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project info
Start date: 1 April 2016
End date: 31 December 2021
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 9 539 003,65 €
EU contribution: 5 250 084,61 € (50%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Tillväxtverket

Coaches for Energy and Climate

The project will complement today’s municipal energy advice with energy advisors specialising in small and medium-sized enterprises with energy consumption below 300 MWh. Small and medium-sized enterprises are a target group against which a significant proportion of energy and climate advisors have historically had difficulty working against due to too low or too general knowledge level and conditions which are not fully adapted to work with the target group. The project will address identified obstacles at both local and regional level: Obstacle 1: The local and regional level currently lacks a clear player working towards energy advice to specific SMEs. Obstacle 2: The tools that the local and regional level today have for working with energy counselling for SMEs are inadequate. Obstacle 3: Small and medium-sized enterprises generally lack knowledge of their own energy use and how it can be affected. Obstacle 4: Small and medium-sized enterprises lack knowledge of potentials, cost-effective measures for energy efficiency and the positive economic consequences it can have. Obstacle 5: Asymmetric/deficient information Many small and medium-sized companies, especially in service and commerce, rent their premises. Many times suboptimal situations arise between property owners/leaders and tenants because one party has the opportunity to influence one aspect that the other party would benefit from. Energy and climate coaches can specifically add an additionality to parts of small and medium-sized companies that lack other efforts and which energy-saving consultants usually do not focus on.

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