Effectiveness and efficiency of the EU-supported energy efficiency measures for SMEs in Bulgaria in the period 2014-2020: programme design implications

Nigohosyan Daniel; Vutsova Albena; Vassileva Iglika

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Energy efficiency has been among the key objectives of the energy policy of the European Union and the European Structural and Investment Funds in the 2014-2020 programming period. It is one of the key priorities of the new European Green Deal, which will guide the EU programmes in the next multiannual financial framework. To provide recommendations for national Managing Authorities on how to design energy efficiency measures for enterprises in the 2021-2027 period, the paper assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of a small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) support scheme in Bulgaria, which has received financing of more than EUR 150 million under the European Regional Development Fund. Combining data from publicly available databases, the paper provides an analysis of geographical and sectoral distributions, the ratio between grant size and energy savings (unit costs), estimations of correlation coefficients and linear regressions, and simple payback time of the EU-financed projects. The key finding of the study is that the scheme under Operational Programme 'Innovation and Competitiveness' did not score the input/output ratio of project applications, which resulted in very diverse unit costs, and some of the reviewed projects produced very low energy savings. Overall, the data show that the EU support for energy efficiency measures of large enterprises under the same programme was more coherent and cost-effective as compared to the SME procedure. The paper puts forward recommendations for designing energy efficiency support schemes, which relate to the assessment criteria, the use of internal benchmarking to assess efficiency, and the payback time of energy efficiency measures.

机译：能源效率一直是欧盟能源政策的关键目标之一，以及2014 - 2020年的规划期间的欧洲结构和投资基金。它是新欧洲绿色交易的关键优先事项之一，将指导欧盟计划在下一个多年来的金融框架中。本文为如何为国家企业设计能效措施的国家管理机构提供建议，该论文评估了收到的保加利亚中小型企业（中小企业）支持计划的有效性和效率欧洲区域发展基金融资超过1.5亿欧元。将数据与公开可用数据库组合，本文提供了地理和部门分布的分析，授予规模和节能（单位成本）之间的比率，相关系数的估算和欧盟资助项目的简单投资回收期。该研究的关键发现是，运营计划创新和竞争力的方案并未得分项目应用的输入/输出比，这导致了非常多样化的单位成本，其中一些审查的项目产生了非常低的节能。总体而言，与中小企业程序相比，数据显示，与同一计划下的大型企业的能效措施的欧盟支持能效措施更加连贯，成本效益。本文提出了设计能效支持计划的建议，该方案涉及评估标准，利用内部基准来评估效率，以及能效措施的投资回收期。

Effectiveness and efficiency of the EU-supported energy efficiency measures for SMEs in Bulgaria in the period 2014-2020: programme design implications

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