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Energy efficiency investments in industry and SMEs, the Austrian example

Petra LacknerAustrian Energy Agency, Energy-Efficient Business Programme klimaaktivFrankfurt am Main, December 2018


Content

• The klimaaktiv energy-efficient business programme

• Workshop on green finance organised by AEA and the Association of Austrian Electricity Providers

• Survey on awareness of Austrian eco-label for sustainable investments

• Conclusions

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How is the programme organised?

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Federal Ministry for Sustainability and TourismStrategy

Management and CoordinationEducation & training / communication / partner management / municipalities

Austrian Energy Agency

Buildings Energy Efficiency MobilityRenewables

Network of klimaaktiv experts from all over Austria


Objectives of the programme

• Awareness Raising for Energy Efficiency in Industry

• Implementing energy management according ISO 50001

• Implementing energy efficiency measures in industrial enterprises in co-operation with partners

• Implementing standardised energy audits by organising standardised trainings for energy auditors

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klimaaktiv works on five levels

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Cooperation with federal support programmes

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• Subsidies for energy audits

• Trainings of energy consultants

• Awareness raising events


Environmental subsidies

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Subsidy up to 35% of environmental effective investment costs

+ additional regional subsidies


Energy efficiency award 2018

• 29 companies awarded

• 70.5 GWh savings

• 16.500 Tonnes CO2 savings

• 60% of energy efficiency measures received investment subsidies

8Foto: Paul Gruber / BMNT


How do companies finance their energy efficiency measures?

• Discussion Participants: Hotel Manager, CEO Food Industry, Kommunalkredit Public Consulting, Austrian Society for Environment and Technology (ÖGUT), Consultant for Water and Energy Optimisation

9Fotos: Andrea Leindl / BMNT


Main outcomes discussion

• Subsidies are important

• Most measures are financed by cash-flow

• Only few projects with energy service contracts

• Crowd investing interesting as a “marketing and customer relationship tool”

• Most companies do not have a strategy for decarbonisation yet

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Foto: Andrea Leindl/ BMNT

Foto: Andrea Leindl/ BMNT


Water management hotel GutjahrWater and Energy saving measures• Water saving fittings • Regulation of fittings in wellness area• Investment: 53,000 EUR• Pay back 8 years• Financed by “water saving contracting”

Savings• Water 1,000 m³• Energy 35,000 kWh• Water costs 4,400 EUR• Energy costs 2,100 EUR

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Fotos: Markus Gutjahr


How to finance the energy transition? • One day workshop on “Green Finance” (22nd of Nov)

• Speakers from banks, pension funds, investment and finance groups, crowd investing platforms

Some outcomes

• The energy transition needs cooperation across branches and technologies

• Missing awareness of existing sustainable investment funds

• No “energy efficiency financing products” so far

• Well known financial products (like housing-saving) should be used to finance energy efficiency projects (“green housing-saving”) 12

Fotos: Österreichs Energie

https://oesterreichsenergie.at/


Austrian eco-label for sustainable investments

13https://www.umweltzeichen.at/de/produkte/finanzprodukte/nachhaltig-investieren

• 12 investment companies with Austrian eco-label for sustainable investments

• Only about 1% of green investments in Austria are made by private investors

• 99 % are made by institutional investors like pension funds

• A survey on the awareness level of the Austrian eco-labels was conducted in 2018

− The eco-label on sustainable investments is not very well known in Austria

Source: Das Österreichische Gallup Institut / BMNT

https://www.umweltzeichen.at/de/produkte/finanzprodukte/nachhaltig-investieren


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Did you hear about sustainable investment products?

23

26

21

19

26

24

74

70

77

81

72

71

3

4

2

1

2

5

Total (n=1000)

Männer (n=489)

Frauen (n=511)

14 - 30 Jahre(n=220)

31 - 50 Jahre(n=323)

Über 50 Jahre(n=457)

Ja Nein Keine Angabe



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Do you know the eco-label for sustainable investments?

10

88

1

Ja Nein Keine Angabe

51

42

31

12

3

Aus der Bank/Beratungin der Bank

Aus den Medien

Internet

Anderes

Keine Angabe



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Were sustainable financing products a topic in the bank counselling?

9

45

45

1

JaNeinIch hatte in den letzten Jahren kein Bankberatungsgespräch zum Thema Anlageformen



17

Austrians prefer bank books

34

33

35

20

33

42

30

29

32

38

31

27

32

35

28

37

33

29

4

3

4

5

3

3

Total (n=1000)

Männer (n=489)

Frauen (n=511)

14 - 30 Jahre(n=220)

31 - 50 Jahre(n=323)

Über 50 Jahre(n=457)

Konventionelles Sparbuch, bei dem das angelegte Geld vonseiten der Bank nicht eigens fürspezielle Projekte verwendet wirdNachhaltiges oder ethisches Sparbuch, bei dem das Geld vonseiten der Bank eigens für definierteökologische und/oder soziale Projekte verwendet wird, wie z.B. für den Ausbau erneWeder - noch, ich würde mich grundsätzlich nicht für ein Sparbuch entscheiden

90

61

26

15

9

7

13

4

86

53

15

6

2

2

15

4

91

56

34

17

12

9

16

3

91

68

24

17

9

8

10

4

NormalesKonto/Girokonto

Sparbuch

Pensionsversicherung

Fonds

Aktien

Anleihen

Anderes

Keine Angabe

Total (n=1000) 14 - 30 Jahre (n=220)

31 - 50 Jahre (n=323) Über 50 Jahre (n=457)


Conclusions

• Awareness raising and training on all levels necessary

− Banks, companies, consultants, citizens

• Developing financial products specific for energy efficiency projects

− E.g. “green housing-saving” - invests in energy efficiency projects

− Citizens participations for energy efficiency projects (similar to renewable energy projects)

• Awareness about rising investment needs for 2050 targets in industrial SMEs

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Contact

www.klimaaktiv.at/effizienzwww.energyagency.at

Petra Lackner, [email protected]

Österreichische EnergieagenturAustrian Energy AgencyMariahilfer Straße 136 | 1150 Vienna | Austria

http://www.klimaaktiv.at/effizienz

http://www.energyagency.at/

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