• Project 24 August 2026 The Global ESCO Network
• Webinar & E-Learning 21 November 2025 Crowdfunding Meets ESCOs: Accelerating the Energy Transition Through Citizen Investment (Webinnar) - 05.11.2025 The Global ESCO Network hosted an insightful webinar on innovative financial solutions for energy efficiency projects, focusing on crowdfunding and securitisation as tools to overcome persistent financing barriers. The discussion highlighted the urgency of accelerating building renovations to meet EU climate targets and explored practical models for mobilising both citizen and institutional capital. Federico Antonio Canu opened the session by emphasising that financing remains the top challenge…
• Webinar & E-Learning 8 September 2023 Empowering the energy transition: energy cooperatives and energy communities (Webinar) - 19.04.2023 Although a nascent business model, today energy cooperatives and energy communities cover already a wide range of activities in renewable energies and energy efficiency in several countries. These are local and citizen-led initiatives that put in common investment means and democratic principles to implement the energy transition. Decentralized renewables and small-scale energy efficiency can quickly materialise and become a solution to energy security and decarbonisation, and benefit from…
• Webinar & E-Learning 28 September 2021 The Building Blocks of Residential Green Finance (Webinar) – 30.09.2021 The Building Blocks of Residential Green Finance – the rationale, methodology, and initial results of implementing a successful, international residential green finance program to benefit our citizens, the planet, and a climate-ready banking sector. What key trends are driving the substantial growth in the green finance market? How do homes in a bank portfolio contribute to both ambitious environmental performance and substantial financial risk reduction? What research and evidence is…
• Project 23 January 2020 Community Models for the Energy Transition through Social Innovation (COMETS) COMETS aims to fill the knowledge and participatory gaps surrounding the low carbon energy system transition to ensure citizens are at the center of the transformation and empower their creative potential. COMETS will advance the scientific knowledge on the motives, potential, objectives and barriers of socially innovative Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) and their historical and future role in the energy transition. This will be achieved by quantifying the European-wide aggregate…
• Tools 27 October 2017 [Thermal atlas] Major enhancements made to the Heat Roadmap Europe energy planning tool Heat Roadmap Europe (HRE) added major new features to its energy planning tool, the perfect basis for European governments, businesses, consultants, academics, and planners to make informed decisions about investments in energy efficiency measures and use of untapped alternative energy sources for heating and cooling. The tool will also support the implementation of European climate commitments, ensure wiser investment of public money, reduce costs for consumers, and cut carbon emissions and…