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        • Hungary

        • 2011

        The Virtual Power Plant Energy Efficiency Program (VPPP)

        The Virtual Power Plant Energy Efficiency Programme, co-financed by EU Cohesion Fund, aims to achieve annual energy savings targets in the industrial sector equivalent to 200 MW of capacity on average in 2020. The first companies that join voluntarily (mostly SMEs) get a free assessment and energy staff capacity building.

         

        The following elements of the energy management are examined in detail:


        How energy efficiency is integrated into the organisation's management system;
        Decision-making based on measurements;
        Awareness of energy purchases, exploiting market opportunities;
        Whether energy efficiency goals and action plans exist;
        Adequacy of financial and human resources; and…

        • Policy

        • United States

        • 1992

        Building Energy Codes

        …Department of Energy (DOE) is directed to participate in industry processes to develop model building energy codes, issue determinations as to whether updated codes result in energy savings, and provide technical assistance to states to implement and comply with the codes. BECP fills these roles by working closely with energy efficiency organizations, code development bodies including the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the International Code Council (ICC), building design and construction representatives, the code enforcement community, product manufacturers, and the general public. BECP is also responsible for establishing regulations for energy efficiency in federal…

        • Policy

        • France

        • 2004

        Planned Energy Efficiency Certificates

        As part of Frances Energy Bill, the government planned to put in place a system of tradable "white certificates" for energy efficiency. Suppliers of energy (electricity, gas, heating oil, LPG, heat, refrigeration) would be required to meet government-mandated targets for energy savings achieved through the suppliers residential and tertiary customers.

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        • Germany

        • 2007

        E-Energy - ICT-based energy system of the future

        …Energy for the development of renewable energies and for increasing energy efficiency, funding of the pilot projects is taking place in a cross-departmental partnership between the BMWi and the BMU. The BMWi is providing up to €40m for four pilot regions and the BMU is paying up to €20m to fund two additional pilot regions. Thus taken together with the contributions of the participant companies a total of about €140m is being mobilised for the development of the six E-Energy pilot regions. The objective of E-Energy is the development of new solutions52 Energy efficiency and energy savings…

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        • European Union

        • 2011

        European Energy Efficiency Fund

        …European Union. It focuses on financing energy efficiency, small-scale renewable energy, and clean urban transport projects (at market rates) targeting municipal, local and regional authorities and public and private entities acting on behalf of those authorities. As of 31 December 2016, the eeef portfolio (financial close achieved) consisted of 11 different projects (in seven member states of the European Union) with a disbursed volume of €116.0 m and overall fund commitments of €121.0 m. These projects achieved total accumulated savings of 243,683 tCO2e and 191,761 MWh of primary energy savings through the end of 2016.

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        • Spain

        • 2014

        Assessment mechanism of energy efficiency criteria for the granting of subsidies to urban public transport

        The Plan of Urgent Measures for the Spanish Strategy on Climate Change and Clean Energy provided for the inclusion of energy efficiency criteria for the granting of subsidies to urban public transport. This measure, defined in the Energy Savings and Efficiency Activation Plan implemented by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism through the IDAE (Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving), consists of establishing an energy efficiency valuation mechanism applied to public transport systems, which makes it possible to uniformly evaluate the progress made, and take it into account in distributing this aid. In this regard, 5% of the subsidy…

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        • Albania

        • 2010

        National Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2010-2018

        National Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2010-2018 contains targets and roadmap to how improve energy efficiency in all sectors in Albania. The document is consistent with outlines of the EU Directive 2006/32/EC on energy efficiency end use and energy services, Directive 2002/91/EC on energy performance building and Directive 92/75/EC. By 2018 Albania plans to achieve energy savings targets as follows: residential sector -22%, Services -19%, Industry -25%, Transport -31 %, Agriculture -3% taking data on energy consumption from 2008 as a baseline. In order to reach this targets Albania will transposes into its national law…

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        • Mexico

        • 2016

        Municipal Energy Efficiency Project

        …acquisition and installation of items necessary to implement the agreed EE measures.By June 2018, the programme had financed 10 level 2 energy audits in municipalities and two other energy audits were underway. Additionally, four national tenders had been held supporting two projects for street lighting systems, one project on water pumping systems and one for municipal public buildings. The investments and anticipated energy savings are: Street lighting: MXN 172 million pesos and 6.59 GWh/year Water pumping system: MXN 12 million pesos and 1.13 GWh/year Public buildings: MXN 6 million pesos and 0.37 GWh/year

        • Policy

        • Finland

        • 2008

        Voluntary Energy Efficiency Agreements for 2017 - 2025

        …32/EC). Finland has chosen alternative measures to fulfil EED Article 7 binding energy savings target and extensive energy efficiency agreements have an important role in the implementation.The voluntary Energy Efficiency Agreements covering the following sectors are in force until 2016: 1) industries (industry, private service sector, energy sector); 2) municipal sector; 3) oil sector (oil-heating and distribution of liquid fuels); 4) property and building sector (housing properties, commercial properties); 5) transport (goods and public); 6) farmsNegotiations between the agreement parties have already started in 2015 to extend the ongoing energy efficiency agreement period for industries, municipal sector…

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        • Denmark

        • 2008

        Danish Energy Agreement for 2008-2011

        …The government and Danish Peoples Party would like a significant increase in research, development and demonstration efforts in energy technology to the amount of 750 million DKK in 2009 and 1 billion DKK from 2010, and this will be taken up in connection with the implementation of globalisation funding.In the case of significant deviations for the linear phasing of renewable energy and energy savings targets, the parties (Danish government and parliament) shall discuss supplementary initiatives for attaining the targets.The parties behind the agreement will receive a status report on development toward the goals and implement analyses up until…

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