To reach nationals targets for renewable energy shares of final energy consumption CE regions have the common challenge to keep investing and even to accelerate the financing of concrete actions to deliver sustainable energy measures.

FIRECE project links to the specific objective because it will support public sector to plan and manage instruments able to achieve saving targets. The implementation of Innovative financial instruments and the assessment of the projects submitted by SMEs for energy savigns will contribute to achieve the indicators contained in the Regional Energy Plans. Finally, FIRECE contributes to the achievements of the energy saving targets planned at worldwide and EU level.

The main objective of FIRECE is to increase capacities of regional operator to manage Energy Plans particularly on the financial resources locally available to enhance the investments in renewable energy by Industry, especially SMEs. quality assessment criteria will assist operators and local actors to check and optimize use of public resources addressed to investments on renewable energy by the industrial sectors (manufacturing).

The main project outputs are a transnational strategy to implement financial schemes and assess investments by public resources for Industry, a strong exchange knowledge action addressed to regional operators with training courses organized in 9 different regions, a methodology to support the exploitation of financial common financial schemes identified and a tool on-line available to local actors for the quality assessment of the investments.

The project will implement two pilot actions in nine different regions: six regions will develop ex-ante analysis 5 regions will test the tool to assess projects and investments supported by public resources in the frame of the Regional Energy Plans.

Main data of the project:

Project title: Innovative Financial Instruments for industry low carbon energy transition in Central Europe
Project code: CE1131

Partners:

• Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Craft and Agriculture of Venice, Rovigo Delta Lagunare – Italy
• Network for Energy & Environmental Technology – Germany
• Emilia – Romagna Region – Italy
• South Transdanubian Regional Innovation Agency – Hungary
• Technology Promotion Burgenland Ltd. – Austria
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. +Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy – Germany
• Regional Development Agency ARLEG SA in Legnica – Poland
• Lubelskie Voivodeship – Poland
• IRENA – Istrian Regional Energy Agency Ltd. – Croatia
• ENVIROS Ltd. – Czech Republic

Project budget in EUR: 1.872.633,00 €
ERDF funding in EUR: 1.542.138,35 €
Funding program: Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE
Project duration: 01.07.2017- 30.06.2020

(More information: http://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/FIRECE.html)
The project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and Hungary.