Review of good practices in measuring and verifying energy savings among French energy efficiency services actors – a strong will to put quality securing methods forward

Patrick Jullian, S2E Club President, Parois, France
Isabelle Hita, Research engineer in Energy efficiency, EDF Research and Development - EPI, France
Frédéric Rosenstein, ADEME, Valbonne, France

Keywords

energy efficiency, Energy Performance Contracting, measure and verification, households, commercial buildings, industry

Abstract

The Energy Efficiency Services Club (Club S2E) was founded on November, 5th 2005 by five French main actors in the field (professional associations: FG3E, SERCE, GIMELEC, UCF, UFE), with the support of the French Energy Agency, ADEME. The Club aims at forming a working group to contribute to the energy efficiency market development. As a first task the Club agreed on common definitions and further to establish common practical references. Through ADEME a connexion is formed with the “EUROCONTRACT project”, a European Platform for the Promotion of Energy Performance Contracting (EPC). In order to propose a French vision of good practices and to ensure the integrity of EPC, the Club has led a study on “measurement and verification methods and tools for assessment of energy efficiency improvement or of energy savings obtained within the framework of an Energy Performance Contract”.

The study realises a two-fold benchmark: a first part based on an expert review of American and European standards, tools and methods, with a description of the market they address, and a second part using interviews with experts employed by members of the Club. After this state-of-art, the technical-economical conditions for use of these tools and methods in France on each sector (households, commercial buildings, industry) will be explored with the aim to propose a methodology based on best practices.