CERtuS

Southern European countries undergo a severe economic crisis. This hinders the compliance to the latest Energy Efficiency Directive, demanding strict energy efficiency measures for the public sector. Investments required to renovate public buildings and achieve nearly zero energy consumption have long payback times. So the interest of financing entities and ESCOs is small, especially when banks have limited resources.

Many of the municipal buildings in Southern Europe require deep renovations to become nZEB and this should not be regarded as a threat but rather as an opportunity for the energy service and the financing sector.

The objective of the proposed action is to help stakeholders gain confidence in such investments and initiate the growth of this energy service sector. Municipalities, energy service companies and financing entities in Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal are involved in this project.

The plan is to produce representative deep renovation projects that will act as models for replication. Twelve buildings in four municipalities in each country have been selected. The partners will adapt existing energy service models and procedures and will work out financing schemes suitable for the 12 projects.

Partners:

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  Partners| CERtuS project (IEE)

Duration: 01/03/2014 to 31/08/2016

Overall budget: 1,631,180 € (EU contribution: 75,00 %)

Website: http://www.certus-project.eu