main
President
Regional Government
Citizen Space
Business Space
About Azores
  news Legislation Schedule Communities Contacts Portal Map Links Help
Versão PortuguesaMUDAR LÍNGUA
See in: entities  categories
 

Administration
Agriculture and Forestry
Business Relations with the Regional Government
Civil Protection
Closing a company
Communities
Culture
Economical Inspection
Education
Elections
Employment
Energy
Environment
Financing and Incentives
Fisheries
Health
Housing and Infrastructures
Human Resource Management
Importing/Exporting
Industry
Inovation, Reserach and Development and Technology
Law, Regulations
Legislation
Leisure_and_Utilities
Rights
Science and Technology
Social Security
Sport
Starting a company
Statistics and Indicators
Statistics
Taxes
Tourism
Trade
Transports
Youth

 
Media
      

Get News of the Government by RSS - click here
Know more about RSS ...

 

Ponta Delgada ,  May 02, 2018

Energy Performance Contracts are at the forefront of sustainable development, says Regional Director

The Regional Director for Energy stated in Ponta Delgada that Energy Performance Contracts (CDE) are an innovative approach to a business model that helps overcoming the initial barriers associated with energy efficiency investments.
 
Andreia Carreiro spoke at the opening session of the 5th Meeting with Energy Efficiency. She pointed out that CDE is a "new business model approach" that allows risk and responsibility sharing between the project promoter and the energy service company regarding the compliance with energy efficiency goals. According to her, the "investments in equipment, facilities and operating services are paid based on the energy savings achieved."
 
"The advantages of these contracts are clear, because they allow the reduction or optimisation of energy consumption, the reduction of the energy bill and the ecological footprint, and the mitigation of operational and financial risks," stressed the government official.
 
For the Regional Director, this is a recurring practice at European level. This is evidenced by "345 new public-private partnerships in the area of energy performance have been developed in 16 Member States of the European Union over the past five years, placing Energy Performance Contracts at the forefront of Europe's sustained development."
 
In this field, the Azores are still "an unexplored market," Andreia Carreiro said, adding that the meeting intends to "alert, inform and support the various sectors of activity for this energy efficiency measure. The aim is to converge, as a Region, on the pursuance of policies towards the decarbonisation of the Azores, while accomplishing environmental and energy goals set at European level.
 
In her speech, the Regional Director stated that the Regional Government's commitment has been "fruitful." As she mentioned, "despite the growth of various economic activities in the Azores, namely related to tourism, the growth of electricity consumption registered in 2017 was only 0.3% regarding the previous year. These encouraging results are in line with the Regional Government's goals for energy policy."


GaCS/HMB
 
 
 
 
 
   
 

Official government press-releases presented in all foreign languages interfaces of the Azorean Government Portal (Portal do Governo dos Açores) are a sub-set of the government's official press-releases daily output and are chosen for translation and publication on the foreign language interfaces based on audience segmentation criteria. The entire collection of the Azorean government press-releases is available in portuguese, here, from the GACS Press Office site.

 
   Print   Send Send News   GaCS GaCS Site   Regional Press Regional Press   rss  
     

Last News

Search
 
Where?
Advanced Search >>
 
 



 
 

This e-mail address is at your disposal for you to place your questions to the Regional Government of the Azores.
Ask the Government!

 

Health Ombudsman
  
Listen to this Page LISTEN
Go to top of page TOP
help HELP
Versão PortuguesaMUDAR LÍNGUA

 
Símbol of Acessibilidade on Web
main | President | Regional Government | Citizen Space | Business Space | About Azores | My Site