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It deals with the way to fund energy efficiency programmes via tax and social levies or carbon finance. This session gives an overview of white certificates schemes notably with the examples of India and Uruguay, and introduces different support energy efficiency schemes (grants, tax incentives, soft loan,other).
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Solar cells (photovoltaics, PV) for electricity generation is forecasted to become one of the main contributors in the future energy system. Better building integration of PV (BIPV) is desired for aesthetical reasons and potentially also for cost savings. As of now, BIPV is generally more expensive than ordinary building applied PV installations (BAPV) or regular building components, which means there is a need to include other values in BIPV business models. This webinar presents the results from an inventory of existing business models and case studies, performed within the work of IEA-PVPS Task 15.
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Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish Caching
Marie project - leaflet
1. The MARIE project consortium:
9 Mediterranean countries
23 partners
Lead partner: Government of Catalonia.
Department of Territory and Sustainability.
Housing Agency of Catalonia, Spain
IASA (Institute of Accelerating
Systems and Applications), Greece
Region Umbria, Italy
ACC1Ó. Agency to Support Catalan
Companies, Spain
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
ANKO (Regional Development Agency of
Western Macedonia S.A.), Greece
Consortium AREA for scientific
and technologic research of
Trieste, Italy
University of Evora, Portugal
Region Basilicata, Italy
Piedmont Region, Italy
LIMA (Low Impact Mediterranean
Architecture Association), Spain
IREC (Catalan Institute for Energy
Research), Spain
EPSA (Public Land Agency of
Andalusia), Spain
ARE Liguria (Regional Energy Agency
of Liguria), Italy
UMAR (Union of Mediterranean
Architects), Malta
LCA (Local Council Association
of Malta), Malta
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
CRMA (Chambre Régionale
de Métiers et de l’Artisanat), France
GOLEA (Goriska Local Energy Agency),
Slovenia
Forest Sciences Center of
Catalonia (CTFC), Spain
MEDITERRANEAN
BUILDING
RETHINKING FOR
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
IMPROVEMENT
Bar Municipality, Montenegro
EFFINERGIE, France
MARIE
Larnaca Municipality, Cyprus
www.marie-medstrategic.eu
Contact:
Xavier Martí i Ragué
MARIE Coordinator
Chief Officer of European Programmes
Secretariat for Housing and Urban Improvement
Department of Territory and Sustainability
Government of Catalonia
C/ Aragó 244-248, 2a planta
08007 Barcelona
(+34 932 147 195)
MEDITERRANEAN BUILDING
RETHINKING FOR ENERGY
EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
WHY MUST WE IMPROVE ENERGY
EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS NOW?
PAGE 3
HOW IS THE MEDBEE STRATEGY
BEING BUILT?
PAGE 4
WHAT ARE THE CONCLUSIONS FROM
DATA COMPILED?
PAGE 5
WHAT IS THE TIMETABLE FOR THE
MEDBEE STRATEGY?
PAGE 7
WHICH ARE THE MAIN BARRIERS
IDENTIFIED?
PAGE 8
WHICH CONCRETE MEASURES
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AND
TESTED?
PAGE 9
MARIE 2nd BROCHURE
Edited by
Department of Territory and
Sustainability of Government of
Catalonia
Design
Anna Carrió
HOW WILL THE BARRIERS BE OVERCOME? WHICH STRATEGY IS MOST
EFFECTIVE IN MED SPACE?
PAGE 10
HOW WILL THE IMPACT OF MEDBEES
BE CONSIDERED?
WHY MUST WE IMPROVE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN
BUILDINGS NOW?
Energy consumption in MED regions
buildings is rising above EU average
figures establishing a trend that is
contrary to the EU2020 energy efficiency
objectives. Achievement of the EU2020
target in EU Mediterranean countries
is therefore a considerable challenge
requiring coordinated and strategic
institutional action and effective
investment of European funds, such as
the European Regional Development
Fund (ERDF), in Med space.
In this context, the 22 MARIE
partners (www.marie-medstrategic.
eu) are committed to work together
to co-construct the Mediterranean
Building Energy Efficiency
Improvement Strategy (MEDBEES)
in order to intensify, motivate and
facilitate progress, in both the
public and private sectors, towards
achieving the objectives.
POTENTIAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL
Save Energy + Reduce greenhouse gas emissions + Protect
biodiversity
SOCIAL
Create jobs+ Increase comfort
and health + Rise cohesion
PAGE 11
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
PAGE 12
ECONOMIC
WHAT ABOUT CAPITALIZATION?
Save public and private money +
Sustainable activity + Develop
energy independence
PAGE 14
www.marie-medstrategic.eu
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER MARIE?
PAGE 15
Building energy efficiency improvement policies produce not only impacts in terms of energy efficiency, but also produce multiple effects
that contribute to more sustainable development.
3
3. HOW IS THE MEDBEE STRATEGY BEING BUILT?
WHAT ARE THE CONCLUSIONS FROM DATA COMPILED?
MED Zone
IPA Zone
(Pre-Accession)
MARIE Zone
Data has been
compiled in the
MARIE Zone.
Barriers and
Measures
Identification
Pilot Activities
Testing Measures
The process to build MEDBEES has
started with the diagnosis; determining the main barriers and outlining a
first scheme of more promising lines
of intervention and measures. The
MARIE pilot activities will allow this
scheme to be tested: reviewing and
refining the definition of barriers and
measures.
During 2013 and 2014 the MEDBEES
Intervention Programs will be defined
and assessed in environmental,
social and economic terms. These
programs will cover:
• new regulatory requirements and
institutional tools
• new financial mechanisms
• innovation in small and medium
enterprises (SMEs)
• communication and training.
MEDBEES
Agreement
MEDBEES
Implementation
after 2014
Consensus, commitment and coordination are essential aspects of the
MEDBEES construction process, in
this sense MEDBEES should involve
the majority of representative public
and private agents in this market.
The MEDBEES construction process
is conceived as interactive, with
continuous feedback in order to reach
a consolidated and useful strategy.
For this reason the data collection and
analysis, the methodological development, the testing, the programs and
the interactions will all be open to review and refinement right until the end
of the project in December 2014.
After completion of the MARIE project, in
the period 2014 to 2020, MEDBEES will
be implemented and the MARIE results
will be measured and evaluated.
Despite the difficulties encountered with the census (availability of actualized
data), we can make the following 4 conclusions:
1. The MARIE Zone building stock is large. There are more than 10 million
buildings and more than 30 million homes.
2. The building stock is ancient and energy inefficient. The majority of buildings were constructed before 1980, without insulation, and prior to inclusion of
effective energy efficiency criteria in building regulations.
Example: Building stock
600000
Number of
homes built
in Piedmont
(1919-1991)
500000
400000
300000
200000
100000
0
19
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fo
Be
4
5
19
2
1
0-
0
19
4
1
6-
0
97
96
94
19
19
6
1
1-
0
7
19
01
0
99
98
1
1-
19
8
1
1-
0
-2
91
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4. 3. In residential buildings, final energy consumption varies from 90 kWh/m
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WHAT IS THE TIMETABLE FOR THE MEDBEE STRATEGY?
to 150 kWh/m (useful area) and space heating is always the most significant energy requirement varying from 40% to 65% of total consumption.
2
Electricity 17%
PACA
Heating
91 kWh/m2
Hot water
(excluding solar
energy)
Cooking
10 kWh/m2
Heating 64%
Electricity
(including cooling)
Regional Benchmark Analysis for
MARIE regions and countries
2012
Definition of barriers to reach EU 2020
objectives in MARIE regions and countries
2012
Definition of measures to overcome
the barriers
17 kWh/m2
26 kWh/m2
Cooking 7%
Hot water 12%
2011
144 kWh/m2
PACA annual household energy consumption by use.
4. The current energy efficiency refurbishment rates in the MARIE regions compiled within this project range from 0.12% to 0.26%. This rate is 2-3 times lower
than the average energy refurbishment rate in north-western EU countries. This
very slow natural refurbishment rate in the MED area further demonstrates the
need for urgent policy action.
Example: Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur data from 2010
2.0%
Total Refurbishment year
2012/2013/2014
Develop 9 pilot activities to
test measures
• Innovative regulations (2)
• Integrated financial schemes (2)
• Innovation and local enterprises (3)
• Awareness and training (2)
Energy refurbishment year
1.5%
1.0%
BPIE: “EU buildings
under the microscope”.
FI: Fraunhofer Institute
“Study on the Energy
Savings Potentials in
EU Member States,
Candidate Countries
and EEA Countries”
0.5%
0.0%
2014
Detailed definition of
measures and programs to implement the
MEDBEE Strategy
Average
North- South EU New EU Average
EU(BPIE) West EU
(FI)
members MED
(FI)
(FI)
(MARIE)
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5. WHICH ARE THE MAIN BARRIERS IDENTIFIED?
WHICH CONCRETE MEASURES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
AND TESTED?
MARIE partners have identified 33 barriers. In the next table the ten most significant
barriers are organised in terms of strategic lines of action.
MARIE pilot activities are grouped in 5 strategic lines, each containing measures
listed below. These measures will all be tested by MARIE pilot activities.
• Incomplete, unshared, spread or asymmetric information regarding energy
efficiency (EE) issues, the best available methodologies and solutions, providers of available services.
• Lack of detailed information on the characteristics of the building stock at
the regional level.
• Lack of end user motivation for EE improvement. The issues of aesthetics, bigger
space, fashion and updating, well-being, reducing noise are the most important
motivations for refurbishment. As a consequence, there is a distortion between
public policies (EE focus only) and building owners, tenants and users behaviour
patterns.
DEVISING
TOOLS FOR
ENERGY
RENOVATION
OF BUILDINGS
MARKET
ACTIVATION
FOR ERB
1.1. Develop a shared information system.
1.2. Establish a common protocol for organizing
Energy Renovation of Buildings (ERB) in urban
areas.
2.1. Activate ERB Demand through
communication plans.
2.2. Activate ERB Supply and professional skills
development.
2.3. Promote Business Cooperation.
• Lack of technical skills and know-how at all levels of the supply side.
• Lack of awareness among users on the benefits of EE investments in the long run.
• Low level of technical innovation in building sector (creation and dissemination
of new processes and techniques).
• Lack of technical skills and know-how at all levels of the supply side.
• Fragmented structure of the supply side at all levels of the value chain acting as
a barrier to the efficient stimulation of both supply and demand sides.
• Unclear, unstable and short-term oriented legislative framework for both offer
and demand.
• Poor integration of european, national, regional and local polices, and of the
related administrative bodies, regarding EE and renewable energy sources.
• The incapacity of conventional financial instruments to accomodate feasible EE
renovation schemes
• Inability to account for the external, environmental and social, costs of the
current situation and inactivity, rendering EE less profitable.
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COMPETITIVENESS AND
INNOVATION
IN BUILDING
ENERGY
EFFICIENCY
BUILDINGS’
ENERGY
EFFICIENCY
PUBLIC
GOVERNANCE
ECONOMIC
RESOURCES
FOR ERB
3.1. Promote and support local and renewable
materials.
3.2. Enforce the use of LCA models and green public
procurement.
3.3. Integrate energy services supply.
3.4 New research initiatives.
4.1. Align regional legislation and policies to EU
2020 objectives.
4.2. Integrate Local management.
4.3. Share experiences and policy.
5.1. Assign resources.
5.2. Mobilise resources.
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6. HOW WILL THE BARRIERS BE OVERCOME?
HOW WILL THE IMPACT OF MEDBEES BE CONSIDERED?
WHICH STRATEGY IS MOST EFFECTIVE IN MED SPACE?
Each tested measure will have a fact sheet and an associated calculation file in
order to determine its impact and possible funding mechanism.
Important changes, affecting traditional
forms of work, urgently need to be made
and implemented rapidly in order to
achieve the EU2020 objectives. Two
words summarize the MARIE partners’
approach to achieving this: coordinate
and concentrate.
Coordinating Public Administrations to
make sure that everyone works together,
in the same direction at the same time, is
essential in order to remove the “big barriers stones”. The scheme below shows
so that they operate as a single body
gaining force through economies of
scale, critical mass and exploitation of
synergies. In the scheme below, the 5
strategic lines correspond to a regional
level because at this level it is possible to
create synergies and positive impacts.
The results of the Potential Impact
Evaluation (PIE) of the first draft of the
MEDBEES policy measures indicate that
larger energy savings would be achieved
by these measures than by an equally
EU MS LEVEL
RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTION
DEVELOPMENT
ACTIONS
1.1. Develop a common information system allowing the EU-MED to characterize and to compare the energy consumption in buildings by end use typology and energy sources.
Regional and/or State-owned Statistics offices, regional organizations/ agencies competent on building,
regional energy organizations/ agencies.
RELATION WITH OTHER ACTIONS
FUNDING SOURCES
1.2. Define and implement a framework for the planning of the energy renovation of buildings in the EU-MED area.
5.1. Define and implement an investment program at EU-MED in the period 2014-2010 for the ERB
Intelligent Energy Europe III - in Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)
Regional and municipal funding
Eurostat (SECH project and similar)
BARRIER TO OVERCOME
BENEFICIARY
K5. Need of detailed information about the building park at a regional level
MED regions and cities.
PRIORITY / IMPORTANCE
EVALUATION INDICATORS
High
Number of integrated regional systems.
IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD
Short term
PILOT TESTS
Description: 1.2 Building catalogue
Duration: June 2012- July 2013
MEMBER STATE LEVEL
Framework developer
Guarantee of coherence for all MED
regions and cities
NEED OF RESOURCES
To develop a common information system at the EU-MED that allows characterizing and comparing energy consumption in buildings by final use and energy source.
EU LEVEL
Common Framework
Strategic direction
targeting, financing
and monitoring
DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Development: between 100 000€ and 300 000€ per region depending on the building park.
Maintenance: 20 000€ per year, per region.
TOOLS / METHODS
IMPACT
•
•
•
•
High impact in a midterm.
Existing systems analysis and available information.
Identification and definition of the main data and indicators.
Development of a common methodology for data gathering.
Prepare a tool for data management and treatment
REFERENCES
Survey on energy consumption in Catalan households. (ICAEN 1997-2005)
REGIONAL AND
LOCAL LEVEL
DEVISING
TOOLS
Example fact sheet template for measure 1.1
Information and energy consumption.
INNOVATION AND
COMPETITIVENESS
ECONOMIC RESOURCES
MARKET
ACTIVATION
GOVERNANCE
One of the 4 urban areas to test
energy information measures,
located in Barcelona.
TRANSNATIONAL
LEVEL
MED ORGANIZATION AND COORDINATION
Financing and certification
the three main levels of decision making
that need to work together coherently.
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Concentrating Public Funds is
fundamental in order to maximize their
effectiveness. Five strategic lines of work
need to become very well-articulated
ambitious strategy based on trend policy
measures (Rapid Results). The benefits
of the MEDBEES arrive slowly, but accumulate steadily with time. The study
has been made by IREC and is available
from the MARIE web site (http://www.
marie-medstrategic.eu).
Building
uses map in
the tested
area.
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7. FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
FINANCIAL MECHANISMS: A CENTRAL OUTPUT OF MEDBEES.
CAN INNOVATION IN THE SUPPLY SIDE ALSO BE A CENTRAL OUTPUT OF MEDBEES?
From a demand side approach
is clear that boosting public and
private financial investment in EE
refurbishment is crucial to improving energy efficiency in MED
buildings. However, improving
energy management in buildings
also has an enormous saving
potential and a significant role to
play regardless of the investment
capability. By way of example,
one of the MARIE pilot buildings
(Diagonal 525, Barcelona owned
by Department of Territory and
Sustainaibility). During last three
years the Ministry has reduced
energy use by over 20% and
saved more than 30 000 Euros
per year by applying an internal
management system focused on
optimising use of the cooling and
heating system. This improvement has been achieved with no
investment other than dedication
of staff time.
It is also important to act on the supply
side. MARIE is developing three pilot
actions in this field. These actions aim to
boost the availability of quality materials, products and solutions designed for
more sustainable renovation of buildings
and promote this to local building SMEs.
The strategic objective is to provoke
a change in their purchasing choices;
persuading them to adopt innovative,
more sustainable solutions. All three
pilot actions involve the whole supply
chain (Materials -> Products -> Services)
and include institutional side action to
support local SMEs. The results of these
actions will be transferable and adaptable at both MED and EU level.
Annual energy savings
(in relation to 2004-2008 average)
0
-10%
-2%
-7%
-20%
-30%
-18%
-25%
-25%
-22%
-32%
-40%
-50%
-52%
-60%
-70%
2009
Electricity savings
2010
-68%
2011
Gas savings
Total savings
One pilot action involves the development and test of building materials
based on locally sourced, natural and
sustainable renewable resources.
The second is focused linking public
administrations and private companies in order to create a new potential
driver of innovation in the EE field and
to improve the competitiveness and
qualified technology of local SMEs.
And the third is centred on the
development of energy business
services for local SMEs to push and
pull the energy renovation market in
MED regions.
Final energy consumption, Diagonal 525 bulding
1,400,000
Use of cellulose scraps
from paper mills.
1,200,000
1,000,000
In conclusion, developing financial mechanisms are critical to
the MEDBEES but do not replace
energy management improvement. On the contrary, they
only make sense in a context of
investments of integrated energy
management improvement programmes that focus on human
requirements and habits as well
as technological efficiency.
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800,000
600,000
400,000
200,000
0
2004-2008
2009
Electricity (kWh/a)
2010
Gas (kWh/a)
2011
Area Science Park is testing an innovative product for
the building sector under real conditions: an active
external building envelope involving the use of heat
pumps and a thermal distribution system, integrated in
the envelope, combining thermal and acoustic insulation and heating and cooling plants.
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8. www.marieapp.eu
WHAT ABOUT CAPITALIZATION?
In order to ensure optimal exploitation
of the opportunities presented by MED
programme support, and considering the MED Programme Committee recommendations, the MARIE
and ELIH-Med (for Energy Efficiency
in Low-Income Housing) strategic
projects have joined forces in order
to drive a common message towards
politicians and decision makers. Since
the beginning of each project, MARIE
and ELIH-Med have been working
together on capitalization of outputs
and end results.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER MARIE?
It is therefore in ELIH-Med and
MARIE’s best interest to share and
convey a common vision of the barriers to be overcome and investment
targets as well as a coherent convergent range of solutions to achieve
EU2020 objectives. These policy
related solutions will be included in a
policy paper on MED building energy
efficiency improvement that both
projects are elaborating together.
The paper will present consensusbased recommendations to the
COMMON
In general terms, capitalization is the strategy and
process that will ensure that
the concrete outputs of the
projects’ activities will produce a long term, deep and
significant impact on public
policies at the local, regional, national and european
level. Specifically, the capitalization process aims to
create a cumulative effect,
not only through the aggregation of project results
MARIE
but also at a program level
outputs
through the convergence of
indicators, strategic objectives and proposals. In this way, the
process will ultimately strengthen
institutional cooperation and sectorial
innovation in the MED zone within the
mainstream framework of European
Building Energy Efficiency policies.
CAPITALIZATION
MARIE will conclude with the completion of the MEDBEES in December
2014. However, the most important
objective of the project is to reach real
effects beyond the end of the project.
For this reason, two essential tools to
guarantee an important and significant
impact after the end of the project
have been in development right from
the start of the project.
The MARIE Business Network (MBN)
was constituted in May 2012 in Turin
both to ensure private companies
involvement through clusters and
agreement around the MEDBEES and
also with the objective of facilitating
the building energy renovation market
development after MARIE.
The MARIE Associated Partners Platform
(APP) was created in March 2012 in
POLICY PAPER ON ENERGY
EFFICIENCY IN BUILDINGS MEDBEES
order to facilitate the communication and
consensus between public and private
organizations related to energy efficiency
of buildings. The benefits of APP for associated partners will be:
• exposure of their profile and activities
on a Mediterranean wide platform
• the ability to search and receive
information on projects related to EE in
MED countries
• exchange of experiences & information
related to Energy Efficiency of Buildings
(EEB)
• participation in a platform to discuss
and contribute to the MEDBEES
development
The APP has been constructed to be
a permanent platform (beyond the end
of the project MARIE) to facilitate the
implementation of MEDBEES between
2014 and 2020.
INTERACT
Regional strategies
Capitalisation workshops
EC CONSULTATION
Associated partners, external
experts, networks
Partners backgrounds &
networks, deliverables
ELIH-MED
outputs
Managing Authority of the MED programme, aiming to contribute to the
preparation of the next cooperation
programming period (2014-2020) in
its aspects related to energy efficiency in buildings.
Constitution of MARIE Business Network.
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