Periodic Reporting for period 2 - GreenDeal4Buildings (National Roundtables to Implement the Smart Finance for Smart Buildings Initiative in Slovakia and the Czech Republic - GreenDeal4Buildings (Green Deal for Buildings))
Berichtszeitraum: 2022-12-01 bis 2024-05-31
The overall objective of the project is setting up the Roundtables to implement smart finance for smart buildings initiative (SF4SB) in Slovakia and the Czechia, working out with stakeholders roadmaps and action plans aimed at developing the three pillars that underpin the initiative and launch implementation of the roadmaps.
The Roundtables dedicated to energy efficiency investment are to be permanent multilateral discussion forums gathering the relevant stakeholders such as government, regional authorities and municipalities, financial sector, ESCOs, homeowners, operators throughout the energy efficiency value chain and construction sector. The majority of operators in the construction sector in are SMEs (large proportion are micro enterprises). Moreover, many SMEs in the energy efficiency value chain, particularly in energy performance of buildings, are essential for market disruptive innovations that are making the energy transformation in building sector successful. Therefore, the project will put particular focus on SMEs.
An essential aim of the renovation efforts in both countries will be organizing renovations into larger blocks to benefit from better financing conditions and economics of scale. Therefore, the roadmaps will underpin the necessary coordination and support for creating a large-scale pipeline of bankable projects through aggregation of large number of small projects to feed the financial schemes developed by the financial sector with investment packages of a critical size for making the use of the private sources of financing as efficient and effective as possible.
The Roundtables dedicated to energy efficiency investment are to be permanent multilateral discussion forums gathering the relevant stakeholders such as government, regional authorities and municipalities, financial sector, ESCOs, homeowners, operators throughout the energy efficiency value chain and construction sector. The majority of operators in the construction sector in are SMEs (large proportion are micro enterprises). Moreover, many SMEs in the energy efficiency value chain, particularly in energy performance of buildings, are essential for market disruptive innovations that are making the energy transformation in building sector successful. Therefore, the project will put particular focus on SMEs.
An essential aim of the renovation efforts in both countries will be organizing renovations into larger blocks to benefit from better financing conditions and economics of scale. Therefore, the roadmaps will underpin the necessary coordination and support for creating a large-scale pipeline of bankable projects through aggregation of large number of small projects to feed the financial schemes developed by the financial sector with investment packages of a critical size for making the use of the private sources of financing as efficient and effective as possible.
In the reporting period, the consortium completed the 20 stakeholders’ roundtable meetings, integrating over 100 measures that received successful endorsement by key stakeholders and received commitments to continue in the dialogue on implementing them in practice. Dialogue and work on several agreed measure already started, providing proof of the strength of the endorsement achieved and promise for the future of the dialogue within the stakeholders’ roundtables.
The established roundtables have launched the stakeholders’ consultations and until today met 12 times in Slovakia and 8 times in the Czech Republic.
These meetings have delivered the roadmaps being with over 100 measures to be implemented. These measures are aimed at, for example, on:
• National sustainable financing strategies;
• Platform for financing sustainable energy investments and building renovations to ensure plurality of financing and financial blending;
• Development of financial innovations to facilitate investments in buildings renovation;
• Support for participatory financing and community projects;
• Plurality of energy resources in buildings;
• Facilitating investments in energy assets at consumer level, e.g. through energy communities;
• One-stop-shop approach in supporting building renovation projects;
• Setting up prosumers’ platform for smart energy services to facilitate investments in decarbonisation of flexibility and implementation of the new energy market design;
• Implementation of building digital passports and individual renovation plans;
• Dissemination of skills and knowledge needed for implementing new smart energy services providing flexibility to energy systems;
• Strategy for inclusive, safe, accessible and sustainable urban mobility;
• Support to the households in the event of fluctuations in energy prices presenting threat to households to fall in energy poverty and/or in the case of market manipulation by oligopolies on domestic and world markets;
• Use of Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) in motivating renovation of existing buildings;
• Share of public financing for research, innovations, implementation of the objectives of the European Green Deal and climate neutrality in 2050;
• Financial instruments for supporting building owners and municipal communities in renovation of buildings to the standard of positive energy buildings (buildings acting as active utility nods on grid) and zero emission buildings;
• Financing Twin Green and Digital Growth in the construction sector, including increasing capacity of the sector through increasing labour productivity, creating ecosystem for disrupting innovations in the sector such as off-site manufacturing, modular construction etc.;
• Smart Cities research and development programmes;
• Strategy for further and continuing education in the energy and construction sectors for implementing the innovations relevant to green energy transition;
• Participating and contributing to the DEEP platform (De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform) from local investors;
• EEFIG Underwriting Toolkit;
• Improving the flow of information on energy performance of buildings aimed at more effective pricing of building renovation financing products;
• Standardization of processes for approving building renovation projects, or common methodology for approving project financing to facilitate development of large pipelines of bankable projects for attracting private investor.
The roadmaps are being prepared for 4 categories of assets:
• Residential buildings;
• Public Office, School (all levels) and Commercial buildings;
• Industrial buildings;
• Smart City Infrastructure.
The established roundtables have launched the stakeholders’ consultations and until today met 12 times in Slovakia and 8 times in the Czech Republic.
These meetings have delivered the roadmaps being with over 100 measures to be implemented. These measures are aimed at, for example, on:
• National sustainable financing strategies;
• Platform for financing sustainable energy investments and building renovations to ensure plurality of financing and financial blending;
• Development of financial innovations to facilitate investments in buildings renovation;
• Support for participatory financing and community projects;
• Plurality of energy resources in buildings;
• Facilitating investments in energy assets at consumer level, e.g. through energy communities;
• One-stop-shop approach in supporting building renovation projects;
• Setting up prosumers’ platform for smart energy services to facilitate investments in decarbonisation of flexibility and implementation of the new energy market design;
• Implementation of building digital passports and individual renovation plans;
• Dissemination of skills and knowledge needed for implementing new smart energy services providing flexibility to energy systems;
• Strategy for inclusive, safe, accessible and sustainable urban mobility;
• Support to the households in the event of fluctuations in energy prices presenting threat to households to fall in energy poverty and/or in the case of market manipulation by oligopolies on domestic and world markets;
• Use of Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) in motivating renovation of existing buildings;
• Share of public financing for research, innovations, implementation of the objectives of the European Green Deal and climate neutrality in 2050;
• Financial instruments for supporting building owners and municipal communities in renovation of buildings to the standard of positive energy buildings (buildings acting as active utility nods on grid) and zero emission buildings;
• Financing Twin Green and Digital Growth in the construction sector, including increasing capacity of the sector through increasing labour productivity, creating ecosystem for disrupting innovations in the sector such as off-site manufacturing, modular construction etc.;
• Smart Cities research and development programmes;
• Strategy for further and continuing education in the energy and construction sectors for implementing the innovations relevant to green energy transition;
• Participating and contributing to the DEEP platform (De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform) from local investors;
• EEFIG Underwriting Toolkit;
• Improving the flow of information on energy performance of buildings aimed at more effective pricing of building renovation financing products;
• Standardization of processes for approving building renovation projects, or common methodology for approving project financing to facilitate development of large pipelines of bankable projects for attracting private investor.
The roadmaps are being prepared for 4 categories of assets:
• Residential buildings;
• Public Office, School (all levels) and Commercial buildings;
• Industrial buildings;
• Smart City Infrastructure.
The discussions are aimed at investments into sustainable energy that is replacing all carbon based energy and fuels, including natural gas. They focus on investments in energy renovation of buildings to Zero Emission Building standard and smart grid ready buildings that are acting on grid as active utility nods.
The roundtables decided setting up prosumers’ platform for smart energy services to facilitate investments in decarbonisation of flexibility and implementation of the new energy market design. This platform will support implementation of smart energy systems in buildings that integrate different sectors (buildings, transport, industry) and will integrate energy efficiency measures with demand response, distributed energy generation from renewable energy sources, energy storage/hybrid systems, e-vehicles charging that reduce energy consumption during peaks (when the use of natural gas becomes oversized) and facilitate development of flexibility that can be harvested from buildings to provide new decarbonise flexibility for energy systems.
The roundtables decided setting up prosumers’ platform for smart energy services to facilitate investments in decarbonisation of flexibility and implementation of the new energy market design. This platform will support implementation of smart energy systems in buildings that integrate different sectors (buildings, transport, industry) and will integrate energy efficiency measures with demand response, distributed energy generation from renewable energy sources, energy storage/hybrid systems, e-vehicles charging that reduce energy consumption during peaks (when the use of natural gas becomes oversized) and facilitate development of flexibility that can be harvested from buildings to provide new decarbonise flexibility for energy systems.