Methods to capture actual energy savings due to the implementation of minimum energy performance standards (MEPSs) under the EU Ecodesign
Ecodesign and Energy Labelling measures contribute to improve energy efficiency of products on the EU market by setting minimum efficiency requirements and by providing a clear indication of the performance to consumers. The EC monitors and reports on their impact, with a view to improve its understanding over time and to fine-tune forecasting and reporting. The 2020 European Court of Auditors Ecodesign audit , with respect to the environmental impact accounting model used by the EC to evaluate the impact of its Ecodesign and energy labelling policies, recommended to ‘assess the scope for evaluating the results of the policy using sample-based methodology to measure actual energy consumption by end users with a view to improving the accuracy of the model’. The main goal of this report is to make the link between in-situ measurements and assessment scenarios, identifying suitable methods to capture real energy savings due to the implementation of minimum energy performance standards under the EU Ecodesign. In the study the necessary general conditions to implement appliance energy monitoring campaigns at EU level are described in details, including technical and organizational aspect. These different aspects have been then tailored into practical concrete field monitoring methodologies, to collect and analyse real-life energy data use and market trends, for three product groups: televisions (ENER lot 5), domestic refrigerators/freezers (ENER lot 13) and gas boilers (ENER lot 1).
CASTELLAZZI Luca;
DUPRET Muriel;
BERTOLDI Paolo;
2023-04-11
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC130994
978-92-76-58815-3 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31288 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-288-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC130994,
10.2760/791497 (online),
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