Certificate of energy saving

A Certificat of Energy Saving (also called white certificate ) is a national policy measurement which makes it possible to encourage the saving energy.

England, Italy and France implemented these measurements.

Principle

The principle is to oblige certain actors (obliged ) to carry out energy saving, and to encourage the other actors (not-obliged ) by obtaining a certificate. The obliged can either carry out themselves measurements of energy saving, or to buy certificates with the not-obliged , or to pay a surtax with the state.

The penalty is fixed at 0,02 €/kWh cumac and the certificates are thus negotiable on the market of the certificates between 0 and 0,02 €/kWh cumac There is in 2007 very few certificates of energy saving available in France. On the triennial objective of 54.000 GWh cumac between 2006 and 2009 only 280 MWh cumac were delivered either 0,05% of the triennial objective. (Source ATEE)

the English system

August 1st

the Belgian system

The system set up in Belgium consists of the purchase of green certificates by obliged with the companies the energy producers green one which they are granted automatically according to the quantity of CO2 emissions avoided during their energy production.

the Italian system

August 1st

the French system

In France, in the context of the application of the Protocol of Kyoto, the system of the Certificats of energy saving (White the EEC or Certificates ) was set up with the Loi of orientation on the energy of July 13rd, 2005 (Law n°2005-781) which fixes the energy orientations of France (articles 14,15,16, and 17). These the EEC must make it possible to standardize, regulate and validate the saving energy.
La the United Kingdom and Italy develops the same type of actions, with encouraging results.

the system European

A project called " EuroWhiteCert" comparable with the White Certificates of the majority of the European country is ready to be applied by the European commission. The application of this device is planned normally for 2008. It will force the actors with quotas objective, and will make it possible to exchange the Euro White CERT on a market of Européen exchange.

actors

Articles 14 and 15 stipulate that the White Certificats will relate to “ the moral persons which sell electricity, gas, heat or cold with the ultimate consumers and whose annual sales exceed a threshold as well as the natural persons and morals which sell domestic Fioul to the ultimate consumers are subjected to obligations of energy saving. ” but also “ any other moral person whose action, additional compared to its usual activity, allows the energy savings of a volume higher than a fixed threshold… ”

But initially only producers/distributers of energy , such as EDF or GDF, which exceed a certain threshold of sales will be constrained to apply this regulation: they are the “obliged ”. In order to profit from these EEC, “obliged” must set up actions which generate a reduction in the energy consumption of their customers.

All the other actors are for the moment “ eligible ” with the certificates of energy saving. Any moral person can thus emit a request for the EEC following an action of energy saving or substitution of a nonrenewable energy source by a renewable energy source producing of heat.

the market

The certificates of energy saving will make it possible to validate energy saving due to additional actions with respect to a share of the regulation already in force and in addition of the usual activity. The unit of the white certificates is kWh of final energy cumac (cumulated and brought up to date over the lifespan of the product). In order to limit the number of requests to treat, each file will have to exceed the value threshold of 1 million kWh of final energy cumac, i.e. 1 GWh of final energy cumac . To reach this minimum of the regroupings of moral persons are possible.

There exist two types of actions: the " Standards" operations; of which it is possible to know the value in the EEC starting from cards of calculation available on the site of the Ministry for Industry, and " Specific Operations " who require more complex steps.

" Specific operations " are also called " operations except standards ". Admittedly more complex because often in relation to the industrial processes, they have a potential of very important energy saving. Specialized companies in energy efficiency can by one audit feasibility identify the layers of energy saving in these " operations except standards".

As what was set up for the “ black certificates ” (see Bourse of carbon) the EEC are negotiable movable property. It is thus about a system of supply and demand for which the state will not intervene and which will have car-to be controlled. The content of the national register of the EEC will publish the average costs of sale regularly in order to give an account of the state of the market. Analyzes taking of account the experiments undertaken in the United Kingdom make it possible to estimate average costs of the certificates of 0,01 € per kWh of final energy cumac.

The period of validity of the EEC will include/understand at which time it was recorded and will extend over the two following triennial periods. The people who will not have been able to obtain the certificates of energy saving necessary to respect the law at the end of one period will have to pour with the Treasury a penalty of 0,02 € per kWh of final energy cumac not certified. The follow-up of the operation and the transactions of the EEC will be done officially every 3 years in the form of a report/ratio emitted by the state. The objective over the first period, from July 1st, 2006 to June 30th, 2009, being to save 54 TWh of final energy cumac . He was announced in the Climate Plan, in November 2006 that this volume would be then at least doubled.

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