✓To raise awareness among companies of the direct relations between energy efficiency and its multiple benefits, partners have developed and implemented the training course DEESME Approach, explaining the benefits of applying the DEESME MB approach and presenting potential outcome results.
✓ DEESME developed tools, templates, and training materials, the multiple benefits approach to energy auditing and the energy management system supporting the multiple benefits approach, along with training documents on the DEESME approach to energy auditing and energy management.
✓ Partners implemented 42 energy audits, 22 energy management systems based on ISO 50001, and multiple benefits approach in the four DEESME MS, resulting in 100 proposed measures being implemented or to be implemented.
✓ The solutions were tested and resulted in the 100 measures mentioned. The report on best practices shows the best practices that cover a wide area of business domains that include both industrial and service sectors.
✓ 1639 companies were directly involved and contacted, plus 8 networks with 630,000 additional companies.
✓ Key actors have been involved to increase their capacities, and to get from them the recommendations for the policies. The total number of key actors involved was 72, and it included research organisations, companies’ associations, consultants, agencies, chambers, aggregators, and initiatives.
✓ To provide the institutionalisation process with working documents based on real scale and key actors’ points of view, in Italy, Poland and Germany, three workshops with Key actors and companies were organised to test the attractiveness of the DEESME solutions and gather their feedback to provide the DEESME institutionalisation process. In Bulgaria the feedback was gathered through the submission of a questionnaire following a large national event with over 100 participants from state institutions. The consultations were carried out as planned in each of the four implementation countries and yielded some interesting insights.
✓ To involve the NA and/or their implementing agencies of 10 European MS, national legislation and implementing documents were analysed, and questionnaires were filled with the support of NA representatives from the following countries: Austria, Belgium (Walloon region), Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and Spain. NA are later involved in two general meetings and per country meetings.
✓ To identify and share best practices from national schemes, EU projects, and other initiatives with NA and to support NA in developing more effective schemes, the generic guidelines and the country specific guidelines have been developed. The generic document includes a set of 55 solution strategies and 50 best practice examples, the national implementation partners adapted this generic guideline for the involved national authorities.
✓ Based on all the insights of the project, general policy recommendations and per-country recommendations have been developed, starting from guidelines, including changes to EED Art. 11 and the recommendations from the key actors.
✓ The countries were involved in the knowledge exchange meeting in WP5 and per – country meetings, exchanges, and direct assistance in WP5. The total number of EU countries involved is 15.
✓ This direct tailored support aimed to offer direct support to the NA and EU level implemented with proposals for modifying existing laws or for making new laws linked to Art 11 implementation.
✓ Communication and exploitation wise, DEESME has achieved huge visibility, with more than 3300 individual downloads of materials and numerous events, workshops and long - established cooperation, which will be further exploited during follow-up project implementation.
