MUNICIPAL ENERGY ACCOUNTING

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1 MUNICIPAL ENERGY ACCOUNTING Key-factors for the successful implementation Michael Stenitzer Energieverwertungsagentur, the Austrian Energy Agency (E.V.A.)

2 Guidelines for implementing energy accounting Support for municipalities, energy agencies... Based on expert-interviews Shows the benefits Shows possible ways for the implementation Helps to overcome barriers and obstacles Examples from Austrian municipalities Addresses and further reading 2

3 I. Starting phase Initiative... from inside the administration or from outside e.g.. energy agencies, higher administrative level (province), consultants etc. Responsibility & Commitment Ensure responsibility and commitment within the administration and at the political level Benefits General benefits should be obvious to decision makers and involved staff. Every person should be informed about her role, tasks and individual benefits Obstacles and opposition Identify and analyse obstacles and provide individual arguments and support External support Pros & cons 3

4 II. Implementing phase Ensure financial & personal resources for Project management Software Collection of master data Other investments (meters) Ensure operational preconditions Software Accurate master data Standardised reference quantities (building size, hours of usage, number of users,...) Standardised categories of usage (offices, schools,...) Training of involved persons 4

5 III. Operational phase Ensure personal resources Accurate and regular data collection Evaluation Key indicators & Benchmarking (identify appropriate indicators) Reporting & Communication (inform involved persons & decision makers) Marketing (communicate targets and success-stories) Controlling the flow of energy and money Improvement measures Identify weaknesses of the building s energy system Prioritise measures Evaluate improvement measures 5

6 Key-factors for the successful implementation of energy accounting I Highly committed persons as driving force and coordinating person are invaluable for the success Inform all involved persons about targets and benefits of energy accounting A political (or high level) commitment will ease the cross-department work and communication 6

7 Key-factors for the successful implementation of energy accounting II The implementation will demand certain financial and personal resources. The efforts for the running process will be comparably low. Use external experts or skilled staff for the validation of master data, the evaluation of results and the selection of appropriate measures Benchmarking is only possible and sensible with an accurate and standardised collecting-method of master data 7

8 Key-factors for the successful implementation of energy accounting III Report the results of the evaluation, conclusions and explanations (including proposals for improving measures) to the responsible departments and decision makers regularly Communicate success stories originating in energy accounting 8

9 Summary The role of technical factors (incl. software) seems to be overestimated The most important technical factor is an accurate and standard compliant master data The non-technical key-factors are Motivation of decision makers and involved persons (benefits, obstacles) Communication of results & conclusions (appropriate reports for the right persons) 9

10 Further reading... Guidlines for a successful implementation of municipal energy accounting (German) Market survey of energy-accounting software (German) 10