2nd issue of LiCEA newsletter

Life Cycle based Energy Audit
2nd issue of newsletter
November 2013

The project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF

Introduction
Dear readers,
you are holding already second issue of LiCEA project Newsletter. Following
pages will be informing you about project´s progress. Project partner from Poland National Energy Conservation Agency will be presented as a main Creator of LiCEA
tool.
You will be familiar also with common partnership activities as for example 2nd
project meeting in Sárvár, Hungary. What we did during meeting in Sárvár, what are
the outputs and follow-up activities - you will find the answers in this issue of
newsletter as well.
As we promised in the first issue of newsletter, it´s our pleasure to invite you
on LiCEA official website on the address: www.licea.eu, where you can find all relevant
information and even more. You are most welcomed.
If you are interested in national legislations concerning energy efficiency, you
will be interested in overview from Lower Austria region in the conclusion.
We firmly hope you will enjoy reading LiCEA newsletter and in case you would
like to know more information which you can not find, do not hesitate to contact us on
official LiCEA website or directly through contacts on last page of this newsletter.
LiCEA Project Partners

14


Content

Project progress

4

Project meeting in Sárvár, Hungary

7

Presentation of NAPE

9

Overview of the energy efficiency law in
Lower Austria

11

Contacts

13

14


Project progress
LiCEA Guidance ellaboration

“

The simplification of
anything is always
sensational”: if the
aphorism of the English writer Gilbert
Keith Chesterton is true, it means that
the LiCEA target is ambitious,
significant and arduous.
This is the first sentence of the
LiCEA "Guidance" document, elaborated
by the project partners during the summer
2013, as result of the work of the first part
of the project (study about the
state of the art in energy
auditing and LCA, stakeholder
map, local surveys, industrial
district selection and training
seminar on information
exchange in Sàrvàr during the
second partnership Meeting).
The first sentence
summarizes and explains

how difficult it is to simplify a complex
activities as energy and LCA auditing
are and put them together consistently
in a single procedure.
But the LiCEA Guidance
document tries to give this solution,
suggesting a new approach and a new
methodology to obtain
useful
information for the SMEs in fast and easy
way to monitor its efficiency, consumption
and progresses.

Picture: President Barack Obama tours the University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) in Miami,
Florida, Feb. 23, 2012. The IAC is institution where students learn how to become industrial energy-efficiency experts
as they help small and mid-sized manufacturers reduce their energy costs. | Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy.

14


4

Project progress
LiCEA Guidance ellaboration

T

he Guidance describes
the LCA system
boundaries, which kind
of data need to be collected, which level
of definition and quality has to be
assured, and the general methodology
for the data elaboration in order to find
the output indicators about energy and
environmental impact.
The LiCEA Guidance is a first step
of the development of the LiCEA "Tool" for
a "Simplified Energy Audit in LCA
perspective" for SMEs in Regional districts
(clusters). The next phases for the
development of LiCEA tool are the
definition of the LiCEA "Requirements"
that will describe the procedure in detail,

and the software development that will be
realized by the beginning of 2014.
In the spring 2014 the test of
theLiCEA tool will start with the application
to the first SMEs, to arrive at the end of
2014 with 200 tests completed involving 6
different industrial clusters in 5 Central
European countries.

The main phases of the LiCEA scheme:

Up-stream

Company
Energy audit

Down-stream

14


5

Project progress
LiCEA tool creation

P

roject is currently in its
f i r s t h a l f o f
implementation. The
works on the draft LiCEA tool are in
progress.
Project partners have agreed on
the methodology of the analytic tool
development, data collection procedure,
and data processing. The tasks have been
defined and distributed among involved
experts.
Energy auditors are already
performing 5 audits per cluster to gather
specific data for the tool. It is crucial for
starting the work on the tool, to have
results from first audits performed in all
chosen sectors/clusters and these will be
ready by the end of November 2013. The
selected sectors are following:

The chosen SMEs from these sectors
will get a free energy audit, showing energy
saving opportunities with identified
measures.
Specific results of the energy
audit are i.e. energy consumption [kWh],
GHG emissions [kg], energy cost [€],
other consumption as water, in relation
to LCA core output indicators. The SMEs
will see their output indicators: upstream,
core, and downstream outputs.
Most importantly, practical advice
on specific energy and cost saving
measures will be given to SMEs free of
charge.

źmeat processing
źbakery
źhosiery
źmechanical
źplastics
źwood processing

14


6

2nd project meeting in Sárvár,
Hungary

B

etween the 22nd and
24th of May 2013 the
2 n d
L i C E A
Transnational Partners Meeting was
held in Sárvár Park Inn Hotel, organized
by the Hungarian project partner,
Pannon Business Network Association
(PBN) with the participation of several
international actors.
Hungarian, Italian,
Croatian, Austrian,
Polish and Slovak
energy experts and
s p e c i a l i s t s
participated at the
LiCEA project
meeting and after
that the Training
Seminar and study
visit.
T
h
e
meeting was not
only an excellent occasion for networking
but it also served a platform for
international experience exchange related
to energy audits, just as a discussion of
practical application of energy saving
solutions.

During the Training Seminar the
specialists presented the national
regulations and legislation related to
the field of energetic and energy
auditing (concerning the participating
countries) as well as LCA (Life-Cycle
Assessment), as a relevant part of the
project and related to national/regional
best practices.
During the Round
table discussion
the partners and
the external
participants
shared their
experiences with
each other about
the legislation and
p r a c t i c a l
implementation.
The external
participants
represented the following 2 international
projects:
č ERASME (Intelligent Energy Europe)
č INNOSPIRIT (AT - HU Cross border

Cooperation)

14


7

Second project meeting in Sárvár, Hungary

T

he post-meeting study visits to Park Inn Hotel and Wellness Spa in
Sárvár offered a variety of alternative energy saving solutions for
the participants, because they could watch the energy systems
during on-site-visit.
After the 2nd transnational partners meeting, on the 24th of June 2013 in
Szombathely, a press conference was held, where PBN's project manager, Adrienn
Németh presented the objectives of LiCEA project, the technical activities during the
project lifetime, the expected results as well as the experiences from the project meeting.

14


8

N

ational Energy
Conservation
Agency - NAPE is a
Polish energy consulting company,
popularizing efficient and rational
energy usage, above all in the
building sector, and the principles of
sustainable development. The
company currently has 14 full-time
employees and cooperates with about
30 experts on a project basis.
NAPE cooperates with the
Energy Conservation Foundation
(FPE), Association of Energy
Auditors, multiple foreign partners,

and is the founding member of
Country-wide Association ”Energy
and environment conservation”
(SAPE - Polska), which associates
regional energy conservation
agencies.
NAPE's experts possess longterm experience in the field of energy
efficiency promotion, renewable
energy sources implementation,
international cooperation in the area
of innovative energy technologies and
sustainable development, and
participation in European
Commission's programs.

14


9

N

ational Energy
Conservation
Agency performs
studies, provides consultancy, and
realizes projects in all energy
sectors.
NAPE is committed to
resolving energy supply problems and
modernizing energy systems on both
supply and demand sides, serves
municipalities, companies, enterprises
and budgetary units, as well as
building owners. NAPE also acts as a
verifier of energy efficiency projects
financed by diverse financial
institutions, like European Investment
Bank, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development,
Global Environmental Facility, Polish
National Fund for Environment
Protection.

In the LiCEA project NAPE is
coordinating the development of the
LiCEA tool supporting life cycle based
energy audit in SMEs.
The map shows location of
NAPE headquarters (NAPE logo), its
regional representatives (red dots)
and co-operating SAPE-Polska
members (green dots).

14


10

Overview of the energy efficiency law
in Lower Austria (2012)

T

he resolution was made
on the 17th November
2011 and it came into
force in spring 2012. It contains the
guideline 2006/32/EG from the 5th of
April 2006 on energy efficiency and
energy services. Like declared in the 15a
agreement, Lower Austria takes its part of
the union-goal. The Lower Austria action
plan is in force till 1st February 2014.
Goals of the law are the cost
effective raising of energy efficiency and
definition of framework conditions to
make efficient energy-use possible (e.g.
compulsive energy monitoring and
authorised energy agents in
municipalities).

Overall energy services like
energy consulting are offered in order to
raise energy efficiency. Lower Austria
assists companies, private persons as well
as municipalities. Municipalities will be
supported by database and program for
energy monitoring.
An Energy fund was created in
order to have financial advancement
possibilities. This fund is financed by
Lower Austria, punishments and other
revenues (like auction returns from
Emission trades law 2012). Money from
this fund is spent for energy consulting,
invested in efficiency and advanced
training on energy efficiency.
The consulting has to be done by
independent organisations.

14


11

The nationwide energy efficiency law
in Lower Austria

part including the companies says:

M

edium and big
enterprises have to
install an energy
management system (EnMS) according
to the directives EN16001 or ISO50001.
They have to get certified or at least
have to arrange an extern energy audit
every three years. Its necessary to set
efficiency measures, install an EnMS or
execute extern energy audits and
communicate those actions to the national
energy efficiency department.
Smaller companies that do not
install an EnMS have to execute an
energy consulting unit every four years.

It is necessary to execute the
measurements that are mentioned in
the consulting report. In addition, the set
of the measurements has to be
communicated to the national energy
efficiency department.
If the companies do not want to
set this measurements they have the
possibility to get certificates according to
§18 that have to be organised in the
necessary amount.
Companies with less than 10
employees or with annual turnover less
than 2 million EUR do not have to install
EnMS or execute extern audits.

14


12

Contact us

www.licea.eu
LiCEA

Province of Mantova - LEAD PARTNER
Via Principe Amedeo 30, 46100 Mantova, Italy
Contact person: Roberto Grassi, roberto.grassi@provincia.mantova.it
AGIRE
Piazza Sordello, 43, 46100 Mantova, Italy
Contact person: Massimiliano Musci, musci@agirenet.it
EAR
Prague
Hans-Kudlich-Straße 2, 3830 Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria
Contact person: Markus Hödl, energieagentur@wvnet.at
PBN
Bratislava
32-36 Zanati Rd., H-9700 Szombathely, Hungary
Contact person: Adrienn Németh, adrienn.nemeth@pbn.hu
NAPE
Swietokrzyska 20, 00-002 Warsaw, Poland
Contact person: Andrzej Rajkiewicz, arajkiewicz@nape.pl
AIEC
Jelačičova 8, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovakia
Contact person: Tina Igličar, tina.iglicar@aiec-ngo.eu

2nd issue of LiCEA newsletter

More Related Content

What's hot (9)

Similar to 2nd issue of LiCEA newsletter (20)

More from Jan Šašek (10)

Recently uploaded (20)

2nd issue of LiCEA newsletter