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Introduction

The Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services (2006/32/EC) 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 to 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 Directive, with the task to elaborate common and harmonised methods for the evaluation of energy savings.

The objective of the EMEEES project is to assist the European Commission in the elaboration of methods for monitoring and evaluation of the energy savings achieved by the Member States in the framework of the EU Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services (ESD). This assistance includes the development of concrete methods for the evaluation of single energy efficiency improvement (EEI) programmes, energy services and other EEI measures (mostly bottom-up), as well as schemes for monitoring the overall impact of all measures implemented in a Member State (combination of bottom-up and top-down). In particular, this includes the concrete development of up to 20 different methods for bottom-up evaluation, harmonised across the EU.

This support includes:

• 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 harmonised 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
• six 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 and
• a proposal for a methodology that can be used by the commission in order to assess the plans and results reported.
• a platform for exchange of information with the Commission and other stakeholders
• limited ad-hoc advice
  

The focus will be on bottom-up methods, since the ODYSSEE consortium has developed detailed top-down indicators that only need some further adaptation.

Actors involved

This project distinguishes between primary target, secondary target groups and other actors involved.

The most important member of the primary target group is the European Commission. The proposed action will substantively assist the Commission in developing the evaluation methods needed for the implementation of the Directive.
Since the Directive is directed to Member States, both Member States' governments, and the authorities or agencies that will under Article 4(3) be assigned the overall control and responsibility for overseeing the framework set up in the relation to the target, the verification of the energy savings, and the reporting of the results, also belong to the primary target groups.

The secondary target group, on the other hand, consists of all those actors involved in the energy end-use efficiency and energy services business. This includes the energy supply industries, as well as other stakeholder experts. Finally, other actors targeted only to a lesser extent are the general public, universities, research institutions, etc.

Energy Efficiency in Spain

The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce has drafted a new Action Plan for the 2008-2012 period, within the Spanish Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency Strategy 2004-2012, to be approved in Cabinet Meeting in a monographic session on climate change.

The strategic objectives are the following:

1. Acknowledge an instrument of economic growth and social welfare in energy saving and efficiency.
2. Establish the appropriate conditions for energy saving and efficiency to expand and develop in society.
3. Strengthen energy saving and efficiency in all National Strategies, and specifically, in the Spanish Strategy for Climate Change.
4. Encourage competition on the market under the ruling principle of energy saving and efficiency.
5. Consolidate Spain's position in the avant-garde of energy saving and efficiency.

The Plan establishes a primary energy saving of 24,776 ktoe in 2012 as quantified energy objective in opposition to the scenario which was used as the base for the initial Plan 2004-2012, involving 13.7%. Unlike the scenario considered, as the base for the Directive 2006/32/EC on energy end-use efficiency and energy services, the saving achieved would be 11% in 2012, exceeding then the objective established by the above-mentioned Directive of 9% in 2016. On the other hand, and as a direct result of the Plan and in coherence with the EECCEL, it is estimated that an emissions reduction volume of 270,592 ktCO2 will be achieved in the 2004-2012 period, out of which 238,130 ktCO2 will be in the period of the 2008-2012 Plan.

Contacts

IDAE – Instituto para la Diversificación e Ahorro de la Energía

Carlos Barquero: cgbarquero@idae.es

Documents

National Workshop

To be announced.
Will take place between October 2007 and February 2008, in Portugal.