European Energy Directive Update: EED Audits After the Deadline (Oct 2016)

EED Energy AuditsAfter the Deadline

Holger HillenHPC AG

Confidential – © Inogen Environmental Alliance 2016

• Status

• Development

• Experience

Country Focus: Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland

Energy Audits (EED Art. 8)


Country Focus Germany

• Deadline: 05 December 2015

• Grace period until 30 April 2016

• EMS until 31 December 2016

• ISO 14001 is no alternative

• No notification obligation

• Checks by authorities: 20 %/a

• Fine: up to 50 000 €


Country Focus France

• By 05 December 2015 only 30 % of companies had acted

• Failure to comply:

Notice to comply

Fine of up to 2 % of turnover

Fine up to 4 % of turnover


Country Focus Spain

• Royal Decree 56/2016 cameinto force on 13 February2016

• Generally same terms asEED

• Deadline 13 November 2016

• Min. coverage: 85 % ofenergy consumption withinSpain


Country Focus Poland

• Still no law enforcing energyaudits, current draft isexpected to be amendedsignificantly

• General practice of global companies: include Poland in programs as close to EDD aspossible


Country Focus Italy

• Decreto Legislativo n. 102 flows generally the terms ofEDD

• Companies in close vicinity todistrict heating networks andcogeneration plants must include potential linkage in assessment

• Fine: 4 000 – 40 000 € forfailure to perform audit, 2 000 – 20 000 € for wrong approach


By far the most effective tool to:

• Reduce energy consumption

• Reduce greenhouse gas generation

• Meet climate goals

AND

• Reduce cost

Energy Efficiency: A Win-Win Effort


Non-SMB

Businesses with > 250 empoyees

Businesses with > 50 mill € annual turnover

Businesses with > 43 mill € annual balance

Regardless of company activity

All EU Member States

A tricky term,

and other issues


Achieving EED Compliance

Energy Audit in accordance with EN ISO 16247 every 4 years

• Fits all companies

• First choice forcompanies with smallnumber of sites

• First choice of companieswith highly similar sites

• First choice forcompanies with limited energy consumption



Implementation of Certified Energy Management System in accordance with ISO 50 000

• Best choice for large companies

• Best choice for companieswith complex energyconsumption

• Best choice for companieswith operations in manycountries



Incorporation of Energy Management into Environmental Management System according to EMAS or ISO 14 001

• EMS not enough

• EMS + Energy

Management

• EMAS and ISO 14001 not equally acceptedin all EU countries


• Consumption Data of 2014

• No detailed data at more than 60 % of companies

• Uncertainty of energy use

Significant potential savings go unnoticed!

Data Base


Potential Cost Savings• Lighting: LED

• Thin Clients instead of PC

• Transport: Driver Training

• Heating: 1 oC less

• Building Insulation

• 45 – 75 %

• 60 – 90 %

• 10 %

• 6 %

• > 50 %


Challenge: Payback Time

Within 1 year: OK

Implementation by end of lifetime replacement: OK

Within 2 to 3, max. 5 years: IF IT MAKES A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE

More than 5 years: ONLY COMPANIES COMMITTED TO THE CAUSE


Effect in Terms of Climate Goal 2020

• Reduction of GHG emissions necessary to achieve climategoal:

3.65 % /a

• Potential reduction indentified:

20.6 %

• Reduction in progress:

2.4 %

Source: Stefan Chobrok, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, April 2016


Contact

Holger Hillen, Dipl.-Geol., M.Sc., DICHead of Corporate Environmental Consulting, HPC AG

[email protected]

Tel: +49 6192 9917 54

Mobile: +49 160 90558151
