# LLM Context
URL: https://weeg.it/en/press-releases/whitenergy-partners-with-esi-europe-innovation-for-energy-transition/

# Whitenergy partners with Esi Europe: innovation for energy transition

> White Energy Group joins the Esi Europe Consortium as a technology provider for GoSafe with ESI, a standardized energy-efficiency solution designed to reduce perceived investment risk for SMEs through performance guarantees, insurance and validated mechanisms.

## Page details

- **Source language:** English
- **Content type:** Press release
- **Original title:** Whitenergy partners with Esi Europe: innovation for energy transition
- **English title:** Whitenergy partners with Esi Europe: innovation for energy transition
- **Source URL:** https://weeg.it/en/press-releases/whitenergy-partners-with-esi-europe-innovation-for-energy-transition/
- **Summary:** White Energy Group was selected to participate in the Esi Europe Consortium and provide technology expertise for the GoSafe with ESI initiative, which targets SME energy-efficiency investments.

## Partnership with Esi Europe

White Energy Group, an energy services company based in Verona and Cagliari, became a partner in the Esi Europe Consortium. The consortium is a European network funded by the Horizon 2020 program and aims to support small and medium-sized enterprises in moving from older technologies to more modern and efficient energy-transition technologies.

White Energy becomes the technology provider for projects developed under the program, acting as the reference point for the required technical know-how.

## GoSafe with ESI

The consortium launched **GoSafe with ESI**, a brand operating in Italy, Portugal and Spain. The initiative is presented as an integrated turnkey solution mainly aimed at SMEs, intended to facilitate the adoption of technologies that improve company efficiency while guaranteeing final savings.

The solution includes:

- a standardized turnkey installation contract;
- a performance guarantee;
- insurance covering guaranteed savings;
- standardized mechanisms validated by third parties;
- measures intended to build trust among customers, technology providers and banks.

These mechanisms are designed to reduce the perceived risk associated with energy-efficiency investments.

## Financial and insurance cooperation

To facilitate access to credit for companies investing in energy efficiency, the initiative includes cooperation with **Banco BPM** and **CiviBank** on the financial side and with **Reale Mutua** for insurance.

## White Energy expertise

Gianluigi Mele, CEO of Weeg, describes the partnership as recognition of White Energy's expertise and professionalism by sector organizations including **F.I.R.E.**, the coordinator for Italy, and **BASE**, a sustainable energy agency based in Switzerland and general coordinator of the consortium.

The page states that White Energy proposes and directly invests in energy-efficiency projects in industrial and civil sectors, combining expertise in energy efficiency with IT, IoT and Energy Intelligence capabilities.

## Potential relationship with energy performance contracts

Franco Asuni, business developer at Whitenergy, explains that if the GoSafe with ESI formula proves effective, it could complement traditional energy performance contracts by adding further guarantees intended to strengthen trust among the parties involved.