Change Best: Promoting the development of an energy efficiency service market

The ChangeBest project aimed at assisting energy companies and other market actors in entering or enlarging the B2B and B2C markets for energy efficiency services (EES) by supplying methodologies, strategies and advice for developing promising business cases of new Energy Efficiency Services. The project was also intended to contribute to stimulate discussion regarding the barriers and facilitating policies and measures influencing EES market development. Besides an outstanding market analysis and key guidelines for new ESCOs, the project succeeded to introduce in the market 35 new services. This was done through the launch of 48 pilot projects operated by 38 partners from practice from 16 different EU Member States. Their activities were successfully supported by 19 national partners of the ChangeBest project team. This development led to 480 contracts sold excluding the mass markets services, which in turn resulted in more than 166GWh of energy savings per year. Market actors were also highly involved throughout Europe, as shown by the high number of stakeholders (over 1.500) that attended the organised workshops in each of the participating country.