Tholos provides the following consulting services:

ADVISING for:

• the identification of the type of incentive in the field of energy efficiency that best satisfies your needs

•the assessment of the possibility to obtain the incentives provided by law and their quantification

ORIGINATION - quantification and certification of savings made by businesses with operations and installation of high efficiency for White Certificates award

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - involving purchase and sale of environmental credits in the energy market or through bilateral agreements between he parties responsible

TRADING in energy markets on behalf of electricity and gas distributors

ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS with the aim of obtaining environmental credits on behalf of electricity and gas distributors

CONCLUSION OF AGREEMENTS with trade associations to provide a specific service to their members

GREEN MARKETING of environmental achievements, through the implementation of communication activities targeting specific customers and users

ADDITIONAL SERVICES – assessment of the possible acquisition of supplementary certificates (Green Certificates and CO2 Emission Allowances).

The service is for all producers and users of the following technologies:

• Biomass boilers

• Cogeneration / trigeneration from renewable sources

• District heating supplied from renewable sources

• Biogas cogeneration plants

• District heating powered by natural gas

• Heat recovery

• Replacement of technologies powered by fossil fuels with technologies powered by renewable sources

• Waste-heat recovery

• Methane cogeneration

• Solar thermal collectors

• Street Lighting

• High efficient residential furnaces fueled by natural gas

• High Efficiency Electric motors

Thanks to Tholos services the manufacturers or installers of these technologies, engineers and public agencies will be eligible for benefits from White Certificates. Our services includes data collection, appropriate technical and economic feasibility studies, certification of savings deriving from renewable energies and customer portfolio management. Our goal is to maximize revenues, without any burden in terms of time or costs.

For more information on White Certificates

contact us

business@tholosgreen.com

business@tholosgreen.com

Energy Efficiency Certificates, also called white certificates, have been established by the Decrees issued by the Ministry of Productive Activities jointly with the Ministry of the Environment and Land Protection on 20 July 2004 (Ministerial Decree of 20 Jul. 2004 on electricity, Ministerial Decree of 20 Jul. 2004 on gas), as amended and supplemented by the Ministerial Decree of 21 Dec. 2007 specifying national quantitative targets of energy efficiency improvement.

Energy Efficiency Certificates or Energy Efficiency Credits (EECs), also referred to as an Energy Savings Certificates (ESCs), or White Certificates, are documents certifying targeted savings on energy consumption. There are three types of EECs:

type I : White Certificates certifying savings on electricity consumption

type II : White Certificates certifying savings on natural gas

type III : White Certificates certifying savings on other fuel consumption.

These savings are certified in one Ton of Oil Equivalent (TOE).

1 EEC = 1 TOE

Energy Efficiency Credits are tradable credits. In Italy they are traded in the GME’s market (in Italian Gestore del Mercato Elettrico = Electricity Market Operator). At present their market value is around € 77,00 (weighted average based on AEEG’s report 2009). The system of EECs is today implemented in many European countries with the purpose to stimulate energy saving and energy efficiency among all energy end-users.

The EECs system is a "cap and trade" system: the cap is the maximum limit of pollutant emissions that can be released into the atmosphere. This cap is set by a central authority (a Public Body)and is allocated or sold to firms in the form of emission permits, called Co2 Allowances, in a number equivalent to their emissions. Co2 Allowances can be sold or bought from one another as needed: the trade concerns this exchange of emission permits.

The cap and trade system involves two main “actors”: obliged agents (OA) and eligible agents (EA).

· Obliged Agents: all those operators obliged by law to comply with national energy savings obligations

According to the Ministerial Decrees, all electricity and gas distributors that have 50,000 end-users are required to achieve an energy-saving target of 6 millions TOE by 2012, either through the acquisition of EECs attesting the actual savings produced by their operations, or through the purchase of EECs in the Electricity Market.

The non compliance with this energy-saving target, implies a penalty, which is equal to € 100,00 per TOE which has not been saved.

· Non-obliged Agents: all those accredited to develop projects of actual and demonstrable energy savings which can be certified with White Certificates.

Tholos, as an energy service company (E.s.Co), is a non-obliged agent which can provide a broad range of energy solutions to the obtaining of EECs.

Energy Service Companies who are eligible agents can obtain EECs through the certification of actual energy savings produced by their projects and initiatives, or through the certification of savings produced by actions taken by manufacturers or users of "efficient technologies", or by Public Bodies.