Capacity-Building Programme
The LAUNCH and PROPEL projects have designed and market tested a suite of collateral for the energy efficiency sector. SEFA will continue to develop and maintain these standardised materials, acting as the centre of competence, and offering trainings on their use. Through the Capacity-Building Programme in PROPEL (CBP), energy efficiency stakeholders have now the opportunity to actively engage, obtain access to these materials and receive expert support and insights for increasing their deal flow.
The PROPEL Capacity Building Programme provides a steady flow of training materials and educational activities on our collateral designed to ease contracting, risk assessment, financing and client sales, allowing market players to speed up the closing and financing of larger numbers of energy efficiency project deals.
Sustainable Energy Financing
Introduction Training Program
We bring you a comprehensive guide to help you navigate the world of sustainable energy finance. Our aim is to equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to take your energy efficiency projects to the next level across Europe’s built environment.
In this course you'll meet the experts behind EU project PROPEL and the Sustainable Energy Finance Association (SEFA) and learn about the current challenges in Europe's energy sector. We'll introduce you to the hybrid business model and show you how it can help get your projects running.
We'll also delve into the collateral we have developed giving you an in-depth understanding of risk assessment, equity collateral, sales & marketing, and Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines. Finally, we'll introduce you to the Member Access Platform, a software toolsuite to help you apply what you have learned to your own projects.
Self-Paced Trainings
We have created short educational tutorials on Nearpod to introduce you to tools developed to facilitate and support sustainable energy projects
Hybrid Business Model Approach
The Hybrid Business Model approach combines standardised and flexible contractual elements, from performance-driven and service-driven contract models.
The tools included training session are:
Risk Assessment Protocol (RAP)
The Risk Assessment Protocol represents a key tool to ensure the bankability of your projects and to gain the investors’ trust
Standard “Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Service (EEaaS)” contract
The Standardised EEaaS contract offers a securitizable, off-balance sheet structure, that was co-developed with and reviewed by our network of funds and banks.
Know Your Customer (KYC) tool
Compliance with KYC regulations helps ascertain credibility and deters money laundering and other run-of-the-mill fraud schemes
SEFA Member Access Platform
The SEFA member access platform is a single-access web service for SEFA members which enables preliminary due diligence on energy efficiency projects
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assessment
Analyzing ESG risks provides crucial non-financial information that allows financiers to make better investment decisions in addition to purely financial data
Loan Application Guidelines
The Loan application guidelines allow for the energy efficiency project developer to understand the need for the requested documents and facilitates the producing the documents in house