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INVESTING IN OUR SHARED FUTURE THE 8 TH CONFERENCE ON THE EVALUATION OF EU COHESION POLICY CONCLUSIONS OF THE EVALUATION OF THE OP ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION • Support to 953 projects under the ECO-ENERGY programme. • Projects contributed to annual energy savings of 13.7 PJ/year. • Program goals achieved by more than 24 % of savings. • The subsidies allowed the supported businesses to concentrate the planned activities in a single project without having to spread them over a longer period. • Thanks to the subsidies, the activities planned by the businesses were significantly accelerated, and the energy savings could be notably higher in that period than they would be without the subsidies. OTHER IDENTIFIED RESULTS • Financial savings of the public and business sector. • Increased comfort in the buildings. • Improved visual presentation of the enterprises. RECOMMENDATION • Continuing in a similar orientation of the programmes. • Maintaining the variability of supported activities with a direct link to annual energy savings. • Using an effective set of supplement indicators for evaluating projects to ensure valid evaluation of projects. • Continuing the use of full computerization of the grant applications. The aim of the evaluation was to assess the benefits of cohesion policy focused on energy savings in the programming period 2007-2013 under the Operational Programme Environment and the Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation. CONCLUSIONS OF THE EVALUATION OF THE OP ENVIRONMENT • Support to almost 5 500 projects. • Reported annual energy savings of 3,4 PJ/year. • The result highly exceeded the anticipated effect of the intervention at 2 PJ/year. • The achieved reduction of energy loss leads to more economical management of energy resources in the public sector and allows the deployment of smarter and more environment-friendly methods of heating buildings. • Without the subsidy intervention of the OP Environment, the projects aimed at energy savings would not have been implemented in most cases, or would be implemented at a significantly lesser extent. FUND(S) COVERED • Cohesion Fund (CF) • European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) PROGRAMMING PERIOD • 2007-2013 PROGRAMME(S) COVERED • Operational Programme Environment • Operational Programme Enterprise and Innovation THEMATIC OBJECTIVE(S) • TO04: Low carbon economy TYPE OF EVALUATION • Impact YEAR OF COMPLETION • 2018 AUTHOR(S) OF THE EVALUATION CONTACT PERSON SPF Group, s.r.o., Evaluation Advisory CE s.r.o. Martin Hruška [email protected] [email protected] Ex-post evaluation in area of energy savings of the 2007-2013 programming period • Ministry for Regional Development
