One Stop Shop Habitat-Integrated services for ambitious renovation for clean energy transition in North Macedonia’s buildings

Introduction

The Republic of North Macedonia is aligning its climate and energy targets until 2030 with the EU framework. The government has harmonised its legislation for the energy efficiency of buildings (Energy Law, Law for Construction, Energy Efficiency Law, and Bylaws about energy audit), which is expected to have a significant impact on the construction of more energy-efficient new buildings.

Current Challenges

However, the annual renovation rate is around 1% in residential buildings, which is far below the EU recommended renovation rates of 5%. Additional efforts on building renovation are required to fully implement EU directives and the “renovation wave”.

Project Overview

OSS HABITAT aims to develop and implement integrated services for energy efficiency renovation in buildings and houses (one-stop-shops) with pilots in three cities: Skopje, Kumanovo, and Kochani. The service will be supported by available financing products and subsidies in North Macedonia.

Addressing Key Challenges

This initiative will help address two main challenges:

• The lack of skills and capacities of homeowners and building owners to set up and implement a complex and ambitious clean energy transition project (energy efficiency, installation of renewable technologies).
• The lack of financing (loans and credits) for multifamily buildings.

Pilot Phase

During the pilot phase, it is planned that 200 houses/apartment units will use the service, which will trigger investment in sustainable energy of around 3 million EUR. The expected outcomes include:

1. Primary energy savings of 3.75 GWh/year.
2. Renewable energy generation of 2,976 GWh/year.
3. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of 3,584.75 tCO2-eq/year.