In the first edition of the Renovation Lunch organised by EUKI project Sustainable Building Renovation – Forming the Future, Zlatka Nikolova (Association of Rhodope Municipalities) and Ivanka Pandelieva-Dimova (Sofia Energy Center) shared insights, successes, challenges and learnings of their Rhodoshop project. It took place on June 28, 12-1 pm CEST. 26 participants from municipalities and…
Rhodoshop project was presented at the Contractors’ Meeting of H2020, organized by CINEA on 19 October 2022 in Brussels. It was a poster presentation together with a short information about the main activities, results and lessons from the project, followed by a discussion with questions by the audience and answers.
After five years of work to support Rhodope municipalities to invest in energy efficiency in public municipal buildings and street lighting systems, Rhodoshop was successfully completed on 31 August 2022. In the course of activities, the team met with a lot of challenges and learnt valuable lessons that can be used in the future. In…
Within its five-year duration, Rhodoshop activities and results were presented at 19 events (both national and international) in total during the five-year project duration; Also three press releases were disseminated among local and national media, among which: focus-news.net, bta.bg , smolyanpress.net , rodopinews.com, vestnikdospat.com etc.:
On 27 July 2022 an Advisory Board meeting of Rhodoshop was held in conjunction with General Assembly of ARM. The outcomes and results of the project were presented and discussed, and analysis and conclusions about the success of the project were made. The participating municipal representatives expressed their satisfaction about the project results and benefits…
The final results and lessons learnt from Rhodoshop were presented at XV National Conference of ABEA, on 19 July 2022 in Bourgas, Bulgaria, attended by representatives of energy agencies, and consultancy centres in Bulgaria.
Rhodoshop OSS facilitate and assist pilot municipalities through energy audits, technical and economic assessments, search for suitable funding, preparing investment project pipelines to match the requirements of the funding bodies, etc. As of 31 August 2021 Rhodoshop have facilitated the six pilot municipalities in launching public procurement tenders for energy efficiency projects amounting to 2,9…
Rhodoshop activities and results were presented at XIV Annual Conference of Association of Bulgarian Energy Agencies held on 30.11.2021. It was discussed about the project progress in view of the difficulties related to COVID-19 and consequent late launch of funding vehicles, and the lessons learnt and how they can be of use for the future…
Presentation of results, barriers and lessons learnt of Rhodoshop was done at the event organised by the EU Energy Poverty Advisory Hub and held in person on 03 September 2021 in Borovets, Bulgaria. The event was attended by 34 participants from municipalities, energy centres, consultancy organisation, etc.
On 26 July 2021 in Smolyan a meeting of Advisory Board of Rhodoshop was held in conjunction with the General Assembly of ARM, attended by representatives of the pilot municipalities. The current status of the project pipelines was presented and a discussion on the project progress was held covering the difficulties encountered due to COVID-19…
On 29 July 2020 in Smolyan Rhodoshop Advisory Board meeting was held in Smolyan in conjunction with ARM General Assembly. At the meeting the status and perspective of Rhodosho project were presented and the difficulties encountered due to COVID-19 outbreak and the late launch of funding vehicles were discussed as well as the corrective measures…
Rhodoshop was presented at the Conference “Market Finance for Energy Efficiency Investment in EU and China”, held on 20th September 2019, at Qinghuangdao, China, organized by EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform (ECECP). The presentation attracted high attention by the local audience and possible future cooperation with the Chinese counterpart was discussed
On 25 June 2019 a Steering Committee meeting of Rhodoshop one-stop-shop was held. The meeting took place in Smolyan, Bulgaria. The main topics discussed included overview of work progress and planning of the future activities until the end of 2019. The conclusion of SC meeting was that the project runs smoothly and is successful so…
Rhodoshop project was presented at the conference “One-stop-shops in the EU: current and future role in building renovation”, organised by JRC in Brussels on 13 March 2019. The main project activities were presented to the audience and the outcomes, results and lessons learnt have been discussed during the panel discussion of the event.
In February 2019 the first public tender was launched as part of Rhodoshop one-stop-shop operation. The tender is for street lighting refurbishment in two villages of Zlatograd Municipality.
Practical training was delivered to Rodoshop team by the experts from RENOWATT (Liege, Belgium). The training took place on 27 June 2018 in Sofia covering various aspects of one-stop-shop practical operation e.g. EPC/ESCOs, project development phases, etc.
From 16 to 19 January 2018 training of Rhodoshop staff was held covering technical, economic and legal aspects of energy efficiency in Bulgarian municipalities.
Rhodoshop Project was presented at the Sustainable Energy Investment Forum (SEIF) held on 1 February 2018 in Bucharest, Romania.
On 1 January 2018 Rhodoshop one-stop-shop officially started operation.
