Energinvest is a strategic, financial and operational consulting firm specializing in the design, implementation, evaluation and funding of investment programs and energy efficiency projects for private and public clients. Energinvest offers extensive expertise of third-party financing mechanisms, energy performance contracting (EPC), energy public-private partnerships (EPPP) and public-private third party investment (TPI) social models in the energy efficiency sector. Present in France and Belgium, Energinvest has over 40 years of human expertise in this sector, especially in managing public and private ESCO/TPF companies in financing energy efficiency and EPC project management. It offers its services on the Belgian, French and international markets.

Core competencies include:

• Strategic positioning study on the market for energy services and third party investment.
• Study and modelling of technical and financial support of EPC contracts, PPP’s, multi-year investment plans, operational and/or financial ESCO’s/TPF’s, investment funds in energy efficiency and renewables.
• Financial engineering and project financing, including support in the financial arrangements and negotiations with financial institutions.
• Assistance in project management and support in the implementation of EPC contracts, PPP’s, multi-years investment plans, operational and/or financial ESCO’s/TPF’s, investment funds in energy efficiency and renewables.

Energinvest (Belgium) is founding member and manager of Belesco (www.belesco.be), the Belgian ESCO association and was as well as since 2009 the structural operator of the Fedesco Knowledgecenter (www.knowledgecenter.be, www.fedesco.be), the Belgian competence centre for Energy Services and Third Party Financing that offers EPC/EPPP/TPI consulting and facilitation services to local public authorities. Energinvest also assisted Fedesco in the implementation of its EPC investment plan within the Belgian federal buildings stock. Energinvest was an expert in the EESI project (European Energy Services Initiative) and is a member of the group of experts of the program DSMIV Task 16 of the International Energy Agency on “Competitive energy services). Energinvest is also co-author of the innovative SmartEPC standard contract model applied by Fedesco and the knowledgecenter.