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

Panel: Panel 4: Monitoring and evaluation

Authors:
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

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.