The goal of the Transparense project is to increase the transparency and trustworthiness of Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) markets throughout Europe.
With its twenty partners covering both mature and emerging EPC markets, the project is explaoiting its potential to transfer the know-how across Europe, support EPC markets in Europe and thereby achieve substantial energy efficiency improvement.
The main role of the Code of Conduct is to bring confidence to the EPC market in the EU taking into account its variety across the member states. Compliance with the Code of Conduct serves as a minimum guarantee of the quality of EPC projects implemented. Code of Conduct has been tested in 37 pilot projects which at the same time contributed to the promotion of good practice principles both on the side of ESCOs and clients.
Gradually increased demand for EPC and emergence of new ESCOs is expected to be further supported by the new EU directive on energy efficiency, which defines the requirements for making use of energy services by public institutions. Within Transparense, ESCOs are offered high-quality training programmes and materials. Trainings are one way how the project supports transfer of experience from developed EPC markets, to those less experienced. Such transfer is supported by databases and reports providing an overview of European EPC markets through information about ESCOs, their associations, EPC models and the existing initiatives promoting EPC.
The Transparense project started in April 2013 and will be completed in September 2015. The project brings together 20 European partners and is financed by Intelligent Energy Europe Programme of the European Union with co-funding from the project partners.