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Standardized savings calculations within Europe: exchanging practices to streamline theory and practice

Panel: 4. Monitoring and evaluation for a wise, just and inclusive transition

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
Nele Renders, VITO/EnergyVille, Belgium
Paula Fonseca, ISR-University of Coimbra, Portugal
Pedro Moura, ISR-University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Patrão, ISR-University of Coimbra, Portugal
Elisabeth Böck, Austrian Energy Agency, Austria
Jean-Sébastien Broc, IEECP Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy, France
Erika Meynaerts, VITO/EnergyVille, Belgium
Kelsey van Maris, VITO/EnergyVille, Belgium

Abstract

According to the European Commission’s 2020 progress report, 12 Member States will (very) unlikely achieve their target for Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive EED during the obligation period 2014-2020. Moreover, the national contributions to the 2030 EU target, as reported in the final NECPs, stand short of the existing 32.5% ambition. The EU Green Deal will promote even more efforts on energy efficiency by 2030. Therefore, most Member States need to tackle untapped energy savings potentials. One of the reasons why some savings remain untapped is the difficulty to calculate, and thereby report, the energy savings, as it is challenging to estimate savings aligned with actual savings achieved, including behavioural impacts.

To assist Member States to further intensify efforts in delivering energy efficiency improvements by 2030, the new H2020 project streamSAVE supports Member States in estimating energy savings for a set of priority action types. Given the importance of deemed savings approaches in Member States’ EED reporting, streamSAVE focuses on streamlining bottom-up calculations methodologies of standardized technical actions.

This paper presents the status of standardized calculations in Europe, starting from an overview of catalogues and an assessment of differences observed among Member States. These catalogues are mainly designed to monitor the implementation of energy efficiency obligation schemes. Next to that, the status is explained in more detail by a range of sectors and end-uses having limited coverage of standardized savings estimations in the EU.

To get a clear view on stakeholder’s needs and priorities, the assessment was complemented by an EU-wide online survey and interviews among public authorities & technical experts (October-November 2020). The paper concludes by describing how the exchange of calculation experiences can further improve the implementation of Article 3 (target setting) and Article 7 (obligation schemes or alternative measures) of the EED.

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