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The need of harmonization in energy efficiency policies: building a taxonomy for European industry

Panel: 4. Monitoring and evaluation for greater impact

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
Anna Realini, RSE S.p.A., Italy
Simone Maggiore, RSE S.p.A.
Claudio Zagano, RSE S.p.A.
Vlasios Oikonomou, JIN
Erwin Hofman, JIN

Abstract

The Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU (EED) has been the starting point for both the development and the update of energy efficiency (EE) laws and regulations in all the European Union (EU) Member States (MS). Moreover, CO2 emission reduction goals at 2020 and 2030 have oriented MS towards stricter regulations on energy production and consumption. However, the application of the EED is not uniform across the different MS, and large differences persist in how national policy makers are responding to the achievement of emission reduction goals. Harmonization among different countries represents therefore a huge challenge.

The EU-MERCI project (acronym for “EU coordinated MEthods and procedures based on Real Cases for the effective implementation of policies and measures supporting energy efficiency in the Industry”), funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme (Grant Agreement nr. 693845), tries to address such issue by developing a methodology to harmonize data from EE projects from different sources in different MS. Such methodology can be used as a basis for all EE policies and regulations across the EU and represents a fundamental tool of the project, as it allowed the building of the core products of the project, which are the EU-MERCI Database and Platform.

After highlighting the initial difficulty in aligning data on implemented projects incentivised through different policies in different MS, this paper describes the proposed harmonization methodology, which comprises a detailed “taxonomy” (defined on purpose), developed in order to allocate EE projects in pre-defined categories and to easily perform both the statistical analysis of almost 3,000 collected records and the extraction “Good Practices” of Energy Efficiency in the EU industry. A discussion about the integration of the methodology in local policies will be concluding the paper.

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