The European Commission, JRC regularly publishes an Energy Services Market Report (see the following page). In preparation of the 2018 update, we are collecting information about the development of the ESCO markets in the Member States. To this end, I hope you are willing to share with us your knowledge of your national Energy Services market or ESCO market through the below survey. The information and data provided will be solely used for research purposes to prepare a public report and will not be shared or published.

Only aggregated data will be published. These reports are targeted at policy makers and the European ESCO market players and are available for free.

Thank you and best regards:

Paolo Bertoldi

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Source: http://www.iea.org/eemr16/

In the context of our new strategic focus, this report is an important step in understanding global trends in energy efficiency. It tracks the key indicators of energy intensity, energy efficiency investment and their impact. Our report finds – despite lower energy prices – progress is being made, but not fast enough. It shows where policy has made a real difference, but also highlights that much more can be achieved. It highlights the threat of a continuation of lower energy prices to the energy efficiency agenda, but also demonstrates clearly that strong, well-designed policy, can mitigate that threat.

The greatest efficiency gains have been led by policy, and the greatest untapped potentials lie where policy is absent or inadequate. There are lessons of success from around the world, including US vehicle standards, Japan’s progressive Top-Runner programme, and China’s Top 10 000 programme. The report focuses on the progress made in China. To our knowledge, China’s energy efficiency story is told in great detail for the first time by this report. It is a story of great progress, achieving huge efficiency gains over the last ten years, but also revealing the opportunity for China to achieve much more on a path to the efficiency levels of other countries.

 

Some highlights that you may find interesting:

• Strong energy efficiency policy is vital to achieving the central energy-policy goals of reducing energy bills, addressing climate change and air pollution, improving energy security, and increasing energy access.
• The IEA’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2016  finds that energy efficiency improvements are speeding up, which is driving down demand, saving companies and countries money, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• In 2015, USD$221 billion was invested in energy efficiency improvements.
• Energy intensity improved by 1.8% percent last year, meaning the global economy needed less energy to grow. The improvement exceeded the 1.5% gain of 2014, and was triple the average rate seen over the past decade.
• However, while much has been accomplished, global progress is still too slow. Global energy intensity improvements need to reach at least 2.6% per year to put the world on a sustained pathway for a decarbonised energy system
• Energy efficiency policies aim to deliver the maximum amount of benefit from the energy we use. For instance, car fuel economy standards around the world saved 2.3 million barrels a day of oil last year, 2.5% of the global oil supply.
• Efficiency standards now cover 30% of energy use globally, up from 11% in 2000. IEA countries saved USD 540 billion in energy expenditure in 2015 as a result of energy efficiency improvements since 2000.
• One country in particular showed significant progress, China, where energy intensity improved by 5.6%. Without this contribution, the global energy intensity improvements would have been just 1.4% in 2015.
• The IEA has also introduced the Efficiency Policy Progress Index (EPPI), which tracks mandatory policies and establishes a baseline to monitor future progress.

Link to Energy Efficiency Market Report 2016 - Digital Snapshot

IEA 2016 Energy Efficiency Market report (pdf 6.3 MB)

On 7th June, five companies received the 2016 EU Code of Conduct Award for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres during the Datacloud Conference in Monaco.

The Code of Conduct is the only independent scheme in the EU to certify that a data centre has adopted energy efficiency best practices. Data centres measure their energy efficiency in Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). The ideal value is 1 PUE, but most data centres have an average value of 2.0. The winning companies have significantly reduced their energy consumption, some reaching a PUE of 1.1. The measures taken were:

• cold aisle containment
• reuse energy with heat pumps for offices within the data centre and for adjacent buildings
• optimise free cooling
• electricity from renewable energy sources
• rainwater recycling systems for hybrid cooling towers
• migration of UPS batteries to separate enclosures to increase operating temperature of UPS and electrical switchgear
• underground concrete structure of the data centre used as a natural heat drain
• modular, scalable power and cooling architecture that allows deployment as needed
• increase of indoor air temperature

Energy efficiency targets are complemented by general commitments to monitor power and energy consumption, adopt management practices, switching off components not needed, and reducing energy consumption where possible.

List of winners

b<>com, Institute of Research and Technology, with a data centre in Rennes, France

Six Degrees Group, with a data centre in Birmingham, United Kingdom

FCO Services, with a data in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

EBRC ,with data centres Resilience Centre Luxembourg South (Kayl), Luxembourg

ATMAN, corporate winners with 4 data centres in Poland

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eceee press release – Despite considerable progress in the implementation of EU energy efficiency policies since 2011, more is needed if the EU is to reach its 2020 energy efficiency targets. This is the conclusion of an exhaustive set of reports on EU and national policy implementation released today from the Energy Efficiency Watch 3 project.

While the Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament is set to vote on the latest implementation report on the Energy Efficiency Directive tomorrow, 24 May, exhaustive research – published in the framework of the Energy-Efficiency Watch 3 – highlights both progress and lack of action. (See all reports here)

The new reports follow the publication of a survey of 1100 EU experts in early April. Since 2011, the new reports conclude, there are overall more new or improved energy efficiency policies than weakened or abandoned policies. However, many EU Member States still need to grasp the benefits or allocate resources to invest enough money and implementing capacity in energy efficiency policies. This would not only make the EU number 1 in energy efficiency but also help lead the way out of the economic and financial crisis.

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