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Energy efficiency Building Enhancement through performance guarantee Tools

Project description

Integrated platform for energy-efficient building and renovation

As the climate changes, the way we heat and cool our homes and workspaces has become a major issue. For the construction and renovation industry, the biggest challenge is making buildings more energy-efficient without making them impossible to afford. The EU-funded EBENTO project aims to develop an integrated platform for stakeholders in the building and renovation sector to enhance coordination in energy performance contracting (EPC). The platform will engage citizens and support public institutions and energy communities in identifying energy efficiency improvements. The project will explore new business models and financing options while using digital tools to gather data on EPCs and energy savings, helping companies lower costs, replicate successful projects, and streamline information exchange.

Objective

EBENTO is aiming to develop an integrated platform for all actors involved in building and renovation sector to provide one-stop-shop to better coordinate and manage Energy Performance Contracting, bringing together the needs from all actors involved in enhancing the building stock.

Through EBENTO, citizens will increase their implication in building energy efficiency enhancement, and both public institutions and energy communities will be able to identify potential energy efficiency improvements in residential housing stock, with SMEs and ESCOs support. Furthermore, with EBENTO platform, new business models for optimizing the financial (and, indirectly, other) resources available will be validated:
• EBENTO will explore the best financing and collaboration schemes to set up energy services.
• EBENTO will study how to enhance current Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) for Demand Side Mechanism (DSM) services and what kind of investment options (grants, loans…) can be implemented to increase the number and impact of energy efficiency projects in the city/region
• By using digital tools, EBENTO will gather data from EPCs, financial schemes and energy savings to give to the citizens the required trust for investing in new solutions, and to companies the relevant information to reduce costs and easily replicate the work developed.

EBENTO will ensure the exchange of relevant information between the different actors, making the renovation process cost-efficient and easy to operate and replicate. The platform will collect data related to performance contracts and guarantees, devices monitoring, energy savings, building information modelling, users’ opinions and comfort levels, among others.

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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2021-D4-02

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Coordinator

ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA
Net EU contribution
€ 765 787,50
Address
CALLE TRES FORQUES 147
46014 Valencia
Spain
Region
Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 1 276 312,50

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