Sharing Expertise in Energy Advice Across Europe

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Sharing Expertise in Energy Advice Across
Europe SErENADE
Contract EIE-05-008/S12.419475 1.1.06 28.2.08
Slides updated 10.7.07
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• Summary

• SErENADE is a partnership of experienced
• advice providers, which aims to enhance and
• expand the range, scope and quality of energy
• advice in Europe by reviewing existing
• provision, facilitating exchange of knowledge
• and experience and making energy advice
• resources widely available.

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• Background

• Energy advice is not currently available in all
• areas or to all target groups, and is essential
  to
• motivating enabling behavioural change
• motivating enabling implementation of concrete
  measures
• realisation of potential savings from concrete
  measures
• realising energy savings potential of energy
  certification of buildings

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• Objectives

• Study of existing energy advice provision in
  Europe
• Exchange of knowledge experience through online
  energy advice forum and toolkit
• Dissemination programme to promote benefits of
  advice and availability of resources

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Energy advice in Europe report
Decision makers
Dissemination online forum newsletters presentati
ons conference articles
Study of energy advice in Europe
New advice providers
Existing advice providers
Energy Advice Toolkit
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• Expected results

• Information about the real scope of existing
  energy advice provision in Europe
• A resource to enable quality provision of energy
  advice to be extended across the Community
• Establishment of ongoing platform for exchange of
  knowledge experience on energy advice

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• Coordinator Severn Wye Energy Agency, UK
• catrin_at_swea.co.uk

• Partners
• Associazione Rete du Punti Energia, Italy
• Prioriterre, France
• O.O.Energiesparverband, Austria
• Energirad Vast, Sweden
• Sofia Energy Centre, Bulgaria
• BCEI ZRMK, Slovenia
• Comite de Liaison Energies Renouvelables, France
  www.energy-advice.org

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• Results of study overview

• Around a third of countries in EU27 have no or
  very little energy advice provision
• Around a third have fairly well developed
  services
• Around a third have limited services (eg in
  geographical coverage, client group or approach)
• Significant potential for further development of
  energy advice in Europe

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• Results of study overview

• Need for advice likely to increase, with rising
  fuel prices and more energy consuming consumer
  goods
• Advice needed to support consumer response to
  legislation (eg implementation of Directives)
• Impartial advice essential to assist choice and
  combination of energy saving technologies

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• Results of study
• types of energy advice programme

• Network of local delivery agents with central
  coordination
• Centralised, information-oriented
• Consultancy-based (audits etc)
• Services for specific target groups only
• Project-based
• Ad-hoc/occasional

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• Results of study quality issues

• Commercial independence
• Technological neutrality
• Different objectives and approaches for
• generalised information
• awareness-raising
• advice - specific to the client
• Client-led or systematised/set procedure

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• Results of study quality issues

• Single or multi-topic
• Level of depth of advice
• Tailoring of approach to different client groups
• Planned and creative marketing and outreach
• Significance of numbers reached
• Variety of options for medium of communication
• Variety of options for location of direct contact
  

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• Results of study quality issues

• Effective links to capital programmes and
  subsidies
• Effective links to policy and other programmes
• Quality control and standards applied
• Evaluation of results and outcomes
• Establishment of programmes for long term