Monday, 7 July 2014

new legislation on energy efficiency

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The consultation regarding the new law on energy efficiency has been recently opened. The plan of the law includes four main points of the discussion: national plan of development, tasks to be performed by public sector, design of the support/incentivisation plan  and the system of audits. Thanks to those changes, Polish law will be more homogenous with the European legislation and goals which Poland also signed up to (20-20-20).

As pointed out by the European Commission, "the EU is aiming for a 20% cut in Europe's annual primary energy consumption by 2020. The Commission has proposed several measures to increase efficiency at all stages of the energy chain: generation, transformation, distribution and final consumption". It only shows how elaborate is ongoing project, which will replace the current act (that has been introduced in 2011). The decision of complete replacement of the law has been driven by the complexity of covered areas. Some parts of the old legislation will remain - like “white certificates” (certificates proving the level of energy conservation that are tradable and exchangeable). There are also going to be new mechanisms involved, such as involvement of the Ministry of Construction who is asked to draw the plan of support strategy for restructuring old buildings towards more energy-saving constructions. The requirement of the energy-sufficient buildings has to already be fulfilled by the institutions of public sector – the places that are used for their purpose need to be appropriately certified, except those of historical significance or military forces.
Many European countries already have an experience in introducing such law into the national legal system. The main area of interest is, so-called, urban energy efficiency as this is the range that is proven to produce the most of CO2. The buildings and transportation bring a lot of challenges, but also most of opportunities due to its high density of population. As pointed out in the document issued by URBACT (the link to the full version below) " (...) of the €  200 billion spent globally on clean energy in 2011, less than 7 % went to energy efficiency". It is very surprising information, having in mind that energy efficiency is the area that might bring the most of the savings - the new Polish project intends to save not less than 42,8 TWh which is around 9 percent of the annual's country demand.
 

 


to read the full article, go to: http://biznes.onet.pl/cztery-obszary-dzialan-w-projekcie-ustawy-o-efekty,18567,5646202,1,news-detal

read more about energy efficiency: http://urbact.eu/fileadmin/general_library/19765_Urbact_WS6_ENERGY_low_FINAL.pdf

picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Alternative_Energies.jpg

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