About the project
Public bodies need to become energy efficient and carbon neutral. Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) can make this happen, whereby an energy service company (ESCO) partners with a client organisation to install energy-saving measures in their buildings and guarantees a certain level of energy savings, while getting paid based on the amount of energy saved over time. However, EPCs are complicated and expensive to procure.
The EasyPro project responds to these challenges by developing a tailored EPC Facilitation Service and procurement framework to reduce the costs and complexities of energy efficient building renovations. The overarching aim is to get public bodies to undertake energy efficient building renovations using the energy performance contracting scheme and align with EU strategies to combat global warming.
The project will run from July 2024 to August 2027 and combines the expertise of four Irish partner organisations: University College Cork’s International Energy Research Centre, the City of Dublin’s Energy Management Agency, Noel Lawler Green Energy Solutions and Carr Communications.
Objectives
The €1.1M EU-funded project will be piloted at four Irish universities that support the project: University College Cork, Technological University Dublin, Maynooth University and Dublin City University.
The ‘EasyPro solution’ will include novel EPC templates that will enable the Universities to reach their targets for carbon emission reductions and energy savings, as well as calculation methodologies, measurement and verification protocols, financial modelling tools, risk assessment tools, a tendering process, and a matchmaking service between investors and clients. This solution will remove the legal, administrative and market barriers that currently prevent large scale investment in energy efficiency projects in the Irish public sector.
The three-year project will prove that a standardised process can be successfully implemented in the Higher Education sector in Ireland and in turn pave the way for its roll-out to the rest of the Irish public sector and beyond to the public sectors in other EU Member States.
By the end of the project, EasyPro will facilitate up to €45.3 million of investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
Project Partners
Project Milestones
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