SaveEnergyTogether

The focus is on the Energy Efficiency First (EE1st) principle for Energy Efficiency First Interventions (EEEIs). EEEIs are defined as smaller energy efficiency actions that are characterised by small up-front investments by individuals, often including citizen engagement and on behaviour change. Local, regional and national authorities and agencies may need significant budgets for carrying out awareness campaigns to motivate behaviour change, setting up local structures. Thus the project also developed appropriate tools to evaluate up-front investments in such measures. With proven support within the respective pilot countries as well as across the EU, SaveEnergyTogether is expected to have a sustainable impact, leading to 100 GWh/year of primary energy savings, 23,200 t CO₂-eq/year of reductions and indirectly enabling substantial investments in local structures.

The team develops new procedures, best practices, updated cost-benefit methodologies and monitoring and reporting systems for EEEI for households, small businesses and building owners. To do this, the project partners run dedicated, large-scale pilots under different conditions to test different approaches, collect data and develop blueprints based on these real-life activities. These can be used by decision-makers and implementers, such as municipalities and national consumer organisations, to operationalise EEEIs quickly and effectively beyond the lifetime of the project.