REPORT on the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive ALBANIA

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1 REPORT on the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive ALBANIA (Update February 2015) By MEI, RES&EE direction The Albanian building stock recently, has been evaluated to elaborate and improve the existing knowledge, providing a powerful means for the assessment of the energy performance of individual buildings, groups of buildings and even for the evaluation of the impact of energy conservation scenarios to the entire residential building stock. Accordingly, in RES and EE directory under Ministry of Energy and Industry the main objectives are set and realised: Contribute to develop and provide the inputs for a MODEL with an harmonized structure to the Albanian residential building typology in line with the Best similar Models as well. In addition, the study done is in line with up-to-date input data on buildings, structures and electromechanical (E/M) systems. The model is elaborated, commented and has been presented to the Albanian experts last year. Under the above Albanian study, a typology for the assessment of the energy performance of residential buildings is selected and also, the impact of energy conservation measures (ECMs) is evaluated. The typology concept (according EPBD guidelines) create a simple MODEL for estimation of the Albanian national energy balance of the residential building stock. The Model helps to Investigate the possibility of extending the typology concept to public and non-residential buildings. The work and outcome of the Model is addressed to: architects, engineers and consultants. Energy advisors can use it in counselling sessions to give their clients a quick overview of the energy performance of a building similar to their own and demonstrate the effect of possible measures. Energy consultants may use it as a set of example buildings for demonstrating and testing their software. building owners / building s technical and maintenance staff House owners may use it on their own to assess the energy performance of their buildings as well as the cost effectiveness of measures to improve it. national and international energy and policy experts On a national level, the building typology can be used as a model for imaging the energy consumption of the residential building stock The Directive 2010/31/EU on the energy performance of buildings (EPBD) is one of the most complex energy efficiency directive for implementation in the Energy Community, and requires cooperation between various stakeholders and broader spectrum of activities, besides work on development of legislation. The study on EE of Building residential stock, already has transposed the methodology of calculation and EE assessments in line with EPBD principles and concepts. As an example is that according the existing building Code (a law requirement) the consumption evaluation indicator Gv [W/m 2 K] is Transposed on EP [kwh/m 2 a]. Many studies and experiences on EE of Building are taken into consideration as a very valuable experience by other academic and education bodies like architects, HVAC engineers, Electrical Engineers and Energy environment people with same background. Particularly, during 2014 EBRD through REEP programme has drafted the number of required secondary legislation on energy performance of buildings in Albania. As for Albanian authorities in 1

2 MEI has been expressed the interest to join to the regional Technical Assistance in support of full EPBD transposition, and later 2014 th the primary EPBD Law has been drafted in full cooperation with TWG. The Ministry called on voluntary basis the Technical Working Group (TWG) and on 6 month activity they (22 people) commented the draft of EP Law. On December 2014 th h.e. Albanian Energy and Industry Minister. through a letter by EnC Secretariat Director, is advised to start ant to enact the draft in Parliament 1. ECS made clear in its letter to the Minister that accompanied the draft EPBD law, that further technical assistance for the secondary legislation is conditioned by the progress made in discussing the primary law within the government and further in the Parliament. Regarding this issue the indication from the Ministry is that a timetable for these actions is already approved internally as e- acts of GoA. There are five other secondary EPB acts already approved by PM office for Since now, the directory of RES and EE is working on these acts, without ECA/EBRD under REEP assistance. MEI has been informed by EBRD that Regional Programme will have to be finalised by June 2015, and since Albania started very late, it may be that it would not be enough time left to provide all the needed assistance, which would be detrimental to Albania. The PHLG suggestion was that EBRD has to reconsider the above decision, and asked to the continuation of consultants assistance with technical support on secondary legislation acts. Till now no any other reflection was indicated. On that condition, as far as ECA/EBRD has identified to the Prioritization Report for Albania, four work packages (WP1-4) the continuation of drafting the secondary legislation acts are under way in MEI, (at RES/EE directory) as the below draft acts: 1. Heating and air-conditioning inspections - (Collecting available market data to inform the form and scope of the inspection regime; refining the scheme operating conditions and role of the scheme operator). 2. National calculation methodology - (Identifying the relevant national professional bodies; scope for the NCM in the country; propose methodology; 3. Minimum energy performance requirements - (applying minimum energy performance standards; standards to be set and enforced through a legislative framework in Albania, as a stage where it can be progressed; Agree to a number of EPs;). 4. Energy performance certification (propose an approach to EPC; suggesting alternative solutions; Agree on how EP is to be measured and described; how and when building owners and/or operators are to be required to produce certificates; adapting a model of legislation). Right now, the progress is done to the fulfilment on Item no. 2 which is already elaborated. The items 1 is in ongoing process. 1. General framework for implementation for implementation of EPBD 1. Main requirements of the EPBD included in the National Law(s) deadlines for completion It is achieved through the draft on EPB Law to eliminate market barriers to energy efficiency and accelerate the take up of energy services. Regarding the draft proposed by EnC RES/EE Directory in MEI has been identified that: 1 2

3 deadlines for completion The draft of NEEAP 2 implementation is partially (35%) affected by the EPB Law through energy tariff reform, energy metering and billing; Need for the full transposition of the EU s EPBD through secondary legislation acts; Public procurement codes through new and retrofitting building s permits under Building energy Code, appliance and equipment purchase guidelines. 2. The overall National approach for the implementation of the EPBD has been selected and defined 3. National Focal Point nominated (for instance Energy (Efficiency Agency), responsible for overall operation and management 4. Training of various target groups and information dissemination and awareness raising The Draft Law provides a framework for EPBD implementation and includes sufficient detail to ensure that the primary legislation provides clarity regarding processes, procedures and institutional responsibility. Technical details of the Draft law are be incorporated in secondary (and, possibly, tertiary) legislation. The approach is consistent with the EU Member States and other Western Balkan countries. Policy approach and key aspects of the policy papers: (i) Preferred regulatory model; (ii) Features and implications as the key elements of the implementation approach for the various stakeholders; (iii) Legislative mapping the final section of the policy papers setting out the technical provisions necessary for the implementation of the model. The key role of TWG: (i) Identifying and engaging with the relevant national professional bodies; (ii) the precise scope for the NCM in the country; (iii) Understanding and confirming the proposed methodology to all aspects of the approach are acceptable. No any decision or proposal. Actually NANR is the only NFP architects, engineers and consultants. building owners/building s technical and maintenance staff national and international energy and policy experts Building Stock Inventory Decision to establish a Building Stock Inventory, and necessary resources and funds for its development and operation allocated or secured Findings: There exists no any specific state level inventory of public or other buildings except the statistical data from Albanian Institute of Statistics ( The main division here is between residential and non-residential buildings. According to the CENCUS 2011, the usually resident population in Albania is 2,821,977. The population has declined around 8.0 per cent, compared to the 2001 Census, where the enumerated population was 3,069,275. The number of private households is 722,262. This represents a decrease in the absolute number of households by 4,633 units or 3

4 6. Establishment and operation of national Building Stock Inventory 0.6 per cent compared to the previous census. The number of residential buildings in Albania was 598,267. More than 80 per cent were mainly one storey detached houses, with only one dwelling. Only 3.7 per cent of them were apartment buildings, of which 31.3 per cent were located in the prefecture of Tirana. There is a total of 1,012,400 dwellings enumerated in Albania, from which, according to the classification by type, 99.6 per cent are conventional dwellings and 0.4 per cent of them are nonconventional ones. The most common number of rooms in dwellings is 3, 43.8 per cent, followed by dwellings with 2 rooms, 28.7 per cent, and dwellings with 4 rooms, 17.9 per cent. Standard density of the dwellings is about 14 square meter per occupant. No specific methods and indicators used for building stock inventory for the purpose of energy performance exist on state level. Additional efforts for disaggregation the data and assess building stock data that we could use for calculating the energy savings potential were performed by MEI for evaluation purposes. Official statistics about energy consumption is divided in residential sector and commercial sector (which includes more than just buildings). Only limited information of relevance for a building stock inventory is provided in the national Cadastre. No any decision or proposal is taken by MEI/MUDT as responsible ministries in Albania 3. Definitions 7. Introduction of definitions in the national legislation and/or regulations as given in Article 2 of the EPBD 8. Introduction of definitions from relevant European Standards into national regulations (incl. from EN and EN 15217) n/a for the moment Not decided yet which will be the standart 4. Calculation methodology These requirements are given in Article 3 of EPBD; Adoption of a methodology for calculating the energy performance of buildings. 4

5 9. Requirement to develop a national calculation methodology according to general framework as set out in the EPBD included into appropriate national law, and necessary resources and funds for its development allocated or secured 10. Development of national calculation methodology with national annexes (default input values) - National Standard 11. Adoption of relevant supporting CEN standards A proposal done by head of EE/RES department in MEI on: HEATING CALCULATION METHOD AND INSULATION AS ENERGY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR: The existing Method on Determination of the energy loss coefficient Gv (Old Energy Building Code) Determination of the Transmissibility losses coefficient Gvt Calculations methodology of Energy Performance for the heating/cooling and DHW demand. Code assumptions and simplifications. Values for residential buildings. Assessment of the energy performance of buildings through the calculation methodology of EP Level of refurbishment scenarios to increase the EP Parameters affecting the energy performance of the typical buildings Typical values (averages) of the thermal transfer coefficient (kwh/m 2 K) for the main components of the building envelope. Etc There are in proposal level. There is a need for TWG involvement as a body for evaluation and approval process. n/a 12. Development of climatic data base Not yet applied the official data base. There are many sources but not officially known. 13. Development of software for energy performance certification (new or adoption/adjustment of existing software) (could be developed commercially or nationally by public means) 14. Training of experts in the calculation methodology and in proper use of the software 15. Establishment of software support centre Not yet performed. The methodology and architecture of Building code and database is ready to start implementation. Lack of financial means to build-up a software. Not applicable without software itself n/a 5

6 5. Energy performance requirements Requirements given in several Articles of the EPBD: Article 4 Setting of minimum energy performance requirements Article 5 Calculation of cost-optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements Article 6 New buildings Article 7 Existing buildings Article 8 Technical building systems Article 9 Nearly zero-energy buildings 16. Decision to start developing new minimum energy performance requirements, and necessary resources and funds for its development allocated or secured 17. Selection and description of approach to be used for setting of minimum energy performance parameters 18. Definition of national input values for the purpose of cost optimal calculations 19. Energy and cost calculations 20. Derivation of cost-optimal level of energy performance 21. Updating/development of the regulation describing the minimum energy performance requirements 22. Information/training of key stakeholders in the construction industry 23. Updating/development of routines and specifications for documentation and checking of the energy performance requirements 24. Training of national and regional building inspectorates The minimum EP requirements are set. There is not any decision. Idem as above Idem as above Energy cost calculation is done through a market research. The study is under way and May 2015 will the period to open the discussion adding the cost-optimal first numbers and figures for the new and renovated buildings stock. Idem as above Number of regulations are set. There is a lack of human capacity and expert motivation of TWG. Training stakeholder is not a good idea. But, training engineers and architects from construction, design studios, universities might be a good idea. Lack of support. Not yet taken into consideration. MEI/AKBN has at least 3-5 people with requires background and 2 only aware what to do for EPD. No idea 6

7 6. Energy performance certificate Requirements given in several Articles of the EPBD: Article 11 Energy performance certificates Article 12 Issue of energy performance certificates Article 13 Display of energy performance certificates Article 17 Independent experts Article 18 Independent control system 25. Requirement to lay down necessary measures to establish a system for certification of the energy performance of buildings as required by the EPBD included into appropriate national law, and necessary resources and funds for its development allocated or secured 26. Development of Regulation on Energy Performance Certification of buildings, incl. national values for each class (A, B, C, etc.) 27. Description of organisational model for the energy certification system (development of EPC, issue, control, information, training and accreditation of experts, reporting, evaluation, etc.) 28. Development of Guidelines for energy performance certification of buildings 29. Development of Certification Tool (Issue, statistics, information dissemination, reporting) 30. Training, examination and accreditation of experts 31. Establishment of Independent Control System 2 and Registry (system and institution) combined with the control system for inspections if applicable. The Control system should provide information enabling evaluation of the effectiveness of the Certification Scheme. n/a for the moment n/a for the moment It would be a discussion during end of the year 2015 n/a for the moment This is a necessary tool. Gathering data for statistical, reporting, issuing, It is under way a draft on this issue. n/a for the moment 2 Regarding Control System for the energy performance certificates, reference is given to the Concerted Action EPBD Report Quality assurance for energy performance certificate, published in January

8 7. Inspection of heating and air-conditioning systems Requirements given in several Articles of the EPBD: Article 14 Inspection of heating systems Article 15 Inspection of air-conditioning systems Article 16 Reports on the inspection of heating and air-conditioning systems Article 17 Independent experts Article 18 Independent control system 32. Requirement to lay down necessary measures to establish regular inspection of heating and airconditioning systems as required by the EPBD included into appropriate national law, and necessary resources and funds for its development allocated or secured 33. Development of Regulation on Inspection of heating systems Development of Regulation on Inspection of air-conditioning systems 35. Description of organisational model for the inspection system(s) (., control, information, training and accreditation of experts, reporting, evaluation, etc.) 36. Development of Guidelines for inspections, incl. report templates 37. Establishment of Independent Control System and Registry (system and institution) combined with the control system for energy certification if applicable. The Control system should provide information enabling evaluation of the effectiveness of the Certification Scheme. The subject is well known. There is no any action taken. Idem as above Idem as above It is under way a draft on this issue. n/a information yet It is under way a draft on this issue. 38. Training and accreditation of experts It is under way a draft on this issue. 3 Could be combined with regulation on Inspection of air-conditioning systems and developed as one regulation 8

9 8. Information Requirements are given in: Article 10: Financial incentives and market barriers Article 20: Information 39. Development and provision of guidance and training for those responsible for implementing the EPBD 40. Information campaigns to owners or tenants of buildings on the different methods and practices that serve to enhance energy performance (incl. purpose and objectives of energy certification and inspections, costeffective energy efficiency improvement measures, available financial instruments, etc.) 41. Establishment and operation of Information Centre (web-based) n/a information yet There are so few. Spots and academic lessons may find but it is not something Banks are doing a lot advertisements and commercial publicity for the credit lines on EE on building. 9. Penalties Requirements given in Article 27of EPBD. 42. Develop rules on penalties for infringements of the national provisions adopted and include them into relevant laws/regulations. Penalties could be imposed for noncompliance to: Minimum energy performance requirements Certification (non-existing and/or quality and/or registration) Inspections (non-existing and/or quality and/or registration) 43. Establishment of a monitoring system (system and institution) for checking compliance with national provisions and for issuing and collecting penalties No any n/a There are training done for GIZ Monitoring Platform 44. Operation of the monitoring system No any building is done officially. There is a MoU between 9

10 10. Other existing and proposed measures and instruments which promote the objectives of the EPBD There is a very good cooperation with GIZ and KfW team in Albania. We have stopped asking them on EPBD technical and financial support as far as REEP program is underway and we do not want to overlap their valuable support. A negotiation between the above donors is needed aiming the accelerate collaboration and to look forward for the Need of Albania in building sector. 11. Main barriers and support needed for implementation of EPBD An immediate reconsidering collaboration with EBRD assistance to speed up the reform. EBRD/REEP has to reschedule the presence with ECA in Albania. Lack of TWG support by EBRD is not a good approach. 10