Business models

  • On-site, on-demand Hydrogen Peroxide Generation for a cost-effective, eco-friendly and safe biocide and oxygenator

    Project dates: 01. May 2016 - 31. Aug 2016

    Objective

    Biocides are extensively used across the agriculture and livestock sectors to prevent the proliferation of bacteria, algae, fungi and viruses. With sharpening regulations, environmental concerns, and the need for sustainable practices to ensure continued agriculture and food supply, the market is witnessing increased demand for safe and sustainable biocidal agents, while maintaining demanding requirements in cost, scalability, and availability. HPGen is a disruptive technology product, enabling for the first time on-demand, cost-effective production of hydrogen peroxide - an eco-friendly biocide and oxygenator, directly at the point of use, using only water, air and electricity as feedstock ! HPGen is set to displace presently used, increasingly regulated toxic chemical products in agriculture, and in turn in livestock sectors. By doing so, HPNow will address EU objectives in improved food and water safety, increased crop yields, and reduction of environmental impact, transport and handling of toxic agri-chemical agents. Implementing HPGen at agriculture and livestock farms in the EU and globally will substantially reduce direct and indirect biocide costs, and create a > EUR 2 billion market opportunity across the value chain. HPGen is being developed, and will be brought to market, by HPNow ApS, a Danish SME. The company has already attracted the attention and collaboration of multinational industry players, including an EU-based global leader in hydrogen peroxide production, three of the world’s leading micro irrigation companies, and one of the EU's largest specialty meat producers. These global firms will be contributing resources and knowhow to the project at their own cost, with their interest in later serving as HPGen channel partners - a key to our company's scalable go-to-market strategy. In Phase I commercial, technical, and production activities related to HPGen market introduction will be analyzed, and a comprehensive business plan will result.

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    Number of partners: 1
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    HPNOW APS

    • Project coordinator
    • HPNOW APS
    • Denmark
    • Budget: 50, 000

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  • Optimum, sustainable solution for seed drying and conservation

    Project dates: 01. Dec 2015 - 31. Mar 2016

    Objective

    The seed market will grow at a CAGR of 10.57% during the period 2014-2019 and is expected to increase to $24 billion from its current $14.52 billion value. Europe, with 3 of its countries (France, Germany and The Netherlands) as three of the top four seed exporters in the world includes nearly 7,200 seed companies and more than 50,000 employees. Production of high quality seeds can increase crop yield by 15-20%. Seed moisture content needs to be controlled to ensure high germination rates, thus high quality seeds. An optimum drying process with control of air’s relative humidity and temperature is needed to ensure harvested seed is at safe moisture content before storage or other purposes. Existing drying and cooling methods for seeds lack of control of these parameters, are not energy efficient and require high investment from farmers. Moreover, seed drying is one of the most energy consuming processes on farms, consuming as much energy as all field works together. With an efficient seed drying process, savings for farmers could be more than 50%. DryCoolerSeeds is able to dry and cool the seeds in a continuous monitored process with adaptation to climate variations, saving energy (99% of energy saved), time (2.5 less time needed than traditional dryers), ensuring the correct moisture content and temperature of seeds, resulting therefore in high quality seeds. Marcold’s technology is a step further in automation, simplification and costs savings (>60% compared to mix flow drying) being able to incorporate two different functions (drying and cooling) in a single machine surpassing the competition in the current market. The aim of the project is to build and demonstrate in real end user’s facilities our DryCoolerSeeds prototype adjusting the working parameters for effective conservation of seeds while ensuring a successful commercialization of the technology in Europe and Latin America that will drive Marcold into an exponential growth.

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    Number of partners: 1
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    MARCOLD GROUP

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  • Green Hydrogen Production and Plastic Recycling via Anion Exchange Membrane Reactors

    Project dates: 01. May 2021 - 30. Apr 2023

    Objective

    Achieving climate neutrality by 2050 is currently acknowledged as one the overarching objectives of the EU strategy, where smart sector integration and a just transition to a circular economy are crucial drivers. In this respect, PHOENIX aims to develop and deliver a disruptive electrochemical reactor combining hydrogen production and plastic waste recycling. Hydrogen has manifold applications i.e., fuel, energy vector and chemical feedstock, and polymer synthesis is prevalent, 260 Mtons synthesised just in 2019 and no drastic reduction in near-term projections. Clearly, a suitable portfolio of novel and scalable technologies is urgently needed to process both commodities (hydrogen & plastics) in a sustainable way. Whence, ramping up the production of green hydrogen, i.e., renewables-derived, perfectly intertwines with the need to boost the whole volume of recycled plastic which currently amounts to only 15% of the total plastic in circulation. To this end, PHOENIX will produce an integrated power-to-molecules device by interfacing a fuel-producing/waste-recycling system to photovoltaic modules. The envisioned system will leverage an exquisite control in the assembly of modular Anion-Exchange Membrane (AEM) electrolysers, processing of nanostructured electrocatalysts and development of value-added chemical reactions to produce a scalable solar-to-chemical reactor. Finally, field validation and techno-economic assessments will identify and potentiate sector coupling along the entire energy and chemistry value chains. This project will be accomplished by an innovation-oriented small-sized enterprise, a world-class academic group and an experienced researcher, embedded in an inter-sectorial research landscape that brings lab innovation to fab delivery. Overall, the PHOENIX approach responds to key societal goals in energy conversion and environmental reparation: hydrogen production, waste valorisation and industrial innovation.

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    Number of partners: 1
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    SPI CONSULTING SRL

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  • Trading Platform for Sustainable Carbon Credits

    Project dates: 01. Feb 2018 - 31. Jul 2018

    Objective

    CARBOMART project is a sustainability comparison tool to create an online carbon trading platform, which allows the carbon credit buyers to evaluate the carbon emission reduction projects according to the social, environmental and economic sustainability criteria.

    The CARBOMART proposes solutions for the Voluntary Emission Reduction Market, which is an incentive mechanism for disseminating the investments on climate friendly low carbon energy projects.

    Therefore the outcome of this project will facilitate;
    - Low-cost, low-carbon electricity supply
    - Reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions due to energy consumption
    - Increase in the forested lands (carbon storage)
    in a sustainable wayby increasing the income of the renewable energy, energy efficiency and afforestation projects.

    General objectives Green Consult and Finance (GCF) targets through CARBOMART are;
    • Developing a reliable sustainability comparison tool for the voluntary emission reduction projects,
    • Developing a measurable pricing methodology for the Voluntary Carbon Market
    • Creating an accessible platform for both buyers and sellers

    In line with these objectives the expected impacts are;
    • Facilitating the transparency voluntary carbon market.
    • Increase in the quality of voluntary emission reduction projects in terms of sustainability,
    • Increase the investment made in carbon emission reduction projects so that decrease the emission reductions up to 5%, since the effects of the carbon credit income to the IRR of an green energy investment is around 5%.

    The market volume is expected to be 4.1 billion USD by 2020. It is planned that the CARBOMART would be fully commercialized by 2019 and reach a sales income of 20 million Euros by 2023.

    To ensure a successful entrance and fast penetration into the European markets, the outcomes of the Phase 1 studies will be wisely used in Phase 2, which will help in terms of the design, production and marketing procedures to be conducted in a right manner.

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    Number of partners: 1
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    GREEN DANISMANLIK FINANS ENERJI CEVRE MUHENDISLIK TARIM MUSAVIRLIK INSAAT SANAYI VE DIS TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI

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  • Energy Efficiency Investments in multifamily houses

    Project dates: 01. Mar 2018 - 31. May 2022

    Objective

    HousEEnvest aims to demonstrate the viability of the financing scheme, defined for the full energy renovation of multifamily houses in Extremadura, which will count on a combination of innovative tools for standardization, pooling, bundling and de-risking. This investment financing scheme focuses on a regional market with investment higher than 35 M€.

    HousEEnvest is the result of 2 years of work between key institutions of Extremadura region from the energy, economic and building sectors, combined with international resources coming from IEB and EU cooperation programmes, which have allowed designing one financing scheme made to measure of Extremadura building renovation necessities.
    HousEEnvest will have results in Energy renovation of multifamily building, and introduce EU added value through the combination of several proved innovations, which are applied and customized for the multifamily buildings with central heating. Will develop a Innovative financing scheme, implementing a Guarantees Fund created with public ESIF, moving from non-reimbursable grants into FI, and it is leveraged with EFSI and finally with private contribution (biggest part).

    HousEEnvest aims to be a showcase in the unlocking of investment through pooling, when supported by a proper Fund scheme, which can be applied and replicated in other geographies and even other sectors.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 10
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    URVIPEXSA SA

    EXTREMADURA AVANTE SL

    CONSEJERIA DE ECONOMIA CIENCIA Y AGENDA DIGITAL - JUNTA DE EXTREMADURA

    AGENCIA EXTREMENA DE LA ENERGIA

    AFI CONSULTORES DE LAS ADMINISTRACIONES PUBLICAS, S.A.

    ASOCIACION NACIONAL DE EMPRESAS DE SERVICIOS ENERGETICOS ANESE

    VICEPRESIDENCIA SEGUNDA Y CONSEJERIA DE SANIDAD Y SERVICIOS SOCIALES - JUNTA DE EXTREMADURA

    FEDERACION REGIONAL PEQUENA Y MEDIANA EMPRESA DE CONSTRUCCION Y AFINESDE EXTREMADRA

    COLEGIO TERRITORIAL DE ADMINISTRADORES DE FINCAS DE EXTREMADURA

    ANALISTAS FINANCIEROS INTERNACIONALES SA

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  • Save your bUildiNg by SavINg Energy. Begin to move more quickly

    Project dates: 01. Apr 2017 - 31. Mar 2021

    Objective

    In the Covenant of Mayors signatories commit to a Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan. However, often municipalities lack capacity to turn their plans into actions; and the residential sector is often left behind and deep renovations not implemented.
    Realizing this potential requires designing, financing and implementing complex energy efficiency investments. Practice shows that small and medium municipalities are inadequately organized to manage and finance this process. At the same time individual owners in the residential sector are inadequately organized to manage their collective property.
    Accelerate SUNShINE supports Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), with a pipeline of projects worth €27m and guaranteed savings over 27GWh/year. A major objective is to demonstrate the financial viability of deep renovation via suitable project bundling, municipal partnerships and financial engineering.
    In the proposed approach four municipalities works together in a shared project management unit, composed by experts covering technical, socio-economic, legal and financial advisory. This unit deals with project development and process standardization. In each municipality public buildings are bundled for Energy Performance contracting based procurement. At the same time each municipality establish a support scheme for the deep renovation of multifamily residential buildings always based on Energy Performance contracting and continuing the effort made by SUNShINE.
    As most ESCOs have limited balance sheet capacity, re-financing is usually achieved by selling future receivables by a forfaiting transaction. Accelerate SUNShINE supports this solution, further rolling out the Latvian Baltic Energy Efficiency Facility, which is an investment fund with a single purpose: forfaiting receivables from EPC. Here process standardization is very important for attracting private and institutional investors.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 8
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    RIGAS TEHNISKA UNIVERSITATE

    EKODOMA

    • Partner
    • EKODOMA
    • Latvia
    • Budget: 211, 730

    EKU SAGLABASANAS UN ENERGOTAUPIBAS BIROJS

    ADAZU NOVADA DOME

    BAUSKAS NOVADA ADMINISTRACIJA

    FUNDING FOR FUTURE BV

    JURMALAS PILSETAS DOME

    TUKUMA NOVADA PASVALDIBA

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  • Investor Energy-Climate Action Toolkit - Developing the framework and platform for non state actors' contribution to the Paris Agreement

    Project dates: 01. Mar 2018 - 30. Nov 2020

    Objective

    The InvECAT project aims to mobilize voluntary energy efficiency and sustainable energy investment by companies and financial institutions through the development of standardized frameworks and tools and outreach by critical convening and marketing powers (UNEP FI, and Bloomberg). The project will thus enable credible, standardized non-state actor (NSA) energy and climate commitments that directly contribute to the achievement of EU and global energy and climate goals. At its core, InvECAT develops a “toolkit” for energy and climate target setting and monitoring that companies, financial institutions, regulators and policy makers can exploit to support domestic and global energy and climate goals. Policy makers and governments will have access to a framework and standard templates to define NSA pledges and a monitoring platform tracking alignment to such goals. Companies and financial institutions, reached by large corporate and financial sector networks at WRI and WWF will access target-setting tools that track progress toward existing commitments and the ability to set more ambitious ones. The project will further achieve broad market acceptance through the first international standard measuring the finance sector’s contribution to the Paris Agreement. The work done through InvECAT will address all types of energy-climate actions, thus covering both sustainable energy and energy efficiency. It builds on market leading data and tool initiatives (e.g. H2020 SEI Metrics project) and commitment initiatives (Science Based Targets initiative and UNFCCC NAZCA portal), while integrating an expanded focus on energy efficiency. The market uptake of the toolkit by all stakeholders (companies, financial institutions, policy makers, civil society) is supported by the extensive outreach and strong networks that consortium members have developed in over 20+ years of experience.

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    Number of partners: 3
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    WRI EUROPE STICHTING

    ASSOCIATION 2 INVESTING INITIATIVE

    WWF EUROPEAN POLICY OFFICE

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  • Empower public authorities to establish a long-term strategy for mobilizing investment in the energy efficient renovation of the building stock

    Project dates: 01. Mar 2016 - 31. Aug 2018

    Objective

    40% of all energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions in the European Union arise in private and public buildings. Thus, major advancements have to be made in this sector to reach the EU’s climate and energy targets. Energy-efficient buildings will also contribute to the vision of secure, affordable and climate-friendly energy for citizens and businesses as well as generating additional societal, environmental and economic benefits. To strengthen policies that promote retrofitting and modernizing existing buildings, the EU has adopted the Directive 2012/27/EU on Energy Efficiency (EED). It requires EU Member States and candidate countries to establish a long-term strategy for mobilizing investment in the renovation of the national building by 30 April 2014, and every 3 years thereafter. These action plans are an integral part of a country’s National Energy Efficiency Action Plans. As of May 2015, 27 EU Member States have adhered to the requirement of Article 4, EED, and submitted their national building renovation strategy, albeit most did not meet the April deadline and some submitted their strategies as late as March 2015. However, the requirements to prepare these renovation strategies appear to have overburdened most EU member states. According to an analysis conducted by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe, only five countries have at least adequately complied with the five core elements described in Article 4 of the EED. To date, no renovation strategy has been submitted that can count as a ‘best practice’ and provide orientation for other countries. The project EmBuild (Empower public authorities to establish a long-term strategy for mobilizing investment in the energy efficient renovation of the building stock) is designed to empower public authorities at local, regional and national level, to formulate renovation strategies for the building sector that foster deep renovation and facilitate the acceleration of the renovation.

    Partners

    Number of partners: 10
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    DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ) GMBH

    BUILDINGS PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE EUROPE ASBL

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN

    AGENTIA PENTRU EFICIENTA ENERGETICASI ENERGII REGENERABILE PLOIESTI-PRAHOVA ASOCIATIE

    DZZD ENEFFECT GRUP

    REGIONALNA ENERGETSKA AGENCIJA SJEVEROZAPADNE HRVATSKE

    ENERGIE & UMWELTZENTRUM ALLGAU GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH

    UNIVERZITET U BEOGRADU

    ZAVOD ENERGETSKA AGENCIJA ZA SAVINJSKO SALESKO IN KOROSKO

    NALAS RESEAU DES ASSOCIATIONS NATIONALES DE POUVOIRS LOCAUX DE L EUROPE DU SUD EST

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  • Improving the attractiveness of investments in energy efficiency and sustainability in buildings

    Project dates: 01. Apr 2016 - 30. Jun 2018

    Objective

    BUILDINTEREST will structurally improve the financeability and attractiveness of investments in renewable energy or energy efficiency in buildings by creating three national sustainable energy financing platforms. Investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency are currently sub-optimal, forming an important bottleneck for Europe to reach its 20-20-20 targets. Particularly in the building sector, projects require high upfront investments, have high perceived risk, have to deal with complex planning and stakeholder issues, and suffer from split incentives. Since the building sector is also one of the largest energy users in Europe and faces a major and sustained investment challenge, BUILDINTEREST focuses on addressing financial issues in investment in sustainable energy and energy efficiency measures in buildings. BUILDINTEREST will develop three national sustainable energy financing platforms: in The Netherlands (Duurzaam Gebouwd), Italy (ASTER) and France (BPIFrance). These platforms will create a structural dialogue between the building and financial sector and develop essential tools and financial instruments that will increase attractiveness of investments in sustainable energy in buildings. BUILDINTEREST will also develop a roadmap, describing the barriers in financing sustainable energy investments as well as their solutions, and presenting a practical approach to the implementation of these solutions, from financial instruments and contract arrangements to calculation tools and policy measures. The project will also facilitate the implementation of these solutions by the building and financial sector during project operation. To further increase its impact, BUILDINTEREST aims at rapid replication of the national platforms in other European countries. Among other activities, 6 large-scale (inter)national events are organized during the project. BUILDINTEREST will reduce uncertainty regarding investments in sustainable buildings, and increased investors' confidence and trust.

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    Number of partners: 6
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    ART-ER-SOCIETA CONSORTILE PER AZIONI

    TECH TOUR EUROPE SA

    BPIFRANCE

    STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND

    DGB BV

    • Partner
    • DGB BV
    • Netherlands
    • Budget: 384, 375

    PNO CONSULTANTS BV

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  • Recognising Energy Efficiency Value in Residential Buildings

    Project dates: 01. Mar 2015 - 28. Feb 2019

    Objective

    ReValue aims to lead the development of appraisal norms and standards that REcorgnise Energy Efficiency Value in social and private residential real estate.

    Financing decisions in real estate are often based on formal appraisals of value. Current norms on valuation, such as RICS', recognise Energy Effiency (EE) as a potential source of value, but do not require taking this into account in appraisals, nor provide clear guidance on how to do so. As a result, investors are not provided with the formal basis to invest in or to provide financing (eg through mortgages) for EE components

    For a standard renovation of a residential unit, up to 10k Euro in EE could be made ' bankable' if valuation norms and standards would better reflect long term EE value. At EU level, this could potentially unlock 20Bn Euro per year in financing of EE measures. Since 26% of EUs energy is consumed in homes, increasing investment on EE could significantly contribute to H2020 targets

    Specific ReValue objectives are:
    1 develop and propose a set of norms and policies in the valuation of residential property that recognise EE
    2 align valuation techniques with such norms
    3 validate the framework in 4 pilot projects across Europe
    4 Stimulate uptake of the framework through widely recognised norms and support from key industry stakeholders

    ReValue's consortium is industry-lead, including RICS, one of the globally recognised standardisation bodies, and Savills, a leading valuer, and academic and professional experts in accounting, economics and EE design. Through observer roles, the project collaborates with building owners across Europe, investors and a range of entities that support exploitation and dissemination of project results

    In doing so, ReValue will contribute to reaching EE19's expected impact, by aligning valuation norms for optimal levels of investment of energy efficiency, and by increasing trust of investors and financiers in the financial viability of energy efficient measures

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    Number of partners: 6
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    LUWOGE CONSULT GMBH

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT

    ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS

    VANHIER BV

    SAVILLS (UK) LTD

    BAX INNOVATION CONSULTING SL

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