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.
