EUROPEAN PROJECTS ➤ HORIZON 2020 ➤ EPC+

Energy Performance Contracting Plus

Project duration	01/03/2015 - 01/03/2018
Budget CRES Budget	1.486.015,50 € 104.668,00 €
Website	http://epcplus.org/

ΤEnergy Performance Contracting (EPC) is generally looked upon favourably, but its implementation can be complicated and lengthy. The reason lies mainly in the procurement law provisions and the long-term and complex contracts, which impede a real breakthrough in the spread of the EPC methodology.

The other main barriers for the implementation of EPC in SMEs are:

The transaction costs for procuring energy services are too high.
Investments and project sizes are too small.
It is difficult to obtain financing for such small projects.
High costs for guarantees, measurement and verification procedures.

The ultimate goal of the EPC+ project is to reduce transaction costs of energy service packages drastically so that smaller investments and projects in SMEs become possible for companies offering energy services. This can only happen if both the technical solutions as well as the contractual issues of energy services are highly standardized. The energy services offered can be either partly or wholly financed with innovative financing solutions, or may be more service-oriented solutions with guaranteed energy performances.

Participants:

CRES (coordinator)
ASEW
FACTOR4
GEA
E7
TEA
ESCAN
JSI
ESCOITALIA
SEVEN
HELESCO
BSERC