Introduction
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DIRECTIVE 2006/32/EC AND THE EMEEES PROJECT IN MALTA
Estimates are that the Union’s energy consumption is approximately 20% higher than can be justified on economic grounds. There is a very large economic potential of unrealized energy savings. A part of this energy savings can effectively be realized through energy services and other end-use efficiency measures. On April 5, 2006 the European Parliament and the Council adopted the Directive 2006/32/EC on the promotion of end-use efficiency and energy services to enhance the cost-effective and efficient end-use of energy in Member States (MSs). Upon adoption, it provides the necessary targets, mechanisms, incentives and institutional, financial and legal frameworks to remove existing market barriers and imperfections for the efficient end use of energy.According to the Directive the Member States shall adopt and aim to achieve an overall national indicative energy savings target of 9 % for the ninth year of application of the Directive, to be reached by way of energy services and other energy efficiency improvement measures. MSs shall take cost-effective, practicable and reasonable measures designed to contribute towards achieving this target. Actions to be undertaken shall be described by the MSs in the National Energy Efficiency Action Plans to be periodically submitted to the EU Commission (deadline for the submission of the first out of the three NEEAPs to be submitted for the period 2008-2016 was June 30, 2007).
THE EMEEES PROJECT
The EMEEES project will support the smooth implementation of the Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services. It will develop the necessary tools for implementation and monitoring of the Directive: (1) a system of bottom-up, top-down and integrated methods for the evaluation of energy services and other energy efficiency improvement measures, harmonised among Member States; (2) a set of harmonised default data and benchmarks for the methods; (3) a template and a guide for Member States for the Energy Efficiency Action Plans; and (4) an agreed method for the Commission to assess the plans.The project will thereby assist the European Commission and the Committee to be created with practical advice and support, and will also install a platform for information exchange. It will build trust and confidence that the overall target of 9 % energy savings within 9 years can be achieved, and will thus support Member States in attaining their target.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services has raised concerns among the Member States about how they could evaluate the energy savings from energy services and other energy efficiency improvement measures implemented in order contribute to achieving the target of 9 % energy savings in the ninth year. A Committee of the Member States and the Commission has therefore been included in the compromise text, with the task of elaborating common and harmonised methods for the evaluation of energy savings.The objective of the proposed project is to assist the Commission and this Committee with scientific but concrete and practical advice and support in the development of such concrete methods for the evaluation of single programmes, services and measures (mostly bottom-up), as well as with schemes for monitoring the overall impact of all measures implemented in a Member State (combination of bottom-up and top-down).
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK
This support includes:
- a platform for exchange of information between Commission, Committee, and stakeholders,
- limited ad-hoc advice,
- a collection and comparative analysis of good practice in monitoring and evaluation methods,
- a process for the development of harmonised bottom-up and top-down evaluation methods,
- the concrete development of up to 20 different methods for bottom-up and up to 15 methods for improved top-down evaluation, harmonised across the EU,
- combined top-down/benchmarking and bottom-up evaluation methods to prove achievement of the 9 % target, both ex-ante and ex-post,
- 6 pilot tests on real programmes, services, or other measures, for the methods developed,
- a proposal for the structure and methodology of the Energy Efficiency Action Plans to be delivered by the Member States in order to show compliance with the Directive,
- a proposal for a methodology that can be used by the Commission in order to assess the plans and results reported.
MALTA FIRST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACTION PLAN
The Malta Resources Authority has submitted to the EU Commission the first out of the three NEEAPs envisaged by the Directive 2006/32/EC. Energy efficiency improvement programmes and measures considered in the NEEAP submitted include financial and informative instruments, as well as voluntary programmes and regulations addressing the domestic, the industry, the tertiary and the transport sectors. Estimates performed in the plan indicate that the annual energy savings generated by the implementation of such programmes and measures are expected to amount to 100-113 GWh as at end of 2010 and to 189-225 GWh as at the end of 2016 against the saving targets of 126 GWh and 378 GWh resulting from the application of the Directive.EMEEES CONTACTS FOR MALTA
Nicola LabancaeERG, end-use Efficiency Research Group
Gruppo di ricerca sull'efficienza negli usi finali dell'energia
Dipartimento di Energetica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
20133 Milano-Italy
Tel: 02-2399-3927
Fax: 02-2399-3863
e-mail: Nicola.labanca@polimi.it
Lorenzo Pagliano
eERG, end-use Efficiency Research Group
Gruppo di ricerca sull'efficienza negli usi finali dell'energia
Dipartimento di Energetica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
20133 Milano-Italy
Tel: 02-2399-3870
Fax: 02-2399-3863
e-mail: lorenzo.pagliano@polimi.it
Documents
National Workshop
WORKSHOP ON EVALUATION AND MONITORING FOR THE EU DIRECTIVE ON ENERGY END-USE EFFICIENCY AND ENERGY SERVICES.
A workshop targeting Italian and Malta experts responsible for the implementation and evaluation of energy efficiency policies put in place for the achievement of the energy saving targets established by the Directive 2006/32/EC was organised at Euromobility headquarter in Rome on January 29, 2008.
Such workshop was organized by the end-use Efficiency Research Group (eERG) and represented one out of the 14 events held in the framework of the EMEEES project in as many EU countries to support the EU Member States and the Commission in the development and application of the harmonized calculation methods envisaged by the Directive 2006/32/EC for the measurement and verification of energy savings.
During the workshop
a) preliminary results achieved in the development of the calculation methods and the template for the National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAPs) have been presented;
b) a feedback by the experts participating has been requested on the methods being developed so that their comments and contributions can be taken into account in the final version of the calculation methods to be produced;
c) it has been assessed whether the proposed methods fulfill the needs of the actors involved in the implementation and evaluation of the energy efficiency policies also in the light of the contents of the first NEEAP already transmitted to the EU Commission;
d) it has been requested a feedback by participating experts on the correctness of data and assumptions employed for calculation method development;
e) a proper information dissemination about the harmonized calculation methods being developed and their application has been in general aimed at;