LIFE CiruclEnergies (LCE) transforms existing business parks into net zero energy and carbon areas with thriving sustainable businesses.

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Business parks (BP) represent 30% of the urbanised areas and a significant part of the building stock (responsible for 40% of GHG emissions in France), therefore being a major challenge to tackle climate change. They also generate a strong impact on both biodiversity and air quality, by artificializing existing natural ecosystem, and generate air pollution induced by transport (from on and to those parks) and through activities carried inside. Moreover, BP consistently loose attractivity over the years, being less likely to bring investment and new positive business models in those areas, especially for the great number of SMEs that can be found there. This also represents quite a risk for municipalities in terms of operating expenses. Business parks and their SMEs should be at the forefront of energy transition: they have space, local energy demand, no heritage building issues and an imperative need to reinvent themselves. Yet, none of the few existing market players integrate a fully industrialized, highly replicable and integrated approach to generate the necessary results in both size, ambitions and impacts toward net zero energy and carbon territories. This is mainly due to the fact that development and transaction costs are too high to ensure benefits for both clients and market players and the emerging legal framework is not full stabilized. Life CirculEnergies (LCE) innovative approach plans to tackle those market barriers with ambition and scale, paving the way to others in the near future. LCE offers to plan, develop, finance, implement and monitor a highly replicable and scalable turnkey model based on energy efficiency and renewable energy investments, towards net zero energy and carbon impact in BP. The fully industrialized, aggregated multi-stakeholders’ methodology of LCE is key to this success. The consortium is based on successful companies with strong expertise, skill, experience, and ambitions. The planned investment volume of LCE project is 17 million €