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The Covenant of Mayors: Data collection and monitoring

16 September 2015

50000&1 SEAPs webinar:

Integrating Energy Management and Sustainable Action Plans: focus on data challenges

Tiago Serrenho European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy

and Transport

1. The Joint Research Centre and its role in the

Covenant of Mayors

2. The Sustainable Energy Action Plan process

3. The EED ISO 50001, and CoM

4. 4. Data collection and Data Quality

5. Some Considerations

Outline

1. The Joint Research Centre and its role in the Covenant

JRC - Robust Science for Policy Making As a Directorate-General of the European Commission, the JRC provides customer-driven scientific and technical support to Community policy making

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econometrics, prospective technologies…

About the JRC

Scientific-technical support to the development, implementation and monitoring of the CoM

Development of the guidebook “How to develop a Sustainable Energy

Action Plan (SEAP)”

Monitoring of the CoM implementation, including the development of a

specific template & instructions for signatories

Evaluation of submitted SEAPs, with feedback to Covenant cities

Operation of the technical helpdesk service

The role of the JRC in the CoM

The team: Paolo Bertoldi (IET), Andreea Iancu (IES), Brigitte Koffi (IES) Albana Kona (IET), Giulia Melica (IET), Silvia Rivas (IET), Paolo Zancanella (IET), Tiago Serrenho (IET)

54 COUNTRIES

6 300 signatories

198 million citizens

An unprecedented success…

Covenant EU

28 EU Member

States + EEA

Countries

Covenant East

ENP countries of the

Eastern Partnership

and Central Asian

countries. i.e.

Armenia, Azerbaijan,

Belarus, Georgia,

Kazakhstan,

Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,

Tajikistan,

Turkmenistan,

Ukraine and

Uzbekistan.

Covenant South

Maghreb and Mashreq

Countries

2. The SEAP process

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The Covenant of Mayors

Mayors commit to go beyond EU energy and climate

objectives

at least 20% CO2 reduction

in their respective territories by 2020

Define a Baseline Emission Inventory (BEI)

Prepare a Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP)

Implement their Action Plan and report periodically on

progress

Involve citizens and other stakeholders

Adapt city structures and allocate sufficient resources

Encourage other cities to join

Voluntary initiative launched by DG ENERGY in 2008 to support local authorities in the sustainable energy development and the fight against climate change

The adhesion to the CoM initiates a process within the local authority

The SEAP process

Guiding principles of the CoM approach

• Scientific soundness → knowledge of starting point (BEI)

• Territorial approach

• Focus on FINAL energy consumption:

In Buildings, equipment/facilities (and industries):

→ Municipal sector (exemplary role of the local authority)

→ Residential sector

→ Tertiary sector

Transport

Actions on Energy Efficiency and

implementation of Renewable Energies

3. The EED ISO 50001, and CoM

Strategy to mobilise investment in the renovation of buildings

[art. 4]

Central government buildings: 3% of the total floor area to be

renovated each year [art. 5]

Promote energy audits and Energy Management Systems (EN

ISO 50001) [art. 8]

“Member States shall promote the availability to all final

customers of high quality energy audits which are cost-

effective”

The EE Directive

Main measures

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ISO 50001 and CoM

Definition of Boundaries

Top Management involvement

Energy Management Team

Communication of EnMS (internal and

external)

Energy Planning (SEAP)

ENERGY REVIEW (BEI)

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ISO 50001 and CoM

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Tot no. of measures on energy audits: 750

Energy audits & SEAPs

Expected annual savings in 2020 associated with measures on

energy audits (1014.4 GWh/year)

545 SEAPs contain at least one measure on energy audits

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Number of measures on EnMS

Energy management systems & SEAPs

Expected annual savings in 2020 [GWh/year] associated with

measures on EnMS

127 SEAPs contain at least one measure on Energy Management Systems

4. Data collection and Data Quality

Bottom-Up versus Top-Down approaches

Ideally a full Bottom-Up approach should be followed

Top-Down approaches might not give an accurate picture of

the municipality

Will the Monitoring Emission Inventories capture the results of local actions?

CO2

CoM IEA database EUROSTAT database

Time series One year inventory

Complete time series

Complete time series

Data collection

Mostly bottom-up inventories (completed with national/regional averages when data at local level are not available)

Top-down, national averages

Top-down, national averages

Geographical Distribution

Administrative boundaries of the signatory

Worldwide coverage

EU28 and other European countries

Emission factors

IPCC default emission factors or Local Factors

Standard IPCC default emission factors

Country specific emission factors

Databases

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CHALLENGES IN DATA COLLECTION Structure of national/regional statistical data

Sweden

(Y)

(t CO2)

Municipal Buildings, equipment/ facilities

Tertiary Buildings, equipment/ facilities

Residential Buildings, equipment/ facilities

Public lighting

Industries (non ETS)

Municipal Fleet

Public transport

Private and Commercial transport

CoM

1. Activity sectors

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An example of a German signatory with this problem…

Data Residential buildings Data Data Data Data

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2. Energy carriers reporting: e.g. Central Statistics bureau - Sweden

CHALLENGES IN DATA COLLECTION Structure of national/regional statistical data

Diesel

Gasoline Liquid Fossil Fuels

3. Privacy/secrecy issues

Different reporting schemes, responding to different needs, exist… → Signatories may

lack resources to comply with them all

The Baseline Emission Inventory (BEI)

A prerequisite to SEAP elaboration: the BEI quantifies the

amount of CO2 emitted due to energy consumption in the

municipality’s territory, and will thus help select the appropriate

actions

Example: Castelldefelds (Spain)

Share of emissions per sector

5% 2%

21%

37%

28%

7%Primary sector

Industrial sector

Tertiary sector

Transport sector

Residential sector

Waste management

sector

Three sectors

represent 86% of the emissions of

the city

The Monitoring Emission Inventory (MEI)

An instrument to measure the impact of the SEAP actions:

the BEI shows where the local authority is at the beginning. The

successive MEIs will follow the same methods and principles of the

BEI and will show the progress towards the objective.

Example: Sunderland, UK

Every 2 years CoM signatories have to

report (qualitatively) on the

implementation of their actions.

Every 4 years it is mandatory for

signatories to submit an Monitoring

Emission Inventory (MEI).

Importance of reliable Energy

Consumption data!

The Monitoring Emission Inventory (MEI)

Focus: A simple important concept: final energy consumption

Reporting is divided in four main sectors: Final energy consumption in buildings, equipment/facilities and industries

Final energy consumption in transport

Other emission sources not related to energy consumption

(e.g. waste, wastewater…)

Local electricity generation

Not mandatory

Indirectly considered, if included in SEAP

Focus of the Covenant

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Insights on In-depth analysis report (JRC, to be published)

In-depth study of 25 selected SEAPs

Sample covering the full spectra of the initiative

Understand main strengths and weaknesses

Interaction between other related initiatives

Extract Best practices

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Data inconsistency identified as a main weakness

Cities with already a energy/climate plan normally need to make an

extra effort in order to adapt to CoM

e.g. Amsterdam has an ambitious climate plan but does not

meet the CoM data reporting requirements

Cities with tradition on climate/energy subjects are the only

ones able to report 1990 as a reference year as proposed by the

methodology (4 out of 25)

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Recurrent cases of non detailed data for all sectors and energy

carriers Hard to evaluate the overall impact

Mandatory and optional fields of data filling in the template

downgrades the quality of data

Use of national statistics prevents signatories to provide a

complete and coherent BEI

Only 7 cities of 25 cover all sectors

Implementation and monitoring phases are not well documented

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Data reporting remains a major challenge for signatories and the level of

details in the templates shows a certain country dependence

EnMS can present as a valid tool for consistency of methodological

approach and guarantee quality of data in municipalities

Energy Audits in the EnMS can be of great help while planning and

implementing Energy Efficiency measures

Small municipalities can bypass the lack of resources in “Energy Staff”

with the implementation of a EnMS

5. Some considerations

Thank you!

Tiago Serrenho +39 0332 78 9628 Tiago.SERRENHO@ec.europa.eu Joint Research Centre (JRC) IET - Institute for Energy and Transport Petten - The Netherlands & Ispra - Italy http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu