Traditional investment institutions lack the technical understanding of the essence of energy efficiency investments. This often creates a lack of trust to such investments, which acts as a barrier to including energy efficiency projects in the investment portfolio, even though such investments are often robust and have a guaranteed return. Mainstreaming energy efficiency finance remains still a challenge. This paper proposes a decision support framework for identifying “Triple-A” energy efficiency investments, aiming to reduce the respective time and effort required at the early stage of the project conceptualization as well as increase transparency and efficiency of decision making. The “Triple-A” investments are the ones that successfully pass the proposed three-step approach, namely Assess – Agree – Assign. By elaborating a meta-analysis on the De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform available data, first insights from the adoption of such an approach are derived. Moreover, future directions are presented and discussed.

传统的投资机构缺乏对能效投资本质的技术理解。这通常会导致对此类投资的缺乏信任，这会阻碍将能效项目纳入投资组合，尽管此类投资通常是稳健的并有保证的回报。将能效融资主流化仍然是一个挑战。本文提出了一个决策支持框架，用于识别“ Triple-A”能效投资，目的是减少项目概念化初期所需的时间和精力，并提高决策的透明度和效率。“ Triple-A”投资是成功通过建议的三步法（即评估-同意-分配）的投资。通过对降低风险的能效平台可用数据进行荟萃分析，可以得出采用这种方法的第一见解。此外，提出并讨论了未来的方向。