Overview
Funding:
European Commission, Intelligent Energy Europe Programme
Timeframe:
01/06/2008 – 30/06/2011
Budget:
3 085 464 Euro
Contractors:
Austrian Energy Agency, Austria; Flemish Energy Agency, Belgium; Energy Efficiency Agency, Bulgaria; Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Cyprus; Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship, Croatia; CR-State Energy Inspection, Czech Republic; Danish Energy Agency, Denmark; Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia; Motiva Oy, Finland; ADEME, France; BMWi-Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany; CRES, Greece; Hungarian Energy Centre, Hungary; Sustainable Energy Division, Dept. of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Ireland; ENEA, Italy; Construction, Energy and Housing State Agency, Latvia; Energy Agency, Lithuania; Ministère de l’Economie et du Commerce extérieur, Luxembourg; Malta Resources Authority, Malta; SenterNovem, The Netherlands (leader); Polish National Energy Conservation Agency (KAPE), Poland; Directorate General for Energy and Geology of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation, Portugal; Romanian Agency for Energy Conservation, Romania; Ministry of Economy, Slovakia; Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia; IDEA-National Energy Agency, Spain; Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden; Energy Saving Trust, UK.
Description
The Concerted Action for the Energy Services Directive was launched by Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) to provide a structured framework for the exchange of information between the 27 Member States and Croatia during their implementation of the Energy Services Directive (ESD).
This active forum aimed to enable each Member State to share its knowledge and experience, and draw on that of others, in order to adopt the most successful approaches towards implementing the Directive and avoid any pitfalls highlighted by others.
The objectives of the CA ESD were to:
- Enhance and structure the sharing of information and experiences from national implementation and promote good practice concepts in activities to improve and strengthen MS2 implementation of the ESD.
- Create favourable conditions for an accelerated degree of convergence of national procedures in ESD related matters.
- Complement the work of the Energy Demand Management Committee (EDMC, Article 16 ESD) and its sub-groups on top-down and bottom-up methods and CEN (European Committee for Standardization) standards and certification work.
The work of the CA ESD was structured around five Core Themes covering the key requirements of the ESD:
- National Energy Efficiency Action Plans
- The role of the Public Sector
- The role of the Energy Sector
- Auditing, Metering and Billing
- Use of Financial Instruments
The work carried out within the CA ESD was organized around a series of Plenary Meetings spread over the three-year duration of the programme. Each Plenary Meeting involved a number of parallel sessions focusing on specific subtopics within the five Core Themes.
Working Groups, comprising 2-3 participants from different Member States, were set up for each subtopic. The Working Group members had been responsible for planning and delivering the work required up to and during each Plenary Meeting for their specific subtopic. Each Working Group was expected to produce a final report after their Plenary Meeting.
BSERC was a subcontractor of the Sustainable Energy Development Agency (SEDA).