Introduction
The 5th of April 2006 the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the Directive 2006/32/EC on energy end-use efficiency and energy services in order to strengthen end-use energy efficiency in the Member States. The directive presents a number of ambitious targets, which require the development and improvement of energy policies and the intensification of monitoring activities for their assessment. An overall indicative energy saving target of 9% by 2016 shall be adopted by each Member States through the use of energy services and other measures to improve energy efficiency.
In order to implement the Directive, Member States must develop national energy efficiency action plans (NEEAPs), which have to be submitted to the European Commission for approval. The NEEAPs contain a description of the energy saving programs and measures that will be implemented in order to achieve the indicative target (the deadline for submission of the first action plan covering the period 2008-2016 was the 30 of June 2007).
In order to evaluate the NEEAPs, harmonised methods for monitoring and verification of the energy saving measures are required. According to the EU Directive, in measuring the realised energy savings, a harmonised calculation model which uses a combination of top-down and bottom-up calculation methods shall be used. A bottom-up calculation method means that energy savings achieved through the implementation of a specific energy efficiency improvement measure are measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh), in Joules (J) or in kilogram oil equivalent (kgoe) and added to energy savings results from other specific energy efficiency improvement measures. A top-down calculation method means that the amount of energy savings is calculated using the national or larger-scale aggregated sectoral levels of energy savings as the starting point. Adjustments of the annual data are then made for extraneous factors such as degree days, structural changes, product mix, etc. Top-down methods do not provide exact measurements at a detailed level.
The project EMEEES is funded by the European Commission (Intelligent Energy Europe) and deals with the “Evaluation and Monitoring for the EU Directive on Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services”. The project is carried out by a consortium of 21 European partners and coordinated by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. The objective of EMEEES is to assist the European Commission in developing harmonised evaluation methods. It aims to design methods to evaluate the measures implemented to achieve the 9% energy savings target set out in the EU Directive (2006/32/EC) on energy end-use efficiency and energy services. It includes the development of concrete methods for the evaluation of programmes, services and measures (bottom-up and top-down), as well as schemes for monitoring the overall impact of all measures implemented in a Member State (combination of bottom-up and top-down methods).
For further information on the national implementation process in Lithuania please contact:
Dagnija Blumberga
Ekodoma
Noliktavas Street 3-3
LV 1010 Riga
Latvia
dagnija@btv.lv
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National Workshop
The 5th of February 2008 was held, at the conference center “Panorama”, a workshop in Vilnius addressed to Lithuanian experts and stakeholders, primarily responsible for the implementing of the Directive 2006/32 / EC on energy end-use efficiency and energy services and dealing with the development of evaluating and monitoring policies.
The workshop was organized by Ekodoma and is one of 14 events organized in different Europen countries in the framework of the EMEEES project to support Member States and the European Commission in developing and implementing harmonized methods for the calculation and verification of energy savings, as indicated in Directive 2006/32/EC
The workshop started with a general presentation on the Lithuanian situation regarding energy efficiency and which financial instruments are in place for increasing energy efficiency. A specific section was dedicated to energy audits and to existing national program on energy efficiency.
The second section of the workshop was dedicated to evaluation and monitoring for energy efficiency measures and in particular on how to implement the EU Directive on end-user energy efficiency and energy services in the most suitable way for Lithuania. In this view as well as Bottom – up and Top – down evaluation methods were discussed at the workshop.
To the participant was requested feedback about some of the methods being developed in order to consider the opinion in the production of the final version of the methods themselves. The workshop tried to assess whether the proposed methods meet the specific country needs.
Further information from the event and the list of participants are available on this site.