Stuttgart, Germany
Stuttgart dream team: developing ‘care-free energy renovation package’ for private home owners
Despite the municipal energy subsidies and technical assistance
offered by the local energy advice centre, the annual energy
refurbishment rate of the residential sector in Stuttgart stagnates
between 1 % and 2 %. The objective of the city is to raise
this rate up to 3 % by 2020 and to go, on a voluntary basis, beyond
the European Energy Efficiency Directive objectives and scope.
In this context, the city of Stuttgart is developing a tailor-made
contracting support service for private house owners. This city will
offer an all-round care-free package for those owners who decide to
carry out energy renovation of their homes.
In general, the contracting service includes one or all parts of the
following services: planning, building and construction, operation and
operational optimization, financing, guarantee and risk assumption.
Depending on the composition, the service results into different
business models.
In Stuttgart, the draft business model is based on the traditional
energy performance contracting including the refurbishment of building
envelope. Both are offered with an energy-saving guarantee and can be
extended to energy supply. The service shall be paid by the contractors
or home owners. In all cases the house owners can finance part of the
services.
All legal questions were analysed by lawyers and integrated into a
model contract. This model contract can be used to create individual
contracts for final beneficiaries of the scheme. The final business
model will be agreed with possible providers. At this stage, further
discussions need to be carried out.
The public contracting support service is being implemented by a
strong core team: the municipality, the independent municipal energy
advice centre and the municipal energy service company (esco) -
Stadtwerke Stuttgart - which are all intensively engaged with innovative
services for private households.
Useful materials
| Stuttgart at a glance |
Stuttgart (Germany) is the sixth-largest city in
Germany, with a population of 587,655. In the framework of the INFINITE
SOLUTIONS project, the city of Stuttgart will capitalise on its experience with intracting and create a financial engineering support service for the owners of residential buildings who wish to refurbish their homes according to high energy efficiency standards.
The city, in cooperation with the private sector, will create a financing framework facilitating energy performance contracting market and mobilising private financing.
The aim of the city is to facilitate EPC market and enable private
contracting for integral deep refurbishments - including not only
improvements in building equipment as heating, ventilation air
conditioning or lighting systems but also building envelop insulations. |
| Who is implementing the soft loan financing scheme in Stuttgart? |
Core team |
| How is the financing scheme implemented? |
Local Study / Market Study / Business Model
Partners1 2 |
| Who backs the scheme at the political level? |
City Council Decision on the establishment of the financing scheme |
| Training materials |
Presentation on Stuttgart’s scheme |
| Local communication / marketing tools for the scheme beneficiaries |
Information sheet (in German) |
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