PROMETHEUS ("PRoviding users with Organised and Monitored Energy services by Transparent and High standard EU Smes") contributes to:
- Improve the organisation and the presence in the market of SMEs that provide energy services
- Increase the reliability of the energy services provided 
- Heighten customer confidence in SME suppliers of green energy services 
- Facilitate communication between the supply and user chains

- Support a wider diffusion of renewable energies and energy efficient systems.

 

The direct outcomes will be:
• draft proposal of a common EU scheme to ensure the quality of energy services provided by SME suppliers to customers and local pilot projects applied to local realities
•  selected shining examples and recommendations about strategies and organisational models for SME associations to widen their energy services market
•  tools to facilitate contacts among enterprises and help them in the creation and implementation of green energy clusters (at least 11 new green energy clusters will be established in partners’ area)
•  promotion and information to the public, in order to support the demand side and establish the needed transparent and mutual trust relation that will encourage customers to do investments in energy services (“trust your supplier” campaign)
•  training workshops and seminars to entrepreneurs, consultants, energy enablers, trade associations employees, cluster members

 

In this Toolbox you can find success stories to expand your green energy market! Search our database and find best strategies to enlarge the market of energy services.
By being part of a cluster, SMEs can create the necessary synergies to improve individual competitiveness and create a strong market for the green energy sector. If you wish to know more about green energy clusters, click below.
The TRUST YOUR SUPPLIER Campaign is aimed at diffusing the awareness that SME suppliers can provide quality and effective green energy services.
Events
Expert day on quality systems and clustering
7.3.2011 Villach, Paracelsussaal

Trade fair for building, renovation and energy
24. - 26.2.2012 Klagenfurt About 30,000 people annually visit Carinthias large construction trade fair "The home builders' which provides informationin terms of construction, renovation, energy conservation and financing. As an exhibitor we set ourselves the goal to inform about how to profit from beeing part of a cluster, about new quality models and existing solutions to succed in the market. We invite all companies and associations working in the fiield of green energies to have a talk with the AEE experts in Klagenfurt.

Workshop on Clustering
8.3.2012 AEE Villach

Energy saving talks Austria
3.11. 2011 Waidmannsdorf 19:30

Each Partner will bring its experience and look for best practices already in use about organisation and management tools. For a clearer project development the following areas will be considered, on a practical point of view, in order to find best practices and solutions to market barriers:   - governance area - organisational area - financial area - legislative and regulation area   ...
In order to define the best available systems to guarantee the quality of energy services (suppliers’ technical skills, good price/quality ratio, etc) Partners will collect and analyse existing systems of quality guarantee from all EU Member Countries .With these data, and through local pilot applications to be tested, the Consortium will then work towards the proposal of a common EU scheme of...
Partners will define the state-of-the-art and the current barriers and needs to establish new clusters of SMEs aimed at providing energy services and products. Through the analysis of existing experiences and the work to be performed during 3 international workshops organised within the project, Partners will collect and share best practices, list constraints and opportunities and define best me...
In each Task there will be a part of Common Activity where all Partners will participate (organization of a common International Conference, information campaign, production of common publications, brochures, etc. with the same layout) and the organisation of more Local Activities (local events and publications) to involve local stakeholders.   The campaign “Trust your supplier” will consist o...
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