EPC-INTRANS Stakeholder Consultation Form

EPC-INTRANS – Stakeholder consultation form

Capacity Building on Energy Performance Contracting in European Markets in Transition

Stakeholder consultation form (Summer 2015)

1.  Project background

The EnPC-Intrans project is a cooperation of 10 partners from 9 European countries aiming at motivating and enabling European municipalities and their local facilitators (e.g. architects, engineers, lawyers, or accountants) to make better use of the economic potentials related of energy performance contracting (EPC).

Rapidly Increasing energy prices in combination with ambitious CO2 emission reduction targets are the main drivers for the increasing awareness of European municipalities of the needs and potentials of improving energy efficiency in public buildings and services. Energy savings in the range of 20-80% are achievable if municipalities succeed in mobilizing both the necessary know-how and investment capital. Most of European municipalities are however lacking both.

This is why municipalities are increasingly interested in cooperating with the private sector on the basis of Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) business, which aim at financing energy efficiency upgrades, in whole or in part, from actually achieved energy cost reductions.

2.  Rationale of the stakeholder consultations from the project point of view

Activities performed under the EnCP-INTRANS project shall be based upon a sound review of the specific interests of key stakeholders and experts in the partner countries. This is why the project partners are consulting representatives of the following stakeholder groups that may be involved in the promotion of EPC models for the financing of energy efficient investments in public buildings in their countries, such as e.g.:

·  National decision makers and authorities influencing the legal and administrative framework for EnPC/ESCO projects in the public sector in the country.

·  International institutions, as far as they are relevant in the country as donors or technical assistance provider (e.g. in Ukraine, Serbia)

·  Local decision makers and authorities, who would be interested to make use of EnPC/ESCO models for the improvement of public buildings or services on site.

·  Facilitators and advisers of local public authorities who would like assisting public authorities in developing their ENPC/ESCO projects up to the tendering stage.

·  ESCO companies.

·  SMEs who would like joining the ESCO market.

·  And many other stakeholders and experts

The partners will contact them for interviews (in personal meetings, by phone, or by email) ´which are focusing on 6 major questions that require not more than 10 minutes to be answered.

3.  Stakeholder interest in supporting the consultation process

Stakeholders participating in the consultation process will be actively informed at all stages of project implementation of the project results, including successful EPC business models applied in Europe and their adaptation to the situation in the public sector of the partner countries. They will be actively involved in the peer review of project progress and achieved outcomes, and they will receive priority invitations to participate in:

·  Information events

·  Training seminars (on site) and webinars (online)

·  Conferences

They will be entitled to download free of charge all training materials developed in due course of the project, and to propose further stakeholders and experts, including the staff of their own organizations for priority invitations to the aforementioned events.

4.  Clarifications

n  The personal identification of stakeholders is only requested for the purpose of providing evidence to the comprehensiveness and relevance of the spectrum of interviewed stakeholders.

n  Personal data of interviewed stakeholders are only stored for project purposes insofar as they are necessary to keep the stakeholders informed about the project results and to invite them to project events.

n  No data will be forwarded to any third party.

n  All opinion expressed and information provided by individual stakeholders are stored separately from the data provided for the identification of interviewed stakeholders.

n  All provided information will be processed and evaluated in an anonymous procedure which ensures that nobody can trace any individuals’ opinions from the accumulated information provided in reports and deliverables.

5.  The interview form (guideline)

Please return the completed interviews to
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