Table 3.
Examples of good practices identified in this analysis
| Name | Geographical scope | Covenant involvement as signatory or CTC | ESIF support | Justification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criterion 1: Ambition level of renovation | ||||
| Modernization of rental apartments | City of Hamburg (Germany) | Signatory | - | Final energy demand below 90 kWh/m2 per year |
| Exemplary buildings in energy efficiency | Region of Centre-Val de Loire (France) | CTC | Yes (ERDF) | Support to buildings that reach positive energy level |
| POR FESR 2014–20 | Region of Piedmont (Italy) | CTC | Yes (ERDF) | Reduction of minimum 40% in energy consumption |
| H2020 SmartEnCity | Tartu (Estonia) | Signatory | - | Energy class A renovation |
| Criterion 2: Hard to reach groups | ||||
| Better Energy Warmer Homes | Border, Midland & Western Region (Ireland) | No | Yes (ERDF) | Grants to owners of privately owned homes built pre 2006 that are under low-income thresholds (e.g. in receipt of fuel allowance as part of the national fuel scheme, job seekers allowance for more than six months with a child under seven, working family payment, one-parent family payment, domiciliary care allowance or carer allowance) |
| Energy renovation of public housing | Brest métropole (France) | Signatory | - | Energy and technical renovation of units in collective and individual public housing (priority for energy label E, F and G) |
| Grants to promote operational resource and energy management optimisation | State of Lower Saxony (Germany) | No | Yes (ERDF) | Grants covering up to 70% of eligible costs in SMEs for the uptake of operational resource efficiency and energy management measures |
| Provincial incentives for the energy rehabilitation of condominiums | Alto Adige Region (Italy) | No | - | Incentives of 70% for interventions in condominiums with at least 5 units exclusively owned by 5 persons or not-for profit entities |
| Criterion 3: Funding continuity and sustainability | ||||
| Midlands Retrofit Scheme | Midlands IE063 (Ireland) | No | - | Funding secured through allocation of EUR 20 million Carbon Tax revenues |
| Territorial subsidies coupled with national white certificate scheme to support Ardèche in their energy transition | Ardèche (France) | No | - | Significant territorial grants to their communities through integration with national white certificate scheme |
| Limburg sustainable home investment scheme | Province of Limburg (Netherlands) | No | - | Combination of multiple streams of funding (e.g. European Investment bank and provincial resources) using a revolving funding mechanism |
| Criterion 4: Innovative features | ||||
| LEMON programme | Emilia-Romagna (Italy) | CTC | - | Combination of grant, loan, energy performance contracts for energy efficiency improvements in social housing, integrating multiple sources of funding |
| Oktave | Region of Grand Est (France) | No | - | Innovative financial model for renovation towards zero-on-the-metre without use of personal loans, funded through homeowner associations (HOA) and supported by guarantee fund by regional authorities. Bank loan without collateral. Home owners pay a regular fee to HOA |
| Oxygen Rewards Card mechanism | Aradippou (Cyprus) | Signatory | - | Reward of citizens for EE and solar PV investments through payments on municipality-issued credit card |
| BE REEL! C13 | City of Louvière (Belgium) | Signatory | - | Set up of innovative financing scheme via third-party investment that combines 0% loan from the Walloon region |