European initiatives on promoting energy saving s in buildings

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European initiatives on promoting energy
saving s in buildings
ClearSupport event Chania/Crete 24th September
2009
By Nils Daugaard
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Content

• The challenge of improving energy performance of
  buildings at European scale
• EU initiatives for boosting activities in the
  sector
• State of the ClearSupport intervention

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Role of the Building Sector

• 40 of EUs energy use
• 36 of EUs CO2 emissions
• Cost-effective energy savings potential 30
  by 2020
• 9 of GDP, 8 of employment and 2 trillion
  annual turnover
• Key EU legislation Energy Performance of
  Buildings Directive (EPBD, 2002/91/EC)

ClearSupport event in Chania/Crete, 24th
September 2009
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Political and Economical Motivation
Environment Climate change up to 6.4 Kelvin
in 2100 (IPCC) Financial and Economic Crisis
EUs Economic Recovery Plan Social Economic
Recent energy prices and their volatility
Security Economy EU Energy Import Dependency -
Forecast
ClearSupport event in Chania/Crete, 24th
September 2009
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Challenges

• Energy saving is, by nature, the result of many
  small measures addressing dispersed end-users
  
• Another barrier on the project level is that
  among the stakeholders there is a lack of
  knowledge on the energy saving potential as well
  as how to address the potential in competent ways
  
• Moreover EE measures are often characterized by
  relatively long pay-back times and there tend to
  be lack of appropriate financing schemes
• There is great variation in EU-27 e.g.
  approaches are to be adopted to the local
  situation
• Strong political pressure on visible actions
  results expected in the short term at EU level,
  at national level and notably on job creation. EE
  in buildings tend to face a problem in gaining
  such visibility
• It is problematic to create a sound decision
  making chain incorporating all the relevant
  stakeholders

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ClearSupport

• Can be considered a pilot initiative on a
  systematic approach on overcoming the barriers
  for building renovation investments
• This is done in the form of operating 5 Project
  Service Facilities/PSFs in
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Poland
• Czech Republic
• Crete

ClearSupport is running from 2007 to the end of
2009 and involve thirteen partners
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Key objectiveLinking building owner with
sources of finance
Financiers Lack of trust in EE projects

• The missing link
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Financiers Get confidence in EE projects
ClearSupport Helping to bridge the gap
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Heart of the action PSFs delivering
multi-disciplinary services
Services to bridge the gap
Support Information Project preparation Preparatio
n of applications Consulting Education Analyses
Public house owners
Residential house owners
The ambitious goal has been to support the
initiation of 100-200 specific building
renovations in the 5 target regions
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EU Initiatives for Boosting Energy Efficiency in
the Buildings Sector
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Key Objectives 20-20-20
By 2020 -20 EU GHG
NEEAPS
By 2020 20 ENERGY SAVING
By 2020 binding 20 RENEWABLES in final energy
consumption at EU level
RES in transport Min 10binding
ELECTRICITY MS binding choice
HEATING COOLING
MS binding choice
NATIONAL TARGETS ACTION PLANS
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Main EU policy areas to achieve energy
savings
European Energy Efficiency Action Plan (EEAP)
Comprehensive set of legislation
International co-operations
Policy areas
Support programmes energy efficiency networks
Research Development
Financing
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Buildings Directive/EPBD first holistic
framework

• Member States to fix and implement
• Minimum energy performance requirements
• A methodology to calculate and set requirements
  on energy performance
• Energy performance certificates
• Regular inspections of heating and
  air-conditioning systems
• Offers room for adapting to national
  circumstances
• 2002 into force, 2006/2009 deadlines

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Sharpening the EPBD (RECAST)

• Build on the provisions of the current EPBD
• Ambitious but realistic
• Strengthen the current requirements
• Improved and more reliable information
• Stimulate market entry of low/zero energy and
  low/zero carbon buildings

• To give an additional
• 5 - 6 saving of total EU energy consumption
• 5 saving of total EU CO2 emissions
• 280,000 450,000 potential new jobs

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Towards New EU Energy Efficiency Action Plan

• Revision of the EEAP to be prepared in 2009
  (expected adoption in 2010)
• This new action plan will become the Commissions
  strategic tool for implementing and following-up
  energy savings policies
• The EU Plan should be linked more closely to the
  National Energy Efficiency Action Plans
• Opportunity for stakeholders to provide first
  ideas for revised EEAP initiated already during
  Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW 2009)

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National Energy Efficiency Action Plans

• Key tool of Energy Services Directive aimed at
  setting concrete measure and actions at national
  level to save energy and enable consumers to make
  informed choices, participate in competitive
  market, etc.
• All 27 MS have submitted NEEAPs
• Energy saving measures addressing residential
  buildings are by far the most common in the
  NEEAPs
• retrofitting of existing buildings, measures
  addressing new constructions
• All plans available online
• http//ec.europa.eu/energy/effici
  ency/end-use_en.htm

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EU Commission calls for URGENT ACTION NOW TO
BOOST RENOVATIONS
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Support measures and networks
Buildings Platform ? Build Up Initiative
Concerted Action
CENstandards
Supporting implementation
IEE programme project funding (EACI)
FP 7 projects incl. Concerto
Measures programmes
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The BUILD UP initiative
Improve the energy performance of buildings by
gathering building professionals, local
authorities and citizens on THE web portal for
energy efficient building.
Buildingoccupants
Public authorities
Buildingprofessionals

• 2 main goals

• Transfer best practices of energy savings
  measures to the market and foster uptake.
• Keep the market updated about the energy policy
  for buildings.
• http//www.buildup.eu/

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INTELLIGENT ENERGY EUROPE/IEE

• 730 million from 2007-2013
• To remove the non-technological barriers to
  energy efficiency and renewable energy sources
• No RD funding, no support to hardware
• IEE now supports up to 75 of eligible costs
• One call every year
• New technical assistance instrument (with
  European Investment Bank)

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IEE information sources
http//ec.europa.eu/intelligentenergy http//www.i
ee-library.eu/
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Financing instrument ELENA Facility

• ELENA European Local Energy Assistance
• Technical assistance facility of the European
  Commission and EIB. Operational since September
  2009
• Assists cities and regions in developing their
  sustainable energy investment projects and
  mobilising investments.
• Will cover major part of the technical assistance
  costs related to the preparation of eligible
  investment projects or programmes proposals from
  local authorities submitted directly to Brussels
• Focus on retrofitting of public and private
  buildings, sustainable building, energy-efficient
  district heating and cooling networks,
  environmentally-friendly transport etc. Further
  information will be soon available from DG TREN
  web site http//ec.europa.eu/energy

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ClearSupport State of the action its
perspectives

• The PSFs in Latvia, Lithuania, Northern Poland,
  Czech Republic and Crete/Greece are well underway
  with initiating building renovations, 218
  projects are in the pipeline (target more than
  fulfilled)
• In parallel with this, the PSFs are working on
  improving the framework conditions and to adopt
  tools that can make the PSF operations more
  efficient

? The project team is currently undertaking an
evaluation of the PSFs impact in terms of
initiating projects and improving framework
conditions ? It is the intention to
coordinate this evaluation with relevant EC staff
so that the lessons learnt can be integrated in
formulation of future policies and support
programmes ? Another final effort of the
project is to elaborate a Guidebook with the
intention of encouraging other EU regions to take
up the Clearinghouse/ PSF concept
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PSF achievements
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Conclusion

• There is a huge potential for improving the
  energy performance of the European building
  sector
• Due to the threats of climate change and to
  increase security of supply the EU Commission is
  taking a number of initiatives to boost
  activities in the sector, ranging from policy
  measures, financing instruments, information
  sources etc.
• The ClearSupport project is one initiative
  supported by the EU Commission (IEE Programme)
  aiming for linking building owners with sources
  of financing and has succeded to foster 218
  investments in five EU regions, including Crete
• The ClearSupport project team is currently
  evaluating the efforts
  with a view to replicating the concept at
  broader European scale

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Thank you for your attention !
Nils Daugaard nda_at_ecnetwork.dk
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