Financing your energy projects: get top advice from your peers in other EU cities!

When it come to financing their sustainable energy and climate projects, local or regional authorities very often face a lack of internal capacity to identify the most appropriate financing options and their mechanisms.

To help them overcome this difficulty, PROSPECT+ partners have set up a capacity-building programme, enabling cities to gather in small groups, where they can share their questions and project ideas, and learn from another city more advanced on the implementation of financing solutions.

To make these learning activities the most relevant and beneficial to all, each group focuses on specific financing mechanisms (e.g. Energy Performance Contracting, third-party financing, crowd-funding, …) applied to one of the five PROSPECT+ thematic areas:

• public buildings,
• private buildings,
• public lighting,
• mobility,
• and local energy production.

The groups are formed after a thorough match-making process, following calls for applications where mentors and mentees are invited to present their local context and to describe:

• for mentors: the successful projects about which they can provide advice to other cities
• for mentees: the local projects for which they seek for advice.