The BISEPS-project empower businesses to invest in sustainable energy, and to create synergies in clusters of businesses like business parks. 

The tool will enable business park managers or other intermediary persons to identify the opportunities to create energetic synergies between businesses in a certain business cluster. The tool contains 17 "modules" focussing on photovoltaics (PV), heat exchange (including combined heat and power) and wind energy. The tool will have an interface to be easy to use. It will be applicable in all 4 2 Seas countries. The developement of the BISEPS-model tool was delayed, but today is alsmost ready (this eventually led to a project extensioon of 6 months). The development of the BISEPS-model tool (O1) has led to delay of deliverables and outputs down the line, most importantly O3 (step-by-step guidebook), O4 (tool manual) and O5 (adapted BISEPS-tool for greenfields). 

In the 5 living labs, partners have identified almost €60 million of potential investments in sustainable energy with businesses. This is way beyond the expectation of €15 million. If all could be realised (which will not be the case, as there is a funnel of from concept to implementation), this would result in a carbon reduction of 63,600 tons CO2. Today, 240 companies are directly involved, another 500 indirect. These figures make clear that there is a huge potential for change "on the field", but effective strategies to implement business cases are crucial. This is exactly what was tested in the living labs in 2019: how to convince businesses and stakeholders to make it happen? Gaining trust and proving added value via development of business cases and unburdening trajectories are the answers. However, already today it is clear that some barrier will be very difficult to tackle. Today, governments want enterprises to take initiative and invest in sustainable energy to reach national targets. But enterprises have very high expectations on return on investment (common from business point of view, unrealistic from societal point of view), as energy is not-core business. This is a structural mismatch. Secondly, electricity sharing between businesses is very complex today, blocking investments. The BISEPS partnership has high expectations from the implementation of the "Local Energy Communities" concept of the EU Winter Package 2016, and lobbies for performant implementation in the national legislation in the 4 countries.