EuroPACE: Integrated Building Improvement Platform

EuroPACE Project: An integrated building improvement platform for Europe.

Building Momentum. Creating a Movement. Launching the EuroPACE Community.

Dear friends and colleagues,

Today, we are launching the EuroPACE Community - a community of citizens, city-representatives, organizations, and companies joined together to make EuroPACE a reality for all Europeans.

The concept of EuroPACE is inspired by the success of an on-tax financing model called PACE, launched in California in 2008. In the US, in the past four years, the PACE market reached over $5 billion in funded projects, including the retrofit of over 200,000 homes, which resulted in more than 42,000 new local jobs and the creation of hundreds new companies. It is time to bring PACE to Europe!

Every month we will update you on our progress, share news, publications, and articles related to EuroPACE. Stay tuned!

Visit EuroPACE Website

Our Three-Year Plan

In the next three years we will be working together to bring PACE to Europe. Our initial focus is on residential and multi-family properties.

Our Journey Began a Few Years Ago

We met with the US PACE market leaders, international funders, green bond investors and city leaders.

In June 2017, GNE Finance presented the idea of EuroPACE to the investor community at the Global Asset-Backed Securities Conference in Spain. The idea was well received and we were invited to join the 1st Investors' Conference on Green Bonds in London. Earlier this year, we met with US market leaders at the PACENation Summit in Denver, Colorado. We've been building the momentum for PACE in Europe and establishing key connections in Europe and the US to ensure the successful implementation of EuroPACE.

Picking Up EuroPACE: Meet the Team

In March, the EuroPACE team met in Barcelona for a kick-off meeting. We put together an interdisciplinary team composed of city officials, financing experts, energy efficiency experts, building engineers, researchers and social innovation experts.

Pictured above: Sean Kidney and Diletta Guiliani of Climate Bonds Initiative, Jordi Guell and Ariadna Villegas of Olot, Juan Alario (project's quality manager), Stanislav Bieliei and Izabela Styczyńska from CASE, Kristina Klimovich, Davide Cannarozzi and Eduard Puig MacLean of GNE Finance, Alfredo Pérez Claeys-Bouuaert and Javier Ordóñez Muñoz of Agenex, Christophe Milin of EASME, Michael Pachlatko of Joule Assets Europe, Jose Ramon Lopez of Ente Vasco de la Energia and Ona Argemí Guitart and Jorge Rovira.

Meet Our Project Partners

8 Companies and organizations from 4 countries joined together to bring PACE to Europe. The project is co-lead by GNE Finance and Center for Social and Economic Research.

Learn more about the partners

Join us in the coming months

In an effort to promote EuroPACE and meet with investors and pulic authorities, we will be attending the following events. Let's use this opportunity to meet.

An EuroPACE workshop will be held on April 25th at the National Roundtable on Energy Efficiency Finance in Madrid. It is an invitation-only high-level event organized by the European Commission and UNEP Finance Initiative.

Join us on June 4-6th at the European Sustainable Energy Week in Brussels. We will share a detailed agenda as soon as it's posted. EuroPACE will be presented on the panel with the World Bank and European Energy Efficiency Fund.

EuroPACE will be presented on June 13-16th at the C4E Forum focused on Central and Eastern Europe, held in Serock, Poland. The panel will be moderated by our project coordinator - Center for Social and Economic Research.

Click here to schedule a time to meet

PACE is global - it's time for Europe!

We are a part of a global market. PACE was originally designed in the US, then it spread to Australia and most recently to Canada, South Africa and China.

Learn more about PACE

Thank you and Welcome to EuroPACE Community

This is just a start. Stay tuned for more news as we embark on the EuroPACE journey.

Sincerely,

Kristina Klimovich
Head of Communications and Marketing
GNE Finance

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The EuroPACE Project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 785057.