ep group leverages research and analysis to develop bespoke strategies and tools to help our clients achieve their energy, carbon, and sustainability objectives.

Our work covers key areas of interests for clients looking to make tangible progress in their transition towards net zero. For corporates, institutional investors, governments and multi-lateral organisations, we have worked on financing efficiency, energy efficiency as a service, smart meters, and innovative net zero financing instruments.

Regardless of topic or client, our analysis takes into consideration multiple factors; political drivers, technology trends, investment opportunities, and emerging business models.

We also work with European consortia, recent projects include:

  • EN-TRACK, creating systems to make energy efficiency investments a mainstream activity of the financial sector.
  • CREATORS, co-creating advanced community energy systems by supporting technical, financial and social processes to create resilient and low-carbon energy systems that serve and engage the communities they support.

Tools we have developed include:

  • The Investor Confidence Project Europe, which we introduced to Europe from the USA and is now deployed and is usable by project developers across the EU
  • The Local Authority Energy Index which covered 100 local authorities in England and ran for two years.
  • The Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group’s Underwriting Toolkit, a resource for financial institutions to assess the value and risk of energy efficiency projects and programmes.
  • A Guide to Energy Performance Contracting for Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland.
  • The UNESCWA Toolkit, which helps policy makers and others develop effective financing tools for energy efficiency in buildings in the Arab region.

New business models we have developed include:

  • ESCO-in-a-box – a licensable model that enables community based organisations or SMEs to set-up and build an Energy Services Company. As well as the UK this model is now being rolled out in Africa.
  • Net Zero Delivery Vehicle – a strategic public-private partnership partnership designed to catalyse private finance into local climate projects to accelerate net zero delivery.
  • RetroMeter – a project awarded funded through Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund to explore the Metered Energy Savings (MES) approach in the UK market, thereby unlocking massive investment into UK retrofit.
  • We were also the first European organisation to join the Metered Energy Efficiency Transaction Structure Coalition.

Our clients for development include: European Commission, Environmental Defense Fund, BEIS, World Bank, UNIDO.

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