The international market for energy efficiency projects is still largely untapped and one of the barriers is the lack of viable financing. While the collateral value of most energy efficiency projects is rather low, generated cash flows as the main source of the value of energy efficiency projects are not recognized as a relevant source of repayment. The Financial Guidelines provide financial quality criteria (FQCs) that help financial institutions to assess the bankability of EE projects and at the same time support clients and ESCOs to provide sufficient documentation of their projects.

The aim of the public discussion workshop is to inform and engage stakeholders.

Agenda:

14:00 - 14:30 Introduction and presentation of QualitEE Financial Guidelines (Daniela Bachner, Christof Amann, e7 Energie Markt Analyse GmbH (AT))

14:30 - 15:00 Round-Table-Discussion:

• What is necessary to facilitate financing of energy efficiency projects? Perception of specific risks of energy efficiency projects and risk mitigation strategies of financial institutions

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 15:40 Encouraging more investments for Sustainable Energy by stakeholder processes and implementation of a crowdinvesting platform (SEFIPA Project (Sustainable Energy Financing Platform Austria)

15:40 - 16:00 Financing energy efficiency projects in Europe - current activities of SUSI (Alexander Rothlin, SUSI Energy Efficiency AG (CH))

16:00 - 16:45 Round Table Discussion:

15:20 – 15:40 Encouraging more investments for Sustainable Energy by stakeholder processes and implementation of a crowdinvesting platform (tbc, SEFIPA Project (Sustainable Energy Financing Platform Austria))

15:40 – 16:00 Financing energy efficiency projects in Europe – current activities of SUSI (Alexander Rothlin, SUSI Energy Efficiency AG (CH))

16:00 - 16:45 Round-Table-Discussion:

• How can aggregating projects be of value to energy efficiency services to obtain financing? What is your experience with aggregation of projects?
• How can the cost of project appraisal be reduced while ensuring good quality projects?

16:45 - 17:00 Wrap up (Klemens Leutgöb, e7 Energie Markt Analyse GmbH (AT))

17:00 - 18:00 Buffet

The QualitEE project, funded by the Horizon 2020 program, aims to drive responsible investment in energy efficiency services in the building sector by increasing the trust of clients and financial institutions in energy service providers. Trust will be increased by standardising quality criteria for energy efficiency services and institutionalising the quality assurance process, thereby reducing the complexity of energy efficiency services and increasing service quality. Please find further information in the invitation mail and on the QualitEE website.

The Sustainable Energy Financing Platform in Austria (SEFIPA) is designed as an action oriented platform to collect, develop, implement and disseminate innovative ideas to accelerate finance for sustainable energy (SE). Our approaches are: a Finance Lab (stakeholder approach) to work on the realization of sustainable energy investments (new financing instruments, adaptions of the regulatory framework for SE financing); the implementation and operation of a crowd-investing platform (www.crowd4energy.com) designed to raise equity capital from a multitude of investors (the crowd) for SE projects in Austria.

General Data Protection Regulation: With your registration you agree that your personal data is kept on the server of e7 Energie Markt Analyse GmbH until 2020 when the QualitEE project ends. Your data is used exclusively for reporting to EASME. Photographs of the event will be taken and used for documentation on the QualitEE website.