Upper Austria Regional Energy Agency

The Upper Austria Regional Energy Agency (ESV) is a regional energy agency and centre for independent information about energy in Upper Austria. With the agency headquartered in Linz, the Agency is committed to advancing the energy transition, serving a mission of promoting energy efficiency, renewable energies, e-mobility and innovative energy technologies through offering support and services to local actors.  

Activities 

ESV engages in an array of activities to achieve its mission. Some of them include:  

• Face-to-face energy advice sessions for households, municipalities and companies; 

• A wide range of training courses on energy topics at the ESV’s Energy Academy; 

• Developing and managing funding programmes on behalf of the regional government; 

• Supporting energy technology companies in the context of the Cleantech-Cluster (network of energy & environmental companies); 

• Organiser of the World Sustainable Energy Days – one of Europe’s largest annual conferences on achieving climate neutrality; 

• Issuing or checking energy performance certificates for buildings; 

• Participating in EU projects. 

About the region  

Upper Austria, the most industrialised of Austria’s 9 regions, is well on its way in the clean energy transition. Being key to global competitiveness, sustainable energy is a cornerstone of the region’s economic and industrial policy. The ambition in the region’s decarbonisation goals is to achieve competitiveness and quality of life through energy decarbonisation.  

Fostering cooperation among key market actors along the entire value chain has resulted in the growth of a vibrant industry that successfully exports worldwide. The region’s progress in the energy transition is owed to its targeted energy policy approach, supported by ESV.