XPRESS is a project aiming at increasing the usage of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) technologies in cities, by facilitating the collaboration between Public Authorities (PAs) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), consisting of the following objectives:

1) Creating a web platform that supports interacting between public procurers, innovative SMEs and end users of green innovations;

2) Mapping of the low carbon energy needs of cities and municipalities with the RES technologies developed by innovative SMEs;

• improving the application of Green Public Procurements to innovative RES technologies;

• increasing the awareness of innovative SMEs about RES technologies via Green Public Procurements;

• developing a new methodology to evaluate RES technologies developed by innovative SMEs across their life cycle in order to estimate the CO2 emissions.

XPRESS will focus initially on selected cities and municipalities within UK, Italy, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Slovakia, Portugal and Belgium with the goal of extending the analysis and the involvement to wider regions within those countries.

The project will demonstrate the positive impact of innovative GPPs on cities and municipalities and SMEs in terms of energy savings, energy efficiency and lower carbon emissions.

See much more on the website of XPRESS

Invitation to participate in the XPRESS RES survey here