Energy renovation solutions – Boosting building renovation through effective markets and instruments

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Expected Impact:

Proposals should present the concrete results which will be delivered by the activities and demonstrate how these results will contribute to the topic-specific impacts. This demonstration should rely on a solid analysis of the current situation, realistic assumptions and baselines, and establish clear causality links between activities, results and impacts.

For Scope A:

In terms of qualitative impact, proposals under this topic should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following outcomes, as relevant:

Increased demand for energy renovation and increased energy renovation rates

Implementation of demand aggregation strategies

Viable business models for renovations with reduced costs and time, replicable at large scale

Improved capacity of companies in the building renovation sector to deliver high quality renovations.

In terms of quantitative impact, proposals should quantify their results and impacts using the indicators provided for the topic, when they are relevant for the proposed activities. Proposals are not expected to address all the listed impacts and indicators. The results and impacts should be quantified for the end of the project and for 5 years after the end of the project. The quantitative indicators for this topic include:

Number of building units renovated and/or increased renovation rates in the territories targeted by the project

Number of building units that undergo a deep renovation and/or increased deep renovation rates

Percentage reduction in renovation costs compared to baseline, potentially detailed by building typology and type of intervention

Investments in building energy renovation triggered

Number of companies with improved technical, organisational and business capacity to deliver energy renovations through the uptake of new products, materials, services and processes under the scope of the topic.

Proposals should also provide indicators which are specific to their proposed activities.

For Scope B:

In terms of qualitative impact, proposals under this topic should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following outcomes:

Enhanced market uptake and effective use of advanced EPCs, SRIs, RPs, DBLs and IEQ

Roll-out of existing schemes and tools allowing enhanced, integrated, cost-effective building assessments and staged renovation strategies

Improved use of buildings performance data in actual renovations or building management by financial institutions, service providers and building owners/operators.

In terms of quantitative impact, proposals should quantify their results and impacts using the indicators provided for the topic, when they are relevant for the proposed activities. Proposals are not expected to address all the listed impacts and indicators. The results and impacts should be quantified for the end of the project and for 5 years after the end of the project. The quantitative indicators for this topic include:

Number of Renovation Passports issued and applied to actual renovation projects

Number of renovations or building management projects making use of enhanced and integrated building assessment schemes (EPCs, SRI and IEQ) and data repositories (DBL)

Number of relevant stakeholders (e.g. building owners, service providers, financial institutions, one-stop-shops) actively using improved building-related data and services.

Proposals should also provide indicators which are specific to their proposed activities.

For both scopes A and B

Proposals should also quantify their impacts related to the following common indicators for the LIFE Clean Energy Transition sub-programme:

Primary energy savings triggered by the project in GWh/year

Final energy savings triggered by the project in GWh/year

Renewable energy generation triggered by the project (in GWh/year)