Horizon 2020 Energy Efficiency Webinar

Project Development Assistance (PDA)

20 May 2016

Anette Jahn, Head of Sector - EASME

Martin Eibl, Senior Project Advisor – EASME Timothee Noel, Policy Officer – DG Energy

• Welcome – Anette Jahn, EASME

• Policy context - Tim Noel, DG Energy

• Overview of funding topics & project examples – Anette Jahn & Martin Eibl, EASME

• Q&A email us on EASME-Energy@ec.europa.eu

Twitter chat starting 11:00: Send us your questions to @H2020EE by using #askEASME #EnergyFinancing

Agenda

Horizon 2020 Energy Efficiency Webinar

Overview of Funding Topics

& Project Examples

Anette Jahn & Martin Eibl, EASME

EE-24-2016 Making the energy efficiency market investible

EE-25-2016 Development and roll-out of innovative energy

efficiency services

EE-22-2016 Project Development Assistance

• Started in 2011 under the Intelligent Energy Europe programme and continued under H2020

• Build capacity and a project pipeline across Europe

• 28 projects funded triggering €657m of investments

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/files/mlei-projects-2011-12.pdf

PDA in a nutshell

http://sharex.lv/en

What?

Launch of concrete sustainable energy investment projects

Building technical, economic and legal expertise

Who?

Public and private project promoters

EE22- PDA

e.g. public authorities or their groupings, public/private infrastructure operators and bodies, energy service companies (ESCOs), retail chains, estate managers and services/industry

Proposals from 1 single entity are eligible!

EE22- PDA

How does a good proposal look like?

Lead to investments launched before end of the action,

Every million Euro of H2020 support should trigger investments worth at least EUR 15 million (1:15).

Have an exemplary/showcase dimension in their ambition (i.e. reduced energy consumption and/or investment size)

Deliver organisational innovation in financial engineering (e.g. on-bill financing schemes, guarantee funds, factoring funds)

and/or mobilisation of investment programme (e.g. bundling, pooling)

• Demonstrate high degree of replicability and include clear action plan to communicate across EU towards potential replicators

Project Development Assistance

• Horizon 2020 Energy Challenge supports the transition to a secure, clean and efficient energy system for Europe

• The calls 2016-2017 provide support for innovation through:

• Research and demonstration of more energy-efficient technologies and solutions

• Market uptake measures to remove market and governance barriers by addressing financing, regulations and the improvement of skills and knowledge

• € 0.8 bn between 2014 and 2020

Size of investment portfolio: EUR 7.5 million – EUR 50 million

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Paride (Province of Teramo, Italy)

• Bundling EPCs on street lighting

• The project is based on the aggregation small investments in energy retrofitting of street lighting facilities to make them more attractive to ESCO's.

• 32 municipalities are taking part in a joint public procurement currently run by the Province for street lighting management contracts (all inclusive) over a period 15 to 24 years.

• The contracts represent around EUR 150 million,

of which EUR 20 million investments in energy efficiency. Guaranteed energy savings are expected around 40%.

Project Example

Project Example

87

€30m

>70%

49% Energy savings

in building

retrofit

Energy savings

in public

lighting points

Public buildings retrofitted or in the process

Capital

investment

€1,8m PDA Grant for: • Bundling

• Documentation necessary for energy refurbishment

• Procurement

3000

Light points replaced in public parks

+ Capacity

Showcase

Jobs

Geothermal district heating in the city of Kecskemét , HU

Activities should lead to the investments required for:

• connection of the two separate DH networks

• exploitation of new geothermal energy source to supply heat to the DH network

• Total expected investments: EUR30.5m

• Two independent distribution system supplying heat to 11 234 flats

• 28 MWth of deep geothermal capacity

• The heat provider is company is owned 69,5% by the Municipality and 30,5% by a private utility.

Project Example

GeoKec (HU)

EE-24-2016 Making the energy efficiency market

investible

EE-25-2016 Development and roll-out of innovative energy

efficiency services

EE-22-2016 Project Development Assistance

Making the energy efficiency market investible

The challenge:

• Lack of trust

• Lack of skills and operational tools

• Lack of standardisation of assets

The Scope:

1. Standardisation and benchmarking of energy efficiency investments

2. Large-scale data on actual financial performance

3. Targeting institutional investors

Projects examples

• Standardisation and confidence : Investor Confidence Project, Trust EPC South, Solar Bankability, SEAF

• Raising awareness of institutional investors: SEI Metrics, ET RISK

• Integrate green value in investment decisions: REVALUE, RentalCal, RENOVALUE

• Methodologies to assess the climate performance of investment portfolios: SEI Metrics

EE-24-2016 Making the energy efficiency market

investible

EE-25-2016 Development and roll-out of innovative

energy efficiency services

EE-22-2016 Project Development Assistance

Development and roll-out of innovative energy efficiency services

The Challenge

• Scaling up of EE investments needed ~100 bn€/a

• Tapping private investments

Funding for:

• New types of energy

efficiency services and

business models

• New types of actors and/or

new market segments

• Business models for

implementation of energy

audit recommendations in

industrial and service

companies (with focus on

high thermal demand)

Project Examples

• EESI2020: Training of EPC market facilitators http://eesi2020.eu

• Transparense: Country-specific Code of Conducts for EPC project developers www.transparense.eu

• Streetlight EPC: support public authorities to develop EPC projects in street lighting www.streetlight-epc.eu

• EPC+: standardized technical and contractual solutions for specific market sectors, training of clusters of companies, EPC platform http://epcplus.org/

• Trust EPC South: financial valuation tool for EPC on commercial buildings

• EnPC-INTRANS: large-scale capacity building for local public authorities and SMEs on EPC in less developed markets www.enpc-intrans.eu

• Trustee: development and implementation of investment fund, including a dedicated guarantee facility, for process heat

• Guarantee: Development of model contracts to overcome split incentives dilemma in buildings

Evaluation Principles

• Fair and equal treatment of all proposers

• Based on the criteria announced in the Call: excellence, impact, implementation

• Confidential process, no conflicts of interest

• Independent external experts

• ! Check out the presentations of the EU Info Day: https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/horizon-2020-secure-clean-and-efficient-energy-societal-challenge-energy-efficiency-call-proposals

How do we evaluate?

Timing

• Deadline for your proposals: 15th September 17:00 CET

• Evaluation: 4th quarter of 2016

• Experts weeks 14-25 Nov. 2016 (tbc)

• You can still apply to become an evaluation expert!

• Applicants notified by 15 Feb. 2017

• Projects start from May 2017 (time-to-grant < 8 months)

Timeline?

• Project Development Assistance – FAQ Guide https://ec.europa.eu/easme/sites/easme-site/files/documents/pda_faq_easme_website.pdf

• EASME Energy Efficiency webpage: http://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/energy

• Practical information on H2020: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/how-get-funding

• For all questions on the energy efficiency call: EASME-Energy@ec.europa.eu

• National Contact Points: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/support/national_contact_points.html

• To act as expert for assessing proposals: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/experts/index.html

More information and help?

H2020 Participants portal – topic EE-22 https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/4099-ee-22-2016-2017.html

H2020 Participants portal – topic EE-24

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/4093-ee-24-2016-2017.html

H2020 Participants portal – topic EE-25 http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/4093-ee-24-2016-2017.html

Horizon 2020 – Energy Efficiency Call Deadline 15 September 2016 17:00 CET

Apply here:

Send us your questions to @H2020EE by using #askEASME #EnergyFinancing

Q&A email us on

EASME-Energy@ec.europa.eu