Crowding in private finance

Expected Impact:

Proposals should present the concrete results which will be delivered by the activities and demonstrate how these results will contribute to the topic-specific impacts. This demonstration should rely on a solid analysis of the current situation, realistic assumptions and baselines, and establish clear causality links between activities, results and impacts.

In terms of qualitative impact, proposals under this topic should demonstrate how they will contribute to the following outcomes, as relevant:

• delivering financing schemes that are operational and ready to finance investments, with credible access to financing sources and a prospective pipeline of investments
• increasing the investibility of energy efficiency projects (potentially combined with renewable energy and energy storage) for private financing sources
• accelerating investments in energy efficiency.

In terms of quantitative impact, proposals should quantify their results and impacts using the indicators provided for the topic, when they are relevant for the proposed activities. Proposals are not expected to address all the listed impacts and indicators. The results and impacts should be quantified for the end of the project and for 5 years after the end of the project. The quantitative indicators for this topic include:

• Number of investment projects and volume of investments processed during the project (i.e. pilot testing phase) and expected to be financed by the financing scheme in the next 5 years; the projection after the project needs to be justified in detail based on the proposed activities and a detailed market analysis
• Number of investors and project developers using the financing scheme

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.