Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NEON (Next-Generation Integrated Energy Services fOr Citizen Energy CommuNities)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-09-01 do 2022-11-30
NEON’s partners carried out and described an analysis of the regulatory, legal, and financial context, at European and national level, affecting core project’s activities. In the context outlined, an evaluation of actual and potential financing schemes as well as of the most suitable and effective contracting schemes and financing mechanisms for integrated energy services in CECs were conducted. The analysis carried out by the partners involved led the workflow towards feasible instruments and KPIs to assess the success of future energy communities in NEON.
An analysis of the European and National (Italy, France, Spain) regulatory framework (related to energy efficiency and integrated energy services) has been conducted. In addition, an evaluation of actual and potential financing schemes, as well as financial and technical barriers for NEON, was carried out and implemented after the request of in-depth analysis by the Project Officer. An evaluation of the existing EPC and P4P schemes was performed, gaps between the energy communities’ requirements and typical contracting schemas were evaluated and based on those gaps and the CECs requirements, a methodology with guidelines and steps for the implementation of the contracting schemes to be applied at the community level were described. Furthermore, the workflow dedicated to identify service financial structure suitable for business risk minimization and distribution was divided between desk analysis conducted by involved partners and an evaluation of shared experiences, best practices, and key challenges in creating and developing renewable energy communities, with a focus on the economic sustainability of projects and financial solutions adopted to support building energy efficiency, renewable energy, and digital innovation.
Along with the cross-service integration, NEON will join energy and non-energy benefits under the “user in the loop” approach, while ensuring that comfort, health, and safety requirements of the building occupants are maintained. Provision of non-energy benefits will be enabled through automated control of building systems (e.g. thermal valves, HVAC, smart appliances), as well as in interaction with building occupants by providing recommendations for manual intervention (e.g. sing the window) or acquiring the user feedback (e.g. about indoor climate).