Thermal Science 2012 Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages: 687-702
https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI120106119M
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Making the results of bottom-up energy savings comparable
Moser Simon (Energy Institute at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria)
Leutgöb Klemens (Energie Markt Analyse GmbH, Vienna, Austria)
Reichl Johannes (Energy Institute at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria)
Kollmann Andrea (Energy Institute at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria)
The Energy Service Directive (ESD) has pushed forward the issue of energy
savings calculations without clarifying the methodological basis. Savings
achieved in the Member States are calculated with rather non-transparent and
hardly comparable Bottom-up (BU) methods. This paper develops the idea of
parallel evaluation tracks separating the Member States’ issue of ESD
verification and comparable savings calculations. Comparability is ensured by
developing a standardised BU calculation kernel for different energy
efficiency improvement (EEI) actions which simultaneously depicts the
different calculation options in a structured way (e.g. baseline definition,
system boundaries, double counting). Due to the heterogeneity of BU
calculations the approach requires a central database where Member States
feed in input data on BU actions according to a predefined structure. The
paper demonstrates the proposed approach including a concrete example of
application.
Keywords: EEI measure, bottom-up evaluation, comparability, energy savings calculations