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Energy efficiency in permitting and inspections, phase 2

  • Number: 2011/06
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2011
  • Lead Country: Germany

  • Project team countries:
    Germany

  • Participating countries:
    Germany, Austria, Finland, Latvia and Denmark.

Executive Summary

For a step-by-step improvement of the situation in permit and inspection authorities participants of the workshop and the project team made the following proposals for the future work of IMPEL in the field of EE:

  • Development of a template for  documents and data required regarding energy efficiency in the permit application
  • Workshop on assessment of the application documents regarding energy efficiency (for new and existing installations) and development of permit conditions based on BREFs using a sector specific approach (e.g. food sector, metal processing sector, paper sector, chemical sector, waste treatment plants).
  • Training course for dealing with energy efficiency in permitting  and inspection.
  • Integrating the discussion on energy efficiency in other sector specific IMPEL-projects, e.g. pig farming.

The current proposal for a follow-up IMPEL project deals with the development of a template for documents and data required regarding energy efficiency in the permit application.



Project description

Energy is a priority issue within the European Union. The EU Climate change and Energy Package forsees an increase in energy efficiency of 20 % and a reduction of greenhouse gases by 20 % till 2020.

In 2002/2003 IMPEL has carried out a project on energy efficiency with Finland as lead country. A second project on that item was carried out in 2010 and the evaluation of the current situation showed that during the last years only minor changes have occurred in the consideration of energy efficiency issues in permitting and supervising procedures. In Member States that recently joined to European Union energy efficiency has not been at the countries’ political level among the main priorities. The project identified 7 main challenges concerning energy efficiency:

  • In the IPPC directive it is not stipulated how EE should be addressed.
  • Information on EE in sector BREFs is not concrete and precise enough. The horizontal BREF on EE is complex and has not been utilised much.
  • Lack of technical expertise in authorities and companies.
  • Lacking or only occasional cooperation between energy and environmental authorities.
  • There is no general approach in MS to handle the item of EE in the permit revision.
  • Problems with definition of system boundaries.
  • Unclear influence of other instruments like voluntary agreements, Energy Management Systems, tax and ETS-systems on energy efficiency of installations. 

 

Interim Report for Energy efficiency in permitting and inspections, phase 2