY LONDON BOROUGH OF

ISLINGTON AJUNTAMENT DE GRANOLLERS MIASTO STOLECZNE

WARSZAWA VIDES INVESTICIJU FONDS SIA ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT

GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)

MUNICIPIO DE CASCAIS

Countries: UK;ES;PL;LV;DK;DE;RO;PT

Objectives:

THERMOS (Thermal Energy Resource Modelling and Optimisation System) will develop the methods, data, and tools to enable public authorities and other stakeholders to undertake more sophisticated thermal energy system planning far more rapidly and cheaply than they can today. This will amplify and accelerate the development of new low carbon heating and cooling systems across Europe, and enable faster upgrade, refurbishment and expansion of existing systems.

The project will realise these benefits at the strategic planning level (quantification of technical potential, identification of new opportunities) and at the project level (optimisation of management and extension of existing and new systems).

These outcomes will be achieved through:

a) Development of address-level heating and cooling energy supply and demand maps, initially for the four Pilot Cities, and subsequently for the four Replication partners - establishing a standard method and schema for high resolution European energy mapping, incorporating a wide range of additional spatial data needed for modelling and planning of thermal energy systems, and their interactions with electrical and transport energy systems;

b) Design and implementation of fast algorithms for modelling and optimising thermal systems, incorporating real-world cost, benefit and performance data, and operating both in wide area search, and local system optimisation contexts;

c) Development of a free, open-source software application integrating the spatial datasets with the search and system optimisation algorithms (trialled and tested through the public authorities representing four Pilot Cities);

d) Supporting implementation of the energy system mapping methodology, and subsequently the use of the THERMOS software, with a further four Replication Cities/Regions, from three more EU Member States;

e) Comprehensive dissemination of mapping outputs and free software tools, targeting public authorities and wider stakeholders across Europe.





Topic: EE-05-2016 Acronym: HotMaps


Title: Heating and Cooling: Open Source Tool for Mapping and Planning of Energy Systems



Coordinator: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN

Participants:

AALBORG UNIVERSITET ENERGY CITIES/ENERGIE-CITES

ASSOCIATION ZENTRUM FUR

ENERGIEWIRTSCHAFT UND UMWELT (E-THINK)

HAUTE ECOLE SPECIALISEE DE SUISSE OCCIDENTALE

PLANENERGI FOND AALBORG KOMMUNE STADT FRANKFURT AM MAIN

DER MAGISTRAT MILTON KEYNES COUNCIL KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL

CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ENERGETIQUES ET MUNICIPALES

ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO

FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

PRIMARIA MUNICIPIULUI BISTRITA

VILLE DE GENEVE FOMENTO DE SAN SEBASTIAN

SA

Countries: AU;DK;CH;FR;IT;DE;RO;UK;ES;IE

Objectives:

HotMaps will develop, demonstrate and disseminate a toolbox to support public authorities, energy agencies and planners in strategic heating and cooling planning on local, regional and national levels, and in-line with EU policies. The toolbox will facilitate the following tasks on a spatially disaggregated level: (1) Mapping heating and cooling energy situation including renewable and waste heat potentials in GIS layers; (2) Model the energy system, considering hourly matching of supply and demand, demand response etc.; (3) Supporting the comprehensive assessment of efficient heating and cooling according to the Energy Efficiency Directive; (4) Comparative assessment of supply and demand options and of given scenarios until 2050 regarding e. g. CO2-emissions, costs, share of renewables.

An open data set for EU-28 will be created to perform those tasks in virtually any EU region up to a 250x250m level, which will reduce barriers for authorities to heating and cooling planning. HotMaps will allow for updating locally available data and links to existing models. The software will be developed in close cooperation with the target group, within the consortium and beyond. Moreover, the toolbox will be validated and demonstrated in 7 pilot areas to provide a tested and user friendly software entirely based on user needs.

In the proposal we present a strategy how to ensure the wide usability, adjustability and application of the toolbox within and beyond the project duration: (1) The consortium is fully committed to the open source idea: All EU-28 data and the source code will be open and we will link with open source energy modelling communities; (2) Training activities will be carried out, including a strategy how to continue after the project; (3) Academic partners will train students on HotMaps in their teaching activities. Our consortium includes leading experts on energy planning in Europe, modelling and tool development, dissemination and various public authorities.





Topic: EE-05-2016 Acronym: Planheat


Title: Integrated tool for empowering public authorities in the development of sustainable plans for low carbon heating and cooling



Coordinator: D'APPOLONIA SPA

Participants:

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT

NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS

FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION

STAD ANTWERPEN REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL

CENTER FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE –REC

GEONARDO ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD

SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU, FAKULTET STROJARSTVA I BRODOGRADNJE

VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.

GRAD VELIKA GORICA EUROHEAT & POWER CITTA DI LECCE*COMUNE DI

LECCE ARTELYS SA

Countries: IT;NL;HR;EL;BE;ES;HU;FR

Objectives:

Public bodies face the lack of appropriate easy-to-use tools to support them in the definition, simulation and evaluation of suitable strategies for sustainable heating and cooling tailored to local conditions for achieving the ambitious targets set-up in their local plans. In light of this, PLANHEAT main objective is to develop and demonstrate an integrated and easy-to-use tool which will support local authorities (cities and regions) in selecting, simulating and comparing alternative low carbon and economically sustainable scenarios for heating and cooling that will include the integration of alternative supply solutions (from a panel of advanced key technologies for the new heating and cooling supply) that could balance the forecasted demand. The PLANHEAT integrated tool will be designed to support local authorities in 1) mapping the potential of locally available low carbon energy sources (with specific reference to available RES and waste energy recoverable at urban and industrial level) 2) mapping the forecasted demand for heating and cooling 3) define and simulate alternative environmentally friendly scenarios based on district heating and cooling as well as highly efficient cogeneration systems matching the forecasted demand, levering on the use of RES and waste energy sources and with proven economic viability 4) understanding the interactions of these new scenarios with the existing infrastructures and networks (among which district heating and cooling gas, electricity, sewage, transportation) and identify potential for further extension and upgrade of district heating and cooling networks 5) evaluate the benefits (in terms of energetic, economic and environmental KPIs) that the adoption of the new scenarios will generate against the current situation (i.e., baseline). Moreover sound training and replication strategies involving a number of other public authorities have been set-up towards the empowerment of the expected project impacts.






Topic: EE-06-2016-2017 Acronym: CLEAR 2.0

Call: H2020-EE-2016-CSA Type of Action: CSA

Title: enabling Consumers to Learn about, Engage with, Adopt and regulate Renewable energy technologies 2.0



Coordinator: ASSOCIATION DES CONSOMMATEURS TEST-ACHATS SCRL

Participants:

DECO PROTESTE EDITORES LDA OCU EDICIONES SA INTERNATIONAL CONSUMER

RESEARCH AND TESTING LIMITED

DTEST, OPS

ALTROCONSUMO EDIZIONI SRL MEDNARODNI INSTITUT ZA

POTROSNISKE RAZISKAVE BUREAU EUROPEEN DES

UNIONS DE CONSOMMATEURS

Countries: BE;PT;IT;ES;SI;CZ;UK

Objectives:

"CLEAR 2.0 - enabling Consumers to be Engage with and Adopt Renewable energy technologies. 2.0- is a new project that builds on the learning of an EU funded project IEE13-588 CLEAR.

It will actively guide consumers in the energy market and enable them to be more aware, active players, save money and easily become ""prosumers"".

The Consortium will accompany consumers through all the stages leading to the purchase and the correct efficient use of domestic renewable and low-carbon energy technologies. The CLEAR 2.0 project will focus as well on changing behaviour and optimisation of existing installations. The main needs of a home, including heating/cooling and electricity production (including storage and monitoring systems) will be addressed through a consumer-centric approach and actions that will lead to the changing behaviour and form collective consumer groups to support the purchase of renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaic installations, batteries, pellet stoves and heat pumps for heating and cooling.

The three major barriers (awareness, behaviour and price) to the investment in RES will be directly addressed, having as a result a higher consumer engagement.

BEUC and the consumers organisation focus their advocacy work on relevant legislative developments in order to overcome existing barriers and facilitate consumers’ participation in the energy market. It will distil policy lessons to create a favourable and stable national and European policy framework for the benefit of all European consumers."





Topic: EE-06-2016-2017 Acronym: ASSIST


Title: ASSIST - Support Network for Household Energy Saving



Coordinator: AISFOR SRL

Participants:

RICERCA SUL SISTEMA ENERGETICO - RSE SPA

SEVERN WYE ENERGY AGENCY LTD

FEDERACJA KONSUMENTOW STOWARZYSZENIE

VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.

RESEAU EUROPEEN DES ASSOCIATIONS DE LUTTE CONTRE LA PAUVRETE ET L'EXCLUSION SOCIALE AISBL

ACQUIRENTE UNICO SPA ASOCIACION ECOSERVEIS ALGINET DISTRIBUCION

ENERGIA ELECTRICA SOCIEDAD LIMITADA

KRAJOWA AGENCJA POSZANOWANIA ENERGII SPOLKA AKCYJNA

Eandis cvba VAASAETT LTD AB OY

Countries: IT;ES;UK;PL;BE;FI

Objectives:

ASSIST is a 36 month European ‘market activation - policy orientation’ project to tackle fuel poverty and support vulnerable consumers. It answers the call requirements to actively engage consumers in the energy market and positively change behaviour in relation to energy consumption and to influence design of policy at all levels to tackle fuel poverty issues.

Based on the conclusion of the “Energy Citizens’ Forum”, it combines activities that address both energy and social issues as fuel poverty is not only an energy issue nor can it be tackled in isolation of the bigger issue of poverty, it will:

Broaden understanding on European fuel poverty incidence and how energy support services are effectively tackling the issue, identify best practice and needs but also provide a baseline against which the activity can be compared to demonstrate its effectiveness and to inform work towards policy orientation.

Create an European network and build this by ensuring quality knowledge and skills of the Vulnerable Consumer Energy Advisors (VCEA) with a supportive infrastructure for professional development and experiencing sharing. The VCEA will be in positions of direct contact with the target group in order to help mainstream energy services and, increase access and uptake for the fuel poor.

The creation of the VCEA network will also encompass the recruitment of persons with direct experience of vulnerability/fuel poverty, training them to increase their employability skills but, moreover, to maximise on the peer to peer benefits that they can offer in provision of advice .

With specialist VCEA and advisory strategic steering committees each nation will undertake target actions to address the specific issue. In this way the action utilises the powerful effect of target group ownership of action + bespoke solutions designed in collaboration with the target groups/end users to deliver important lessons learned for dissemination and policy influence.





Topic: EE-06-2016-2017 Acronym: SAVES2


Title: Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings 2



Coordinator: National Union of Students of the United Kingdom

Participants:

RESEAU DES UNIVERSITES DES CAPITALES DE L'EUROPE

THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE OF THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE

UNION OF STUDENTS IN IRELAND MEMBERS' SERVICES LIMITED

SOFIISKI UNIVERSITET SVETI KLIMENT OHRIDSKI

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY ECOVISUM LTD ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO

PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS

UNIVERSITETAS VIESOJI ISTAIGA

UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI

Countries: UK;BE;EL;CY;IE;RO;BG;LT

Objectives:

Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings 2 (SAVES2) will catalyse sustainable energy behaviours among over 219,000 university students in seven countries to help them reduce their exposure to fuel poverty. It incorporates two strands that engage with students living in university accommodation (Student Switch Off) and in the private-rented sector (SAVES).

Student Switch Off is an energy-saving competition that will reach 38,000 students living in 144 dormitories in 14 universities of the partner countries in each academic year from 2017/18 to 2019/20. By identifying and training student ambassadors in each dormitory, and by motivating the ambassadors to encourage their peers to save energy, we will create a race between students in dormitories, each competing to save the most energy and win prizes. It will tap into online student communities through social media, using engaging digital communications (quizzes, photo competitions) to raise awareness of how students can save energy in a fun way. The centrepiece of each competition will be an energy dashboard that updates students in near-real time on the performance and position of their dormitory in the competition – providing feedback and encouraging further action.

The private-rented sector engagement work (SAVES) will reach over 100,000 students when they are looking for, moving into and living in the private-rented sector. It will enable students to make better informed decisions at the point at which they are selecting a rental property – thereby routing purchase decisions towards higher efficiency properties. SAVES2 will incorporate national-level partnerships with smart meter delivery agencies to develop student-focused communication materials highlighting the benefits of smart meters. It will provide ongoing advice and support to students via energy-efficiency and bill management training, peer-to-peer advice sharing via video blogs and regular e-mail and social media communications.






Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: MOBISTYLE


Title: MOtivating end-users Behavioral change by combined ICT based tools and modular Information services on energy use, indoor environment, health and lifestyle



Coordinator: Huygen Installatie Adviseurs

Participants:

DEMO CONSULTANTS BV Inovacijsko-razvojni institut Univerze

v Ljubljani HIGHSKILLZ LIMITED TAURON POLSKA ENERGIA SA Whirlpool Europe srl (participation

ended)

UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT AALBORG UNIVERSITET POLITECNICO DI TORINO HOLONIX SRL-SPIN OFF DEL

POLITECNICO DI MILANO WHIRLPOOL EMEA SPA

Countries: NL;SI;DK;IT;UK;PL

Objectives:

The overall aim of MOBISTYLE is to raise consumer awareness and awareness of ownership, thus empowering consumers and providing confidence of choosing the right thing, by providing attractive tailor-made combined knowledge services on energy use, indoor environment, health and lifestyle, by ICT-based solutions. This awareness will support and motivate end-users to well informed pro-active behavior towards energy use, energy efficiency and health.

The objectives are:

1. To make energy use and energy efficiency understandable and easy to handle in an attractive way by unlocking and translating large data sets using data science from energy monitoring for consumers.

a. To transform ‘big data’ into ‘smart data’, i.e. giving meanings to data, making data understandable and findable.

b. To develop easy to use, desirable ICT-based tools which will make energy monitoring a well-accepted and attractive ‘daily activity’ for end-users as well as for professionals (building managers).

2. To provide understandable information to consumers on health and life style in relation to energy use by combining energy monitoring with monitoring indoor environmental and behavior parameters

a. To combine the several low-cost, non-intrusive devices and monitoring with the energy monitoring.

b. To offer the end user transparency on energy use/efficiency, indoor environment, health and lifestyle.

3. To motivate behavioral change of consumers/energy end-users by combined modular information on energy use, health and lifestyle: To transform this information into knowledge for raising awareness on energy use and behavior, thus motivating and supporting to come to a behavioral consciousness and change of lifestyle concerning energy and health.

4. To foster new business models and applications

5. To deploy and validate the developed solutions and services in different building types and user types, demonstrating a significant reduction of final energy use, prompted by these solutions.





Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: enCOMPASS


Title: Collaborative Recommendations and Adaptive Control for Personalised Energy Saving



Coordinator: POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Participants:

EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR PARTICIPATORY MEDIA EV

WATT AND VOLT ANONIMI ETAIRIA EKMETALLEYSIS ENALLAKTIKON MORFON ENERGEIAS

ETHNIKO IDRYMA EREVNON SET MOBILE SRL KALEIDOSPUBLISHING SRL KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS

UNIVERSITETAS PARADOX ENGINEERING SA

STADTWERK HASSFURT GMBH NATURSCHUTZBUND

DEUTSCHLAND (NABU) EV SOCIETA ELETTRICA

SOPRACENERINA SA ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI

TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA

PROFESSIONALE DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA (SUPSI)

GRAVITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT KUTATO-, FEJLESZTO- ES SZOLGALTATO ZARTKORUEN MUKODO RT

Countries: IT;DE;EL;CH;RO;LT;HU

Objectives:

Achieving the European environmental objectives for 2020 requires not only technological progress, but also a major change in energy consumption behaviour. The enCOMPASS project will implement and validate an integrated socio-technical approach to behavioural change for energy saving, by developing innovative user-friendly digital tools to make energy consumption data available and understandable for different stakeholders (residents, visitors, public actors, building managers, utilities and ICT-providers) in ways that empower them to achieve energy savings and manage their needs in energy efficient, cost-effective and comfortable ways. It will demonstrate how this can be achieved with a holistic approach that integrates visualisation of energy data collected from smart sensors, user-generated information and context-aware collaborative recommendations for energy saving, intelligent control and adaptive gamified incentives.

The enCOMPASS system will be realized as an open platform combining 1) context-dependent energy usage information from in-home sensors (smart meters and smart home appliances for heat and electricity), 2) user-generated information (automatic and manual activity tracking), 3) adaptive gamified energy visualisation and 4) intelligent controls and automation. The platform is developed to achieve sustainable changes in user energy consumption patterns without compromising comfort levels. The enCOMPASS system will integrate existing technology, product and service offerings of the utility and technology partners, customize and extend them to offer improved and new types of their offerings.

The enCOMPASS platform is the heart of a new business ecosystem that enables players in the energy domain to develop their own white-label solutions on top of the platform, or to integrate and use individual services or platform modules. This set-up results in societal, environmental and economic impact of enCOMPASS above and beyond the reach of the pilots.





Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: Eco-Bot


Title: Personalised ICT-tools for the Active Engagement of Consumers Towards Sustainable Energy



Coordinator: RISA SICHERHEITSANALYSEN GMBH

Participants:

ESTABANELL Y PAHISA ENERGIA SA

ADELPHI RESEARCH GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH

UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W KATOWICACH

BOTEGO BILGI TEKNOLOJILERI A.S.

SEnerCon GmbH DEXMA SENSORS SL UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE PLEGMA LABS TECHNOLOGIKES

LYSEIS ANONYMOS ETAIRIA

Countries: DE;ES;TR;UK;EL;PL

Objectives:

"Eco-Bot aims to utilize recent advances in chatbot tools and advanced signal processing (i.e. energy disaggregation) using low-resolution smart meter-type data with the goal of changing their behaviour towards energy efficiency. Eco-Bot targets to a personalized virtual energy assistant to deliver information on itemized (appliance-level) energy usage through a chat-bot tool.

The ""chat-bot"" functionality will be use an attractive frontend interface, permitting seamless communication in a more natural and interactive way than a traditional mobile application. This way, Eco-Bot aims to achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers than previous efforts (i.e. serious games, gamification, competitions or other interactive ICT), by adding a more engaging form of interaction with existing platforms that has been proven in different market settings.

The proposed system considers knowledge of the delivered multi-factorial models, including rebound-effects, as a result of the baseline research on both European and International activities. Then, based on advanced ICT, such as knowledge engineering, machine learning, expert systems, the project transforms the multi-factorial models for energy reduction to interactive, personalized and targeted recommendations to consumers on how to save energy.

Eco-Bot uses also existing NILM, e.g. energy disaggregation methods, and data analytics to break down consumption to the appliance level, where this is possible (smart meters at reasonable granularity, adequate number of information collected) so as to make consumers aware of their most energy-consuming devices.

The project will demonstrate the system in three different use cases, each one representing a different business model (B2B / B2B2C /B2C). We aim to validate our system across real and diverse conditions such as socio-cultural, environmental, demographic, climate and consumption, so as to draw concrete conclusions regarding performance, effectiveness, affordability, etc."





Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: UtilitEE


Title: Utility Business Model Transformation through human-centric behavioural interventions and ICT tools for Energy Efficiency



Coordinator: HYPERTECH (CHAIPERTEK) ANONYMOS VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI ETAIREIA PLIROFORIKIS KAI NEON TECHNOLOGION

Participants:

ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA

UNIVERSITAET BASEL MYTILINEOS ANONIMI ETAIRIA -

OMILOS EPICHEIRISEON TAURON POLSKA ENERGIA SA MY ENERGIA ONER SL

SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED

SOLINTEL M&P SL VAASAETT LTD AB OY SOREA SOCIETE DES REGIES

DE L'ARC SWT ANSTALT DES

OFFENTLICHEN RECHTSDER STADT TRIER

Countries: EL;ES;IE;CH;FI;FR;PL;DE

Objectives:

Utilities are facing political pressure to reduce the energy end use by their customers and GHG emissions. Consumers, on the other hand, are empowered by the proliferation of IT interfaces and multiplication of channels. Their expectations for everything-anytime-anywhere interaction are redefining the nature of (energy) services. The advent of smart building technologies for energy efficiency reveal a mega-trend on the evolution of consumer choices and highlight the need for addressing their requirements for user-friendly, meaningful and actionable communication. Faced with these realities, business as usual is no longer an option for energy utilities. They must seek new sources of revenues by introducing bundled building energy management service packages including energy efficiency, smart controls and automation. The UtilitEE project will provide a customer-oriented Behavioural Change Framework (Energy-as-a-Service delivery approach via an open ICT ecosystem integrated into the building with off-the-shelf sensors). It focuses on discovering, quantifying and revealing energy-hungry activities and conveys meaningful feedback to engage users into a continuous process of learning and improvement. UtilitEE will leverage well-known behavioural models/ theories and standardized operational rating/ certification methods. It will also incorporate human-centric intelligent control features that use occupant comfort profiles and supportively control HVAC and lights so as to minimize energy waste, while always keeping occupants comfortable and preserving a healthy indoor environment. The framework will be validated in real-life conditions by a large population of residential and commercial consumers and aims to reduce energy use by ~30%. Validation activities will also explore future business models and go-to-market strategies for utilities. A holistic roadmap and business plan for the exploitation and replication of project results will be delivered.





Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: eTEACHER


Title: end-users Tools to Empower and raise Awareness of Behavioural CHange towards EneRgy efficiency



Coordinator: CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DE MATERIALES Y CONTROL DE OBRA SA

Participants:

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY GRANLUND OY ACX GMBH ASCORA GMBH AGENCIA EXTREMENA DE LA

ENERGIA LAURA OTERO INSTALACIONES

SL FONDAZIONE ICONS

Nottingham City Council FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT

ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

ICPE SA STEINBEIS INNOVATION GGMBH

Countries: ES;UK;FI;DE;RO;IT

Objectives:

eTEACHER concept consists of encouraging and enabling energy behaviour change of building users by means of continuous interventions displayed through a set of empower tools to drive informed decisions in order to save energy and optimise indoor environment quality. These empower tools are a set of ICT solutions that ensures friendly connection in between end-users and building systems, implement continuous behavioral change interventions and provide tailored advice. The tools can be classified into BACS (Building Automation and Control Systems) add-ons and end-user friendly solutions. The BACS add-ons (What-if-Analysis, data processing and universal BACS/monitoring system interface) are responsible for collecting information from the building, pre-processing data to focus on relevant metrics related to the use of energy and indoor environmental quality, exploring potential energy conservation measures (ECMs) and post-processing data in order to present it in a way that can have more impact on users behavior.The user friendly solutions are energy efficiency and comfort advisor apps for end-users devices (mobiles, smartTV, smartwatch, dashboarding). These apps show the ECMs identified by BACS-addons and integrates ICT-based behavioural change techniques such as gamification (games, challenges, bonus system, energy literacy, energy visibility, etc.) according to different roles (visitors, facility managers, owner, etc.) as building users and according to cultural and demographic indicators. An important feature of the advisor apps is that they collect feedback from end-users regarding comfort and satisfaction that are used to customise ECMs and engagement techniques. The project is demonstrated in 12 real buildings located h 3 different climate conditions. The pilots located in Spain are 2 residential buildings, 2 schools and 2 health care centres. The pilots located in UK are an office building and a school. The Romania pilots are 4 residential buildings.





Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: BENEFFICE


Title: Energy Behaviour Change driven by plug-and-play-and-forget ICT and Business Models focusing on complementary currency for Energy Efficiency for the Wider Population



Coordinator: EUROPEAN DYNAMICS BELGIUM

Participants:

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS – NTUA

EURO-FUNDING ADVISORY GROUP SL

450

VERBUND Solutions GmbH VAASAETT LTD AB OY B KAYKAS ANONIMI ETAIREIA

EMPORIAS HLEKTROLOGIKON YLIKON FOTISTIKON

Countries: BE;EL;AU;FI;ES;FR

Objectives:

BENEFFICE’s strategic objective is to reduce wasted energy by incentivising various consumer types in the wide energy consumer market. A novel ecosystem will be developed which enables and incentivises long-term energy consumption savings. BENEFFICE ecosystem leverages novel IoT enabled, low-cost, “plug-and-play-and-forget” devices, energy disaggregation and an innovative empowerment and rewards approach based on an alternative monetary currency so as to change consumers’ energy consumption behaviour. The “plug-and-play-and-forget” devices will accurately capture energy use patterns at the level of each electrical appliance and at the level of each individual user. An energy behaviour model will be used to correlate these patterns with optimal, personalised comfort levels, social profiles and characteristics (including social, economic, geographic and energy use contexts) in order to determine optimal energy use behaviour to reduce wastage of energy and to increase the use of renewable resources in the energy mix. BENEFICE will design personalized, real-time motivational paths to deliver sustained reductions in energy consumption. Customers will be incentivized to follow these paths voluntarily, through the application of novel business models that provide monetary rewards in return for progress along each personalized pathway and help build an online community of like-minded actors. These business models will be based on an innovative digital CO2 currency - CO2 Credits are awarded to actors for proven, sustained reduction in fossil fuel use. Business models that stimulate the supply of, and demand for, CO2 Credits, will be designed, tested and validated. These business models will leverage partnerships with established businesses -third party market catalysts- that recognize the potential offered by CO2 Credits both to promote reduced consumption of fossil fuels and to extend their market share by offering a new service to their clients with clear social added value.





Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: InBetween


Title: ICT enabled BEhavioral change ToWards Energy EfficieNt lifestyles



Coordinator: RINA CONSULTING SPA

Participants:

ACCIONA CONSTRUCCION SA DEVELCO PRODUCTS AS INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER

(IDC) HERZLIYA SONNENPLATZ GROSSCHONAU

GMBH

AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH

INSTITUT MIHAJLO PUPIN VILOGIA SA

Countries: IT;ES;AU;DK;IL;RS;FR

Objectives:

inBETWEEN goes beyond currently available ICT technologies used for inducing the end User behaviour change towards more energy efficient lifestyles by simultaneously assisting Users to IDENTIFY energy wastes, LEARN how they could conserve energy and MOTIVATE them to act. Apart from detecting energy saving opportunities and offering various incentives for Users’ behaviour change, great part of the motivation aspect will also be associated with the provided ability and means to act through inBETWEEN solution. The overarching technological objective which is to deliver cost-effective solution that brings added value, without significant disruption of everyday activities, through the collaborative inBETWEEN cloud based platform offering advance energy services. It allows Users to integrate their building’s connected devices and systems with advance energy analytics and optimisation services to create a comprehensive recommendation and feed-back solution which will facilitate further the behaviour change towards more energy and cost efficient daily routines. A significant demonstration activity in a range of real life pilot locations in EU with diverse public set-ups, which differ in terms of size, type, climate and patterns of use, will offer the necessary technology validation.





Topic: EE-07-2016-2017 Acronym: FEEdBACk


Title: Fostering Energy Efficiency and BehAvioural Change through ICT



Coordinator: INESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA

Participants:


DEXMA SENSORS SL KREIS LIPPE DER LANDRAT ESTUDI RAMON FOLCH I

ASSOCIATS SL

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE

LIMETOOLS LTD IN-JET APS

Countries: PT;NL;CH;ES;UK;DK;DE

Objectives:

The objectives of the FEEdBACk project are to develop, integrate and trial a wide range of energy focused ICT and behaviour modification applications, that will be used to engage energy users and permit them to understand and change their energy consumption related behaviour in three different built environments (Office/Research Labs, Schools, Domestic smart homes) in three climatic settings (northern Portugal, Mediterranean Spain, and northern Germany). The consortium, from seven EU countries, that has been assembled to deliver FEEdBACk consists of highly experienced research organisations in the energy area; three SMEs that specialise in e-learning digital communication applications targeted at behaviour change and in building energy data gathering and representation to managers and users; and three organisations that own and manage buildings, schools and public and private dwellings, who are committed to lowering and making more sustainable their energy use. The development of this broad spectrum of energy related applications and the utilisation of next generation gamification techniques, tested in such a wide range of built environments has not been attempted before. The outputs from the project will enable accelerated commercialisation, by a wide range of innovative SMEs, within and outside the project consortium, of the tools that will help building owners and stakeholders to understand and reduce their energy consumption. The demonstration of the results of the FEEdBACK project will be valuable for Technical & Market planning for the EU energy industry. The FEEdBACK’s ambition is to enable a wide range of companies to incorporate or integrate elements of the applications and the behaviour change components, thereby making their products more competitive and successful in the EU and on a global scale. This will contribute significantly to achieving important sustainable energy EU objectives.






Topic: EE-08-2016 Acronym: CHEETAH


Title: Changing Energy Efficiency Technology Adoption in Households



Coordinator: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Participants:

Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Grenoble

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOR AN

ENERGY EFFICIENT ECONOMY FORENING - ECEEE

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN


Countries: DE;FR;AU;NL;UK;SE

Objectives:

Modelling analyses typically suggest that policies accelerating the adoption of energy-efficient technologies (EETs) by overcoming barriers to energy efficiency in the residential sector provide benefits for individual households, the energy system and for society as a whole. Yet, implicit discount rates, employed to reflect households’ decision criteria and response to policy, are disputed in policy and academic circles.

CHEETAH (CHanging Energy Efficiency Technology Adoption in Households) provides evidence-based input to energy efficiency policy design and evaluation, thereby supporting the market uptake of EETs in the EU residential sector. It contributes to the work programme by addressing the interrelations between microeconomic factors, sectoral energy demand and macroeconomic effects, relying on a consistent methodological framework.

CHEETAH:

• Provides empirical evidence on household response to established and new energy-efficiency policies and on factors driving adoption of EETs, accounting for differences across households, technologies, and countries. A multi-country survey (2000 interviews per country) will be carried out and analyzed econometrically

• Assesses the impact of established and new policies energy demand in the EU residential sector until 2030 (meso-level). Established vintage stock energy models will be employed for appliances (FORECAST) and for buildings (Invert/EE-Lab) and linked with an agent-based modelling approach (ABM)

• Explores the macro-level impacts of changes in microeconomic decision-making and energy-efficiency policy on employment, GDP and exports until 2030, relying on simulations with a recognized macroeconomic model for the EU (ASTRA)

• Offers evidence-based recommendations for key energy efficiency policies and input for impact assessments and policy analysis at the three levels of analysis.

• Communicates empirical findings to policy makers, national experts, the re-search community and the general public





Topic: EE-08-2016 Acronym: CONSEED


Title: CONSumer Energy Efficiency Decision Making



Coordinator: THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN

Participants:

CICERO SENTER KLIMAFORSKNING STIFTELSE

UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF

ATHENS

ASOCIACION BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - KLIMA ALDAKETA IKERGAI

Countries: IE;NO;ES;SI;EL

Objectives:

Consumers do not minimize the total costs of their energy-consuming investments due to a range of market and non-market based failures. This is known as the ‘Energy Efficiency Gap’. To reduce the gap and provide customers with energy consumption information, the EU has mandated that electrical appliances, cars and buildings carry information to indicate their energy consumption.

There is a large knowledge gap in terms of understanding which factors are salient in consumers’ decisions, the relative importance of these factors and how these factors change by consumer group and product type. The key idea behind CONSEED is to understand how consumers make decisions which involve an energy component, and to make (energy) operating costs more salient to consumers at the point of purchase to increase efficient behaviour.

CONSEED will involve four key steps. 1) Develop a theoretical framework to base our work on the best available knowledge in the field and 2) Collect empirical data on consumer behaviour through a range of different methods. Our project will involve 27 focus groups, eleven large consumer surveys, three field experiments, and three discrete choice experiments, with tailored treatments to generate a novel database consisting of empirical evidence on the salient factors impacting on the consumer decision making process. Step 3) will validate the theoretical models using our empirical data. Step 4) will deliver evidence-based research on consumer decisions involving an energy component that will enable better, more efficient and effective energy policy. Many of the challenges relating to energy efficiency policy derive from the large number of factors which potentially play a role in influencing ultimate consumer decisions. CONSEED research will directly investigate the relative importance of these factors and isolate the aspects which are likely to provide the greatest impact in terms of future energy efficiency policy.





Topic: EE-08-2016 Acronym: PENNY


Title: Psychological, social and financial barriers to energy efficiency



Coordinator: FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI

Participants:

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN POLITECNICO DI MILANO

WESTFAELISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER

DEBRECENI EGYETEM

Countries: IT;CH;DE;NL;HU

Objectives:

The project aims at improving our understanding on behavioural mechanisms in energy efficiency, following an interdisciplinary and broad behavioural science approach. The project will provide an empirical and numerical assessment of the psychological, social, economic and financial factors that influence energy efficiency in the residential and industry sectors By paring with energy utilities and retailers in different European countries, the project will conduct scientific experiments (A/B testing) which will enhance the design of policies aiming at maximizing energy efficient behaviors. The project will use novel data from different European countries to take into consideration institutional and political factors. The project will analyze consumers’ behavior related to the consumption of energy, the investment in energy efficient products, as well as the renovation of buildings. Finally, ex ante assessment will be executed using improved energy economy models, which will generate quantitative information with regard to expected impacts of EU and global policies.






Topic: EE-09-2016-2017 Acronym: EPATEE


Title: Evaluation into Practice to Achieve Targets for Energy Efficiency



Coordinator: OSTERREICHISCHE ENERGIEAGENTUR AUSTRIAN ENERGY AGENCY

Participants:

AGENCE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE LA MAITRISE DE L'ENERGIE

FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA PER L'USO RAZIONALE DELL'ENERGIA

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

LIETUVOS ENERGETIKOS INSTITUTAS

ASSOCIAT TECHNIQUE ENERGIE ENVIRONNEMENT

STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND

ENERGETSKI INSTITUT HRVOJE POZAR

INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY STICHTING

MOTIVA OY

Countries: AU;FR;NL;HR;IT;DE;LT;FI

Objectives:

Directives on energy efficiency such as the EED or the EPBD trigger a great variety of policies throughout EU Member States. The effort put into developing and implementing these policies is well documented in existing NEEAPs. Soon, emphasis will be put on finding out how effective they were to create new policies that allow meeting current and future energy savings targets. Unfortunately, several barriers limit policy evaluation. This results in a lack of quantitative data, and impedes evidence-based analysis required to distinguish effective from ineffective policies.

EPATEE aims at tackling this problem by raising the capacity of policymakers and implementers to assist Members States to fulfil their obligation under energy related Directives. The project will provide them both with tools and with practical knowledge to make effective impact evaluation an integral part of the policy cycle. EPATEE makes use of existing evaluation experiences in a range of instruments, such as energy efficiency obligation schemes, regulations, financial incentives and voluntary agreements. Lessons learnt from other EU initiatives and good practices in how to successfully evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of such energy efficiency policies will provide the basis for the development of guidelines and good practice evaluation tools. A set of 20 to 30 tools enabling state-of-the-art evaluation will be developed and integrated into a smart online toolbox, which interactively assists users in picking the most relevant tool for their specific need.

This guidance material provides the basis for the most important aspect of EPATEE: target-oriented experience sharing and capacity building. Findings will be discussed together with policymakers through peer-learning workshops, webinars, direct consulting, and other means of communication and dissemination. All activities will strive at realizing synergies with other EU projects such as ODYSEEE-MURE, ENSPOL, MultEE and the CA EED.





Topic: EE-09-2016-2017 Acronym: PROSPECT


Title: Peer Powered Cities and Regions



Coordinator: INSTITUTE FOR HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES BV

Participants:

ENERGY CITIES/ENERGIE-CITES ASSOCIATION

INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY STICHTING

UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS RESEARCH CENTER

S. ENERGIA - AGENCIA REGIONAL DE ENERGIA PARA OS CONCELHOS DO BARREIRO, MOITA E MONTIJO

FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES AGENCES ET DES REGIONS POUR L'ENERGIE ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT

EUROCITIES ASBL CLIMATE-KIC GMBH O.Oe. Energiesparverband THE CITY OF TRNAVA LEGAL

MUNICIPAL ENTITY

Countries: NL;FR;BE;EL;DE;AU;PT;SK

Objectives:

The overall aim of PROSPECT is to enable peer to peer learning in regional and local authorities in order to finance and implement sustainable energy plans. The learning will empower them to make use of best practices in developing financing for these plans. PROSPECT will address the needs of regional and local authorities through developing a complete peer to peer learning program addressing them. The learning process will be focused on how different sustainable energy projects and measures have been successfully financed. Peer to peer learning involves sharing information and experience from each other through mentoring activities, work shadowing, and study tours, among others. Primarily, the networks Eurocities, Energy Cities and FEDARENE will perform “needs assessment and gaps identifications” with public bodies for learning and match these needs with available best practices. Then PROSPECT will select public authorities and agencies and the roles of trainer and trainees will be assigned. The learning program will be divided into five modules that include development of financing for : i) public buildings, ii) private buildings, iii) public lighting, iv) transport (private and public), and v) cross sectional. The overall estimation is for PROSPECT to launch 5 modules per year (fifteen in total) with an average participation of 15 partners per module. This number can differ depending on the demand there is for each module, but as an average value this can be manageable in terms of teaching requirements. The added value of PROSPECT in comparison to other initiatives is that the learning program is not limited to a capacity building process. Instead, the learning curriculum will follow the project steps of energy efficiency finance from the first stages of its development to monitoring its sustainable operation. The learning program will ideally result to the launch of pilot business models and financing partnerships for implementing sustainable energy plans.





Topic: EE-09-2016-2017 Acronym: COMPETE4SECAP


Title: Energy management competition for local authorities for uptake and enhance of Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans



Coordinator: EKODOMA

Participants:

SOGESCA s.r.l. GREENDEPENDENT INTEZET

NONPROFIT KOZHASZNU KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG

WUPPERTAL INSTITUT FUR KLIMA, UMWELT, ENERGIE GMBH

DRUSTVO ZA OBLIKOVANJE ODRZIVOG RAZVOJA

ENERGEIAKO GRAFEIO KYPRION POLITON

MT PARTENAIRES INGENIERIE EUROVERTICE CONSULTORES

SL ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT

GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH)*

B. & S.U. BERATUNGS- UND SERVICE-GESELLSCHAFT UMWELT MBH

Countries: LV;IT;FR;HU;ES;DE;HR;CY

Objectives:

All over Europe, a good level of knowledge about Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) development has been reached. There are different good quality methodologies and guidelines available. However, currently municipalities struggle to implement these action plans. There are different reasons for that; one of the most important is the fact that often municipal employees do not feel engaged and are not motivated to take any sort of actions and initiatives, unless someone has actually “obliged” them. In many cases, this lack of engagement and commitment ends up with investments in energy efficiency that do not deliver expected technical and economic outcomes. Hence, the energy efficiency potential is not fully exploited and worse suboptimal investments do not provide expected yields. Moreover, local authorities (LAs) more often are facing also challenges regarding climate resilient infrastructure and climate adaptation. The level of knowledge and understanding is even scarcer as regarding climate mitigation.

COMPETE4SECAP is designed to deliver a systematic approach to energy savings in local authorities using energy management systems (EnMS) according to ISO 50001 or European Energy Award with dedicated online monitoring tool and energy saving competitions. EnMS and competitions when combined can trigger significant benefits by providing innovative and efficient way to involve municipalities that have already their SEAPs but do not act in order to foster their integrated development at local level. Trained and engaged municipal employees will be able to better implement energy efficiency projects, which then require higher investments. An EnMS will help the LA to have reliable data for informed decision and further help in monitoring and evaluation of implemented projects. The use of renewable energy and integration of climate adaptation will also be facilitated through EnMS with the set of procedures from an environmental management system (e.g. IS0 140001).






Topic: EE-10-2016 Acronym: P2Endure

Call: H2020-EE-2016-PPP Type of Action: IA

Title: Plug-and-Play product and process innovation for Energy-efficient building deep renovation



Coordinator: DEMO CONSULTANTS BV

Participants:

Huygen Installatie Adviseurs INVELA BERGAMO TECNOLOGIE SPZOO FERMACELL GMBH SGR SERVIZI SPA RINA CONSULTING SPA MOSTOSTAL WARSZAWA SA UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA

DELLE MARCHE TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET

BERLIN

BECQUEREL ELECTRIC SRL LENZE-LUIG 3-L-PLAN GBR "PRZEDSIEBIORSTWO ROBOT

ELEWACYJNYCH ""FASADA"" SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA"

MIASTO STOLECZNE WARSZAWA

PANPLUS ARCHITEKTUUR CAMELOT VASTGOED

NEDERLAND BV

Countries: NL;IT;DE;DK;PL

Objectives:

P2Endure aims to provide scalable, adaptable and ready-to-implement prefabricated Plug-and-Play (PnP) systems for deep renovation of building envelopes and technical systems. These innovative solutions will be used to transform non-functioning or sub-optimal public and historic buildings into dwellings, and applicable for the widest range of building typologies, i.e. public buildings, residential buildings, and transformation projects.

The main innovation of P2Endure comprises PnP prefab systems enabled by 3D printing, laser and thermal scanning integrated with Building Information Model (BIM). The promoted solutions are SME-driven and geared to rapid and low-disturbance on-site assembly processes for deep renovation.

P2Endure presents a proof-of-performance of the optimised PnP renovation techniques by implementing 10 large-scale and live demonstration projects that represent the main deep renovation typologies and real market demand in 4 EU geo-clusters. This will be done through progressive steps known as “4M: Mapping – Modelling – Making – Monitoring” throughout a 4-year project duration. These demonstration cases give evidence of the achieved 60% energy saving after deep renovation along with 15% cost saving and 50% time saving at renovation, and high indoor environmental quality. The P2Endure project leverage in total primary energy saved is: 19.121 GWh/y.

Wider impacts on replication and market upscaling are guaranteed by a Technology Commercialization Platform (TCP). On this platform P2Endure builds up a critical mass of building owners and their projects, local authorities, supply-chain actors, including leading industrial players in prefab building and technical systems that provide the necessary vehicle for innovative SMEs to enlarge their EU and global market shares through P2Endure solutions.





Topic: EE-10-2016 Acronym: Pro-GET-OnE


Title: Proactive synergy of inteGrated Efficient Technologies on buildings’ Envelopes



Coordinator: ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA

Participants:

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN

Huygen Installatie Adviseurs MUNICIPIUL BRASOV SAVIO SPA ASSOCIACIO LIMA-LOW IMPACT

MEDITERRANEAN ARCHITECTURE

ABT BELGIE NV CLIVET SPA

ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON

DIMOS PERISTERI AZIENDA CASA EMILIA

ROMAGNA DELLA PROVINCIA DI REGGIO EMILIA

BLOOMFIELD SRL BJW BV ALIVA CHIMICA E SISTEMI SRL ANERDGY AG

Countries: IT;DE;EL;NL;RO;ES;BE;CH

Objectives:

The innovative aspect in Pro-GET-OnE (Proactive synergy for Greater Efficiency On buildings’ Envelopes) consists in the following holistic vision:

To combine in a same integrated system based on pre-assembled components the highest performances (iii) in terms of:

i) Energy requirements – by adding (or substituting the existing with) new prefab and plug and play high energy performing envelopes.

ii) Safety – by using appropriate steel structures to reduce horizontal loads and implementing the structural safety while supporting the new envelopes (timber for opaque parts/surfaces, glass, PV and solar panels).

iii) Social sustainability – by ensuring tailored and customized solutions for users and increase the desirability of retrofit options.

Building upon the previous experiences, Pro-GET-OnE aims at promoting a holistic optimized approach that goes beyond the results of EU and national projects and the IEA report on Prefabricated Systems for Low Energy Renovation of Residential Buildings.

In fact, PRO-GET-ONE proposes the highest transformation of the existing building’s shell with volumetric increase and buffer zones (i.e. sunspace between the building and the outdoor environment, extra room, etc.). These solutions have been designed and analysed in a large set of existing buildings.

Being the openings guaranteed, this solution would efficiently provide an effective zone to reduce thermal losses in the cold winter season while ensuring shadow during summer.





Topic: EE-10-2016 Acronym: 4RinEU


Title: Robust and Reliable technology concepts and business models for triggering deep Renovation of Residential buildings in EU



Coordinator: ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO

Participants:

STIFTELSEN SINTEF SISTEMES AVANCATS DE

ENERGIA SOLAR TERMICA SCCL – AIGUASOL

ACCIONA CONSTRUCCION SA OSLO KOMMUNE STICHTING WOONZORG

NEDERLAND R2M SOLUTION SRL

ADERMA SRL TRECODOME BV Gumpp & Maier GmbH THERMICS ENERGIE SRL INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL

SOLUTIONS LIMITED AGENCIA DE L'HABITATGE DE

CATALUNYA

Countries: IT;NO;NL;ES;DE;UK

Objectives:

4RinEU will define robust, cost-effective, tailorable deep renovation technology packages supported by usable methodologies, feeding into reliable business models. The project will minimize failures in design and implementation, manage different stages of the deep renovation process, from the preliminary audit up to the end-of-life, and provide information on energy, comfort, users’ impact, and investment performance.

The 4RinEU deep renovation strategy is based on 3 pillars: (i) technology (driven by robustness) to decrease net primary energy use (60 to 70% compared to pre-renovation), allowing a reduction of life cycle costs over 30 years (15% compared to a typical renovation) (ii) methodology (driven by usability) to support the design and implementation of the technologies improving the information flow and knowledge sharing among stakeholders to sustain participative design, ensuring to halve the current renovation time (iii) business models (driven by reliability) to enhance the level of confidence of deep renovation investors, increasing the EU building stock transformation rate up to 3% by 2020.

The 10 main results of 4RinEU will address the following objectives:

Technology: to reduce demand (Prefab Multifunctional Façade, Comfort Ceiling Fan), to improve energy efficiency (Plug&Play Energy Hub, Objective-based RES Implementation), to improve building operations (Sensible Building Data Handler), and to reduce construction waste (Strategies for Components End-Of-Life).

Methodology: to accurately understand renovation issues and potentials (Cost-Optimal Energy Audit), to ensure an effective and participated design (Investor and Building User-Oriented Design Tool and Method based on BIM), to reduce construction time and failures (Deep Renovation Implementation Management).

Business model: to identify the level of risk of renovation process and to enable well-founded investments supported by tailor-made financial tools (Cost-effectiveness Rating System).






Topic: EE-11-2016-2017 Acronym: iBROAD


Title: Individual Building (Renovation) Roadmaps



Coordinator: A. BELALIDIS - A. DELIGIANNIS KAI SIA OE

Participants:

BUILDINGS PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE EUROPE ASBL


INZEB KOIN S EP SYLLOGIKOU PARAGOGIKOU SKOPOU

ADENE - AGENCIA PARA A ENERGIA

VLAAMS GEWEST INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE

CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE IN CONSTRUCTII URBANISM SI DEZVOLTARE TERITORIALA DURABILA URBAN-INCERC

IFEU - INSTITUT FUR ENERGIE UND UMWELTFORSCHUNG HEIDELBERG GMBH

BLUE PLANET ACADEMY & CONSULTING BVBA

ENERGY EFFICIENCY CENTER – ENEFFECTFOUNDATION

KRAJOWA AGENCJA POSZANOWANIA ENERGII SPOLKA AKCYJNA

AB ALINGSAS RADHUS

Countries: EL;BE;DE;AU;BG;PT;PL;SE;RO

Objectives:

iBROAD intends to explore, design, develop and demonstrate the concept of individual building renovation roadmaps (iBROAD), as a tool outlining deep step-by-step renovation plans with customised recommendations for individual buildings (iBROAD-Plan), combined with a repository of building-related information (logbook, iBROAD- Log).

The iBROAD approach is an evolution of EPC and energy audit systems, aiming to become a real driver for renovation.

The project will analyse and build upon relevant examples in Germany, France and Flanders, to identify the elements, develop an integrated concept, and produce modular tools, suitable for differing national conditions. The iBROAD innovative concept and tools will be tested in Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Germany.Field testing will follow auditor training, and will provide auditor and user experience feedback as input to the feasibility and replicability analyses of the model to other building typologies and EU MS. Stakeholder engagement will be sought from the start at national (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal and Sweden) and EU levels, for maximum impact. Throughout the project, communication activities will ensure the concept’s broad dissemination and awareness.

iBROAD targets residential buildings, with a focus on single-family and small multifamily houses.

iBROAD’s implementation, beyond the project duration, will strongly support building owners in step-by-step deep renovation, while avoiding lock-in effects. iBROAD-Plan and iBROAD-Log are expected to empower energy auditors and end-users with knowledge and experience of deep renovation in individual buildings, and to provide public authorities with real-life studies and analysis supporting deep renovation, both for individual buildings and as a long-term national strategy, increasing the renovation rate and depth across the EU.





Topic: EE-11-2016-2017 Acronym: ALDREN


Title: ALliance for Deep RENovation in buildings (ALDREN)Implementing the European Common Voluntary Certification Scheme, as back-bone along the whole deep renovation process



Coordinator: CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DU BATIMENT

Participants:

ENBEE SRO CERTIVEA FEDERATIE VAN VERENIGINGEN

VOOR VERWARMING EN LUCHTBEHANDELING IN EUROPA VERENIGING

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE LA EDIFICACION

VERCO ADVISORY SERVICES LIMITED

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET

Countries: FR;SK;ES;NL;UK;DK;IT

Objectives:

The ALDREN objectives are to achieve higher renovation rates and better renovation quality by overcoming market barriers and preparing the ground for investment.

The excellence of the ALDREN solutions offered are:

1) A harmonized Energy performance rating based on the European Voluntary Certification Scheme (EVCS) verified by measurements to increase comparability, confidence and market uptake by standardized solutions (CEN / ISO);

2) Associating low energy renovation with high quality indoor environments to trigger renovation and to promote health and comfort;

3) Aligning market recognition of high quality with enhanced building value by financial tools and capacity building. Establishing business case for deep renovation to motivate private investment.

These solutions will be integrated in a consistent, common way in a building passport to ensure the results and effective financing also in case of step by step renovation.

The ALDREN coordinate and support actions bring together in ALDREN Alliance the main stakeholders involved in building renovation to specify the needs of the non-residential building sector and to organize the pilot use of the ALDREN procedure. This innovative approach to management ensures continuous feedback from stakeholders.

The ALDREN actions are sound and credible. They answer a market request for common reliable tools by using the EVCS policy instrument (EPBD Art. 11(9)) and by completing it to reach the needed holistic approach for deep renovation.

The impact on energy savings during the project is estimated at 30 GWh and at 1000 GWh/a after the project.

The implementation and dissemination of the ALDREN procedure will use existing channels of environmental scheme operators for the pilot phase, but also for further dissemination.

The ALDREN overarching outcome will be the infrastructure to enable market transformation by deep renovation driven by the business case and able to directly support the EU policies (EED, EPBD).






Topic: EE-12-2017 Acronym: TABEDE


Title: TowArds Building rEady for Demand rEsponse



Coordinator: TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING S.A.

Participants:

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY CSEM CENTRE SUISSE

D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT

R2M SOLUTION SRL Schneider Electric SPA COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE

ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES

Countries: BE;FR;IT;UK;CH

Objectives:

TABEDE aims to allow all buildings equipped with Building Energy Management Systems to integrate energy grid demand response schemes, overcoming limitations linked to missing interoperability, at reducedcost. For that purpose, TABEDE will allow connection of all dispatchable loads to the Building Energy System through a dedicated TABEDE interface, whatever the communication protocol. A dedicated smart grid communication protocol translator will be provided to ease the acceptance of the TABEDE system as well as a database of dispatchable load drivers. Moreover, in order to improve building efficiency, novel building energy management strategies will be proposed, in terms of electric load and thermal management, adapting to the evolving environment, as well as building continuous monitoring.

TABEDE solution will be demonstrated and assessed through extensive simulation-based testing. The proposed solutions will be deployed on three test sites (residential and tertiary) that are representative of EU building stocks and conditions.





Topic: EE-12-2017 Acronym: HOLISDER


Title: Integrating Real-Intelligence in Energy Management Systems enabling Holistic Demand Response Optimization in Buildings and Districts



Coordinator: FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION

Participants:

HONEYWELL, SPOL. S.R.O NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE

VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO

ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA

PREDUZECE ZA INFORMACIONE TEHNOLOGIJE I ELEKTRONSKO TRGOVANJE BELIT DOO

KIWI POWER LTD CAVERION SUOMI OY BEOGRADSKE ELEKTRANE

HYPERTECH (CHAIPERTEK) ANONYMOS VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI ETAIREIA PLIROFORIKIS KAI NEON TECHNOLOGION

SOLINTEL M&P SL KONCAR - INZENJERING ZA

ENERGETIKUI TRANSPORT DD ASM CENTRUM BADANI I ANALIZ

RYNKU SP ZOO MYTILINEOS ANONIMI ETAIRIA -

OMILOS EPICHEIRISEON

Countries: ES;CZ;EL;NL;HR;RS;PL;UK;FI

Objectives:

HOLISDER introduces a Holistic Demand Response Optimization Framework that will enable significant energy costs reduction (~45%) at the consumer side, while introducing buildings as a major contributor to energy networks’ stability in response to network constraints and conditions.

HOLISDER brings together a wide range of mature technologies and integrates them in an open and interoperable framework, comprising in a fully-fledged suite of tools addressing the needs of the whole DR value chain. In this way it will ensure consumer empowerment/transformation into active market players, through the deployment of a variety of implicit and hybrid DR schemes, supported by a variety of end-user applications for Personalized Informative Billing, Human-Centric Energy Management, Load Scheduling and Intelligent Controls, Self-consumption promotion and cost-effective storage, Predictive Maintenance, along with Context-Aware Automation.

The backbone of HOLISDER project consists in an “open” and modular interoperability and data management framework that will enable open standards-based communication along the DR value chain. It will integrate two main commercial technologies/ products (JACE, EF-i) to ensure seamless information exchange, communication and operation on top of any Building and District EMS, as well as, Smart Home systems/devices.

On the business side HOLISDER will focus on the definition of new business models for intermediaries and third parties (aggregators, energy retailers, facility managers, ESCOs) that will facilitate consumers’ involvement into energy markets by acting on their behalf and making the most out of their flexibility value.

The HOLISDER framework will be validated in 4 large-scale demonstrators/pilot sites, located in Greece, UK, Finland and Serbia, incorporating diverse building types, heterogeneous home, building and district EMS and devices, a variety of energy carriers and spanning diverse climatic conditions, demographics and cultures.





Topic: EE-12-2017 Acronym: RESPOND


Title: RESPOND: integrated demand REsponse Solution towards energy POsitive NeighbourhooDs



Coordinator: FENIE ENERGIA SA

Participants:

FUNDACION TEKNIKER AURA RADGIVNING AS COMHARCHUMANN FUINNIMH

OILEAIN ARANN TEORANTA INSTITUT MIHAJLO PUPIN ENERGOMONITOR S.R.O DEXMA SENSORS SL

ALBOA - ALMEN BOLIGORGANISATION AARHUS

AALBORG UNIVERSITET NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF

IRELAND GALWAY DEVELCO PRODUCTS AS

Countries: ES;DK;IE;RS;CZ

Objectives:

RESPOND will aim to deploy and demonstrate an interoperable, cost effective, user centred solution, entailing energy automation, control and monitoring tools, for a seamless integration of cooperative DR programs into the legacy energy management systems. In this endeavour, RESPOND will be leveraged upon an integrated approach for real-time optimal energy dispatching, taking into account both supply and demand side, while exploiting all energy assets available at the site. Owing to its flexibility and scalability, RESPOND solution will be capable of delivering a cooperative demand response at both building and district level. To provide a seamless integration of all DR enabling elements and ensure a high replication potential, RESPOND will be leveraged upon open standards for interoperability with smart home devices and automation systems, connectivity and extendibility towards smart grid and third party services such as for provision of energy prices, weather forecasts, etc. Underpinned by the smart energy monitoring infrastructure, RESPOND will be able to perform reliable energy data analytics and forecasting in order to detect potential energy conservation opportunities, and to adapt, in real time, to the operational environment considering indoor and outdoor conditions, while retaining the requested comfort levels. Through the interaction with the end users, RESPOND will aim to raise their awareness by delivering measurement driven suggestions for energy demand reduction and influence their behaviour making them an active indispensable part of DR loop. In order to demonstrate the high replication potential, RESPOND will target different types of residential buildings, situated in different climate zones, having different forms of ownership (both rental as well as home-owners), population densities and underlying energy systems.






Topic: EE-13-2016 Acronym: CRAVEzero


Title: Cost Reduction and market Acceleration for Viable nearly zero-Energy buildings



Coordinator: AEE - INSTITUT FUR NACHHALTIGE TECHNOLOGIEN

Participants:

ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO

BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION SKANSKA SVERIGE AB 3I EFFICIENTAMENTO

ENERGETICO SRL KOHLER & MEINZER GMBH & CO.

KG WOHNUNGSUNTERNEHMEN

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

ATP SUSTAIN GMBH MORETTI SPA

Countries: AU;IT;DE;FR;SE

Objectives:

Cost optimal and nearly zero energy performance levels are principles initiated by the European Union’s (EU) Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, which was recast in 2010. These will be major drivers in the construction sector in the next few years, because all new buildings in the EU from 2021 onwards are expected to be nearly zero energy buildings (NZEB).

While realized NZEB have clearly shown that nearly-zero energy target could be achieved using existing technologies and practices, most experts agree that a broad scale shift towards nearly-zero energy buildings require significant adjustments to prevailing building market structures. Cost-effective integration of efficient solution sets and renewable energy systems, in a form that fits with the development, manufacturing and construction industry processes, as well as with planning, design, and procurement procedures, are the major challenges.

CRAVEzero will focus on proven and new approaches to cost reduction of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs) at all stages of the life cycle. The main goal is to identify and eliminate the extra-costs for NZEBs related to processes, technologies, building operation, and to promote innovative business models taking into account the cost-effectiveness for all the stakeholders.

Main project pillars will be: (i) CRAVEzero pinboard as a structured framework organizing all needed information and data to build an effective low life cycle cost NZEB business model (ii) reliable lifecycle cost databases with cost reduction potentials in processes and technologies (iii) methodologies, robust solutions and business models for low LCC NZEBs. Costs reduction will indeed cover all stages of the process, from urban planning, to building design, construction, until the building operation, while ensuring high building overall quality, considering in particular architecture and indoor environmental.





Topic: EE-13-2016 Acronym: CoNZEBs


Title: Solution sets for the Cost reduction of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings - CoNZEBs



Coordinator: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Participants:

AALBORG UNIVERSITET AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE

NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE

BOLIGSELSKABERNES LANDSFORENING

STANOVANJSKI SKLAD REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE, JAVNI SKLAD

KUBEN MANAGEMENT AS GRADBENI INSTITUT ZRMK DOO ABG FRANKFURT HOLDING

WOHNUNGSBAU -UND BETEILIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG

AZIENDA CASA EMILIA ROMAGNA DELLA PROVINCIA DI REGGIO EMILIA

Countries: DE;DK;IT;SI

Objectives:

CoNZEBs will identify and assess technology solution sets that lead to significant cost reductions of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings. The focus of the project is on multi-family houses. Close cooperation with housing associations allows for an intensive interaction with stakeholders and tenants. The project will start by setting baseline costs for conventional new buildings, currently available NZEBs and buildings that go beyond the NZEB level based on the experience of the consortium. It will analyse planning and construction processes to identify possible cost reductions. An investigation of end-users' experiences and expectations together with a guide on co-benefits of NZEBs will promote living in these buildings and enhance the energy performance by conducive user behaviour.

The technology solution sets will include approaches that can reduce costs for installations or generation systems, pre-fabrication and construction acceleration, local low temperature district heating including RES, and many more. Examples are pure electrical heating in combination with PV, PV/T in conjunction with a heat pump so that no earth coupling is required, ventilation supply through the walls to reduce the costs for ducts, larger bricks including insulation, decentral domestic hot water generation (fresh-water stations), etc. All solution sets will be assessed regarding cost savings, energy performance and applicability in multi-family houses. A life cycle assessment of different building levels and NZEBs using the solution sets will provide a longer term perspective. Communication to stakeholders and dissemination of the project results will include events and discussions with the national housing associations.

The project consortium is comprised of the leading national research organisations in the field of high performance buildings in 4 countries incl. the core theme leaders of the Concerted Action EPBD working areas “Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings” and “Cost-optimal levels”.





Topic: EE-13-2016 Acronym: A-ZEB


Title: Affordable zero energy buildings



Coordinator: DNA IN DE BOUW VERENIGING

Participants:

OBRASCON HUARTE LAIN SA ASSOCIATION POUR LA

RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS


WOLFGANG FEIST Vivienda y Suelo de Euskadi, S.A. OBERON KONZEPTBAU POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Countries: NL;ES;DE;FR;BG;IT

Objectives:

This project aims to achieve significant construction and lifecycle cost reductions of new NZEB’s through integral process optimization in all construction phases. The main objectives are:

To develop a methodology for cost reduction in synergy with better energy/ grid-interaction/comfort/environmental performances of new NZEB’s for the European climate zones with a framework of tested strategies and technologies from which designers, builders and urban planners may combine the best for their context.

To disseminate the gained and consolidated knowledge and experience as market-ready solutions to the widest possible EU audience and this way inspire stakeholders to take up new NZEB’s with RES concepts and implement the cost-effective solutions.

To facilitate frontrunners and innovators, from policy-makers to progressive contractors, to help transform the building sector into a sustainable industry, with ready-to-use material and strategies to influence their target groups.

Optimizing construction processes to fully integrate available solutions (in the areas of process, technology, contracting) is seen as the largest potential in lifecycle cost reduction and is at the core of the project. A-ZEB proposes to create a common methodology on this. The main steps are:

- Evaluate available experience and solutions

- Create a common methodology for cost reduction

- Apply the methodology to demonstration projects

- Finalise the methodology including lessons learned

- Disseminate the results

The project will pave the way for the process and organizational innovation in construction, to enable significant cost-reduction and solid market acceptance of NZEB’s.





Topic: EE-13-2016 Acronym: NERO


Title: Cost reduction of new Nearly Zero-Energy Wooden buildings in the Northern Climatic Conditions



Coordinator: KOUVOLA INNOVATION OY

Participants:

TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL VAXJO KOMMUNFORETAG AB

AALTO-KORKEAKOULUSAATIO STIFTELSEN SINTEF

Countries: FI;EE;NO;SE

Objectives:

The project develops and demonstrates nearly Zero Energy Wood Buildings design process and procurement models with reduced cost for large-scale use in the northern climatic conditions and on performance level of nearly zero and beyond. The project promotes large-scale market uptake of the developed nearly Zero Energy Wood Building applicable for construction industry design and procurement process. On site and nearby renewable energy system solutions are studied in order to provide real addition of renewable and energy production of on-site energy system. In addition to the nearly zero energy performance level, the project is also focusing on the performance level, which does beyond the nZEB level. Demonstration tasks on net-zero and energy-plus level will be also executed in the project. Analysis of the technical solutions including renewable energy systems will also reach to the plus-energy level because several nZEB buildings studied in the project will be plus-energy buildings.

The project develops and demonstrates methods and solutions, which significantly reduce the cost of new nearly Zero Energy Wood Buildings compared to the current situation. The project develops standard design process and procurement models for cost reduction for different building types for the Northern Europe climatic conditions. The cost reduction of the nearly Zero Energy Wood Buildings is shown in the project by means of the demonstration projects including both residential and non-residential single buildings. Wood buildings can result in 50 % reduced GHG emissions compared to conventional buildings with steel and concrete structures.






Topic: EE-14-2016-2017 Acronym: BIMplement


Title: Towards a learning building sector by setting up a large-scale and flexible qualification methodology integrating technical, cross-craft and BIM related skills and competences


Total Cost: 999,620.00 € EU max. contribution: 999,620.00 €

Coordinator: ALLIANCE NAT VILLES INNOVATION EMPLOI ASSOCIATION

Participants:

ASTUS-CONSTRUCTION Huygen Installatie Adviseurs REGIONINIS INOVACIJU

VADYBOS CENTRAS LIETUVOS STATYBININKU

ASOCIACIJA INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE LA

EDIFICACION SERVICIO VALENCIANO DE

EMPLEO Y FORMACION

STICHTING ISSO STICHTING OPLEIDINGS- EN

ONTWIKKELINGSFONDS VOOR HET TECHNISCH INSTALLATIEBEDRIJF*ST.POL.- EN ONTWIKK.FONDS TECH INSTALL.BEDR OTIB

MOSTOSTAL WARSZAWA SA CONSEIL DES ARCHITECTES

D'EUROPE

Countries: FR;NL;LT;ES;PL;BE

Objectives:

NZEB construction needs an enhanced systematic approach for the quality control of the entire process to reduce the gap between designed and actual performances of buildings. This requires a fully qualified and equipped workforce, capable to implement, execute and perform all the necessary labor actions with understanding of the responsibility of their own profession and actions, as well as the relation with the other involved professions and actions. BIMplement offers the trainers and the learners a range of tools that fit the objective of developing a fully qualified and equipped workforce, capable to implement, execute and perform all the necessary labour actions. Main aim is to achieve an improved quality for NZEB construction and renovation by setting up a large scale, training, CPD and qualification schemes, addressing the entire process phases in a cross-crafts and cross level multidisciplinary approach, strengthened with hands-on and BIM-enhanced workplace learning tools by following objectives:

1. To improve the overall quality of renovations and new constructions, based on a BIM-enabled workplace learning, addressing the entire process phases in a cross-crafts multidisciplinary approach

2. To create a new generation of professionals and craftsmen, equipped and enabled by BIM skills, to enhance the overall quality of construction and renovation across the entire process

3. To foster interactions between different trades and professions enabled by a flexible qualification, certification and accreditation methodology for implementing BIM as a workplace learning environment

4. To sustain the qualification and training schemes a replication and exploitation strategy will be developed and validated

At the end of the 2 years project BIMplement has developed a transferable method based on the experience of previous BUS and H2020 Construction Skills projects and on experimentations in territories with craftsmen and small enterprises.





Topic: EE-14-2016-2017 Acronym: BIMEET


Title: BIM-based EU -wide Standardized Qualification Framework for achieving Energy Efficiency Training



Coordinator: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Participants:

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY BUILDING RESEARCH

ESTABLISHMENT LTD INES PLATEFORME FORMATION

& EVALUATION CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE

ENERGY SOURCES AND SAVING FONDATION

CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DU BATIMENT

Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy

HOUSE OF TRAINING METROPOLIA

AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY

Countries: LU;UK;FR;FI;EL

Objectives:

The European Construction sector is facing unprecedented challenges to achieve ambitious energy efficiency objectives (with the aim to generalize Near-Zero Energy Buildings), in an economic crisis context dominated by reduced investments, search for cost effectiveness and high productivity. Moreover the industry is experiencing its digital revolution, with Building Information Modeling (BIM) approach gaining significant interest across Europe. Member states implement very different approaches through regulations and maturity targets, which always face the traditional low-tech and informal practices of construction businesses (a fragmented sector, dominated by SMEs).

BIMEET project aims to leverage the take-up of ICT and BIM through a significant upgrade of the skills and capacities of the EU construction workforce. This Coordination and Support Action project is built around a strong consortium relying on educational and research expertise, robust experience of accrediting bodies, training supply chain and a wide engagement of industry led best practice (already committed in an EU-wide expert panel).

Through its actions the project will (a) pave the way to a fundamental step change in delivering systematic, measurable and effective energy efficient buildings through BIM training with a view to effectively address European energy and carbon reduction targets; (b) promote a well-trained world leading generation of decision makers, practitioners, and blue collars in BIM for energy efficiency; (c) establish a world-leading platform for BIM for energy efficiency training nurtured by an established community of interest. Its principal outputs are 1) a skills matrix related to BIM and energy efficiency, harmonized thanks to EQF standard, and 2) a training platform contributing to widely disseminate the BIMEET EQF. These results associated with an accreditation scheme will guarantee the sustainability of the project results after its lifetime.





Topic: EE-14-2016-2017 Acronym: Net-UBIEP


Title: Network for Using BIM to Increase the Energy Performance



Coordinator: AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE

Participants:

CENTRO SERVIZI AZIENDALE SCARL

FUNDACION LABORAL DE LA CONSTRUCCION

VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS VIESOJI ISTAIGA

STICHTING ISSO BALANCE & RESULT

ORGANISATIE ADVISEURS BV MITTETULUNDUSUHING EESTI

TIMMITUD EHITUSE TUGIRUHM

VIAEUROPA COMPETENCE CENTRE SRO

VIESOJI ISTAIGA SKAITMENINE STATYBA

SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU GRADEVINSKI FAKULTET

TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL USTAV VZDELAVANIA A SLUZIEB AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO

SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

Countries: IT;SK;ES;LT;HR;NL;EE

Objectives:

The building sector is the largest consumer of energy in Europe, accounting for nearly 40% of the total consumption (EPBD 2010/31/EU). Furthermore the 2030 European Energy [COM(2014)16Final] and Energy Roadmap 2050 [COM(2011) 885 final], strongly requires more focus on the energy efficiency on housing sector.

Finally, the Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on public procurement, requires that all member states introduce electronic means to exchange information and communication in procurement procedures.

For these reasons we believe that the integrated approach of the Net-UBIEP project, based on Building information Modelling, integrated with energy performance requirements, will be key to solve all the problems in a more effective and efficient manner.

The project proposes BIM Qualification Models integrated with energy competences, to widespread a better comprehension of energy issues along all the value chain of building industry so that both existing and new building will have better energy performances. Public Administrations, Professionals (Engineers / Architects), Technicians (Installers / Maintainers) and Tenants will be therefore involved in the Net-UBIEP activities.

The definition of the BIM Qualification Models will pass through the identification of specific energy BIM competences for each of the above target needed to implement BIM models during the whole building life cycle. During the project the “integrated” BIM Qualification Models will be validated by stakeholders thanks to the delivering of different training activities (Seminars / Classrooms Courses / E-Learning Courses) addressed to at least six BIM Professional Profiles: BIM Manager, BIM Evaluator, BIM Coordinator, BIM Expert, BIM facility manager, BIM user. Once the schemes will be validated, they will be proposed for standardization to find a broader acceptance at European and international level through regulatory organizations (CEN / ISO).





Topic: EE-14-2016-2017 Acronym: Fit-to-nZEB


Title: Innovative training schemes for retrofitting to nZEB-levels



Coordinator: ENERGY EFFICIENCY CENTER - ENEFFECTFOUNDATION

Participants:

UNIVERSITET PO ARCHITEKTURA STROITELSTVO I GEODEZIJA

SEVEN, THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY CENTER Z.U.

MOSART LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH LIMITED

SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU GRADEVINSKI FAKULTET

ELLINIKO INSTITOUTO PATHITIKOU KTIRIOU


CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE

ASOCIATIA CLUSTER PENTRU PROMOVAREA CLADIRILOR CU CONSUM DE ENERGIE APROAPE EGAL CU ZERO PRO NZEB

COLEGIUL TEHNIC DE ARHITECTURA SI LUCRARI PUBLICE I.N. SOCOLESCU

ZERO ENERGY AND PASSIVHAUS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH SRL

Countries: BG;CZ;RO;IE;HR;IT;EL;AU

Objectives:

Reaching of the 2020 and 2030 energy and climate objectives represents a major challenge to the construction sector, which needs to be ready to deliver high energy performing renovations and, in particular, nearly zero-energy buildings. This goal requires a major effort to increase the number of qualified construction specialists at all levels, which is directly related to the accessibility and quality of the training and educational programmes and the inclusion of training on intelligent energy efficiency and RES solutions in building renovation. Responding to these needs, the project is designed to:

(i) Elaborate a set of technological competences and learning outcomes on deep energy renovation;

(ii) Develop new large scale training schemes and programmes on deep energy renovation at all levels of the vocational education and training (VET) system;

(iii) Review the national educational plans and initiate the necessary changes;

(iv) Establish capacity for professional training of trainers and train a sufficient number of trainers;

(v) Support and monitor pilot courses on the new programmes on deep energy renovation at all levels.

The leading objective of the Fit-to-nZEB project proposal is to deliver all necessary requisites for the introduction of educational content on deep energy renovation of buildings in the curricula at all levels of the educational and training system in Southeastern Europe. This will be done both through incorporation of new educational content in existing curricula and through the development of new specialized programs. This process will be guided by the understanding of the complex nature of building retrofit, combining various building disciplines and allowing integrated design and cross-craft understanding with special focus on practical exercises and demonstrations. An essential element of the project is the creation and deployment of certification schemes and accreditation procedures corresponding to the EQF.





Topic: EE-14-2016-2017 Acronym: NEWCOM


Title: New competence for building professionals and blue collar workers – certified qualification schemes to upgrade the qualification for building nZEBs



Coordinator: OSTERREICHISCHE ENERGIEAGENTUR AUSTRIAN ENERGY AGENCY

Participants:

ENERGIE AGENTUR STEIERMARK GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH

EPITESUGYI MINOSEGELLENORZO INNOVACIOS KOEHASZNU TARSASAG

STICHTING ISSO VIAEUROPA COMPETENCE

CENTRE SRO

17&4 ORGANISATIONSBERATUNG GMBH

NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO

Countries: AU;HU;SK;NL

Objectives:

In order to implement the EPBD systematically and thereby reach the EU's energy and climate targets, building owners, constructors and municipalities should be aware of how energy saving measures have to be planned, applied and monitored. The buildings being built or renovated now, are the building stock of the future. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the quality of work on construction site. Construction errors are responsible for most of poor energy performance of buildings in practice. Reasons for this are often lack of awareness of workers on construction sites making relevant parts of the building envelope or the HVAC systems regarding the complexity of nearly zero emission buildings. This is because of the very limited availability of further education in the construction sector in many countries around Europe especially with the focus on mutual recognition. Furthermore, actual offered courses in the building sector do not cover topics like cross craft understanding, lifelong service approaches, continuous controlling and monitoring or BIM-tools which are very important for the construction and maintenance of nZEBs. In addition, quality control also lacks in many cases.

NEWCOM addresses challenges of raising building quality that supervisory authorities are facing today in order to achieve the European and national climate protection targets for 2020 and the implementation of the nearly zero-energy buildings standards. NEWCOM focuses on the development of missing qualification and certification schemes for blue collar workers and building professionals who inspect and control the most relevant qualities with a specific focus on mutual recognition. By the project “NEWCOM” the number of blue collar workers and building inspectors with special nZEB competence will be increased, the quality of buildings (focus energy efficiency) raised and the market recognition of well-skilled professionals across the building sector in European market boosted.






Topic: EE-16-2016-2017 Acronym: EEPLIANT2


Title: Energy Efficiency Compliant Products 2



Coordinator: STICHTING PROSAFE (THE PRODUCT SAFETY ENFORCEMENT FORUM OF EUROPE)

Participants:

BUNDESMINISTERIUM FÜR WISSENSCHAFT, FORSCHUNG UND WIRTSCHAFT

STATE AGENCY FOR METROLOGICAL AND TECHNICAL SURVEILLANCE

TURVALLISUUS JA KEMIKAALIVIRASTO

REGIERUNG VON SCHWABEN – GEWERBEAUFSICHTSAMT

The sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

INSTITUT LUXEMBOURGEOIS DE LA NORMALISATION, DE L'ACCREDITATION, DE LA SECURITE ET QUALITE DES PRODUITS ET SERVICES

AUTORIDADE SEGURANCA ALIMENTAR E ECONOMICA

STATENS ENERGIMYNDIGHET

OSTERREICHISCHE ENERGIEAGENTUR AUSTRIAN ENERGY AGENCY

COMMISSION FOR CONSUMER PROTECTION

ENERGISTYRELSEN MINISTERE DE L'ECONOMIE, DES

FINANCES ET DE L'INDUSTRIE HESSISCHE EICHDIREKTION CONSUMER RIGHTS

PROTECTION CENTRE VALSTYBINE VARTOTOJU TEISIU

APSAUGOS TARNYBA VI MALTA COMPETITION AND

CONSUMER AFFAIRS AUTHORITHY

NEDERLANDSE VOEDSEL EN WARENAUTORITEIT

TRZNI INSPEKTORAT RS

Countries: NL;AU;BG;DK;FI;FR;DE;IE;LV;LT;LU;MT;PT;SI;SE





Objectives:

The objective of EEPLIANT2 (Energy Efficiency Compliant Products 2016) is to help deliver the intended economic and environmental benefits of the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC and the Energy Labelling Directive 2010/30/EU by strengthening market surveillance and increasing compliance with the Directives and their relevant implementing measures.

EEPLIANT2 will achieve this by:

-Implementing systems that coordinate, in the most cost-effective manner, the monitoring, verification and enforcement of ecodesign and energy labelling requirements across the European Single Market;

-Increasing the adoption of best practice amongst Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs).

The Consortium (17 MSAs, a national energy agency and PROSAFE) will design, carry out and evaluate coordinated market surveillance actions across 3 different product sectors over the next 2 years. It will deliver a higher level of surveillance activities that go beyond testing and will target products that represent the highest energy saving potential. The consortium will work closely with other non-participating MSAs across the EEA through its liaison with the Energy Labelling and the Ecodesign ADCOs. Additionally, the Consortium will work together with an Advisory Board comprising of business, consumer and environmental NGOs to draw on their knowledge and experience and to communicate through them with all stakeholders about the progress and results of the project.

The expected results are:

-Adoption by Member States of best practices on how to conduct market surveillance most effectively.

-Greater compliance due to increased market surveillance of products in the EEA with the Implementing Measures of the Energy Labelling and Ecodesign Directives.

-Increased awareness of (and respect for) market surveillance by industry and amongst users.

-Market surveillance being undertaken in a more cost effective and consistent manner across the EEA with an overall greater impact in the product sectors investigated






Topic: EE-17-2016-2017 Acronym: DRYficiency


Title: Waste Heat Recovery in Industrial Drying Processes



Coordinator: AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH

Participants:

AGRANA STARKE GMBH RTDS - VEREIN ZUR

FORDERUNG DER KOMMUNIKATION UND VERMITTLUNG VON FORSCHUNG, TECHNOLOGIE UND INNOVATION (RTDS VEREIN, ENGL. RTDS ASSOCIATION)

SINTEF ENERGI AS EPCON EVAPORATION

TECHNOLOGY AS

WIENERBERGER AG EUROPEAN HEAT PUMP

ASSOCIATION ROTREX A/S BITZER KUEHLMASCHINENBAU

GMBH CHEMOURS DEUTSCHLAND

GMBH FUCHS SCHMIERSTOFFE GMBH MARS GMBH

Countries: AU;BE;DK;DE;NO

Objectives:

The overall objective of the DRYficiency project is to lead energy-intensive sectors of the European manufacturing industry to high energy efficiency and a reduction of fossil carbon emissions by means of waste heat recovery to foster competitiveness, improve security of energy supply and guarantee sustainable production in Europe. The project addresses three sectors, namely brick, pet care/feed and food industry. The results are however of major relevance for a number of other energy-intensive industries such as e.g. pulp and paper industry.

The DRYficiency consortium will elaborate technically and economically viable solutions for upgrading idle waste heat streams to process heat streams at higher temperature levels up to 180 °C. The key elements of the solution are two high temperature vapour compression heat pumps: a closed loop heat pump for air drying processes and an open loop heat pump for steam drying processes. The DRYficiency solution will be demonstrated under real production conditions in operational industrial drying processes in three leading European manufacturing companies from the pet food, food and brick industries.

The potential of the technology demonstrated is to reduce the specific energy demand for drying and dehydration from 700-800 kWh per ton down to 200 kWh per ton of evaporated water. The energy switch from fossil fuels towards heat pump technology reduces the environmental impact considerably and offers at the same time a potential for energy savings of up to 60-80 %. This will lead to substantial reduction of energy costs and consequently lower specific product costs resulting in a significantly improved competitiveness.





Topic: EE-17-2016-2017 Acronym: Smartrec


Title: Developing a standard modularised solution for flexible and adaptive integration of heat recovery and thermal storage capable of recovery and management of waste heat



Coordinator: ALTEK EUROPE LIMITED

Participants:

TWI LIMITED ECONOTHERM (UK) LIMITED ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION

DE LASINDUSTRIAS CERAMICAS AICE

AINOOUCHAOU PLIROFORIKI AE FLOWPHYS AS TECHNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS LTD

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES

SPIKE RENEWABLES SRL INNORA PROIGMENA

TECHNOLOGIKA SYSTIMATA KAI YPIRESIES AE (participation ended)

Countries: UK;FR;ES;IT;EL;NO

Objectives:

Waste heat is a problem common to high temperature processing industries as a significantly underused resource, often due to challenges in economic heat valorisation. Secondary aluminium recycling and ceramic processing were identified as key examples with economically recoverable waste heat. Several challenges are inherent; these processes are batch-based rather than continuous with corrosive particulate-laden flue gas over a wide temperature range. The Smartrec system meets these challenges by development of a standard, modular solution for integration of heat recovery with thermal storage that valorises medium to high grade waste heat, adaptable to different temperatures and industries. Following end-user analysis and characterisation of exhaust streams and waste products, full life cycle costing and assessment will be carried out with candidate molten salts selected for thermal storage and heat transfer fluid, validated by corrosion testing. A custom heat pipe heat exchanger will be modelled and designed around the requirements of heat transport capacity wick structure and capable of heat exchange with a molten salt pumping loop. This loop will include dual media thermocline thermal storage system with cost/system modelling, validation and instrumentation incorporated. A pilot Smartrec system will be constructed and deployed in a secondary aluminium recycler and/or ceramic processor valorising high grade heat for continuous energy-intensive salt-cake recycling. Smartrec will be validated by integration with existing systems with >6 months operation including a fully developed instrumentation framework. A knowledge-based tool will be developed containing all relevant Smartrec parameters and information to model the system fully and allow users to determine their requirements, potential benefits and integrate Smartrec into their own systems via an open access workshop hosted by the consortium.





Topic: EE-17-2016-2017 Acronym: ETEKINA


Title: HEAT PIPE TECHNOLOGY FOR THERMAL ENERGY RECOVERY IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS



Coordinator: IKERLAN S COOP

Participants:

FAGOR EDERLAN S.COOP. ECONOTHERM (UK) LIMITED BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON CERAMICHE ATLAS CONCORDE

SPA EUROPEAN SCIENCE

COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (ESCI) GGMBH

INDUSTRIAL FURNACES INSERTEC S.L.

SIJ METAL RAVNE DOO INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI

MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA

Countries: ES;UK;SI;IT;DE

Objectives:

Energy-Intensive Industries (EII) in Europe are characterized by very high energy production costs as well as by an important level of CO2 emissions. Energy production costs account for up to 40% of total production costs in some EII, while EII emissions represent a quarter of total EU CO2 emissions. EII are therefore directly concerned by the EU 2014 Energy/Climate Package, which sets a global objective of 40% reduction of GHG emissions and 27% increase of energy efficiency by 2030.

The report on energy prices and costs for some energy-intensive sectors published by the European Commission showed for example that natural gas prices for European ceramic companies increased by around 30% between 2010 and 2012 and they were four times higher than in Russia and more than three times higher than in the USA. Similarly, electricity costs were two times higher in the EU than in the USA and Russia. Such figures clearly confirm that energy is a crucial element for the competitiveness of our industry.

Therefore, an integrated approach to process innovation is proposed within ETEKINA project covering design, simulation, operating conditions and process management together with breakthrough technology for waste heat recovery.

The overall objective of ETEKINA project is to improve the energy performance of industrial processes. For this to be possible, the valorisation of waste heat by a turnkey modular Heat Pipe Based Heat Exchanger (HPHE) technology adaptable to different industry sectors will be addressed within the project and demonstrated in three industrial processes from the non-ferrous, steel and ceramic sectors in order to demonstrate:

(i) The economic feasibility of the solution, and therefore

(ii) Its market potential.






Topic: EE-20-2017 Acronym: CATALYST


Title: Converting DCs in Energy Flexibility Ecosystems (CATALYST)

Starting date: 01:10:2017 End date: 30:09:2020


Coordinator: ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA

Participants:

SINGULARLOGIC ANONYMI ETAIREIA PLIROFORIAKON SYSTIMATON KAI EFARMOGON PLIROFORIKIS

QARNOT COMPUTING POWER OPERATIONS LIMITED UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA CLUJ-

NAPOCA SCHUBERG PHILIS BV

ENEL.SI SRL ALLIANDER NV STICHTING GREEN IT

CONSORTIUM REGIO AMSTERDAM

INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK

Countries: IT;EL;NL;FR;UK;PL;RO

Objectives:

Data Centres (DC) are among the largest yet increasing energy consumers, due to the rising digitization of human activities. RES integration and energy efficiency improvements have the potential to reduce significantly DC carbon footprint, while increasing at the same time the auto-consumed energy, thus improving DC security and resiliency of supply against climate change. However, very few solutions, despite validated in lab, have been successfully deployed on operational DCs, mostly due to technological fragmentation, excessive CAPEX and lack of appropriate business models. CATALYST will address these challenges through turning existing/new DCs into flexible multi-energy hubs, which can sustain investments in RES and energy efficiency by offering mutualized flexibility services to the smart energy grids (both electricity and heat grids). By leveraging on the outcomes of FP7 GEYSER and DOLPHIN projects, CATALYST will adapt, scale up, validate and deploy an innovative, adaptable technological and business framework aimed at i) exploiting available DC non-IT legacy assets (onsite RES/backup generation, UPS/batteries, cooling system thermal inertia, heat pump for waste heat reuse) to deliver simultaneous energy flexibility services to multi-energy coupled electricity/heat/IT load marketplaces ii) deploying Cross-DC cross-infrastructures (e.g. heat vs IT) IT workload orchestration, by combining heat-demand driven HPC geographical workload balancing, with traceable ICT-load migration between federated DCs to match IT demands with time-varying on-site RES (“follow the energy approach”) iii) providing marketplace-as-a-service tools to nurture novel ESCO2.0 business models. The adaptation and replication potential of CATALYST will be demonstrated through carrying out four different real life trials spanning through the full spectrum of DCs types (fully distributed DCs, HPC, co-location, legacy) and architectures (from large centralized versus decentralized micro-DCs).





Topic: EE-20-2017 Acronym: BodenTypeDC


Title: Prototyping the most energy and cost efficient data center in the world: The Boden Type Data Center



Coordinator: H1 SYSTEMS MERNOKI SZOLGALTATASOK KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG

Participants:

ECOCOOLING LTD FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT

ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

BODENS UTVECKLING AKTIEBOLAG

RISE SICS NORTH AB

Countries: HU;UK;SE;DE

Objectives:

The ultimate goal of this project is to build the prototype of the most energy and cost efficient data centre in the world with a PUE 1.1 or lower. We apply a novel design approach, which includes modular data center design, fresh air cooling system combined with evaporative cooler apparatus, using solely harmonic free renewable energy, and using less UPS capacity. Thanks to our solution, we can offer a sustainable data centre building, which is energy and resource efficient throughout its lifecycle, cheaper to build and operate and brings jobs and knowledge to remote places.

The special objectives are to:

- Validate that this innovative data centre concept meets the energy efficiency, financial, reliability and other targets in near operational and real operational environments.

- Validate and improve the design software tools for modelling and simulating the operation of the facility and cooling equipment as well as the associated capital and operational costs.

- Demonstrate the results in a “living lab” in a real environment to customers, end-users and other stakeholders.

- Demonstrate through accurate simulation that Boden Type DC can be replicated in other European states with less favourable climatic conditions.






Topic: EE-22-2016-2017 Acronym: FALCO


Title: Financing Ambitious Local Climate Objectives



Coordinator: TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING S.A.

Participants:

SUSTAINABLE MARKETS CONSULTING

STAD GENT STAD ANTWERPEN VLAAMS-BRABANT PROVINCIEBESTUUR WEST-

VLAANDEREN

3E NV FACTOR 4 BVBA CLIMATE ALLIANCE - KLIMA-

BUENDNIS - ALIANZA DEL CLIMA e.V.

Countries: BE;DE

Objectives:

Implementing ambitious local climate action plans is paramount in the fight against climate change. Moreover, the sheer aggregated investment volume contained in these plans holds the promise of a powerful longlasting economic recovery. Unfortunately, the lack of a comprehensive funding solution undermines the realisation of these plans.

FALCO addresses this problem by developing a financing solution for ambitious local climate plans of over 180 Flemish signatories to the Covenant of Mayors (“FLC Solution”). This solution builds on the results of several previous projects, integrates state of the art knowledge on sustainable energy financing, and was tested at the conceptual level. Unlike other solutions, the FLC solution 1) looks at the climate action plans as a whole (potential for piggybacking) instead of adopting a project-per-project view (risk of cherry picking); 2) focuses on lifting financial and non-financial investment barriers; and 3) uses private capital instead of public budgets for its financing operations. In addition, FALCO will develop accompanying (policy) measures that will induce demand for investments.

FALCO is designed as a scalable pilot that allows real-life testing of the FLC solution.

FALCO will:

• Develop the theoretical FLC solution into a fully operational financial solution (WP2);

• Develop a project portfolio (ca. 50 mio €) w.r.t. energy efficiency in SMEs and energy renovation of public and private buildings (WP3);

• Have an independent party due diligence validate the proposed financial solution and project portfolio (WP4);

• Contract investments for at ca. 17.6 mio € resulting in an estimated 27.7 GWh primary energy savings and the creation of 250 sustainable jobs (WP5);

• Monitor the investments and document lessons learnt (WP6);

• Disseminate the results in Flanders and in the EU, investigate its replication in other EU member states /regions (WP7).





Topic: EE-22-2016-2017 Acronym: Rhodoshop


Title: Rhodoshop – a pilot programme to facilitate investment in energy efficiency by creation of One-Stop-Shop in Rhodope Region of Bulgaria.



Coordinator: SOFIA ENERGY CENTRE LTD

Participants:

ASSOCIATION OF RHODOPE MUNICIPALITIES

Countries: BG

Objectives:

Rhodoshop project aims at assisting local public authorities and other stakeholders in small sized rural municipalities in Rhodope Region of Bulgaria in successful launching and implementation of sustainable energy projects. The project focuses on creation of a pilot programme for financing investment by establishing Rhodoshop Programme Development Unit (PDU) - a structure to act as central procurement agency on behalf of local authorities to undertake energy retrofitting works in their buildings and street lighting systems. Rhodoshop PDU represents innovative financing model of One-Stop-Shop replicated in Rhodope/Bulgarian context, focused on building investment project pipelines that will combine/bundle suitable projects in the subscribed municipalities (currently six with the possibility to include others in the course of work) in order to gain critical mass and get better financing terms. After accomplishing the pipe-lines respective public tenders will be launched in compliance with Green Public Procurement principles in order to make the best choice of environmentally friendly, energy efficient and cost effective products and services. Within its 36 months pilot phase Rhodoshop PDU will mobilize 11,5 MEUR investments for energy efficiency improvements in 42 public buildings and 1,7 MEUR investments for refurbishment in street lighting networks in 46 settlements of Rhodope Region. The energy savings resulting from the action are assessed to 8,8 GWh/year while renewable energy production is more than 0,5 GWh/year.





Topic: EE-22-2016-2017 Acronym: Accelerate SUNShINE


Title: Save your bUildiNg by SavINg Energy. Begin to move more quickly



Coordinator: RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE

Participants:

EKODOMA FUNDING FOR FUTURE BV ADAZU NOVADA DOME BAUSKAS NOVADA

ADMINISTRACIJA

EKU SAGLABASANAS UN ENERGOTAUPIBAS BIROJS

JURMALAS PILSETAS DOME TUKUMA NOVADA DOME

Countries: LV;NL

Objectives:

In the Covenant of Mayors signatories commit to a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan. However, often municipalities lack capacity to turn their plans into actions; and the residential sector is often left behind and deep renovations not implemented.

Realizing this potential requires designing, financing and implementing complex energy efficiency investments. Practice shows that small and medium municipalities are inadequately organized to manage and finance this process. At the same time individual owners in the residential sector are inadequately organized to manage their collective property.

Accelerate SUNShINE supports Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), with a pipeline of projects worth €27m and guaranteed savings over 27GWh/year. A major objective is to demonstrate the financial viability of deep renovation via suitable project bundling, municipal partnerships and financial engineering.

In the proposed approach four municipalities works together in a shared project management unit, composed by experts covering technical, socio-economic, legal and financial advisory. This unit deals with project development and process standardization. In each municipality public buildings are bundled for Energy Performance contracting based procurement. At the same time each municipality establish a support scheme for the deep renovation of multifamily residential buildings always based on Energy Performance contracting and continuing the effort made by SUNShINE.

As most ESCOs have limited balance sheet capacity, re-financing is usually achieved by selling future receivables by a forfaiting transaction. Accelerate SUNShINE supports this solution, further rolling out the Latvian Baltic Energy Efficiency Facility, which is an investment fund with a single purpose: forfaiting receivables from EPC. Here process standardization is very important for attracting private and institutional investors.





Topic: EE-22-2016-2017 Acronym: NeMo


Title: New Mobility in Friuli Venezia Giulia



Coordinator: CONSORZIO PER L AREA DI RICERCA SCI ENTIFICA E TECNOLOGICA DI TRIESTE CONSORZIO AREA

Participants:

REGIONE AUTONOMA FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE

ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE DELL'INDUSTRIA DELL'AUTONOLEGGIO E SERVIZI AUTOMOBILISTICI - ANIASA

BIT SERVIZI PER L'INVESTIMENTO SUL TERRITORIO

Promoscience srl

Countries: IT

Objectives:

‘NeMo – New Mobility in Friuli Venezia Giulia’ supports the transition towards e-mobility in public fleets by building integrated technical, economic and legal expertise for the launch of concrete investments.

NeMo combines public and private organizations with institutional competence (Regional Authority FVG is the leading public administration), technical/technological and economic/financial expertise and securing the involvement of private sector operators.

NeMo implements a participated approach to involve the main public and private stakeholders, including mobility service providers, the lenders’ community, procurers and final users of the mobility service.

The project aims to:

- develop an innovative, standardized and easily replicable methodology based on the transition from a ‘fully public-owned fleet’ model to a ‘public-private mobility service partnership’ exploiting regional demand aggregation;

- replace a significant share (around 30%) of vehicles owned by public institutions through a mix of rationalization in use and a mobility-as-a-service scheme based on long-term lease and car-sharing of e-vehicles;

- trigger e-mobility and RES-plants investments for € 13,7m with a 1:15,2 leverage factor;

- build technical economic, legal capacity within public authorities;

- support the uptake of the methodology, tools and outcomes developed in NeMo by regional authorities in new areas and countries.

The work-plan entails 4 main steps for the development of the scheme (participated context analysis, technical feasibility study, financial scheme and business plan, legal/administrative procedures to launch the tender), measures dedicated to dissemination and replication of the scheme (national/international Committee of Observers and replication laboratories). The above combined with experienced management and coordination and supported by a comprehensive communication campaign propping up each individual action for an effective implementation of the work-plan.





Topic: EE-22-2016-2017 Acronym: PRODESA


Title: ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FOR SOUTH ATTICA



Coordinator: DIMOS ALIMOU-MUNICIPALITY OF ALIMOS

Participants:

DIMOS AGIOS DIMITRIOS DIMOS VARIS - VOULAS –

VOULIAGMENIS MUNICIPALITY OF

AMAROUSSION KENTRIKI ENOSI DIMON KAI

KOINOTITON ELLADOS CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE

ENERGY SOURCES AND SAVING FONDATION

KELEMENIS & CO.LAW FIRM

GLYFADA MUNICIPALITY DIMOS AGION ANARGIRON-

KAMATEROU MUNICIPALITY OF PALAIO

FALIRO EYDITI ENERGEIAKOS KAI

PERIBALLONTIKOS SCHEDIASMOS EPE

ENFINITY EUROPEAN CROWDFUNDING

NETWORK

Countries: EL;BE

Objectives:

Seven major municipalities in the Athens Metropolitan Area join efforts to launch showcase energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, utilizing innovative financial tools and attracting private investments.

The projects comprise energy efficiency interventions in 116 municipal buildings, integration of a total 3.2 MW of photovoltaics on the roofs of these buildings and re-lamping for the municipal lighting. Total energy savings is 45.6 GWh/y and renewable electricity production is 4.8 GWh/y. Total cost for interventions is 20.24 M€ and the PRODESA cost is 1.06 M€.

To achieve its objectives, the project shall focus on optimal bundling of the fragmented municipal projects to achieve considerable size, reasonable payback time and risk diversification. Bundling is also expected to lower processing costs.

Pooling of resources is used to optimize financial results for all parties and to ensure high participation of ESCOs in the tenders. The newly introduced National Revolving Fund for Energy Efficiency and the Utility ESCO Fund will be part of the pool. Pooling will facilitate the exploitation of innovative financing schemes. Crowdfunding has been recently introduced in the Greek legislation and this tool will be carefully studied and applied.

PRODESA is the first of its kind effort in Greece and aims to significantly contribute to the Energy Performance Contracting take-off. For this reason the project consortium has pooled together Key Actors such as the National Center for energy efficiency, the European Crowdfunding Network and entities with technical, financial and legal expertise.

Being a showcase project, it emphasizes on capacity building, replicability, dissemination and exploitation of results. Two replicator municipalities are directly involved in the project and a network of at least 30 replicators will be initiated with the help of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece.






Topic: EE-24-2016-2017 Acronym: EeMAP


Title: Energy efficient Mortgages Action Plan



Coordinator: COVERED BOND & MORTGAGE COUNCIL

Participants:

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA

UKGBC LIMITED JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-

UNIVERSITATFRANKFURT AM MAIN

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS

E. ON UK PLC

Countries: BE;IT;UK;DE

Objectives:

In the EU, buildings are responsible for 40% of total energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions. By improving the energy efficiency (EE) of buildings, the EU’s total energy consumption could be reduced by 5-6% and CO2 emissions by 5%. Considering that the building stock constitutes the largest single energy consumer in the EU, and that the value of the European mortgage market is equal to 53% of EU’s GDP, there is huge potential to bridge financial innovation and the EE world and to unlock the benefits of mortgage financing to support EE to the benefit of all.

The EeMAP Project intends to deliver a standardised framework based on a market benchmark to stimulate EE investment by households in the EU’s housing stock by way of a private banking financing mechanism.

Three key outputs will be: a framework for a building energy passport, recording the EE history of a property by recognising the improvements made; a framework that can integrate the “green value” of a property through EE and collected market data; the framework for an EE mortgage product. Accordingly, EE investment will become financially viable, as market transparency will be improved. The Project will create synergies in the mortgage and covered bond value chain, delivering a virtuous circle between lenders, borrowers and investors from the origination of the energy efficient mortgage to the pooling of EE collateral for the purpose of energy efficient covered bonds. EeMAP has long-term potential to drive housing markets across Europe in a sustainable manner and encourage significant energy reductions in line with the EU’s aspirations and global climate change demands. Concretely, issuing 35,000 green mortgages a year can achieve savings of 88 GWh per annum.

The EeMAP Project brings together all the necessary competencies (financial, building and EE, property valuation, energy provision and data) to develop a credible, workable and marketable pan-European energy efficient mortgage initiative.





Topic: EE-24-2016-2017 Acronym: QualitEE


Title: Quality certification frameworks for Energy Efficiency services to scale up responsible investment in the building sector



Coordinator: E7 ENERGIE MARKT ANALYSE

Participants:

FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES SERVICESEN EFFICACITE ET INTELLIGENCE ENERGETIQUE

CENTRE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND SAVING FONDATION

CREARA CONSULTORES SL SEVEN, THE ENERGY

EFFICIENCY CENTER Z.U. FACTOR 4 BVBA

EEVS INSIGHT LIMITED INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT ASEW

c/o VKU EKODOMA ENERGETICKE CENTRUM

BRATISLAVA SDRUZHENIE CHERNOMORSKI

IZSLEDOVATELSKI ENERGIEN TSENTAR

Countries: AU;BE;UK;SI;DE;EL;LV;SK;ES;CZ;BG

Objectives:

The QualitEE-project aims to scale up investment in building energy efficiency by establishing quality certification frameworks for energy efficiency services across Europe, which do not exist currently. Quality certification frameworks from other sectors are constituted by the following elements; specification of standardised quality criteria, institutionalisation of the quality assurance process,and active promotion schemes.

Quality certification frameworks go beyond the presentation of model contracts,directly addressing the main challenges for energy efficiency markets (EEFIG, 2015):

i) Market heterogeneity and lack of standardisation makes it costly for clients to differ between “good quality” and “bad quality” services and lead to customers’ lack of trust;

ii) Financial Institutions perceive the “technical risk” of energy efficiency services as opaque and are thus hesitant in making financing decisions;

iii) Heterogeneity of services and service providers and lack of standardised project assessment tools restrict bundling of small investments in individual energy services into tradeable bonds,preventing access to secondary capital markets.

QualitEE will address these challenges by:

- Establishing national promotion teams to form the institutional nucleus for quality certification frameworks; participation of energy efficiency associations, accredited certification bodies, national authorities and financial institutions has been confirmed.

- Developing guidelines on EU-wide standardised “technical quality criteria” and “minimum financial information” related to energy efficiency services.

- Applying quality criteria and quality certification processes in pilot projects.

- Establishing national quality assurance business cases and promotion to ensure market uptake.

QualitEE will contribute to market expansion through standardisation and quality assurance of energy efficiency services in an institutional framework that is sustained beyond the end of the project.





Topic: EE-24-2016-2017 Acronym: I3CP


Title: Industrial and Infrastructure Investor Confidence Project



Coordinator: ENERGYPRO LIMITED

Participants:

VERCO ADVISORY SERVICES LIMITED

ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES ASBL

GRESB BV

RDA - CLIMATE SOLUTIONS UNIPESSOAL LDA

SERIMUS DENKSTATT GMBH

Countries: UK;PT;BE;LU;AU;NL

Objectives:

This project will extend the successful standardization approach of the Investor Confidence Project beyond buildings and into Industry and Infrastructure. It will utilize a similar approach to the Horizon 2020 funded ICPEU project which developed standardization for building energy efficiency projects. It will develop standardized Protocols and associated tools (Project Development Specifications, Index of National Resources and Templates) for energy efficiency projects in industry and infrastructure - specifically street lighting and district energy. It will have a European wide communications plan, as well as work in five specific countries, building on the work of ICPEU. It will also develop and deploy trainings for Project Developers and Quality Assurance providers. Using the eco-system of Project Developers and its own networks the project will engage with project developers to certify projects and programmes as being Investor Ready Energy Efficiency (IREE). It will dedicate technical assistance resources to helping project owners and project developers to adopt IREE. It will also dedicate specific resources to working with financial institutions to help them incorporate IREE into their investment and lending procedures.






Topic: EE-25-2016 Acronym: NOVICE


Title: New Buildings Energy Renovation Business Models incorporating dual energy services



Coordinator: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

Participants:


SOLINTEL M&P SL E7 ENERGIE MARKT ANALYSE JOULE ASSETS EUROPE AB OY NOEL LAWLER GREEN ENERGY

SOLUTIONS LIMITED

KIWI POWER LTD HYPERTECH (CHAIPERTEK)

ANONYMOS VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI ETAIREIA PLIROFORIKIS KAI NEON TECHNOLOGION

APLEONA HSG GMBH

Countries: IE;ES;UK;EL;AU;FI;DE

Objectives:

NOVICE will develop and demonstrate a new business model in building renovation to better monetize energy efficiency by consolidating services and subsequent revenue streams from both energy savings and demand response. In order to do so NOVICE introduces new actors (aggregators) in building energy upgrade projects and fosters their collaboration with ESCOs, financing institutions, facilities management companies, engineering consultants to facilitate the roll out of the dual (grid services and energy efficiency) energy services model. The main business bond to be forged between ESCOs and Aggregators through NOVICE will allow their seamless collaboration in exploiting economies of scope and scale along with risk sharing on implementing building energy renovations. That business relationship will take the form of a MoU and will result in the composition of a new enhanced EPC template that can deliver the successful deployment of the dual energy services scheme in building renovation. The enhanced EPC template and the overall dual energy services scheme will be scrutinized by a financing institution to assess its bankability and identify the appropriate financing mechanisms for initiating and rolling out investments under that scheme. NOVICE throughout its duration targets to trigger the initiation of more than 20.8 m EUR of investments in building renovation based on the dual energy services model that will result in primary energy savings of more than 25.2 GWh/year. To achieve that target NOVICE brings together a highly experienced consortium that consists of stakeholders from the entire value chain (research institutions, technology vendors, engineering consultants and facilitators, Aggregators, ESCOs, Financing institutions, Facilities Management companies) of building renovation. Strong participation of SMEs (6 out 9 partners) demonstrate the commercial exploitation potential of the NOVICE outputs and supports the successful rollout of the NOVICE business model.





Topic: EE-25-2016 Acronym: INNOVATE


Title: Integrated solutioNs for ambitiOus energy refurbishment of priVATE housing



Coordinator: ENERGY CITIES/ENERGIE-CITES ASSOCIATION

Participants:

VESTA CONSEIL ET FINANCE INSTITUT BRUXELLOIS POUR LA

GESTION DE L ENVIRONNEMENT-BRUSSELS INSTITUUT VOOR MILIEUBEHEER

LINNEUNIVERSITETET COMUNE DI MANTOVA AGENCIA EXTREMENA DE LA

ENERGIA

KAW HOLDING BV FREDERIKSHAVN MUNICIPALITY "RIGA MUNICIPAL AGENCY

""RIGA ENERGY AGENCY""" MESTO LITOMERICE ARADIPPOU MUNICIPALITY GEMEENTE HEERLEN PARITY PROJECTS LIMITED

Countries: FR;NL;DK;BE;LV;CZ;CY;SE;IT;ES;UK

Objectives:

INNOVATE will overcome market barriers to deep energy-efficient retrofits of private housing stock by developing and rolling out integrated energy efficiency (EE) service packages targeting homeowners in 11 target territories from 10 EU Member States (NL, DK, BE, LV, CZ, CY, SE, IT, ES and UK).

An integrated EE service package includes:

• Development of products adapted to consumers’ concerns

• Marketing & communication

• Independent advice and technical assistance.

• Tailor-made financial advice

• Coordination of a chain of suppliers / contractors

• Ensuring high quality standards

• Long-term and affordable financing

The packages, developed by local and regional authorities and/or private sector stakeholders, in cooperation with financing institutions and investors, will be tested on 117 pilot buildings, aiming at min. 50% energy savings. These pilot projects are expected to mobilise 37.41 MEUR of private investments, trigger primary energy savings of 5.38 GWh/year and 3.14 GWh/year of renewable energy production.

INNOVATE will widely disseminate successful business models and innovative financing schemes tested by project partners and those identified thanks to an extensive analysis of enabling conditions and EU best practices. 4,000 stakeholders and potential replicators will be reached via 61 EU and national capacity building events, policy meetings and communication/media tools. Recommendations on how to remove legal, financial, technical and organisational barriers hindering the implementation of the packages in target territories will influence 12 EU, national and regional policies in order to ensure the viability of these packages.





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List of Calls Energy Efficiency

Topic Title Number of

funded projects

Total EU-contribution

[€]

EE-01 Waste heat recovery from urban facilities and re-use to increase energy efficiency of district or individual heating and cooling systems

1 3,998,062.00 €

EE-03 Standardised installation packages integrating renewable and energy efficiency solutions for heating, cooling and/or hot water preparation

1 3,671,856.38 €

EE-04 New heating and cooling solutions using low grade sources of thermal energy

6 23,690,628.86 €

EE-05 Models and tools for heating and cooling mapping and planning

3 8,234,246.25 €

EE-06 Engaging private consumers towards sustainable energy

3 5,573,453.17 €

EE-07 Behavioural change toward energy efficiency through ICT

8 15,796,483.80 €

EE-08 Socio-economic research on consumer's behaviour related to energy efficiency

3 4,496,935.00 €

EE-09 Engaging and activating public authorities 3 5,286,824.31 €

EE-10 Supporting accelerated and cost-effective deep renovation of buildings through Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP)

3 11,752,488.61 €

EE-11 Overcoming market barriers and promoting deep renovation of buildings

2 3,939,301.85 €

EE-12 Integration of Demand Response in Energy Management Systems while ensuring interoperability through Public Private Partnership (EeB PPP)

3 10,072,250.79 €

EE-13 Cost reduction of new Nearly Zero-Energy buildings 4 7,338,738.75 €

EE-14 Construction skills 5 5,122,471.25 €

EE-16 Effective implementation of EU product efficiency legislation

1 2,856,212.50 €

EE-17 Valorisation of waste heat in industrial systems (SPIRE PPP)

3 13,300,461.98 €

EE-20 Bringing to market more energy efficient and integrated data centres

2 4,867,766.60 €

EE-22 Project Development Assistance 5 5,182,572.50 €





EE-24 Making the energy efficiency market investible 3 4,610,325.00 €

EE-25 Development and roll-out of innovative energy efficiency services

2 4,041,056.25 €

Total 61 143,832,135.9 €





List of Abbreviations

Type of Action

CSA: Coordination and Support Action

IA: Innovation Action

RIA: Research and Innovation Action

Topics

EE: Efficient Energy

FCH: Fuel Cells and Hydrogen

LCE: Low Carbon Energy

SCC: Smart Cities and Communities

Others

H2020: Horizon 2020

NCP: National Contact Point

PDA: Project Development Assistance

PPP: Public Private Partnership



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