The project aims to harness the buying power of public authorities to drive the market for innovative environmental technologies. A partnership of public authorities from 6 European countries will undertake large-scale joint procurement of technologies to secure a higher market share for the most energy efficient products to accelerate their market penetration.
Public authorities are major purchasers of goods and services and are responsible for a very significant range of environmental impacts related to the technical specifications, purchase, transportation, use and disposal of goods. PRO-EE aims to bundle this purchasing power by undertaking large-scale joint procurement of technologies to secure a higher market share for the most energy efficient equipment and products and to accelerate their market penetration.
PRO-EE will work on innovative products for which the economical and technical energy saving potential is high in comparison to actual products available on the market. Examples include more energy efficient office equipment, energy saving streetlights, traffic lights and fuel efficient vehicles. The public authorities involved shall push new environmental technologies, and by this contribute to a strengthening of the competitiveness of European industries.
Market Actors in 6 European Countries: PRO-EE shall bring together the producer and the consumer side to share the risks and the benefits of pursuing novel services and products: They will work together continuously, define the priorities jointly, agree on concrete products and their criteria for being purchased and by this, foster the innovation process.
The project aims to develop recommendations, appropriate model procedures and networking approaches which can then be used by any public authorities in Europe. A final conference and a total of eight national trainings will be held to disseminate the results widely.
