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 TOPICS OF THIS PRESENTATION

Background and goals of the Energy Performance

Clean Energy Package in Buildings

Clean Energy for all

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Renewable Energy

Themes and objectives of Governance and National

European Energy Policy Energy and Climate Plans

Energy Efficiency Next steps in the Energy

Community

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 BACKGROUND AND GOALS OF
THE CLEAN ENERGY PACKAGE
 The energy system of tomorrow will look differently

 This is a unique opportunity to modernise our economy and to boost competitiveness!

 The goals are creating jobs & growth, bringing down GHG emission, securing energy supply:

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 CLEAN ENERGY FOR ALL
EUROPEANS PACKAGE
 In 2019 the EU completed a comprehensive update of its energy policy framework to facilitate the transition away
from fossil fuels towards cleaner energy and to deliver on the EU’s Paris Agreement commitments for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions.
 The agreement on this new energy rulebook – called the Clean energy for all Europeans package - marked a
significant step towards the implementation of the energy union strategy, published in 2015.
 Based on Commission proposals published in November 2016, the Clean energy for all Europeans package consists
of eight legislative acts. Following the political agreement by the Council and the European Parliament (between May
2018 and May 2019) and the entry into force of the different EU rules, EU countries have 1-2 years to transpose the
new directives into national law.
 The new rules will bring considerable
benefits from a consumer perspective, from
an environmental perspective, and from an
economic perspective. By coordinating
these changes at EU level the legislation
also underlines EU leadership in tackling
global warming and provides an important
contribution to the EU’s long-term strategy
of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

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 THEMES AND OBJECTIVES OF
EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY

 The 5 dimensions of
the Energy Union:

 1) energy security;
 2) the internal energy
market;
 3) energy efficiency;
 4) decarbonisation of
the economy; and
 5) research,
innovation and
competitiveness

Source: European Commission

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 ENERGY EFFICIENCY DIRECTIVE I
 Putting energy efficiency first is a key objective in the package, as energy
savings are the easiest way of saving money for consumers and for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions. The EU has therefore set binding targets of at
least 32.5% energy efficiency by 2030, relative to a ‘business as usual’
scenario.

 The amending Directive on Energy Efficiency ((EU) 2018/844) has been in

place since December 2018.

 Main Changes:
• A new energy efficiency target for the EU for 2030 of 32.5% reduction of
consumption against the baseline, with an upwards revision clause by 2023.
• Extended energy savings obligations for the next period 2021-2030 and
beyond (0.8%/year of total volume sales).
• Strengthened rules on individual metering and billing of thermal energy (better
information for consumers).
 Energy efficiency targets for 2030 (Articles 1 & 3) for the EnC CPs will be proposed by the EC in 2021 together
with the revised Directive.

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 ENERGY EFFICIENCY DIRECTIVE II
 Energy savings obligations (Articles 7, 7a, 7b & Annex V) - Extended
obligation beyond 2020:
• New savings of 0.8% (each year) from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2030.
• The calculation baseline: Final energy consumption.
• Range of possibilities (Article 7(2)&(4)), as long as the net new savings
equal 0.8% per year are achieved.

Energy Efficiency
Savings can be achieved via:
Obligation Scheme
(EEOS)

 Metering and billing (Articles 9-11 & Annex VIIa) - Clearer and strengthened rules, empowering and
informing consumers
• Clarification of requirements for metering and billing of thermal energy;
• Rights of consumers in multi-apartment or multi-purpose buildings;
• Transparent, publicly available rules on cost allocation for multi-occupant buildings supplied from central
sources.
• Right to bills based on actual consumption/heat cost allocator readings;
• Remote-reading to become standard.
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 REVIEW OF THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE
OF BUILDINGS DIRECTIVE (EPBD) I
 Buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and
36% of CO2 emissions in the EU, making them the single largest energy
consumer in Europe.

 By improving energy performance in buildings, the EU can more readily achieve

its energy and climate goals. The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
((EU 2018/844) outlines specific measures for the building sector to tackle
challenges, updating and amending many provisions from the Directive
2010/31/EU.

 Key elements:
• Low and zero emission building stock in the EU by 2050;
• Use of smart technologies (self regulating devices);
• Supports the roll-out of the infrastructure for e-mobility;
• Smartness indicator;
• Long term building renovation strategies;
• Mobilises public and private financing and investment.

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 REVIEW OF THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE
OF BUILDINGS DIRECTIVE (EPBD) II
 Long term building renovation strategies (Article 2a):

• Requirement for Member States to:

• Establish comprehensive strategies;
• Set up roadmaps 2050;
• Carry on a public consultation.
• Energy poverty and financial component.

 Additional provisions to support the deployment of the EU infrastructure

for electro-mobility (Article 8):

• Minimum number of charging points;

• Simplification of the deployment of recharging points – address regulatory, permitting, approval procedures;
• Deployment of ducting infrastructure in new or major renovated non – residential and residential buildings >
10 parking places;
• 1 charging point per building in non residential buildings new or renovated;
• Targeted exemptions.

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 REVIEW OF THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE
OF BUILDINGS DIRECTIVE (EPBD) III
 Inspections on heating & air-conditioning systems are updated (Articles 14
and 15) – new provisions on self-regulating devices (Article 8(1)):

• Thresholds for inspections: over 70 k\w heating and ventilations system;

• Alternative measures to mandatory inspections;
• Additional requirements for building automation and control systems by
2025, for systems over 290kW;
• Additional requirements on the installation of self-regulating devices.

 Better data both for Energy Performance Certificates (Article 10) and
Technical Building Systems performance documentation (Article 8(5)):

• Requirement for EPC databases on energy consumption of buildings;

• Availability of data;
• Assess and document the performance;
• Complementary with other initiatives.

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 RENEWABLE ENERGY I
 With a view to showing global leadership on renewables, the EU has set an
ambitious, binding target of at least 32% of renewable energy sources in final
energy consumption by 2030 with a review for increasing this figure in 2023.

 EU target was established in the recast Renewable Energy Directive

(2018/2001/EU) which entered into force in December 2018.

 Policies and measures to achieve national targets are to be set trough the main
mechanism of the Regulation on the governance of the energy union and climate
action (EU) 2018/1999 - which entered into force on 24 December 2018 as part of
the Clean energy for all Europeans package - integrated National Energy and
Climate Plans (NECPs).

 Renewable energy targets and policies and measures will be addressed under the
‘Decarbonisation of the economy’ dimension of the NECPs.

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 RENEWABLE ENERGY II
 The recast Renewable Energy Directive (2018/2001/EU), among others, for the
first time introduces concept of:

 renewables self-consumers providing a legal basis to the final customer

to generate renewable energy, for their own consumption, store and sell
their excess production of renewable electricity.

 renewable energy communities.

 new or reformulated sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving

criteria for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels.

 The Directive 2018/2001/EU is still not transposed into the Energy Community
acquis. Until it is, Contracting Parties of the Energy Community are harmonizing
their legislation with the Directive 2009/28/EC.

 Renewable Energy targets for 2030 for the EnC CPs will be tabled for adoption by
the EC in 2021 together with the recast Directive, as presented at the last
Ministerial Council of the EnC in December 2019.

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 GOVERNANCE REGULATION
 The Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action (EU)
2018/1999 is in force since December 2018 in the European Union.
 For the EnC CPs the Regulation together with the GHG emission reduction
targets will be tabled for adoption by the EC in 2021.
 The regulation emphasises the importance of meeting the international energy
and climate targets and sets out how countries and the Commission should work
together, and how individual countries should cooperate, to achieve the energy
union's goals. It takes into account the fact that different countries can contribute
to the energy union in different ways.
 The goals of the regulation are:
• to implement strategies and measures which ensure that the objectives of the
energy union, in particular the EU’s 2030 energy and climate targets, and the
long-term EU GHG commitments are consistent with the Paris agreement;
• To stimulate cooperation between countries in order to achieve the objectives and targets of the energy union;
• to promote long-term certainty and predictability for investors across the EU and foster jobs, growth and social
cohesion;
• to reduce administrative burdens, in line with the principle of better regulation. This was done by integrating and
streamlining most of the current energy and climate planning and reporting requirements of EU countries, as well as
the Commission's monitoring obligations;
• to ensure consistent reporting by the EU and its Member States under the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change and the Paris agreement, replacing the existing monitoring and reporting system from 2021 onwards.
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 NATIONAL ENERGY AND
CLIMATE PLANS
 The package includes a robust governance system for the energy union, under
which each Member State is required to establish integrated 10-year National
Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) for 2021 to 2030. Based on a common
structure the NECPs outline how EU MS will achieve their respective targets on
all dimensions of the energy union, including a longer-term view towards 2050.
 The national plans outline how the countries intend to address:
 energy efficiency; renewables; greenhouse gas; emissions
reductions; interconnections; research and innovation.

 This approach requires a coordination of purpose across all government departments. It also provides a level of
planning that will ease public and private investment. The fact that all countries are using a similar template
means that they can work together to make efficiency gains across borders.
 In line with these requirements, the EnC CPs adopted Recommendation 2018/01/MC-EnC (supplemented by
the Policy Guidelines PG03/2018), according to which CPs will submit their draft plans for the period 2021-2030
to the EnC Secretariat by the first quarter of 2020 and the final plans by October 2020 but before 2021, taking
account of the Secretariat's assessment and recommendations on the draft plans.
 Each country shall then submit a progress report every two years.
 The Secretariat will monitor progress at national level and at Energy Community level towards achieving targets
and on achieving the objectives and implementing the Policies and Measures.

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 TEMPLATE FOR NATIONAL
ENERGY AND CLIMATE PLANS

Source: European Commission

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