2. The scale of the opportunity
IEA estimate EU needs to invest €1.3 tn in
buildings and €154 bn in industry 2014-
2035 to hit 450ppm scenario
Boulton & Watt – the first energy
services entrepreneurs
3. Status report on EE financing
• Scale of market potential recognized
• Value of non-energy benefits increasingly
recognized
• Growing interest from institutional investors
• Slow development of the EE financing market
– leading to frustration
✔
✔
✔
✗
“The ratio of conferences to deals
is too high!”
4. Energy financing - now
Standardized
Mainstream
Large volume
Multiple sources
Standardized
Mainstream
Large volume
Multiple sources
NOT standardized
NOT mainstream
SMALL volume
FEW sources
Oil & gas
Wind
Efficiency
5. The energy efficiency capital gap
Projects & Potential
• Untapped market
opportunity
• Healthy returns
• Established industry
• Established technologies
Investors
• Search for yield
• Risk/return
• Growing emphasis on
impact investing
• Growing interest in EE
6. To bridge the gap requires 4 elements
Provide
finance
Build
demand
Derisking
Build
capacity
7. Two elements of derisking
Derisking
Standardization
- Technical development
and documentation
process
- Standardized best practice
for developing projects
from baselining to M&V
- Under-writing process
within financial
institutions
- Standardized best practice
for valuing and assessing
risks of EE projects
Evidence base(s)
- Demonstrating
conclusively the
value of investing in
energy efficiency
- Energy benefits
- Non-energy benefits
- ROI
8. Standardization
- Technical development
and documentation
process
- Standardized best practice
for developing projects
from baselining to M&V
- Under-writing process
within financial
institutions
- Standardized best practice
for valuing and assessing
risks of EE projects
Evidence base(s)
- Demonstrating
conclusively the
value of investing in
energy efficiency
- Energy benefits
- Non-energy benefits
- ROI
9. EEFIG derisking project – 3 main elements
Creation of an open source database for energy
efficiency investments performance monitoring and
benchmarking
Interpretation of gathered data and development of a
investments risk/performance modelling methodology.
Development of common, accepted and standardized
underwriting and investment framework for energy
efficiency investing
12. De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform
Become a DEEP data provider (& user)
Building & industry projects wanted
Individual project data is protected
http://eefig.eu/index.php/about-the-project
Contact:
Carsten Glenting
CAG@cowi.com
Ivo Georgiev
ivgg@cowi.com
Steven Fawkes
steven.fawkes@energyproltd.com
13. EEFIG Derisking project - underwriting
Pre-financing
Baselining Savings
Term
sheet
Design,
Construction,
Commission
Financial
close
Operations,
Maintenance
Monitoring
Servicing
Measuremen
t &
Verification
Inspection
Initial
model
Risk
analysis
Final
model
Comparison of actual
performance against
model
Model refinement
De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform
Draw
down
Data
Data
14. Standardized underwriting will allow
Building capacity within banks
Greater understanding of value and risks = better pricing
Commonality of processes
Reduced transaction costs
Growing a primary market – increasing business
opportunities
Enabling aggregation and a secondary market
Allows capacity building within banks and financial
institutions around standardized processes
Allows internal QA processes
15. The Investor Confidence Project
A system to standardize the
development and documentation of
building energy efficiency projects in
order to make them more investable.
Started in USA 5 years ago by Environmental Defense Fund
Brought to Europe 18 months ago
€2m support from Horizon 2020
5 country consortium
Being applied EU wide
16. Lack of standardization in EE results in:
Greater performance risk
Uncertainty limiting demand
Higher transaction costs
Difficult to build capacity
Difficult to aggregate
17. Investor Confidence Project Protocols
BASELINING
• Existing Building
• Drawings
• Weather File
• Energy Usage
• Energy Rates
• Occupancy
SAVINGS
• Model File
• Calibration Data
• Bid Packages
• Certifications
OPERATIONS
• BMS Points
• Fault Plan
• Maintenance Plan
MEASUREME
• M&V Model
• Regression
Model
• Adjustments
• Impact
• Baseline
Adjustments
COMMISSION
• Cx Plan
• Cx Authority
• Test Procedures
• Facilities Req.
C
x
Protocols standardize best practice
in project development and
documentation
18. ICP Europe Protocols
Large
Standard
Targeted
Whole building retrofit,
dynamic modeling
Whole building retrofit, no
dynamic modeling
Single or limited number of
EE measures
ApartmentTertiary
6 European Building Protocols
published and being applied.
Starting development of Industry and
Infrastructure Protocols.
19. Investor Ready Energy Efficiencytm
Third-Party
Verification
Project
Development
Training, accreditation and project
labelling being rolled out
20. ICP EU supported by > 140 Allies
Join here:
http://europe.eeperformance.org/join
-icp-europe.html
21. The ICP European Investor Network
> €1 bn committed or available to
energy efficiency…...availability of
capital is not the problem
22. Build
capacity
Finance sector
- Understand EE value
and risks
- EEFIG underwriting
- EIB P4EE
Efficiency industry
- Developing bankable
projects
- ICP
Hosts
- Stress co-benefits
- Developing bankable
projects
- Contracting
I want to start by giving a status report on energy efficiency financing, and indeed on energy efficiency activity generally, irrespective of the type of funding.
Over the last five years the scale of the potential market for energy efficiency has been increasingly recognized. Those of us who have been active in energy efficiency have always known the potential was huge, it just took a few decades for the rest of the world to catch up. So the potential is recognized – a big tick.
In the last two years the many co-benefits of energy efficiency have also been recognized, thanks in part to some excellent work by the IEA, the Regulatory Assistance Project in the USA and others. The co-benefits, or non-energy benefits can be worth many times the energy cost savings and the IEA is just working on methodologies to value co-benefits such as increased productivity, improved sales revenue, reduced absenteeism and better health. Measuring and valuing these co-benefits will be increasingly important as a driver for increasing investment into energy efficiency.
Over the last few years there has been growing interest in energy efficiency from institutional investors who have recognized the benefits of energy efficiency as well as the fact that it does not depend on subsidies. To date, however, it has not been possible for most of them to invest.
But finally, across Europe, but also across the USA, Asia and the rest of the world we find a common sense of frustration that things are not moving fast enough. This was best summed up by one of the bankers active in the field when he said “the trouble with the energy efficiency market is that the ratio of conferences to deals it too high.” In the investor Confidence Project we aim to change that ratio.
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Building Owner sees that office building is in lowest 25% of pier
Engineering firm convinces owner of retrofit opportunity
We have also recruited more than 50 Allies covering a wide range of stakeholders of all types, and all sizes, from right across Europe. Allies have signed up to support the work of the Investor Confidence Project and we would ask that you all sign up as Allies. It has no cost attached and it gets you firmly in the conversation.