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Free studies, reports and recommendations providing guidance, tools and inspiration to energy transitioners.
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Success Stories from PROSPECT
- 2020
Over the past months, almost 200 local/regional authorities and agencies got to exchange and learn about innovative mechanisms to finance their sustainable energy and climate […]
Finance your sustainable and climate action: Experience from 195 public authorities in your hands for learning and replication
A comprehensive guide - 2020
Innovative financing is often an option for local energy and climate projects, but cities and regions need to know better how to activate and use […]
The one-stop-shop accelerator report
About the why, how and what of this European experimentation - 2020
The 11 partners of the INNOVATE project aimed at overcoming market barriers to deep energy-efficient retrofits of the private housing stock. They spent three years […]
How to set up a one-stop-shop for integrated home energy renovation?
A step-by-step guide for local authorities and other actors - 2020
If you are part of an organisation that plans to launch a one-stop-shop, this guidebook is for you. You can find learnings from the project and recommendations that will help you to kick start your project.
Boosting energy retrofits in condominiums
Approaches for local authorities to facilitate change - 2019
Through this guide, partners from the EU-funded ACE Retrofitting project share their learnings on how to act as facilitators between co-owners in condominiums and building experts when it comes to energy retrofits.
Unleashing the power of community renewable energy
How the EU legislation can help to remove barriers to community and citizen renewable energy? - 2019
Community energy production in Europe has huge potential. A recent study found that half of EU citizens – including local communities, schools and hospitals – could be producing their own renewable electricity by 2050, meeting 45% of their energy demand.1 Now, building on new EU community and citizen energy rights, the potential must be fully unleashed, to put Europe on the path to the needed energy transformation.
Retrofit one-stop-shops: Study inventory of best practices
Extensive analysis of the existing energy efficiency services operators and long-term financing schemes - 2018
This report offers an in-depth analysis of different aspects of the existing retorfit one-stop-shop pilot models and the services they offer to homeowners. These features are presented with reference to the steps of the one-stop-shop “customer journey”.
Blockchain and energy transition
What challenges for cities? - 2018
The opportunities and potential issues of blockchain technology for local authorities will be addressed. We will also look ahead to determine whether and when mass use of this technology at the local level could be viable.
Infinite Solutions Guidebook
Financing the energy renovation of public buildings through internal contracting - 2017
Acting as an advising tutor, the city of Stuttgart has contributed its experience of more than two decades in managing/implementing an Internal Contracting scheme. The municipalities of Almada (Portugal), Águeda (Portugal), Koprivnica (Croatia), and Udine (Italy) have taken part as learning authorities with the objective of setting up their own Internal Contracting scheme.
Infinite Solutions Guidebook
Financing the energy renovation of residential buildings through soft loans and third-party investement schemes - 2017
Among the front-runners, seven Energy Cities’ members have developed innovative financing schemes, business models, organisational structures and partnerships to accelerate the energy retrofitting of their housing stock.
The guidebook is intended for all organisations and actors who could be interested in replicating these financing schemes or who could support cities and regions in doing so.
