06.11.2024
EBENTO Project Enhances Energy Performance Contracting to Accelerate Renovation of Residential Buildings
The EBENTO project has entered its final year. The partner organisations of the project, funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme, met on 5 and 6 November 2024, in Graz, Austria, to outline upcoming activities. EBENTO is developing an integrated platform to promote and better manage energy performance contracting (EnPC), which will serve as a “One-Stop-Shop” to assist all key stakeholders in the building and energy renovation sector, including citizens.
The EBENTO platform is in its final stages of development, and in the coming months, partners will evaluate and improve it through activities in the four pilot locations. Energy renovation processes are underway in Estonia, Greece, Spain, and the United Kingdom, where partners are testing the developed business models and approaches to energy renovations in residential buildings.
As consortium representatives, we also attended the closing conference of the EXCESS project, building synergies between the two projects.
As a research partner in the EBENTO project, IRI UL is involved in researching EnPC practices and developing models for applying these principles in the residential sector. In Slovenia, we have several examples of EnPC good practices, particularly in the form of public-private partnerships and the renovation of public sector buildings. Researchers from IRI UL and the Laboratory for Energy Policy (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UL) will present the research findings within the Slovenian ecosystem at the SAEE conference (Slovenian Association for Energy Economics), which will take place on 22 November 2024, at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. See you there?