Transcript Possibilities to promote Energy Efficiency in Buildings by

Possibilities to promote Energy Efficiency in
Buildings by Means of Legislation – Practices
in Estonia
Madis Laaniste
Head of Energy Efficiency and Renewables Division
Energy Department
25.10.2006
www.mkm.ee
The Building Stock: residential
• 633’100 dwellings
(38.4 mio m2)
• 28.5 m2 per inhabitant
• 21’000 apartment
buildings
• 136’000 single family
houses
• over 95% privately
owned
1996 or later
1%
1991-1995
3%
1981-1990
20%
Before 1919
10%
1919-1945
14%
1946-1960
10%
1971-1980
22%
1961-1970
20%
The Building Stock: non-residential (2004)
• total number of buildings: 565’000
• public buildings smaller than 1000 m2: 14’000
• commercial buildings smaller than 1000 m2:
61’000
• non-residential buildings larger than 1000 m2:
22’500 (incl. privately owned)
• each year 1300 new buildings are commissioned
(with area ~ 750’000 m2)
Useful area of new buildings granted with building permit
Non-residential buildings
useful area,
thou m2
1200
Residential buildings
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
The Structure of Energy Demand (2005)
estimated share of
buildings ~42%
Industry
23%
Households
40%
TFC = 31.7
Commercial
and public
services
TWh 13%
Agriculture
4%
Transport
20%
sectors having the
biggest impact on
TFC growth:
- road transport;
- commercial and
public services
Instruments to promote more efficient energy
consumption in buildings
• amendments in the Building Act due to transposition of the
EPBD
• support for the energy efficiency improvements in apartment
buildings from EU structural funds and national budget
• promotion of energy auditing in apartment and in public
buildings
• training of building energy professionals (designers,
auditors, in municipalities), development of good practices
• dissemination (by newly established specialised unit in
KredEx foundation – www.kredex.ee/esk)
Guiding principles in the transposition of the EPBD
• transpose the requirements of the directive to national
legislation in a motivated manner
• establish conditions for successful functioning of the
legislation, avoid complexity and big changes in existing acts
• ensure energy efficiency improvements in buildings
• avoid unjustified increase of administrative load
Key features of revised Building Act
• the Building Act sets the basis and procedure for the design,
building and use of construction works and for the
registration of construction works
• new definitions
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buildings with indoor climate control
minimum energy performance requirements
major renovation
energy certificate
energy audit
Key features of the revised Building Act
• new types of undertakings
• all the undertakings operating in the building field must be registered
and have specialist in charge
• already existing types of undertakings are building contractor, design
contractor, supervision provider, etc.
• NEW: energy certifiers of the buildings
• NEW: energy auditors of the buildings
• extra requirements for energy certifiers: although they should not
have higher education, they must be qualified in a special course
• for the energy auditing, higher education for specialist in charge is
mandatory and there is also a qualification requirement
Key features of the revised Building Act
• enforcement schedule
• minimum energy performance requirements for buildings:
01.01.2008
• procedures to issue energy certificates for new buildings:
01.01.2008
• procedures to issue energy certificates for existing
buildings: 01.01.2008
• detailed requirements for energy auditors and energy
certifiers: 01.01.2008
• energy certificate can be requested in transactions after
01.01.2009
Issuing of the energy certificates for existing
buildings
• principles
• single certificate for all the building, showing the share of
a part of building if needed
• measured data are preferred to any other data collection
or evaluation procedures
• will be integrated with the Building Register
Issuing of the energy certificates for new buildings
• principles
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issued by the designer of building
single certificate for all the building
calculation methodologies are not defined yet
will be integrated with the Building Register
EPBD Article 9 – Air conditioners
• requirements should be enforced in 2009
• limited use of large-scale equipment
• small motivation to develop national system for
inspection
• Estonia is open for Baltic co-operation in this field
(ensure free movement of services) and any
scheme available in Latvia or Lithuania are
potentially interesting for us. All the MS should
ensure inspection of air conditioners
Thank you for your attention!
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+372 6 256 497