2. Overview
Context - ‘Limburg climate neutral in 2020’
Covenant of Mayors
ESCOLimburg2020
3. Context
Province of Limburg,
Flanders, Belgium
838 050 inhabitants
44 cities and towns
Province is partner for the municipalities
Limburg has a long experience on energy
saving, sustainable building…
4. Once upon a time, in
2008…
“Limburg
CLIMATE
NEUTRAL
in 2020”
Steve Stevaert, governor of the Province of Limburg
5. Climate neutral in 2020?
Study TACO2: how to become climate neutral?
Transition management: long way to go
Citizens: communication and involvement
(> Climate Fund)
Working groups for themes and target groups
Own good example!
Cities and towns! (> Covenant of Mayors)
6. Covenant of Mayors
Province became ‘covenant coordinator’
Involving our 44 cities and towns:
all signed the Covenant of Mayors
Province & partners provide for 44 BEI and 44
SEAPs (36 approved by JRC)
Intensive support
Implementation via concrete pilotprojects and
ESCO (> ESCOLimburg2020)
9. ESCO: what preceded…
Monitoring energy consumption in municipal
buildings
Thematic Energy Audits and relightings
Grants for municipalities when investing in
their public building stock
Provincial energy campaigns
Sustainable Building Advice
10. ESCO: first experiences
Launched by Infrax in 2010
Formal engagement:
41/44 municipalities + the province
List with > 600 public buildings (capacity?)
Need of an integrated approach
How to convince municipalities to aim high,
make the right choices and decisions?
11. ESCOLimburg2020: goals
Convince locale authorities
…to renovate their building stock faster, with a high ambition
Helping them investing
…in the right order, the right measures
Optimising the ESCO-model
…and implementing this optimised model
Support the building sector
skills & knowledge / capable to perform building renovations
12. ESCOLimburg2020:
approach in the climate ambition
ESCO framed
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From SEAP to ESCO: customized ‘Retrofit and Renewables
Action Plans’ for municipal building stock, policy dialogues
High level of energy savings: >30%, average 40%
Explore innovative financial models
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EPC possible? Off-balance investment possible?
Funding through the "Limburgs Klimaatfonds“?
Exploring European investment funds (Jessica, Elena, ...)
Capacity building
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Building sector and local authorities
15. Contact:
Patrick Boucneau (patrick.boucneau@limburg.be)
Nele Vandenreyt (nele.vandenreyt@limburg.be)
Department of environment and nature
Province of Limburg
Universiteitslaan 1
3500 Hasselt (Belgium)
www.limburg.be
www.limburgklimaatneutraal.be