Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Work Package 5
Dissemination Level RE
Author(s) EKODOMA
This document (report, etc.) has been prepared in the framework of the European project
50000&1 SEAPs – Energy Management for Sustainable Action Plans (Grant agreement no.
IEE/XXXX) co-financed by the European Commission in the “Intelligent Energy – Europe”
(IEE) Programme.
CONTACT:
Email: 500001seaps@iclei.org
Website: www.500001seaps.eu
Twitter: @500001SEAPs
The sole responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the
authors. It does not necessarily represent the opinion of the European
Union. Neither the EASME nor the European Commission are
responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained
therein.
Executive summary
Even though the ISO 50001 initially was designed for industries, throughout the process of
energy planning in municipalities the need for systematic approach to reduce energy
consumption and CO2 emissions raised also in local authorities. The objective of the
50000&1SEAPs project was to integrate Sustainable energy action plans (SEAPs) in more
than 40 municipalities with energy management system (ISO 50001).
This report summarises the results of checking and monitoring the implementation of the
energy management system (EnMS) in the eight partner countries. According to the
requirements of ISO 50001, in the check phase municipality shall:
In the meantime, there are still different barriers and challenges to overcome.
50000&1SEAPs consortium identified three kinds of barriers: first and most important –
human, then financial (though signalled by minor number of municipalities) and the third –
technical.
The first chapter of the report summarises in detail results and experience in implementation
of the EnMS from more than 40 municipalities in eight different EU countries. The second
chapter is dedicated to different best practice EnMS case studies in the eight countries.
Table of Content
Executive summary ............................................................................................................... 3
Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 5
1 Development and implementation of EnMS in municipalities. Results ............................ 6
1.1 Summary on energy management systems in partner countries ............................. 6
1.2 Main motivators ....................................................................................................... 7
1.3 Barriers and challenges........................................................................................... 8
1.4 Energy data monitoring ........................................................................................... 9
1.5 Energy targets of the EnMS .................................................................................. 10
1.6 Results from internal / certification audits .............................................................. 11
1.7 General observations and lessons learned............................................................ 14
2 Best case studies ......................................................................................................... 17
2.1 Use of an online energy monitoring platform (Latvia)............................................. 17
2.2 Increasing awareness of people by visual effect (Romania) .................................. 18
2.3 Energy Efficiency measures in Public Buildings (Italy) ........................................... 19
2.4 Optimising EnMS on public assets (France) .......................................................... 20
2.5 Municipal Fleet Renewal X (Spain)........................................................................ 21
2.6 Installation of metering systems in public buildings and schools (Greece) ............. 22
2.7 Monitoring of electricity, natural gas and water consumption (Poland) .................. 23
2.8 Installation of solar PVs (Bulgaria)......................................................................... 24
Executive summaries in national languages ........................................................................ 25
Introduction
The introduction to ISO 50001 states that it “enables that organization to take a systematic
approach, in order to achieve continual improvement of energy performance, energy
efficiency and energy conservation”. The aim of ISO 50001 Standard is to support energy
reviews and to address measurable improvements of energy performances. The basic four
steps of PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle in relation to the ISO 50001 standard are shown in
the Figure 1.
Continual
Continual
improvement
improvement
Energy policy
Planning
Management review
Implementation and
operation
Checking
Corrective and
preventive action
Even though the ISO 50001 initially was designed for industries, throughout the process of
energy planning in municipalities the need for systematic approach to reduce energy
consumption and CO2 emissions raised also in local authorities. The objective of the
50000&1SEAPs project was to integrate Sustainable energy action plans (SEAPs) in more
than 40 municipalities with energy management system (ISO 50001).
This report summarises the results of checking and monitoring the implementation of the
energy management system (EnMS) in the eight partner countries. According to the
requirements of ISO 50001, in this phase municipality shall:
In different countries and even in different municipalities in the same country, there will be
different motivators. Below are summarised the main motivators and reasons why local
authorities developed, implemented and also certified their energy management systems and
integrated them in their SEAPs.
Only few involved parties, including municipalities initially had a clear perception of energy
management system and integration of it in the local SEAPs. Therefore one of the initial
challenges for part of technical partners of 50000&1SEAPs project was to overcome it and
gather the general knowledge on the concept.
It was clear that there will be different barriers and challenges during the process of creation
and implementation of EnMS in local municipalities. Some of them were already well known
before like energy data gathering, assigning responsibilities. Also in this case, one of the
main barriers and challenges were of human nature.
The other group of barriers are still financial (though
signalled by minor number of municipalities) and the
third – technical.
Human:
o Lack of municipal energy managers at
the beginning of the process;
Latvia:
monthly
Poland:
monthly
France:
monthly
Romania:
quaterly Bulgaria:
quaterly
Italy:
quaterly
Greece:
Spain: quaterly
quaterly
Usually annual energy targets are set in the energy management. These are quantifiable
energy performance requirements and are set to achieve energy objectives of the
municipality. In the meantime, energy objective is outcome or achievement set to meet
energy policy of the municipality that is integrated and explained in the SEAPs of the
municipalities. Table 2 summarises energy targets or objectives as well as planned energy
savings in the first year of the EnMS.
Table 2: First year energy targets/energy objectives and planned energy savings
One of the final steps before certification process is implementation of the internal audit. It is
systematic and also independent assessment process to evaluate objectively the efficiency
of the EnMS. It is performed annually. During the 50000&1SEAPs project almost all the
municipalities have finalised their first internal audits in their municipalities. Table 3
summarises the main information about the main outcomes of the internal audits and
recommendations. In case municipality already certified their EnMS, recommendations from
the certification audits are presented.
Number
municipalities with What kind of non- What kind of recommendations from
Country
internal/certification conformities (if any) internal/certification audits
audit
1. Municipality of 1. Municipality of Bratsigovo
Bulgaria 5 Bratsigovo – lack of It is recommended diaries for operation of
control over supplies boilers and fuel consummation (pellets) to have
4. Municipality of Rudozem
It is desirable to improve the conditions of the
boiler room in the kindergarten - cemented
floors and removal of unnecessary lighting.
Advanced activities for creating opportunities
for the use of renewable energy - geothermal
heat, electricity production from pressure
plumbing, solar collectors for hot water.
5. Municipality of Chepelare
It is recommended to improve order in the
boiler room of the polyclinic building
It is advisable to require from suppliers of wood
pellets that all packaging will be labelled.
Electric water heater 100 L in the children's
center can be set to run outside the hours of
expensive energy
it is advisable to share experiences between
the stoker to influence the parameters of the
combustion process on the fuel pellets.
1 LA
Mainly on legal
1 joint city and LA
France requirement & their Reinforcement of internal organisation
1 internal pending
evaluation
certification
Metamorfosi: Reinforcement of internal organization is needed in all
No non-conformities municipalities and a timeframe should be set clearly for
all procedures. Also clear criteria should be set for
Philothei-Psychiko energy services, products and equipment. In three
Minor nonconformities municipalities ipdate and control should be made with all
and improvement recent legal documents and a time period for checking
opportunities were listed compliance should be specified
in Internal Audit
Metamorfosi
Greece 4 Papagou-Cholargou A time period for checking compliance with
(for Municipal Fleet only) legislation documents should be specified
Minor nonconformities The energy targets should be more clearly specified
and improvement at a yearly basis. The interval for reviewing and
opportunities were listed updating energy aspects should be specified
in Internal Audit The EnMS policy etc. should be externally
communicated, and date for local forum should be
Lavreotiki set
(for Keratea Unit only) Philothei-Psychiko
Energy team is not The energy targets should be clearly specified at a
During the 50000&1SEAPs, considerable knowledge and lessons learned have been
achieved:
It takes much longer time that creation of SEAPs; employees should be trained about the
matter; lack of clear monitoring guidelines.
Quite easy to implement when it is back to back on subcontractor's EnMS.
EnMS ensures proper monitoring.
Formalisation not sufficiently mature. Little possibility to expand EnMS to SEAPs and in
all cases not certifiable.
Benchmarking and change experience with other LAs.
Competences of internal team members are essential.
Keeping together the internal team and changing trough the time is mandatory.
Internal management training is essential for local municipality staff.
Acknowledgement on all level of the energy policy and empowering the follow up.
Establish an EnMS in LAs is a pioneering experience. Usually Italian LAs don't use to
establish energy performance, monitoring energy consumption and establish a
continuous improvement. The main challenge is establish a permanent energy team
really and fully focused on the continuous monitoring and improvement and at the same
time provide evidences on the energy improvement to the LAs political staff.
Useful to have an experienced consulting organization that deals with the ISO standards
development process and prepares all necessary documentation.
Creation of an EnMS turned out to be a bit more time consuming and complicated than
initially expected, especially for those municipalities who had to start from the scratch (i.e.
didn't have any initial data on energy consumption in their buildings & facilities, didn't
have energy managers and weren't working much in the energy field before).
Still, it is really worth a while to develop such a system as it helps to precisely determine
municipality's initial energy situation and to define procedures for constant improvement
and efficient monitoring of this improvement. Thanks to that it will be easier in the future
to implement any new, energy-related strategies and actions.
It is good to combine the EnMS with other management systems following ISO (e.g.
QMS following ISO 9001 or EMS following ISO 140001). The rules for implementing
them are similar and the synergy effect will allow for further optimisation of municipal
processes.
It is important to ensure sufficient promotion of the EnMS developed and implemented in
the municipality to give good example to the citizens and local stakeholders and to
encourage them to contribute to the achievement of local energy targets (e.g. established
in a SEAP).
There is a will, but enforcement is difficult due to lack of manpower and financial and
organisational issues.
There is need to train to use energy monitoring system and how to prioritise actions etc.
Municipalities who are participating in the Project activities in Italy started to analyse and
report information about energy consumption and energy performance basically together
with the project activities. In general they are approaching the energy issues with specific
targets and methodology in the last two years.
Another important lesson learned is about the boundaries: in several cases, certifiers do
not understand the complexities of the energy use in a Local Authority. Very often
Certifiers focus their attention on the final users of the Public Buildings strictly applying
the requirement 4.3.3 b) of the ISO 50001 excluding for that reason the Schools from the
list of the Buildings under certification process.
Implementing ISO 50001 was beneficial to LAs allowing them to cross-check that all
obligations were met and that energy management was effective. It took the issue one
step further including for cities that are EEA awardees (such as Lorient who felt the need
to implement ISO).
The development of the ISO50001 system resulted in a good understanding of the
factors affecting the energy consumption in all municipalities. Even though the data
collection process has been very long, this understanding has become a key issue in
further developing actions, allocating resources and setting priorities with respect to
energy. Even the difficulties in collecting data turned out to be a significant “lesson” for
municipality officials.
The municipalities had a general interest and variable commitments to sustainable
energy. The setting up of the energy management system has broadened the
understanding of the sustainable energy design and management process. The
combination of efforts, teams and support for the SEAP and the EnMS development was
the key success factor to this.
The Energy Management System can be a tool for the development of the SEAP,
nevertheless, the commitment to the CoM SEAP was initiated Mayors’ commitment for
the manpower required to set the system.
The good practice transferred by the certified municipality (Likovrisi-Pefki) to the others in
the initial training phase, the political support of the Association for Sustainable
Development of Cities, and the technical support provided by CRES were factors that
helped from the initial decision to the final implementation phase.
The adaptation of the procedures to the organizational operation of the municipalities is
something new and difficult, due to the number of departments, sectors and procedures
and people involved.
The setting up of the ISO50001 procedures has proven to be far more time consuming
than expected, even in municipalities with strong commitment from the beginning. This is
due to complexity of internal organization and cooperation among departments, lack of
manpower, and also lack of prior experience. The definition of roles and responsibilities
within the energy management teams has also been complex and time consuming.
The data collection required for the ISO50001 process, due to the quality and continuity
of the data required is very time consuming, the availability of data was unclear in the
beginning and the data collection process was a very difficult procedure.
The time constraints and limited human resources led two municipalities to the decision
to limit the boundaries of initial certification, even though their aim is to implement it to all
municipal activities.
The development of the system is vulnerable to changes both at the Top Management
and also inside the energy team. As this often occurs in municipalities, initial effort for
ensuring continuity should be set at the initial stages of the development of the system,
but this is generally unresolved, providing uncertainty in the final outcome.
The geographic and organisational dispersion within the one of the municipalities
(Lavreotiki) was an additional barrier.
Country Latvia
Country Romania
Action heading Energy Efficiency measures in Public Buildings (SEAP Action n.11)
Municipality Pordenone
Country Italy
CoM signatory yes
Works duration 2 years
Total Investment (€) 3,020,000.00
Pordenone Municipality planned several Energy Audit on its Public Building in
Description of
order to decide where energy efficiency measures will be implemented in order
activities
to improve the Public Buildings energy performance
Financing scheme Own funds; third party financing; National financial Scheme (Conto termico)
Expected qualitative
results Improve the energy performance of the Public Buildings
Expected quantitative
30 Buildings involved in the Energy Audits and Energy Efficiency measures
results
Energy savings
(MWh/year) 1,368.00
CO2 emissions cut
(tCO2/year) 276.00
RES used
(MWh/year) 0.00
Project status
(building permits,
Planning specific technical projects on energy efficiency measures starting
procurement,
from the Energy Audit already done
contracts, works
status)
Entity/ies undertaking
LG; SOGESCA; Cofely
the activities
Municipality Xinzo
Country Spain
Works duration
Tajā pašā laikā, joprojām ir arī dažādi šķēršļi un izaicinājumi, kas jāpārvar. 50000&1SEAPs
konsorcijs identificēja trīs veidu šķēršļus: pirmais un svarīgākais – cilvēks, tad finansiālais
(tomēr par šo ziņoja mazs skaits pašvaldību) un trešais – tehniskais.
Resumen ejecutivo
A pesar de que la ISO 50001 fue diseñada inicialmente para industrias, a lo largo del
proceso de planificación energética en los municipios, la necesidad de un enfoque
sistemático para reducir el consumo de energía y las emisiones de CO2 planteadas también
aparició en las autoridades locales. El objetivo del proyecto 50000&1SEAPs ha sido integrar
Planes de Acción de Energía Sostenible (PAES) en más de 40 municipios con sistema de
gestión de energía (ISO 50001).
Резюме
Макар че Стандартът ISO 50001 е първоначално създаден за промишлени
предприятия, в процеса на енергийно планиране на общините се появява нуждата от
систематичен подход за намаляване на консумацията на енергия и емисиите на CO2
на териториите на местните администрации. Целта на проект „50000 and 1 SEAPs“ бе
да се интегрират Планове за действия за устойчива енергия (ПДУЕ) в над 40 общини
със система за енергийно управление в съответствие с ISO 50001.
Както показва опитът от „50000 and 1 SEAPs“, в различни държави и дори в различни
общини в рамките на една и съща държава има различни мотивиращи фактори. Сред
основните мотивиращи фактори и причини, поради които над 40 местни органа
внедриха и се сертифицираха в съответствие с ISO 50001, интегрирайки своите
системи за управление на енергията в разработените в общините ПДУЕ са:
регулаторна рамка, възможност за намаляване на разходите, възможност за надзор и
изискване на външни услуги, възможност за системен подход, наличност на данните и
личен интерес.
Sumar Executiv
Deși inițial Standardul ISO 50001 a fost conceput pentru industrie, în cadrul procesului de
planificare energetică a municipalităților, necesitatea unei abordări sistematice privind
reducerea consumului de energie și a emisiilor de CO2 a crescut și în cadrul autorităților
locale. Obiectivul proiectului 50000&1 SEAP a fost integrarea Planurilor de Acțiune privind
Energia Durabilă (SEAP) cu Sistemul de Management Energetic (ISO 50001) în mai mult de
40 de municipalități.
După cum arată experiența proiectului 50000&1SEAP, în diferite țări și chiar în diferite
municipalități din aceeași țară, vor exista diferiți factori motivaționali. Dintre principalii factori
motivaționali pentru care mai mult de 40 de autorități locale au dezvoltat, implementat și
certificat sistemele lor de management energetic și le-au integrat în PAED putem enumera:
cadrul de reglementare, posibilitatea reducerii costurilor, posibilitatea de monitoriza și de a
solicita contractarea serviciilor, posibilitatea unei abordări sistematice, precum și
disponibilitatea datelor și interesul personal.
Executive summary
Anche se lo standard ISO 50001 è nato inizialmente per il miglioramento della performance
energetica nei processi industriali, anche nelle realtà degli Enti Locali il processo di
pianificazione energetica sta assumendo un ruolo prioritario per la riduzione dei consumi
energetici e per l’abbattimento delle emissioni di CO2 da essi generate. L’obiettivo del
Progetto Europeo 50000&1SEAPs è quello di integrare la logica dei Sistemi di Gestione ISO
50001 con i PAES (Piani d’Azione per l’Energia Sostenibile) in più di 40 Enti Locali negli 8
Paesi target del progetto.
Il presente report riassume i risultati derivanti dal controllo e dal monitoraggio sullo stato di
implementazione dei Sistemi di Gestione dell’Energia negli 8 Paesi target. In accordo con
quanto previsto dai requisiti della ISO 50001, con particolare riferimento al controllo ed al
monitoraggio sullo stato di attuazione del Sistema di Gestione dell’Energia, gli Enti Locali
coinvolti sono tenuti a:
Allo stesso tempo restano ancora presenti alcune barriere ed alcune sfide importanti da
superare. Il Consorzio europeo del Progetto 50000&1SEAPs ha identificato le tre maggiori
barriere che dovranno essere superate nella gestione energetica degli Enti: la prima e più
importante è quella legata all’aspetto della sensibilità personale verso il tema di gestione
energetica degli amministratori e dei funzionari pubblici; la seconda è quella riguardante la
Σύνοψη
Αν και το ISO 50001 αρχικά σχεδιάστηκε για βιομηχανίας, προέκυψε από τις Τοπικές Αρχές
η ανάγκη για συστηματική προσέγγιση για τη μείωση της ενεργειακής κατανάλωσης και των
εκπομπών CO2 καθ’ όλη τη διαδικασία του ενεργειακού σχεδιασμού στους Δήμους. Ο στόχος
του έργου 50000&1SEAPs ήταν να ενσωματώσει τα Σχέδια Δράσης Αειφόρου Ενέργειας
(ΣΔΑΕ) σε πάνω από 40 Δήμους με Σύστημα Διαχείρισης Ενέργειας (ISO 50001).
Η έκθεση συνοψίζει τα αποτελέσματα από τον έλεγχο και την παρακολούθηση της
εφαρμογής του Συστήματος Διαχείρισης Ενέργειας (ΣΔΕ) στις οκτώ χώρες των εταίρων.
Σύμφωνα με τις απαιτήσεις του ISO 50001, στη φάση του ελέγχου ο Δήμος θα:
Όπως δείχνει η εμπειρία από τo 50000&1SEAPs, σε διαφορετικές χώρες και ακόμη και σε
διαφορετικούς δήμους της ίδιας χώρας, θα υπάρχουν διαφορετικοί κινητήριοι παράγοντες.
Μεταξύ των κύριων παραγόντων και των λόγων για τους οποίους περισσότεροι από 40
οργανισμοί τοπικής αυτοδιοίκησης ανέπτυξαν, εφάρμοσαν και πιστοποίησαν τα συστήματα
ενεργειακής τους διαχείρισης και τα ενσωμάτωσαν στα ΣΔΑΕ τους είναι: κανονιστικό πλαίσιο,
δυνατότητα μείωσης του κόστους, δυνατότητα εποπτείας και απαίτησης προδιαγραφών
υπηρεσιών, δυνατότητα συστηματικής προσέγγισης, διαθεσιμότητα δεδομένων και
προσωπικό ενδιαφέρον.
Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο της έκθεσης συνοψίζει λεπτομερώς τα αποτελέσματα και την εμπειρία
από την εφαρμογή του EnMS από περισσότερους από 40 δήμους σε οκτώ διαφορετικές
χώρες της ΕΕ. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο είναι αφιερωμένο σε διάφορες περιπτωσιολογικές
μελέτες σχετικά με βέλτιστες πρακτικές στις οκτώ χώρες.
Streszczenie
Choć normę ISO 50001 wprowadzono z myślą o przedsiębiorstwach, jej wdrożenie może
być korzystne także dla samorządów lokalnych, które potrzebują bardziej
usystematyzowanego podejścia do działań ukierunkowanych na redukcję zużycia energii i
emisji gazów cieplarnianych. Celem projektu 50000&1 SEAPs było wsparcie ponad 40
europejskich miast i gmin w integracji Planów działań na rzecz zrównoważonej energii
(SEAP) z systemami zarządzania energią (SZE).
Résumé
Même si l'ISO 50001 a d'abord été conçue pour le secteur de l’industrie, tout au long du
processus de planification énergétique dans les municipalités, le besoin d’une approche
systématique pour réduire la consommation d'énergie et les émissions de CO2 s’est fait
ressentir dans les collectivités locales. L'objectif du projet 50000 & 1SEAPs était d'intégrer
des plans d'action énergétiques durables (SEAP) dans plus de 40 municipalités dotées d'un
système de gestion de l'énergie (ISO 50001).
CONSORTIUM: