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NOVEMBER 2018

PUBLENEFPROSPECT E P A T E E

2ND LEARNING

CAMPAIGN HAS

STARTED

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TOOLS AND

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FOR THE POL ICY

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WITH AUTUMN, DOWN WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW: IT IS TIME TO INCLUDE ENERGY POVERTY INTO EEOS

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#H2020PROSPECT – 2ND CYCLE OF THE PEER TO PEER LEARNING PROGRAMME IS SUCCESSFULLY UNDER WAY P2P for local governments to use innovative financing for sustainable actions

We are happy to announce

that twenty cities and regions

are already part of the EU

Horizon 2020 PROSPECT

project learning programme

on exchanging experiences

on innovative financing of

sustainable energy plans in

cities and regions. Over 100

cities applied in the first two

campaigns, which resulted in

matching 6 mentors with 14

mentees for the first cycle of

the learning programme,

which started in May 2018. The

matching process for the

second learning cycle is

currently underway.

In the first cycle, six groups of

cities and regions are currently

learning on innovative

financing of energy efficiency

in private and public buildings

and public lighting, which

gathered the highest interest

from our applicants.

An example of such a learning

group consists of the upper

Austrian energy agency ‘OÖ

Energiesparverband’ (ESV),

which mentors five cities and

regions on using Energy

performance contracts for

public lighting projects: AE3R

Ploiesti/Prahova from

Romania, Municipality of Maia

and Coimbra region from

Portugal, Greater Poitiers

Urban Community from

France and the Black Sea

Energy Cluster from Bulgaria.

In a study visit of this group, the

mentor presented their

project ‘EPC in Upper Austria’,

which covers the Public

Lighting, Public and Business

Buildings sectors as well

as Renewable Energy

Installations. The project

supports investments in energy

efficiency projects and

renewable energy

technologies in the public and

business sectors. The

participants concluded that

the key to the programme

success is the combination of

a strong supporting facilitation

service (information & advice

services offered by the

regional energy agency) and

a financial incentive offered

by the regional government.

This has resulted in supporting

more than 200 contracting

projects, with about 100 in

municipalities.

This learning group will meet

again in Linz to discuss all

participants’ projects and

solutions they can apply in

their regions to realize their

EPC for public lighting

projects.

If you know of a city, region or

regional agency employee

that could benefit such an

exchange in any of the five

modules shown below, please

direct them to our website:

www.h2020prospect.eu

THE LAST CAMPAIGN

STARTS IN JANUARY 2019.

PREPARE, AND LEARN

MORE AT

WWW.H2020PROSPECT.EU

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Trying to bridge national, regional and local energy efficiency

policy planning: a first step in EU funded projects

The development and

upscaling of energy efficiency

initiatives is (partly)

conditioned by regionally and

local specific policy and

socioeconomic landscapes.

Hence, next to (inter)national

policies and regulations, such

development and upscaling

requires complementary

regional and local sustainable

energy plans and policies.

Regional integrated

sustainable energy plans can

provide a “master vision” that

takes into account all the

different contextual factors

(i.e. socio-economic, political,

cultural) of the region, leading

to a bearable, viable and

equitable regional plan (i.e. a

feasible and cost-effective

sustainable plan). These plans

facilitate municipalities (urban

and rural) to develop their

own individual plans, i.e.

Sustainable Energy Action

Plans (SEAPs). Often though,

these targets and actions are

not aligned on the national,

regional and local levels,

which hinders the full

exploitation of the energy

efficiency potential and

reaching of the national/sub-

national targets.

To answer to that, during

the EU Sustainable Energy

Week 2018 Policy

Conference, the PUBLENEF

project (which aims to

overcoming specific

implementation barriers in the

process of putting the SEAP

policies in place, by carrying

out field work with policy

makers and matching of

experiences) was presented

as part of a seminar on energy

plans and roadmaps for

sustainable future. In total, six

European Horizon 2020

projects were presented,

complementing each other in

their goals and findings. The

event was entirely streamlined

with the objectives of the

policy EU sustainable policy

agenda since it aimed to

provide insight and

information to public

authorities in better linking up

local, regional and national

levels for delivering integrated

sustainable energy actions

planning and projects to

achieve synergies and

economies of scale.

The panel started with two

projects presenting

forerunners in energy

roadmaps; The R4E –

Roadmaps for Energy

explained how they have

developed a new type of

energy strategy, the Energy

Roadmap in eight partner

cities with focus on three

“Smart” areas – Smart

buildings, mobility and urban

spaces. Their interesting twist

from existing plans and

strategies is in the way that

they perceive the

roadmapping process. The

key is in starting from the

future, from the set vision and

then backcasting to the

present, setting needed steps

along the way. One of the

findings they shared is the

importance of involving all

relevant stakeholders,

including politicians, and in

their work, they emphasize the

importance of co-creation

and sharing experiences.

Another project presenting

forerunners was PANEL 2050

which focuses on ten Central

Eastern European network in

their transformation into

sustainable communities of

the future, by recognizing

local forerunners such as

Czech South Bohemia or

Hungarian “Coal County”

success stories that were

presented. The project

created a network of 420

members and has an active

forum for the exchange of

experiences and discussions

on regional energy

development.

After the roadmaps and

concrete plans are

developed, in order for them

to be implemented they need

to be integrated into existing

spatial planning and regional

physical and socioeconomic

landscaping. Project

INTENSSS-PA intended to

promote such Integrated

Sustainable Energy Planning

by providing human and

institutional capacity to seven

regional participating areas.

For plans to have a better

chance of realization, they

have created Living Labs

which connect public and

private actors with the users

and knowledge institutes. In

this way, a real-life context is

simulated. Inclusive policies

are a hey to effective

sustainable energy policies

and ENLARGE builds further on

this idea by encouraging

participatory governance. For

this reason, they created a

book of best practices in the

design of public policies,

including 31 case studies.

As so many innovative

processes and initiatives for

encouraging sustainable

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energy planning take place

across the EU, it is important to

be able to use the most of all

existing tools and best

practices. PUBLENEF project

closes this gap with its toolbox

for guidelines, tools and

packages of support easy to

browse by interest or topic. For

example, keyword

“roadmap” returns with six

concrete and detailed

examples of roadmaps across

different EU projects and in

various regions. The toolbox

altogether covers more than

150 online and offline tools.

When making use of such

tools, many front-running

municipalities and regions

dedicate their human

resources to financial

engineering and creation of

innovative financing schemes

that facilitate implementation

of their Sustainable Energy

Action Plans and help

keeping money spent on

energy near home. Among

them emerge Energy

Performance Contracting,

revolving funds, soft loans and

grants for citizens, guarantee

funds, local public companies

or public ESCOs, local mixed

economy companies (third

party financing), local saving

accounts, citizens’

cooperatives, crowdfunding

and more. Each local

sustainable energy action

targets different objectives,

priorities (social, economic,

environmental) and

beneficiaries and it is set in a

specific local, regional and

national context. All these

aspects must be analysed

and taken into account

before the public actors

decide which financing

scheme is the most suitable for

their project. The ideal means

is to create groups (or peers)

of public authorities that can

exchange these best

practices in financing and

assist in guiding towards

implementing the most

appropriate financing for

each specific policy need.

Here, PROSPECT offers a

solution through peer to peer

learning programme that is

currently open for all regional

and local authorities in

Europe, in order to help them

finance and implement their

sustainable energy and

climate action plans. The

programme is organized in

five thematic modules: public

buildings, private buildings,

transport, public lighting and

cross-sectoral and is a mix of

online and physical meetings

run in English.

The concepts presented

during the seminar brought

together all levels of

governance and different

sectors (i.e. spatial, energy

and socio-economic

development) along with the

involvement of all stakeholder

groups involved in or affected

by integrated sustainable

energy planning and

financing in a systematic,

participatory approach that

facilitates and expedites plans

implementation. Therefore,

the focus of the seminar was

to present and demonstrate

the results of a holistic

approach, as derived by

INTENSSS-PA and PUBLEnEf

projects, which can facilitate

the implementation of energy

transition (i.e. renewables and

energy efficiency targets) if it

takes place hand in hand with

the implementation of the

territorial and urban agenda

of the EU. Information was

provided on the state of the

art and practice on capacity

building approaches and a

more efficient and effective

peer learning concept –

compared to the existing

alternatives – by

demonstrating the

competitive advantages of

combining the Regional Living

LAbs co-planning concept

developed within INTENSSS-PA

with the tools developed

within PUBLENEF and the peer-

learning approach

implemented within

PROSPECT. The integration of

the approaches implemented

within the three projects

promotes the development of

an ecosystem that creates

collaborative decision-

making culture and can work

on a continuous basis

supporting regional and local

governments and authorities

in sustainable development

and energy transition. The key

message of the event thus is

that in order to align the

national, regional, and local

efforts in sustainable energy

actions, the knowledge tools

are there but a systematic

approach needs to be

undertaken in the various

governance levels to increase

their communication and

mutual learning and

understanding of their needs.

Vlasios Oikonomou,

PUBLENEF project coordinator

Source: PUBLENEF Newsletter

November 2018

Toolbox for cities and regions

In order to support the

Member States in making

informed decisions and

ensuring they design and

implement robust EE policies

on the national, regional and

local level, PUBLEnEf project

developed the PUBLENEF

Toolbox. Unlike traditional

approaches for sharing EE

policy experiences which

often do not provide sufficient

details, PUBLEnEf Toolbox

offers Member States a

comprehensive package of

support. Through a web-

based platform, Member

States can easily access

information and guidance on

all issues related to EE policy

making. Additionally, Toolbox

allows for effective

knowledge transfer and

capacity building in project

partner countries and ensures

and facilitates

implementation of project’s

roadmaps.

While similar tools are

available in some Member

States, PUBLENEF Toolbox

enables cross-information

exchange between best

practices in policymaking

(from financing to resource

optimization in delivering EE

policies) on the national,

regional and local level. The

main role of the PUBLEnEf

Toolbox is to enable

policymakers on different

levels to identify solutions for

their needs in energy

efficiency policymaking.

In the format of a digital

platform, PUBLENEF Toolbox

enhances the exchange of

information and provides a

large variety of supporting

tools and resources for energy

efficiency policy planning,

development,

implementation, and

evaluation. The additional

value of the platform is the

user involvement aspect

where policymakers can enter

their energy efficiency related

needs in certain aspects of

policy making and specific

solutions come up through

search option using tools and

best practices available in the

toolbox. Also, toolbox presents

an active collection of good

practices, methodologies and

resources for a wide range of

topics, and can be updated

by policy makers themselves

thus allowing for up to date

dissemination of information.

For more information on

PUBLENEF toolbox, please visit:

www.publenef-toolbox.eu

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SHARING EXPERIENCE ABOUT THE EVALUATION OF POLICIES FOR EED ARTICLE 7 Rome, 30th November

EPATEE (Evaluation into Practice to Achieve Targets for Energy Efficiency), a project funded by the

Horizon 2020 programme, has entered its second year. Two key outputs are already available on

the project website:

23 cases showing how

evaluation helps to

know the impacts of

policies and to reinforce

them: epatee.eu/case-

studies

A Knowledge Base

gathering more than

180 references

(evaluation reports,

studies, guidebooks,

etc. about evaluation of

energy efficiency

policies) that have been

systematically coded to

enable advanced

search: www.epatee-

lib.eu/

The second phase of the

project is currently

developing an online

toolbox to complement the

case studies and

Knowledge Base with a set

of general and specific

guidance about methods

to evaluate energy savings

from energy efficiency

policies, as well as about

how to get the most out of

an evaluation and

integrate evaluation into

the policy cycle. The online

interface of this toolbox is

designed to make it easy

for the users to find the right

answers to his/her specific

questions.

This toolbox will be

publicly available early

2019. A preview will be

presented and tested with

public and private

stakeholders at the

upcoming 3rd European

EPATEE workshop to be held

in Rome on November 30th:

It will also focus on the

evaluation of policies for

Article 7 of the Energy

Efficiency Directive, with

practical examples and

feedback presented by

public authorities of France,

Italy and UK.

Registration to the

workshop is free but

required here.

If you have any question

about the EPATEE project or

the workshop, feel free to

contact Jean-Sébastien

Broc (jsb@ieecp.org)

November 2018

INPUT ON THE EU ENERGY EFFICIENCY DIRECTIVE LEGISLATION

On June 19, 2018 the EU

reached a provisional political

agreement on EED, including

an EE target of at least 32.5%

to be achieved collectively by

the EU in 2030, without having

its nature specified (which de

facto means it is not binding).

The target can be revised

upwards by 2023, in case of

substantial cost reductions

resulting from economic or

technological developments,

or where needed to meet the

EU’s international

commitments for

decarbonisation.

Member States shall set

their national contributions to

the Union target in their

energy and climate plans. The

Commission shall assess

whether such contributions

are sufficient to reach the

2030 target taking into

account the objective criteria

listed and the relevant

national circumstances and

can take measures in case of

an ambition gap. Any delivery

gap will be filled solely on

additional EU measures.

However, the co-legislators

agreed to include 3

assessment points, in 2022,

2025 and 2027. EE national

trajectories are now indicative

and their shape (linear/non-

linear) is not specified. Under

the Article 7 of the EED, the

real annual savings rate to

deliver the energy savings

obligation (in Article 7) is set at

0.80% of final energy

consumption (includes energy

uses in transport) and this rate

obligation can run after 2030

unless the review by the

Commission by 2027 would

conclude otherwise. Member

States are flexible to define

the way of their energy

savings calculations by using a

set of possibilities as long as

the net new savings equal

0.80% per year are achieved.

With this approach (minimum

rate of annual savings), the

calculation baseline has

changed from energy sales to

final energy consumption

which also cover the energy

use in transport. Furthermore,

there is also eligibility of

counting savings from small

scale renewable technologies

installed in buildings (based on

the rules of Annex V). Member

States must abide by these

rules and notify on the

designated time periods in

their Integrated National

Energy and Climate Plans,

their national energy savings

annually and policies and

measures implemented to

achieve them. A final

important point for Article 7 is

the energy poverty issue that

is mandatory to be dealt with

but the EED allows flexibility to

MS to decide on the measures

that will tackle energy poverty

in the households.

Concerning other Articles

of the EED, the most important

changes refer to Art. 9-11 on

clearer and strengthened

rules for metering and billing of

thermal energy (heating,

cooling or domestic hot water

supplied from a central source

such as a district heating

network or a common boiler in

a multi-apartment building)-

especially in multi-apartment

buildings with collective

heating systems. Furthermore,

for all consumers entitled to

bills based on actual

consumption/heat cost

allocator, there must be

readings at least once a year,

which must include:

Comparisons of consumers’

consumption with previous

year and with

other/benchmarked

consumers in the same

category, and Information on

fuel mix and related

greenhouse gas emissions

associated with the

production of the thermal

energy supplied, at least in DH

systems with a total rated

thermal input > 20 MW.

Finally, the Primary Energy

Factor (PEF) for electricity

generation is lowered from 2.5

to 2.1, with a review clause

every four years.

The new energy efficiency target rises to 32.5%; to be

achieved collectively by the EU in 2030.

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POLICY NEEDS FROM MEMBER STATES TOWARDS IMPLEMENTING THE ARTICLE 7 EED The implementation of the

Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency

Directive (EED) by European

Union (EU) Member States (MS)

has shown so far that public

authorities have limited time

and resources to coordinate

experience sharing at the EU

level. Similarly, these constraints

limit their ability to research and

adopt successful policy

implementation approaches of

other MS. Their focus is rather on

designing, implementing,

monitoring, reporting and

evaluating their own national

policies. However, national

authorities and market

stakeholders have consistently

welcomed the opportunity to

share experiences, policy

implementation challenges and

solutions specifically with

regards to energy efficiency

obligations (EEOs) and

alternative measures and

monitoring and verification

(MRV) schemes. This has been

evidenced in the projects EC IEE

ENSPOL EC H2020 MULTEE,

H2020, PUBLENEF, EPATEE, Energy

Efficiency Watch 3 and the

Concerted Action for the Energy

Efficiency Directive (CA EED)

initiative. Meanwhile across the

EU, EEOs and alternative policies

are facing difficulties in reaching

their targets. Several MS have

reviewed and downgraded

their energy saving targets due

to substantial increase in their

costs (Denmark, Italy and the

UK) or due to lack of interest for

new policies such as EEOs

(Germany). In this context it is

evident that to achieve the

2030 and interim targets,

1https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/analysis-annual-reports-2017-under-energy-efficiency-directive-summary-report 2 Bertoldi, P. et al (2015) How is article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive being implemented? An analysis of national

energy efficiency obligation schemes. https://tinyurl.com/ya7wjh2s

effective energy efficiency

policies need to be

implemented consistently across

MS. In this regard, it is important

to note that:

Recent reporting from MS

has highlighted the

difficulties some of them are

experiencing in meeting

their EED related targets and

the (urgent) need for them

to adapt or complement

their current policies1;

The absence of sound

Monitoring, Reporting and

Verification (MRV) regimes in

many MS poses a challenge

in terms of understanding

the impacts of existing

policies. Incoherent MRV for

different measures used to

implement the EED leads to

potential synergies between

measures being missed2;

International experience has

demonstrated for a long

time that rigorous and

transparent MRV systems are

not only important for

tracking impact and

progress of energy

efficiency instruments but

also serve to continuously

Technical/

practical:

Ensuring attractiveness of the scheme for

the target group(s), Ensuring

complementarity with other

policies/initiatives, and that overall the

policy portfolio/strategy is comprehensive

(vs. barriers, market failures, etc.)

Legal/ political: Getting political support to the

policy/scheme and Specifying the

objectives (e.g., setting quantitative

targets, specifying the target group(s),

etc.)

Financial: Budget commitments for the

policy/scheme and ensuring the

sustainability of the scheme (e.g.

refinancing), Understanding investment

capacity and financial needs of target

group(s) and identifying complementary

financing solutions

Technical/

practical:

Ensuring materiality (e.g., financial

incentives, specific energy advice) and

mitigating the risks of frauds

Quality

assurance:

Ensuring quality of the actions promoted

Communication: Raising awareness about energy savings

opportunities and multiple benefits of

energy efficiency, ensuring the

satisfaction of the target groups

Organisational: Ensuring stakeholders’ involvement

TABLE 1 POLICY IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES UNDER ARTICLE 7 EED

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improve the policy

landscape3.

In this context, identifying good

practices and applying them to

help tackle the challenges

faced by MS to reach their

targets is key. Facilitating

European wide co-ordination

through exchange of best

replicable practices under

Article 7 on this will a) Reduce

barriers for the adoption of

newer policy measures and

energy efficiency actions in MS,

b) Enable MS to draw on a

wider pool of understanding,

and c) ease and streamline

MRV scheme administration,

thus making it as cost-effective

as possible. Based on EC IEE

ENSPOL’s results, there is no

universal optimal way of

meeting Article 7 requirements

and that each country has

chosen a package of policy

measures, which best fits, its

national circumstances (e.g.

national priorities, historical

policy developments and

different policy making styles).

Also, the MRV results of these

policies show that they are not

always producing the expected

savings.

From a short survey on policy

implementers carried out by

IEECP and other partners across

the EU, there is an

acknowledgement that the

parameters of the underlying

policy framework should be

3 For examples from such practices, please refer to the Finnish case studies in H2020 EPATEE project (www.epatee.eu)

adjusted. The EED

implementation experience so

far demonstrates that public

bodies deciding on Article 7

measures tend to take

precautions by choosing safe,

tried and tested policies. Often,

this means that some cross-

cutting measures including e.g.

more renewables in buildings, or

certain tax schemes for

transport are avoided, in order

to ensure compliance with the

EED. More specifically, the key

issues identified in policy

implementation and MRV from

this survey are shown in Table 1

and 2.

Based on these findings, in order

thus to better implement in

practice the policies under

Article 7 EED, it is important for

Member States to receive

guidance through various

initiatives on

1. Facilitating the sharing

of knowledge and experience

amongst Member States

(bilaterally, additionally to the

Concerted Action EED) for the

implementation of policies

under Article 7 EED

2. Developing a suite of

tailored resources and tools for

the implementation of Article 7

EED to address the specific

needs of Member States

3. Assisting national

authorities’ in-house MRV

schemes with a view to ensuring

they have robust data and

insight to inform the (re)design

of policies towards 2030.

For more information or requests

on EED, please contact Vlasios

Oikonomou (vlasis@ieecp.org)

or Mia Dragović Matosović

(mia@ieecp.org)

Technical/

practical:

Some of the data or verification

requirements are difficult to comply with

due to technical reasons (for example,

difficulties to document or verify the

situation before an action is

implemented)

Organisational: Complexity of MRV requirements can

generate administrative burden

Capacity: Lack of staff to undertake MRV

Legal/

political:

Missing or unclear MRV guidelines (e.g.,

not enough details or unclear data

requirements, verification processes,

etc.)

TABLE 2 MRV ISSUES UNDER ARTICLE 7 EED

November 2018

PARIS IN PRACTICE WORKSHOP HELD

IEECP included in a dialogue on risks and uncertainties facing the EU’s

2050 climate targets under TRANSrisk project

IECCP’s Zsolt Lengyel

facilitated the discussion on

the main risks and

uncertainties facing the EU’s

2050 climate targets at the

“Paris in Practice:

Understanding the Risks and

Uncertainties” workshop of

the TRANSrisk - Transitions

Pathways and Risk Analysis

for Climate Change

Mitigation and Adaption

Strategies, started in

September 2015 under the

umbrella of EU Horizon 2020

programme. Zsolt, as member

of the Scientific Advisory

Board (SAB) of the project

highlighted the benefits of the

unique project approach –

bringing together the social

sciences/stakeholder

approaches and modelling –

trough global case studies

that are extremely relevant

both for policymakers and

practitioners. The cases

covering various sectors –

from agriculture (animal

husbandry, coffee) to

cookstoves, geothermal and

oil- sands - locations in

Europe, the Americas, Africa

and Asia has highlighted that

a close cooperation between

practitioners and modelers

could lead to significant

improvements both in the

models and the subsequent

policy/implementation.

For the EU’s 2050 climate

targets and the broader

context of the SDGs the

importance of the non-

linearity, the existence of

tipping points, and the

challenge from moving from

incremental to transitory

change was highlighted in his

introduction. He also

emphasised the TransRisk

lessons of various, significant

trade-offs and synergies that

could be quantified and

explored further with a

stakeholder engaging

modelling approach as

carried out during the three

years of the project. Finally,

he had emphasised that the

shifting of the billions of

investments towards low-

carbon, resilient development

benefits form an approach,

pioneered by TransRisk, that

addresses the

interconnections and

interdependencies of climate

action – both mitigation and

adaptation – on the level of

details showcased by this

Horizon2020 project.

He concluded with a

personal remark on how he

saw the project community

evolving over time recalling

the very recognisable, distinct

modelling and social

sciences teams on the first

project meeting and how

over time the technical

modellers and social

scientist/non-technical

experts have blended and

established closely

cooperating teams for the

specific country policy/action

challenges.

Find out more here, or

contact Zsolt Lengyel at

zsolt@ieecp.org

ENERGY GOVERNANCE IN ITALY

Path dependence, policy adjustments and new challenges for sustainability

After a peer review, IEECP

has finalized the contribution

to the Italian chapter of the

manual “Energy governance

in Europe” due to be

published by Springer in 2019.

The work was announced in

the first IEECP newsletter

published in September 2017.

The chapter analyses the

structural constraints that

influenced the decision-

making processes and

organization of the Italian

energy sector. Although

renewables account for over

17% of gross final energy

consumption, the current

energy system is still quite

centralized, path-dependent

and hampered by

“A close cooperation between practitioners and

modelers could lead to significant improvements both

in the models and the subsequent

policy/implementation.”

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discontinuous research,

energy and industrial policies.

Firstly, external and

domestic drivers as well as

coordination mechanisms

and instruments for the

energy transition are

analysed from a multilevel

governance perspective. The

chapter then reflects on the

role the Italian incumbents

played for the success of low

carbon technologies, energy

policies and digitalization of

the power sector. European

policies will still provide a

suitable model for Italian

policy makers, but coherent

measures are also needed to

keep fostering distributed

generation or high-efficiency

co-generation. Moreover,

placing energy communities

and prosumers at the centre

of the new energy model

seems necessary to ensure a

sustainable transition.

The authors of the chapter

are Daniele Russolillo, IEECP

Senior Associate, and Maria

Rosaria di Nucci, Freie

Universität Berlin,

Environmental Policy

Research Centre.

For more information

please contact Daniele

Russolillo at

daniele@ieecp.org

HOT TOPIC: INCLUDING ENERGY POVERTY IN OBLIGATION SCHEMES

Most of the energy efficiency

obligations applied in EU

countries focus on the

mechanics, economics and

regulatory aspects of energy

efficiency, emphasizing on

the cost, carbon and energy

savings achieved. Given that

these obligations are

arbitrarily assumed to have a

positive impact on energy

poverty, the latter is sparsely

mentioned and no direct

measures are taken towards

its alleviation4.

Innovative energy efficiency

obligation schemes can be

designed and effective

measures can be

implemented by the

obligated parties under

Article 7 of the Energy

Efficiency Directive, with

energy poverty mitigation

being one of the main

objectives. In this context, a

set of useful decision support

tools is necessary for utilities,

energy suppliers, distributors

and other obligated parties

across the EU, in order to:

Identify energy poor

clients, based on utilities’

data, information from

social services and other

open data sources.

Elaborate Energy Poverty

Action Plans, after having

evaluated and selected

appropriate energy

poverty schemes and

actions. Energy efficiency

interventions at the

household level and

increased use of

renewable energy can

be triggered, by

promoting innovative

financing options, such as

energy performance

contracts, energy saving

agreement or on-bill

repayment.

Monitor and assess the

overall procedure, using

an efficient and reliable

monitoring and

verification plan that will

enable the evaluation of

the impact of the

schemes implemented.

In this way, we will be able to

support utilities and energy

suppliers to fulfil their energy

efficiency obligations, as well

as improve public relations,

promote Corporate Social

Responsibility strategies,

reduce debt and overhead

in managing debt and

enhance their public image.

Vangelis Marinakis,

vangelis@ieecp.org

4 Rosenow, J., Platt, R., Flanagan, B. (2013): Fuel poverty and energy efficiency obligations. The case of the Supplier

Obligation in the UK. Energy Policy 62, pp. 1194-1203.

November 2018

OTHER IEECP NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

Jean-Sébastien Broc was invited to make a presentation about the challenges with

harmonizing monitoring & evaluation of energy efficiency policies, at the Discussion

workshop entitled “EED art.7: Towards a toolbox for Member States” organised by the European

Copper Institute and Leonardo Energy on May 17th in Brussels.

Mia Dragović Matosović was invited to 2018 IEECB & SC (Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial

Buildings & Smart Communities Conference) to present findings of her research about the economic

efficiency of introducing and using a Sustainable Energy System before making a choice on which

buildings from entire stock to retrofit. For more infomation on the topic, pease contact mia@ieecp.org

A peer-reviewed paper about the first EPATEE results was presented at IEPPEC 2018 in Vienna on June

25th: Broc, J., Thenius, G., di Santo, D., Schlomann, B., Breitschopf, B., van der Meulen, J., van

den Oosterkamp, Maric, L., Matosovic, M., 2018. What can we learn from sharing experience

about evaluation practices? Proceeding of IEPPEC 2018, Vienna, June 25-27th 2018.

Jean-Sébastien Broc was invited by GiZ to make a presentation about the French

experience with white certificates at the International Forum “White Certificates:

an instrument to recognize savings and efficient use of energy in Mexico?” on 23rd

of October in Mexico city: . This Forum was organised as part of the CONECC project (“Enhancing the

coherence of climate and energy policies in Mexico”).

SAVE THE DATE!

3rd European EPATEE workshop to be held in Rome on November 30th. Focus will be

on the evaluation of policies for Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive, with

practical examples and feedback presented by public authorities of France, Italy and UK. Registration

to the workshop is free but required; please, register here.

Zsolt Lengyel and Vlasios Oikonomou will both present at COP24 Katowice. Zsolt will

present at the PCCB Hub, the initiative of the Paris Committee on Capacity Building

under the UNFCCC, on December 5th at 12.00 -at the event “A critical discussion on

the required capacities to utilise blockchain for the speeding up of climate action

and upscaling the energy transition” and on December 6th at 18.00-at the event “The

clean, the dirty and the unwanted: capacity building for energy transitions”

on integrating top-down, bottom-up -modelling; approaches for the energy

transition and climate action. He will be available at the PCCB Hub in the 5-

9th December period for meetings/discussions.

Vlasis Oikonomou will present PUBLEnEf at the EASME event on the topic

“Increasing ambition in the low-carbon transition: challenges and implications

of the 1.5 and 2 degree targets” during the UNFCCC COP 24 on the 6th

December (more information can be found here).

Consider contributing to the Special Issue on “Energy Poverty Alleviation: Effective Policies, Best

Practices and Innovative Schemes” in “Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy” of

Taylor & Francis Online by March 31st, 2019. This special issue is devoted to the latest developments in

the field of energy poverty and aims to provide valuable insights into the most effective solutions to

alleviate energy poverty. More information is available here.

Vlasios Oikonomou will be a leader of Panel 3. Policy and governance at the ECEEE 2019

Summer Study on Energy Efficiency. See the summer study programme and topics.

November 2018

Mr. Zsolt Lengyel zsolt@ieecp.org

Dr. Vlasios Oikonomou vlasis@ieecp.org

Ms. Mia Dragović Matosović mia@ieecp.org

Dr. Jean-Sébastien Broc jsb@ieecp.org

Dr. Deger Saygin deger@ieecp.org

Dr. Vangelis Marinakis vmarinakis@ieecp.org

Mr. Daniele Russolillo daniele@ieecp.org

Ms. Ana Mostečak ana@ieecp.org

Dr. Yamina Saheb yamina@ieecp.org

Dr. Martijn Rietbergen martijn@ieecp.org

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