governee governee – good governance in energy efficiency legal constraints and opportunities for...

GovernEEGovernEE – Good Governance in Energy Efficiency

Legal constraints and opportunities for improving EE of public and historic

buildings

This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPEProgramme co-financed by the ERDF.

Content• Scenarios

• Legal• Financial • Administrative

• Decalogue of good governance• Legal• Financial • Administrative• --> Policy recommendations

• Lessons learnt

National National

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Scenarios



Scenario: legal

• It doesn’t mean that no intervention is feasible• It means that:

• standard intervention could be planned• Integrated approach is required

• Considering to retrofit the building with energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources

• Considering to act on systems: mechanical, thermal, electrical/electronic• Considering to modify users’ behaviour • Considering to perform an energy management system

• Integrated --> holistic • Considering the history: past, present and future use of the building

Public buildings Historic buildings

Directive 2010/31/EUDirective 2012/27/EU

Excluded from the Directive Excluded from the Directive


Scenario: financial


• Third-party financing for capital expenses is available • Energy saving performance contracting should be submitted

• Financial risk is externalized to the third party • Public Authority has to improve knowledge in the field of contracts

• Stability and Growth pact Agreement• Financial constraints


Scenario: administrative• Lacking of knowledge, management and monitoring of the

public building stock


• Public building and facilities cadaster has to been set up• Energy manager office has to been set up

• Recover energy data scattered in several offices• Elaborate energy cadastre• Support technical managers and decision makers• Reviewing contracts --> Energy performance contracts

Policy recommendations



Policy Recommendation• EU Recommendation 1.

• Adopting Directive harmonizing historic buildings with renewable energy sources and energy efficiency issues

• EU Recommendation 2. • Continuing to adopt Directive emphasizing the role of Public Authorities

• EU Recommendation 3. • Developing special funds and issuing special calls because:

• projects on cultural heritage buildings are more expensive in terms of money and time than the traditional one

• duration of five instead of three years• Directorate-General on cultural heritage has not been set up therefore the topic should be

financed in the framework of ERDF and Horizon 2020 with special and dedicated calls

• EU Recommendation 4. • Financing research at EU level in order to find tailor-made applications on

historic buildings


Policy Recommendation• National Recommendation 5.

• Adopting the Directive by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage consulting Cultural Heritage Offices/Departments of Preservation of Historic Monuments:• Member States through the Ministry of Cultural Heritage should carry out a

participatory process

• National Recommendation 6. • Developing and promoting Energy Performance Contract scheme

• National Recommendation 7. • Applying, because of projects on cultural heritage buildings are

expensive:• Special funds, instruments, mechanisms• Incentives and subsidies (e.g. progressive tax credits for energy efficiency and

renewables)


Policy Recommendation• National Recommendation 8.

• Adopting:• the National Plan of Action for Energy Efficiency (NEEAP) as required by the

Directive 2006/32/EC,• the National Energy Strategy/Policy

• National Recommendation 9. • Financing research at national level in order to find tailor-made

applications on historic buildings


Policy Recommendation• Local Recommendation 10.

• Harmonizing the Cultural Heritage Offices / Department of Preservation of Historic Monuments procedures in order to:• make the process more effective, efficient and time restricted• take into account the energy retrofitting in case of ANY building renovation• search for new technology solutions

• Local Recommendation 11. • Implementing EE/RES tailor-made financial tools and involving the

financial sector

• Local Recommendation 12. • Implementing EE/RES tailor-made technical tools



• Implementing EE/RES tailor-made administrative tools:• Harmonizing and coordinating administrative procedures in order to make the

process more effective and efficient• Setting up the Energy Manager Office with cross competences and with

decision-making authority• Drawing up public contracts• Drawing up Energy Performance Contracts

• Local Recommendation 14. • Implementing EE/RES tailor-made legal tools

• Local Recommendation 15. • Carrying out Local Action Plan in order to decide „what”, „how”,

„how much”, „who” as regard EE and RES



• Setting up the energy database in order to monitor energy consumption of the public real estates and the energy costs

• Local Recommendation 17. • Being and keeping constantly informed through the energy

manager if available, otherwise through local energy agencies/consultants• legislation / technological innovations / financing / Covenant of Mayors

• Local Recommendation 18. • Financing research at local level in order to apply tailor-made

applications on historic buildings

• Local Recommendation 19. • Disseminating good practice in order to modify users’ habits

Lessons learnt



• Knowledge is the starting point• Making benchmark to find people thinking and working for better solutions• Wide-spreading knowledge to involve people/decision makers in better solutions• Organizing knowledge

• Cross sectoral approach• Strength: new procedures able to modify the system in a more effective way• Weakness: rules and legislations regulating the different sectors have to conform

to each other

• Cultural Heritage Office / Department of Preservation for Historic Monuments preservation of the building preservation of the energy• Building energy audit best available and tailor-made integrated

approach:• Building• Systems• Users habits• Management improvements

Lessons learnt (1)


• Strong commitment by Local Public Authorities who have to frame the local energy governance involving:

• Energy policy through the Local Energy Efficiency Action Plan• Energy Manager office

• Local actions saving energy and operating costs should demonstrate the feasibility and that changes could happen through:

• Energy efficiency data collection and indicators• Strategies and action plans• Competitive energy markets, with appropriate regulation• Private investment in energy efficiency• Monitoring, enforcement and evaluation of policies and measures

Lessons learnt (2)

Thank you for your attention!

Francesca Visintin Local project managerCETA – Centro di ecologia Teorica ed ApplicataCentre for Theoretical and Applied Ecology

via Licinio 4434170 Gorizia - Italytel. +39 0481 391887

[email protected]


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