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Periodic Reporting for period 1 - COMPETE4SECAP (Energy management competition for local authorities for uptake and enhance of Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans)

Teaser

All over Europe, a good level of knowledge about SEAP development has been reached. There are different good quality methodologies and guidelines available. However, municipalities still struggle to implement these action plans, for a variety of reasons; one of the most...

Summary

All over Europe, a good level of knowledge about SEAP development has been reached. There are different good quality methodologies and guidelines available. However, municipalities still struggle to implement these action plans, for a variety of reasons; one of the most important and tricky is municipal employees’ engagement. Indeed, often municipal employees are not motivated to take any sort of actions and initiatives, unless someone has actually “obliged” them to do so. In many cases, this lack of engagement and commitment ends up with investments in energy efficiency projects that do not deliver the expected technical and economic outcomes. Hence, the energy efficiency potential is not fully exploited and worse suboptimal investments are carried out without providing the expected yields. At the same time, LAs are more and more often facing the challenge posed by climate change and they need to understand the climate resilient of their infrastructure and possible climate adaptation measures. And the level of knowledge and understanding in this field is currently limited.

In the guidelines of the Covenant of Mayors, one of the key suggestions to have a successful SEAP is “Integrate the SEAP into day-to-day life and management of the municipality: it should not be just another nice document, but part of the corporate culture”. This statement is supported by the COMPETE4SECAP and is the basis of the project concept, which is articulated on three main integrated pillars: energy saving competition, EnMS and SECAP. The energy saving competition in public buildings motivates the employees to implement energy efficiency measures at their work. This interlinks with the implementation of EnMS at the LAs and ensures an active development and implementation of EnMS (not only a paper on the shelf). Thus promoting the integration of SECAP into day-to-day life and management of the LAs and reaching the energy saving targets.

One of the main challenges of COMPETE4SECAP is to ensure continuous availability of reliable data in local authorities through certification of energy management systems to make informed decisions to develop, finance and implement ambitious measures.

Work performed

Compete4SECAP has ensured involvement of 32 LAs that are dedicated to development, implementation and certification of the Energy Management System according to ISO 50001 (except Germany) and eea in Germany. Four LAs are now in the process of the certification and at least 10 LAs are in the process of the procurement of certification. The work with LAs has shown still the challenges LAs face: lack of energy data, lack of human resources and motivational barriers. In the meantime, peer-to-peer activities at national and international level has allowed LAs and partners to get inspired and address the challenges together. Compete4SECAP has ensured all LAs with an access to Energy Monitoring Platform to ensure energy monitoring in public buildings, public lighting and public fleet.

Compete4SECAP has launched energy competitions in 97 public buildings (with more than 6800 employees and users) in eight countries with clear guidelines, awards, trainings, challenges and monthly newsletters. The first results show average energy savings between 2 and 10%. Competition will last one year (2019).

Compete4SECAP has also created Energy Management System Guidebook for Local Authorities in English and eight national languages. Currently more and more local authorities around Europe acknowledge the benefits of an energy management system, but fail to understand where to start, how much time, effort and money it will take to create and implement it, why it is important to certify it and much more. The purpose of this guidebook is to guide the reader through the process of establishing an effective EnMS system for a local authority. Guidebook has been also updated with the requirements of the new ISO 50001:2018 standard that was published in August 2018.

Final results

Compete4SECAP has achieved important progress beyond the state of the art:
• Compete4SECAP has involved 32 LAs to introduce, implement and certify energy management system in their LAs, participate in energy competition and upgrade SEAP to SECAP.
• Compete4SECAP has involved 97 public buildings in energy competitions and targets more than 6800 energy users in these buildings.
• Compete4SECAP has created guidebook on energy management systems that clearly explains the principles and allows LAs and institutions in Europe and worldwide introduce it.

Further Compete4SECAP activities will ensure certification of the energy management system in all target LAs as well evaluation of the results from implementation of the energy management system and energy competitions. During the 2nd reporting period Compete4SECAP will also continue assistance to LAs with upgrade of SEAPs to SECAPs.

Website & more info

More info: http://compete4secap.eu.