Sustainable Finance for Heating and Cooling
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World leaders agree that we need to see an energy transition taking place within a few years to mitigate climate change. There are more green financial instruments than ever before from major funders and investors supporting sustainable solutions. Still, it is very challenging for cities and heating and cooling providers to find adequate capital allowing them to finance projects deploying technologies that will enable a leap in the energy transition.
In the hopes to help cities overcome the financing barriers, this month the Celsius Initiative will focus on sustainable finance for heating and cooling.
Below you will find some concrete examples of sustainable financing solutions and on Tuesday March 16 at 10:00 CET you are kindly invited to join us for the Celsius Talk and Smart Cities Marketplace Action Cluster meeting on sustainable finance for heating and cooling.
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A New Heating and Cooling Initiative
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Celsius has officially launched an Initiative focussing on Heating & Cooling as part of the Action Cluster Sustainable Districts & Built Environment of the Smart Cities Marketplace. The aim is to share the knowledge gathered from the Celsius Initiative and the Celsius Cities to inspire further uptake of solutions, and to benchmark the projects underway against Smart Cities Marketplace members’ activities.
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Financial Instruments and Successful Examples
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FlexiGrid's financial instruments for green investments.
The energy market is under transition towards becoming more flexible. As in all markets change creates uncertainties for stakeholders, including investors. Even though there is more green capital than ever, still there is a gap between investors and project owners because of these uncertainties. FlexiGrid looks at how to close that gap.
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A pioneering project for sustainable energy in Greece.
As the world keeps looking to sustainable energy solutions, geothermal energy exploration can be essential for those countries with access to it. During the next 18 months, Greece will implement and complete a new project to explore the Antheia-Aristino low-enthalpy geothermal field near Alexandroupolis, financed in part by the ERDF.
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Presenting an overview of ways to fund the scaling of successful demonstrator projects in order to create large-scale impact, this article provides recommendations of steps to take, requirements from financiers and different sources of advice.
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For a new concept to create impact, it needs to be implemented on a large scale – and this requires funding. This checklist provides guidance on what steps to take to improve chances of receiving funding for scaling and replication of demonstration projects.
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Introducing a detailed analysis on the topic of bankability of urban excess heat recovery investments with a focus on on excess heat available at an urban scale, including sources such as underground railways, datacenters, and much more.
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Does your city look for investors for a DHC project?
Then we have the right platform for you! Submit your project idea and pitch in front of a panel of investors.
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In order to decarbonise the energy system in the shortest possible time, it is essential to implement practicable and available solutions now and that all the relevant stakeholders at the EU, national and local level, are involved in a harmonised way.
During this webinar we explored how to develop successful action plans to retrofit DH networks in Europe, learning from concrete case studies from the EU projects UpgradeDH and KeepWarm. Our speakers analysed expected legislative challenges and recommended solutions to successfully overcome them.
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