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Boosting EU’s Building Renovation Rates with Energy Performance Contracting
Annual building renovation rates in Europe currently stand at 0.4 to 1.2%. In order for Europe to meetits energy efficiency targets a “renovation wave” will have to be triggered that will, at least double, the current rates (“A European Green Deal | European Commission” 2019). It is clear, in the “Clean Energy Package for All Europeans”, that the European Commission regards Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) as a key tool to boost the aforementioned “renovation wave”. This is a renovation model in which the client shares the performance and financial risk of the energy efficiency renovation with the Energy Service (ESCO), responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the project during its lifetime. This is a model that has not seen the expected uptake in Europe its potential suggested, due to a set of, already well identified, regulatory, market, financial and social barriers. This project proposes an innovative EPC model – the Integrated Benefits Model – that aims at tackling some of the current barriers and envisions what the future of energy consumption in buildings can be. This model was tested in a real case study and was shown to reduce the project’s payback time by 16% when compared to a traditional energy efficiency renovation. This increases the attractiveness of energy retrofits among building owners. To address some of the remaining barriers, a set of recommendations to stakeholders was drafted, in order to facilitate a wider adoption of EPCs (and in particular the Integrated Benefits Model) across the whole value chain. ; Byggnadsrenoveringsgraden ligger för närvarande på 0,4 till 1,2%. För att Europa ska kunna uppnå sina energieffektivitetsmål måste en ”renoveringsvåg” utlösas som åtminstone kommer att fördubbla den uvarande siffrorona (“A European Green Deal | European Commission” 2019). Det är tydligt i satsningen "Ren energi för alla européer" att Europeiska kommissionen ser Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) som ett nyckelverktyg för att utlösa den ovannämnda "renoveringsvågen". ...
Boosting EU’s Building Renovation Rates with Energy Performance Contracting
Annual building renovation rates in Europe currently stand at 0.4 to 1.2%. In order for Europe to meetits energy efficiency targets a “renovation wave” will have to be triggered that will, at least double, the current rates (“A European Green Deal | European Commission” 2019). It is clear, in the “Clean Energy Package for All Europeans”, that the European Commission regards Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) as a key tool to boost the aforementioned “renovation wave”. This is a renovation model in which the client shares the performance and financial risk of the energy efficiency renovation with the Energy Service (ESCO), responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the project during its lifetime. This is a model that has not seen the expected uptake in Europe its potential suggested, due to a set of, already well identified, regulatory, market, financial and social barriers. This project proposes an innovative EPC model – the Integrated Benefits Model – that aims at tackling some of the current barriers and envisions what the future of energy consumption in buildings can be. This model was tested in a real case study and was shown to reduce the project’s payback time by 16% when compared to a traditional energy efficiency renovation. This increases the attractiveness of energy retrofits among building owners. To address some of the remaining barriers, a set of recommendations to stakeholders was drafted, in order to facilitate a wider adoption of EPCs (and in particular the Integrated Benefits Model) across the whole value chain. ; Byggnadsrenoveringsgraden ligger för närvarande på 0,4 till 1,2%. För att Europa ska kunna uppnå sina energieffektivitetsmål måste en ”renoveringsvåg” utlösas som åtminstone kommer att fördubbla den uvarande siffrorona (“A European Green Deal | European Commission” 2019). Det är tydligt i satsningen "Ren energi för alla européer" att Europeiska kommissionen ser Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) som ett nyckelverktyg för att utlösa den ovannämnda "renoveringsvågen". ...
Boosting EU’s Building Renovation Rates with Energy Performance Contracting
Azevedo, Filipe (author)
2020-01-01
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Electronic Resource
English
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