Abstract
Energy efficiency in the building sector plays a key role in European climate crisis commitment. A massive adoption of deep renovation measures would allow a global reduction of the energy need of approximately 36%. Despite this, the market for building renovation is still limited, due to the uncertainty associated to risk evaluation. This paper aims to suggest a method to evaluate financial impacts of technical risks related to energy efficiency investments. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) necessary to evaluate the investment risk associated to energy renovation have been defined based on an analysis of the correlation between technical and financial risks, and their originating factors or root causes. The evaluation has been carried out thanks to the EEnvest tool: a web-based search and match platform, developed within the EEnvest collaborative research project funded by the European Commission (EC). This evaluation methodology has then been applied to a case study: an office building located in Rome, for whom an energy renovation project was already in place to reduce energy needs. The present paper describes the EEnvest platform effectiveness in investment risk determination is demonstrated through a comparison between two different scenarios