RFPs: One-Stop-Shops – Integrated Services for Clean Energy Transition in Buildings

Deadline: 23-Sep-25

European Commission is inviting submissions to support the creation or replication of One-Stop-Shops (OSS), offering integrated services for clean energy transition in private residential buildings, in line with the Energy Efficiency Directive (art. 22) and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (art. 18).

Objectives

• As highlighted in the “Renovation Wave” initiative of the European Green Deal and in the REPowerEU Plan, there is a pressing need to increase the number of ambitious building renovations across the EU and to better integrate the switch to efficient renewable-based heating and cooling as an integral part of building renovations. However, many building owners lack the skills and capacity to set up, implement and finance complex and ambitious clean energy transition projects. In addition, many project developers face high implementation costs, given the relatively small size of the investments and the lack of turnkey solutions, and have limited access to adequate and attractive financing solutions on the market.
• Proposals submitted under this topic (depending on the specific scope) are expected to set up integrated renovation services to tackle the following aspects:
  • Improve market conditions and develop integrated building renovation service offers to:
    • Reduce complexity, simplify decision making and stimulate demand for investment in energy performance improvements and decarbonisation.
    • Connect all relevant actors in the value chain (e.g. construction companies, architects, engineers, urban planners, financiers, etc.).
    • Streamline access to various support measures, especially where there is support for specific target groups (e.g. energy poor households).
    • Improve awareness and trust towards such integrated services, through an adequate mix of online and in-person support, clear accountability, quality assurance and/or dedicated consumer protection policies.
    • Develop a robust pipeline of investments in building renovations, able to increase interest and participation from financial institutions and exploit synergies on the market, for instance via the development of dedicated financial products for building renovations facilitated through One-Stop-Shops.
  • Provide methods and support to:
    • Implement and operationalise integrated services, and test them in a pilot phase, triggering the first investments that validate the proposed concept.
    • Build expertise and organisational innovations needed for project development.
    • Reduce costs and time for all actors of the value chain through standardised approaches (e.g. optimised business processes, standardised contractual arrangements or technical measures, branding of the proposed services, district approaches, etc.).
    • Ensure cost effectiveness and price transparency of services provided to final beneficiaries.
    • Operationalise a focus on low energy renovation, either all at once or in a planned staged approach, using tools such as Building Renovation Passports.
  • Aim at a sustainable business model of the integrated service taking into account that:
    • Integration of services can be developed through dedicated operators and/or through an improved co-ordination between existing local actors.
    • The approach should minimise reliance on public subsidies to cover operating costs, having the prospect of economically viable business models in the medium to long term.
  • Communicate results:
    • Disseminate innovative solutions (e.g. organisational and contractual), suited to the targeted contexts.
    • Help improve legal and regulatory environments by communicating project results to relevant public authorities and bodies.
    • Demonstrate a high degree of replicability and include a clear action plan to communicate experiences and results towards potential replicators across the EU.

Scope

• Based on the generic approach and common objectives presented above, proposals submitted under this topic are expected to focus on one of the specific scopes below. The scope addressed should be specified in the introduction of the proposal. Although this does not exclude the possibility of addressing, in addition, some aspects of the other scope, proposals must be fully clear on what the core focus of the approach is, and who the main final beneficiaries will be.
  • Scope A: Integrated Home Renovation Services
  • Scope B: Integrated services for rental housing energy upgrade
  • Scope C: EU community of “Integrated Home Renovation Services” practitioners

Funding Information

• Funding rate:
  • Other Action Grants (OAGs) — 95%
• Topic Budget: EUR 10 000 000.

Expected Impacts

• Scope A and Scope B:
  • Proposals should demonstrate how they will contribute (depending on the specific scope) to:
    • Integrated services fully implemented, operational and tested before the end of the action: projects must necessarily set up the core infrastructure and launch the services before the project end; in addition, in a pilot phase, they must trigger the first investments that validate their concept, with the understanding that actual delivery at the worksites, comprehensive scaling of activities and subsequent investments will continue beyond the project’s completion.
    • Upgrade of the services offer compared to the existing situation in the area and in relation to the overall advancement of the OSS offer at national level.
• Scope C:
  • Proposals submitted under Scope C should result in:
    • Expansion of a European community of practice gathering relevant stakeholders, deeply rooted in their ecosystem and actively involved in ongoing local implementation of “integrated home renovation services”.
    • Data and guidance made publicly available in order to facilitate the uptake of “integrated home renovation services” across Europe. Evidence that the value of such integrated services is recognised by the market.

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
    • the coordinator must be established in an eligible country

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