This brochure presents examples of good practice from policy implementation, technology development and investment in energy efficiency across different sectors and throughout all 28 Member States.

This guide gives advices and ideas to help any business become more energy efficient. It will be especially helpful if:

• You’re an SME
• You haven’t looked at reducing your energy bills for a while
• You have little to no experience in identifying areas where you
  can save on your bills
• Your energy bills are not a large proportion of your overall cost base
• Energy management is not a core part of your job

To help its member countries achieve the benefits of energy efficiency across their economies, the International Energy Agency (IEA) developed (in 2008) a set of 25 energy efficiency policy recommendations for seven priority areas:

• Cross-sectora
• Transport
• Buildings
• Industry
• Appliances and equipment
• Energy utilities
• Lighting

The 25 recommendations have received high-level political and stakeholder support, and resulted in increased implementation.

This document has been conducted within the framework of project “Transparense – Increasing Transparency of Energy Service Markets” supported by the EU program “Intelligent Energy Europe”.

The goal of the manual is to provide a basic guidance for implementation of Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) projects in the EPC beginner markets, but may be also useful for educational purposes in the markets on more advanced level.