CA EED Plenary Meeting Milan, Oct 2014

Core Theme 5 – Energy services and ESCo’sWG 5.4 Split incentives

NL Irma Thijssen

Split incentive

• Barrier for implementing energy efficiency measures

• Financing: Different organisations have to pay for investments in energy measures, for procurement of energy, for maintenance, and for the energy bills

• Agreements needed between owners (landlords), users (tenants) and facility management organisations

• 63% of offices (80.000 office buildings)

• Also local government buildings, such as retail, theaters, sports centres, libraries, commynity centres, parkings, etc

• Special problem in multi-tenant buildings

• Tendency that leases are getting shorter

National Energy Agreement

• National Energy Agreement for Sustainable Growth, 2013

• Agreement between more than 40 organisations

• “Wet Milieubeheer” (Environment Management Law)

• Energy measures with an average payback period (return on investment) of 5 years are obligatory

• Extra budget for preservation by competent authorities

• Official list of “acknowledged energy measures” in 2014

• Cooperation of Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Economic Affairs

& VNO-NCW (labour market organisation)

Action Plan Ministery of Internal Affairs

• Memo ‘split incentives’ April 2014

• Responsibility of the Market; government facilitates

1. Research on the extent of the problem

2. Development of a Guidance

3. Sharing of knowledge (by Platform Sustainable Housing)

4. Monitoring and evaluation after 2 years

5. Establishing an Expertise centre (2015)

Possible solutions?

• Agreements in lease contract > Green Lease Menu & Dashboard

• National Government buildings 2016: rent all-in (with energy)

• Duolabel and Energy Card Retail

• Energy Performance Contracts > EPC Menu & App

• ESCo’s

• More?

Sustainable Housing Platform:Green Lease Menu and Dashboard• Online tool for owners and users, to make buildings more sustainable

and make agreements in a green lease contract (including use, facility management and exploitation)

• Cooperation between tenants and landlords

• Translation of sustainability policy and CSR

• Communicate a sustainable image

• Get grip on energy costs and on total accommodation costs

• Based on BREEAM

• Legal status of the contract

• Compiled by Jones Lang LaSalle real estate consultancy on the instructions of and in cooperation with the Sustainable Housing Platform and VGM NL

GasTerra & Triodos - Groningen

Sustainable renovationG > A+

Deutsche Bank & Deka Immobilien - Amsterdam

Sustainable renovation LEED certificate

All-in rent for National Government Buildings> From 2016 the RVB will pay all energy bills

• Central Government Real Estate Agency (RVB)- formed in 2014 by the merger of four government real estate agencies- Defence Real Estate Agency, Government Buildings Agency, State Property

and Development Agency, Government Real Estate Directorate

• 13.3 million m2 - prisons, court buildings, military barracks, airports, defence sites,

ministerial offices, ports, tax offices, listed buildings and historical monuments, museums and palaces

• EED Art. 5 - Alternative approach: 2% energy savings per year - 2.4 mln m2 (454 buildings): offices of government departments,

courthouses, buildings of customs and police and prisons- 1.3 mln m2 defense buildings (850 buildings)

• Savings: 1.4 PJ

Duolabel for retail sector• Survey amongst 3000 shops / businesses

• 2/3 has Energy Label A

• No relation with real energy use

• Duolabel: 2 labels,

2 reports, 2 advises

• Cooperation RVO and

Retailsector (Neprom,

Syntrus Achmea, Corio,

Bouwinvest, Search)

Energycard

• 1 mln m2 with label

• Potential savings:

1 mrd kW

€ 100 mln

• Energy Card developed by Corio and Search in cooperation with Van Haren, Lidl and C&A

Energy Performance Contracts Menu & App• Offers both clients and contractors a framework for drawing up

a sustainability and performance contract

• For energy management & maintenance of building-specific installations or entire buildings

• Cost reduction

• Eliminating the split incentive

• Addition to Green Lease

• Implements EED Article 18.1

• Option menu >

• Based of Breeam-NL In-Use

• Legal Status

• Online November 2014

• new or existing building;• energy-saving measures or no energy-saving measures• building-specific installations only

or the entire building• funding or no funding by the contractor

Thank you for your attention

Any questions?

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Irma.Thijssen@rvo.nl