The document discusses establishing regulation and certification programs for energy service providers in Europe and the Mediterranean region. It proposes having governments ensure qualifications, accreditation, and certification schemes are available for providers of energy services, energy audits, and energy efficiency improvement schemes. It also suggests requiring energy distributors to offer competitively priced energy services and audits to customers or make equivalent financing available. Finally, it discusses developing a regional energy efficiency certification program by surveying existing programs and proposing a delivery mechanism.

1. Euro-Mediterranean
Energy Market Integration Project
Germany
France
Lebanon
Regulation and certification of energy
Belgium service providers (Article 7)
Khartoum, 22 November 2011
Ammar Al-Taher
MED-EMIP
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can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union”.
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2. Chapter 4: Article 7
Technical competence, objectivity & reliability
Governments to ensure the availability of appropriate qualifications,
accreditation and certification schemes for the:
 providers of energy services,
 energy audits
 and energy efficiency improvement schemes.
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3. Chapter 2: Article 3
Annex B provides samples for eligible measures for the different
sectors such as:
Energy audits
Energy engineers
Energy Performance contracting
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4. Chapter 3: Article 4
Exemplary role of the public sector
It requires each government to make sure that the public sector:
 is under this Guideline. Sample measures are listed in annex B
 select two mandatory measures from a list in Annex C, requiring
energy-efficient public procurement, energy audits, energy
performance contracting,….
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5. Chapter 1
Purpose and scope of work
Article I: Purpose
(B)Creating the appropriate conditions for the development and promotion
of a market for energy services in addition to the delivery of other necessary
measures to improve energy efficiency to end-users.
Article II: Scope of work:
providers of services to improve energy efficiency,
energy suppliers, energy distribution systems operators, energy selling
companies,
and energy end-users,
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6. Chapter 4: Article 5
Energy distributors
 do one or more of the following:
1. Offer competitively priced energy services to customers
2. Offer their customers competitively priced energy audits, and/or
energy efficiency improvements
3. Make equivalent finance to delivering the above available to fund energy
audits
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7. Chapter 4: Article 10
Financial resources & mechanisms
Governments to make available the required financial resources to support
and implements it energy efficiency programs and other measures for
promoting energy efficiency as well as improving the market for energy
efficiency services (i.e. energy efficiency subsidy funds)
Governments to ensure the availability of efficient, high-quality
energy audit schemes that can be carried out in an independent
manner by ESCOs and Distribution Co. These should identify energy
efficiency improvement measures
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8. Energy Managers / Engineers
 Job Description:
 Energy Data Collection and Analysis
 Energy Purchasing Supervision
 Energy Conservation Project Evaluation
 Energy Project Implementation
 Communications and Public Relations
 Reporting
 Qualification:
 Education
 Specialization
 Experience
 Training
 Certification
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11.
Levels and Concepts of Energy
Service Providers *
1 The service provider (SP) conducts an energy audit against a fixed fee. Delivers a report with recommendations
and pulls out.
2 The SP conducts an energy audit as in case 1. In addition obvious causes of energy waste are immediately fixed
if low cost or quick solutions are available.
3 The SP as in case 1 conducts an energy audit and details recommendations by an investment grade report (IGR)
that may also include engineering design.
4 The SP as in case 3 goes beyond an energy audit and prepares an IGR. In addition SP assists in establishing an
improved data collection, recording and analysis system.
5 As in case 5, but the performance contract has a clause about guaranteed savings.
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7 SP provides complete engineering design for recommendations and invests under a performance contract.
8 Contract for delivery of energy based on a true ESCO model.
9 Vendor ESCO, selling equipment under a high energy efficiency label. Almost all sell equipment under a
guaranteed performance or annual energy saving liable. Vendors who do not sell but lease, or even operate
their own equipment are rare..
* ESCO Business in India. Lost opportunity or risky business proposition, A.Kaupp, GTZ Senior Advisor, October 2001
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12. Energy Auditors
 Sector Specific
 Access to instruments
 Qualification
 Certification
 Contract contents (template)
 Energy Audit report content (template)
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14. Energy Performance
Contracting
 Qualifications
 Access to instruments
 Contracts (template)
 Monitoring & verification protocols
 Certification
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16. Options for our region
1. We do one training / certification at a time using different service
providers /content for each event and each country. This approach is a
business as usual non sustainable scenario which I, in the last 20 years,
resulted in nothing.
2. We introduce an existing program such as the European Energy Manager
training program or CEM of the association of Energy Engineers hoping
that RCREEE and other will become regional/national certified providers.
This approach can be useful in the short term and perceived prestigious
from participants and the beneficiary countries. It might be expensive to
maintain in the long run.
3. To build our own curricula in the three languages with local regional case
studies, test banks as some kind of a regional training/certification
program. This approach is the most difficult but most sustainable. We end
up having our own affordable regional training and certification programs
that also creates a regional market.
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17. Energy Efficiency Certification Program?
As a start MED-ENEC is going to do a Survey for
such programs in Arab and European
Countries and propose a regional delivery
mechanism
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18. Thank You
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