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HORIZON 2020

ENERGY PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING PLUS

(EPC+)

01/03/2015 – 01/03/2018

Aristotelis Botzios-Valaskakis

Centre for Renewable Energy Sources

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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• CRES is the coordinator of the project

• Total project budget is 1.5 million Euro

• Thirteen partners from the following countries:

• 4 Southeast Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain)

• 1 Western Europe (Ireland)

• 3 Central Europe (Belgium, Austria, Germany)

• 3 Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Czech R., Bulgaria)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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The main aim of the project is to promote and stimulate SME networking for the provision of energy services with EPC.

Target group on supply side: SME energy service providers

Target group on demand side: Private sector (tertiary sector, industrial sector)

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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PUBLIC

SECTOR

EPC ESC

Greece - -

Bulgaria

300 municipal buildings

10 – 20 for other public

buildings

10 projects with biomass boilers

Spain

3 public buildings

9 street lighting

6 contracts under deliberation

20 schools

10 hospitals

3 sports centres

Portugal Tender for 300 buildings A few CHP projects

Ireland 6 contracts under deliberation Many projects with biomass boilers

Italy - -

Belgium 21 public buildings -

Germany Few contracts Numerous contracts

Slovenia3 public buildings

3 street lighting projects

20 projects (CHP, district heating,

boiler replacement)

Current situation in the public sector

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PRIVATE

SECTOR

EPC ESC

Greece- 2 solar thermal projects

A few PV projects

Bulgaria - -

Spain

A few HVAC projects 5 CHP

10 projects (biomass and solar thermal

in hotels)

3 solar thermal projects

Portugal - CHP projects

Ireland- Heating with biomass

CHP

Italy - -

Belgium - CHP

Germany Few contracts Numerous contracts

Slovenia - -

Current situation in the private, tertiary sector

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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RESIDENTIAL

SECTOR

EPC ESC

Greece - -

Bulgaria - -

Spain- 10 solar thermal

Many contracts (heating with biomass)

Portugal - -

Ireland - -

Italy - -

Belgium - -

Germany - -

Slovenia - -

Current situation in the residential sector

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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Main difficulties in implementing EPC (in the public and private) sectors:

• The implementation can be complicated and lengthy. The reason lies -among other things - in the procurement law provisions (tendering processes) and long-term and complex contracts, which impede a real breakthrough in the spread of the EPC methodology in both the public and private sector.

Barriers for the implementation of EPC in SME’s are:

• The transaction costs for procuring energy services are too high (i.e. range of technical expertise required, cost of energy auditing and determination of case-specific contracting issues to account for all eventualities)• High costs for guarantees, measurement and verification procedures• Investments and project sizes are too small. It is therefore difficult to obtain financing for such small projects (either because of the unwillingness of the financial institution or due to a lack of knowledge of the employees of the financial institution in assessing the techno-economic feasibility of the proposed project).• Competition from ESC.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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EPC+ PHASE 1: ESTABLISHMENT OF SPINS IN EACH COUNTRY

A SPIN (SME Partnerships for Innovative Energy Services) is an organized cluster of SME's of differing areas of expertise, that jointly supply energy efficiency services and have a structured long-term collaboration with commonly agreed objectives.

The project will develop the following:

• Procedures and legalities on how to share risks between the partners

•Rules for acquisition of IP ('Intellectual property'). • Roles of partners in the SPIN, including the protection of the role of each partner• Set-up of contractual arrangement: bilateral contracts or multilateral contracts• How to deal with incoming/outgoing partners (i.e. Admission rules, Drop-out rules, How to integrate a new partner)

• Development of organisational tools (i.e. contractual relationships; how to solve core

topics/problems).

The SPINS should have at least 3 members. Each participant country already has a SPIN but will be looking to create more.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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EPC+ PHASE 2: TRAINING OF SPINS

This will be focused on the organisational aspects of the SPIN:

• Working as a consortium, partner agreements and dispute resolution • Using clientele of each SME to identify potential projects.• Utilizing standard model contracts (developed within EPC+ project)• Seeking financing and convincing.

One training workshop for the SPINs in each country. The video of the trainingcourse will be uploaded to the internet and available to all.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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EPC+ PHASE 3: ELABORATION OF EPC+ PACKAGES

The elaboration of standardized, simple service-oriented model energyperformance contracts for specific energy efficient technical solutions.

Measures with simplified measurement and verification procedures and shortpayback periods.

Financial modules (i.e. contract articles) for all types of possible financing willbe elaborated (i.e. TPF, self-financing, ESCO fund etc.).

The high standardization opens the basis for new and broader fields of EPCProjects (multiplying standardized EPC+ solutions in specific market sectorsinstead of a few big standard EPC-projects).

EPC+ packages in each participant-country language

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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EPC+ PHASE 4: IMPLEMENTATION OF PILOT PROJECTS

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

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EPC+ PHASE 5: TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE PLATFORM

Individual SME's hesitate transferring their innovative know-how, mainlybecause of the high development costs behind this know-how (amounting tosometimes ten thousands of euro's) and the risk that at the end their nationalcompetitors will finally obtain the know-how and start to compete with them ontheir home market using the leaked know-how.

Development of a business plan for an exchange platform for transfer ofknowledge via:

• payment• expert-hours sharing• other?

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649666.

The sole responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. Neither the EASME nor the European Commission is responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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