Charikleia Karakosta
Chemical Engineer of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), post-doctoral researcher at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA.
Dr. Charikleia (Chara) Karakosta is a Chemical Engineer (MSc, NTUA) and a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA. For the past fifteen years, she has participated in many EU and Greek projects, as a Project Manager in the fields of energy and environmental planning and modeling, climate policy, and energy management. In 2016 she was awarded the Young Scientist Award ECOPOLIS. Since September 2019, she is the Project Manager of the EU project “Triple-A: Enhancing at an Early Stage the Investment Value Chain of Energy Efficiency Projects,” coordinated by the Decision Support Systems Laboratory (DSS Lab), EPU-NTUA.
Her project “Triple-A” is a research project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, seeking to create a framework assisting investors to easily identify cost-effective and tailor-made energy efficiency investments. In this context, methodology and online tools are developed for the assessment of sustainable energy investments, as well as alternative financing instruments, but also the related risks emerging at the early stage of an investment, estimating the probability of achieving their expected goals.
“Standardised Triple-A Tools” seek to identify attractive energy efficiency projects through a comprehensive and multidimensional assessment of an investment portfolio, taking into consideration a variable number of criteria, as well as economic, key risk, and sustainability indicators. This is achieved by integrating EU’s principles and objectives, such as EU Green Taxonomy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria.
Furthermore, “Triple-A” project has developed the “Triple-A Web-based Database on Energy Efficiency Financing,” highlighting the risk of several energy efficiency investments and the risk profile of the project’s case study country-members, namely Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, and Spain.
The project’s consortium includes major Greek and international banks, such as Piraeus Bank and the Dutch ABN-AMRO, as well as notable research organizations and institutes, such as IEECP, JRC, GFT, adelphi, CREARA, SEVEn, VIPA, NTEF, and the University of Piraeus.
Find out about the development and the results of “Triple-A” on the project’s official website, browse its tools and the Web-based database, and follow its social media on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube.