The document discusses the ESCOLimburg2020 project in Limburg, Belgium, which aims to make the province climate neutral by 2020. The project works with municipalities to develop customized renovation plans for public buildings to achieve energy savings above 30% on average. It explores innovative financing models and aims to invest around 20 million euros to reduce CO2 emissions by around 20,000 tons per year and create about 100 jobs between 2013-2015 by optimizing energy service company (ESCO) models and building industry capacity. The province has long experience with energy efficiency and sustainable building initiatives and hopes this project can help convince local authorities to renovate buildings faster at a higher ambition level.

1. Limburg
CLIMATE
NEUTRAL
ESCOLimburg2020

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)

7. 30 november 2011…

8. ESCOLimburg2020
www.escolimburg2020.be
Project funded by IEE-MLEI
Partners: province, Infrax, Dubolimburg
What preceded
Project objectives and approach

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

13. ESCOLimburg2020:
general investment scheme

14. ESCOLimburg2020: impact
 Investments: +/- 20 Meuro
 CO2 reduction: +/- 20 kton/year
 Job creation: +/- 100
2013-2015

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