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How the GRE Liege helps municipal, provincial and other public authorities
to make their buildings more sustainable in the Liege Province?
May 7, 2014
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Agenda
▪ GRE Presentation
▪ Reflexion
▪ Structure
▪ Questions
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The province of Liege
http://www.euregio-mr.com/fr/euregiomr
▪ Located in Wallonia (one of the 3 Belgian Region)
▪ 1 million inhabitants
▪ Liege province: 84 municipalities
▪ Circuit de Spa Francorchamps (F1)
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GRE Liege – Reconversion economic agency of Liege province
▪ Develop conditions to create sustainable jobs for the future generations
▪ Created in 2004, following the announce of Arcelor Mittal closure
roupement
edéploiement
conomique
G R E
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Main working areas
Transversal Areas Sectorial Areas Drivers
Stakeholders’ involvment
Innovation / Creativity
Entrepreneurship
Logistic
Mechanical Enginnering
Biotechnology
Agrifood
Aerospace
Greewin
Culture
Tourism
Heathcalre
Water
Media Technologies
Liege’s Image / Communication
Sustainable Development / Energy
Territory Planning and Mobility
Training/ Skills Development
Internationalization / Exports and foreign
investments attraction
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Liege Biodiversity, focus for 2013 - 2015
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Set up training programs in line with business needs and with the economic evolution
Promote and implement the pillards of the Functional Economy
To engage the region towards the Energetic Transition
Launch industrial diversification through innovation and creativity
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Liege Vision
LIÈGE DIVERSITY, Boost
the economical growth
of the province of Liege
Existing assets of Liege
province
Launch Actions
Launch Actions
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Agenda
▪ GRE Presentation
▪ Reflexion
▪ Structure
▪ Questions
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Reflexion on Innovative financing vehicles for urban retrofitting …
… 6 initiatives
▪ Bundle cities and province to launch large EPC contract (more than 450,000 inhabitants, 1500 buildings)
▪ Launch third party financing for private houselholds
▪ Create of a fund to finance energetic public buildings retrofitting
▪ Promote of local employment and local enterprises
▪ Look for subsidies (EU and Walloon) to support the activities
▪ 18 months of research: benchmarking of European best practices to finance urban retrofitting
▪ 2-days workshops with Liege province leader
‒ 70 participants, 48 organizations
‒ Topics: ú Crowdfunding, ú Third-party financing for private
households (Rotterdam and Energy Posit’if (France)
ú ESCOs ú Revolving Funds (London) ú EU financing opportunities
GRE Liege launched a reflexion on innovative financing vehicles for urban retrofitting
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▪ Public authorities awareness
▪ Public authorities engagement
▪ Potential subsidies identification to finance technical assistance
Feb 2014 Mid April 2014 Mid-May 2014
▪ List all public building with energetic parameters (consumptions, HVAC systems, insulation, …)
▪ First ROI identification
▪ Preparation of the subsidy file for Technical Assistance
Sept. 2015
▪ Specific structure set up ‒ Project
manager (technical and generalist)
‒ Legal ‒ Financial
▪ Funds set up
Jan 2017
▪ EPC diagnostic
▪ EPC tenders
Subsidies application
Structure set up
Public authorities bundling
Préparation des dossiers Travaux
▪ Works
Financing the energetic retrofitting for public building: create a dedicated structure to support public authorities
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Population
+ Liege Province: 1.1 million
197.000 8.800
64.000
24.300 39.200
12.000
Bierset Airport Passengers: 315.300 Cargo: 561.000 Tons
56.600
So far, 9 public authorities are willing to join the project
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Agenda
▪ GRE Presentation
▪ Reflexion
▪ Structure
▪ Questions
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Set up a structure to support public authorities to launch urban energetic retrofitting
Public Actors
Audit and technical advises
One Stop Shop
Finance
ESCOs, Maintenance Companies, Building Contractors
Third party financing
Subsidised loans
Tax incentives
Public susbidies
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Structure goals
Local authorities support ▪ Play as a Knowledge center ▪ Gather competences and resources in one place
Project Bundling ▪ Increase the size of the investment ▪ Create more attractive investment opportunities ‒ Building contractors, ESCOs … ‒ Financial sector
Financing opportunities ▪ Set up a fund to launch third party financing ▪ Local Employment ▪ Promote EPC and maintenance contracts
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▪ Energetic transition
▪ Functional Economy
▪ Sustainable job creation
▪ Cooperation with existing intiatives – no substitution
▪ Pilot to be replicated across Walloon Region
▪ Close collaboration with Walloon Economic clusters (GreenWin and Mecatech)
Public Actors
Audit and technical advises
One Stop Shop
Finance
ESCOs, Maintenance Companies, Building Contractors
Third party financing
Subsidised loans
Tax incentives
Public susbidies
The structure is inline with the GRE strategy and the Walloon challenges
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The structure will work with local authorities in 5 phases
Select the most energetic buildings Launch audit and quick scans for the most energetic buildings Bundle Buildings by types (quick wins, schools, deep retrofit programs) Manage bundled tender processes Launch the retrofit programs
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Financing of the structure
▪ Year 0 to 3 – Subsidies ‒ EU Subsidies (EEEF, H2020, …) ‒ Walloon Subsidies
▪ From Year 4 – Self Sustaining Structure
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Agenda
▪ GRE Presentation
▪ Reflexion
▪ Structure
▪ Questions
How the GRE Liege helps municipal, provincial and other public authorities
to make their buildings more sustainable in the Liege Province?
May 7, 2014