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Map Of Structured Financial Solutions For Citizen Finance Schemes for Energy Efficiency (CFs4EE Financing Schemes)

CITIZEN FINANCING EFSI FINANCING INVESTMENT PLATFORMS

This guidance document aims to help CitizEE Pilot Regions to select a suitable Public Financing Instrument (PFI) to be set-up to support the development of their CFs4EE Financing Scheme for Energy Efficient Buildings. The document explores the different existing Public Financing Instruments (PFIs) that the CitizEE Pilot Regions can implement to build their CFs4EE Financing Scheme, with the objective of launching large scale investment program in the energy renovation of buildings and attracting greater levels of private‐sector investments, including Citizen Funding.

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CitizEE newsletter: April 2020

CitizEE has published its first newsletter. In this edition of the CitizEE newsletter, you will find...

Scaling up Energy Efficiency investments through Citizen financing Schemes

CitizEE project has been included in the spring edition of the the European Energy Innovation magazine. The article provides the reader with an overview of the project goal, specific objectives and strategy to reach them.

CitizEE leaflet available

The CitizEE project is glad to present its 1st project leaflet which aims at informing the reader in a direct and efficient way about the project most relevant aspects. Download the leaflet here

Market characterization: segments and boundaries analysis for CitizEE’s pilots demonstrators

CITIZEN FINANCING, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, FINANCING

The market characterization analysis focuses on the current local Citizen Funding market related to the CFs4EE Financing Scheme scope and targeted beneficiaries defined in the grant agreement for each of the pilot country/region. The objective of the Market Characterization analysis is to identify the key decision elements that will serve the evaluation of the CFs4EE Financing Scheme to be developed by the project and the Public Financing Instrument that will support the scheme.

Legal & regulatory investment framework analysis

CITIZEN FINANCING, CROWDFUNDING, ENERGY EFFCIENCY, INVESTMENT PLATFORMS

This report is a compilation of the initial situation, the planned activities as well as the opportunities and difficulties of CitizEE’s four pilot regions Portugal (GOPARITY), Belgium (VEB), Croatia (REGEA) and Lithuania (VIPA). The result is a comparing overview of the current state from a legal point of view. In order to achieve a detailed view on the cases the report was written in close cooperation with the partner countries as well as with ECN and ENERGINVEST. With the help of a questionnaire, follow-up questions and discussions it was possible to not only finalise a legal and regulatory analysis but to also get an impression what other relevant aspects for the pilot regions do exist.

CitizEE Institutional, organisational and procedural report

CITIZEN FINANCING, EFSI, INVESTMENT PLATFORMS

As part of CitizEE project results, this report describes what EFSI-backed Investment Platforms are and how CitizEE H2020 project pilot regions can access the funds provided by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in order to set-up such investment platform to support the funding of their CFs4EE Financing Schemes.