FITHOME leads to 900+ retrofitted homes in 3-7 municipalities in the Dutch Alkmaar region. It unlocks €15.75-19.25mn in capital for retrofitting and results in 11.8 ktons of Co2 saved during the project. Energy usage in the participating homes decreases with 64%. FITHOME constitutes three workstreams: 1. rollout of a novel financial instrument; 2. actual retrofittings in “no regret” measures such as PV and isolation via a simplified, customer-centric retrofitting process through digital upfront calculators, process flow management and quality assurance in terms of vendor and material selection and 3. European scale-up and linkage with peer PDA-projects and a Pan-European funding platform. The project: -implements home-based, betterment tax – an instrument allowing homeowners to retrofit homes, while repaying related investments through a municipal a tax over max. 30 years. The investment is property-attached, thus risk-free. The tax height is the difference between the old and new energy bill (resulting from the energy savings thus ensuring neutrality). - is a EU first in applying this scheme at scale. It builds on pilot results in the Municipality of Bergen, while building on insights of the U.S. PACE scheme (220,000 homes retrofitted to date) and the EuroPace project; -focuses on guaranteed no regret retrofitting in PV and isolation, guaranteeing cost neutrality for homeowners; - engages homeowners through tailored, customer engagement campaigns, which are driven by the Municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede (NL); - develops tools that allow crystal clear insight in retrofitting costs and potential, whereas digital integration and process flow management will ensure that the entire retrofitting process (e.g. from application to vendor and material selection) are assured; - allows scaling beyond NL steps are taken to assess feasibility to link in with a Pan-European Investment Platform, while the PDA Working Group ensure ensures continuity and lessons-learned incorporation.

REGENERATE galvanizes clean energy transition on the three Balearic Islands: Palma, Ibiza and Menorca by triggering an investment of €44M in eco-sustainable renovation of 3,000+ homes in 4 years. The Islands have an urgent need to transform their tourism-dependent economy into a resilient and green one, as they are especially vulnerable to climate change and are highly dependent on fossil fuels. The REGENERATE’s renovation formula combines a market-driven, people-centric support with affordable financing, via in local One-Stop-Shop renovation offices on each island. REGENERATE’s pipeline approach is grounded in the realities of the islands building stock, defined energy efficiency & renewable energy upgrades, residents’ ability and willingness to pay. Thus, a realistic assessment of the pipeline supports the design of a self-sustainable business model for the OSS offices and enables the financing instrument to raise private capital to invest in individual home renovation projects. Stimulating bottom-up demand is at the core of this approach; REGENERATE will build upon the existing citizen engagement strategies on the islands and enhance their reach and scope. The impact goes well beyond energy savings, by boosting health, wellbeing and comfort of families, resulting in the reduction of more than 25,727 tCO2-eq/year and creating more than 4,000 jobs, 5 years after the project is completed.

Our vision of the European City Facility (EUCF) is one where European cities have their say on how the EUCF financial support will be used to meet their needs and help them overcome barriers they face in financing and implementing their ambitious energy and climate strategies. The ultimate objective of the EUCF is to build a substantial pipeline of sustainable energy investment projects across cities in Europe. This will be achieved by providing targeted financial, technical, legal and capacity building support to overcome critical barriers, develop credible investment packages and mobilise finance. Delivering this will require organisational, technical and financial innovation, in particular to bridge the capacity and capability gap for small and medium-sized municipalities. The specific objectives are to: - Provide hands-on locally rooted technical and financial expertise, inspired by ‘best in class’ European practice, to cities to deliver at least 225 credible and scalable investment concepts (hereafter referred to as IC) which should trigger more than EUR 320 M of public and private investment. - Build the capacity of at least 450 public authority staff to develop substantial project pipelines and provide them with tools, networking and knowledge transfer opportunities which will facilitate and accelerate the IC implementation, including via innovative financing mechanisms and project aggregation. - Facilitate access especially for small and medium-sized municipalities to private finance, EU funding streams and similar facilities (e.g. ESIF, H2020-PDA, Elena-EIB) and advisory services such as the EIB Advisory Hub to realise and amplify the expected investments. - Use the successful IC and knowledge of EUCF beneficiaries to reach out to more than 8,000 cities and communities, encourage replication and catalyse further action across European cities.

In Europe, the non-profit sector employs 28 million full-time workers engaged in education, research, housing, counselling, workforce training and other social activities. The sector remains underserved by the financial industry, making it challenging to obtain funding to undertake clean energy investments. SER brings together 8 organizations from 4 EU countries to maximise social impact by boosting clean energy investments in the nonprofit sector. SER intends to consolidate and implement an innovative hub that will offer full technical and financial assistance to TSOs in deploying clean energy projects, including a de-risking financing instrument (guarantee instrument) to support the projects. The SER HUB will advise TSO’s to be able to design, structure and coordinate the high impact execution of projects. It will be configured as one-stop-shop (establishing an ecosystem of partners providing modular and tailor-made solutions for specific project issues) where TSOs can find integrated solutions to all problems (technical and financial) referred to their energy transition projects, also identifying and improving their sustainability impact. Social enterprises gain access to affordable sustainable renovations, coupled with technical assistance, while investors gain access to secure, high impact investments aligned with ESG and impact investment criteria. SER is positioned to strengthen social enterprises and generate more than 500M in clean energy investments over the course of 5 years after the project, translating into nearly 9,000 jobs, 24,633 Co2 emissions saved per year and massive social impact involving energy poverty mitigation, improvements in social inequality, health, wellbeing, productivity, financial literacy, and overall social cohesion. The initial focus is on Italy, with further replication foreseen in Bulgaria and France, and exploratory efforts in Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. SER Consortium represents an ideal mix of partners including a specialized lender, an ESCO, a financing and de-risking advisory, social impact experts, an energy agency and local replicators in Bulgaria and France. SER strengthens the non-profit sector – a key driver in achieving a just and fair clean energy transition and a post- COVID-19 recovery.

HIROSS4all Project will develop and implement an innovative integrated home renovation service (IHRS) for private residential buildings in two districts in the Basque Country (Spain) and subsequently replicated within the region. The project develops an economically viable business model that brings together active citizen engagement and an innovative financial instrument, making the service suitable for vulnerable populations. The local one-stop-shop pilots will be managed and coordinated by the Basque Government. Specific objectives: -Foster energy efficiency building upgrades, on vulnerable districts. -Minimize logistical, financial, administrative and legal burdens caused by a complex and multi-stakeholder home renovation process -Ensure that building retrofits consider the social dimension by incorporating security, comfort, and improved accessibility for Basque citizens to further improve the quality of life of vulnerable population. -Design a scalable operating model to the district offices, and ensure the replicability of the one-stop-shop service, at both the Basque Country and the EU-level. -Create strong and reliable public-private partnerships for the provision of the service. - Identify and overcome regional-local collaboration barriers inherent to home renovation services. -Increase homeowner and regional partner awareness of the multiple benefits of energy efficiency, including health, wellbeing, comfort, job creation and energy poverty alleviation. For achieving this issue a consortium consisting on 9 partners (GV, EVE, GNE, DEBEGESA, VVMM, FEDARENE, ZABALA, G6 and HOUSING-EU) has been assigned. It is a well-balanced group with different backgrounds and complementary expertise and skills, covering the full value chain.