Deadline: 12-Jan-22
The European Commission is inviting proposals to Establish innovative business models and contractual schemes for smart and sector-integrating energy services.
Actions under this topic are expected to:
- establish and implement service models that enhance the business case of energy efficiency services by integrating elements that increase the value and diversify revenue streams, e.g. by integrating
- distributed generation and self-consumption, demand response/ flexibility, including e-mobility
- electricity with heating and cooling, including making use of heat storage
- aspects of comfort, consumer satisfaction, safety, health, convenience etc.
- maintenance and optimisation
- aggregation of data and visualisation of energy consumption; technical support, communication and advice to end users
- establish service models that allow energy efficiency to take part in the organised energy markets and/ or in portfolio optimisation of utilities, including as Pay4Performance-schemes
- establish contract models encompassing key aspects, including technical requirements, technical and performance guarantees, Measurement & Verification, fair share of benefits and appropriate remuneration, limited transaction costs etc.
- establish services that are tailored to capacities and needs of customers and that take into account different segments of customers (tailoring of services; load/flexibility type-based segmentation)
- consider new distributed ledger technologies suitable for energy transactions
- develop and integrate tools and methodologies to accurately monitor, verify, report and certify energy savings, energy production and flexibility as well as benefits, e.g. comfort
- design integrated service offers, i.e. beyond traditional energy efficiency projects, that would qualify for and meet the requirements of the Energy Efficiency Directive Article 7
Objectives
The topic aims to support actions that develop, conceptualise and deploy new business models and concepts which fully tap the economic value and the wider benefits of integrated services. Integrated services in the sense of the topic are services that combine different energy services, such as energy efficiency, distributed generation and flexibility, and/or which integrate energy services with non-energy benefits. Moreover, the topic targets at services that contribute to the integration of energy sectors and carriers, notably electricity, heating and cooling and mobility, thus helping to overcome the fragmentation of markets and segments. Finally, the topic aims to enhance the cooperation and trust among different services providers and market actors, also across segments that so far do not have common business cases.
The focus of the topic is on services involving buildings, i.e. services provided in, for or linked to buildings. These services should include an important element of energy efficiency. Moreover, the use of innovative technologies, as key enablers for the integration of services and sectors, is one important feature of this topic.
Funding Information
- LIFE-2021-CET-SMARTSERV EUR 4 000 000
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme (participating countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
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