European Energy Award

1. Energy Management for Sustainable Action Plans
EUSEW 2015
Charlotte Spörndli, International Office European Energy Award
18 June 2015

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What is the European Energy Award (eea)?
Quality management, certification and awarding system for
municipalities, in the field of energy and climate policy:
> Continuous improvement (Plan-do-check-act – cycle)
> Developed > 20 years ago for municipalities by municipalities
> Local and international benchmark & exchange of experiences

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Continuity & long lasting experience
City of Schaffhausen in Switzerland:
First city to be certified with the European Energy Award in 1997
Since 1992 - more than 20 years ago - Schaffhausen has been
working continually with the same process and instruments (which
have only been adapted to new circumstances)!

4. Today – 1350 participating communities
Status Jan 2015
Country No. of awarded communities No. of
participating
communities
< 5’000
inhabitants
5’ - 100’000
inhabitants
> 100’000
inhabitants
Total
Gold
certified
AT 59 38 1 98 12 179
CH 134 210 5 349 31 618
DE 31 123 49 203 41 308
FR 1 13 12 26 2 78
LI 9 2 - 11 - 11
IT 16 2 - 18 1 49
HU - 1 - 1 - 1
MC - 1 - 1 - 1
LU 9 4 - 13 - 93
RO - - - - - 4
UA - - - - - 1
MA - - - - - 3
Total 259 394 67 720 87 1346
> Smallest eea certified municipality: 339 inhabitants
> Biggest eea certified municipality: 1,034,000 inhabitants

5. Today – 11 participating countries
Ordinary members countries
with national programmes
Status Jan 2015
Pilot countries
> International Harmonization – Local Adaptation

6. eea Management System and Process
Step 1: Political Decision of Participation in the eea program
Step 2: Set up of a cross-divisional Energy Team
Step 4: Definition of Goals and Action Plan
Step 5:
Implementation of Action Plan
Step 6: Monitoring and Reporting
(Annual internal monitoring and external audit every 4 years)
Continuous
improvement
Step 3: Initial Energy Review > Strengths & Weaknesses

7. 6 Areas of Assessment and Activity

8. • Catalogue of ideas and suggestions
• Strengths/weaknesses outline
• Benchmarking with other municipalities possible
79 measures in 6 areas

9. Two level of Awards
50% of possible points
75% of possible points

10. • Instruments and tools supporting the implementation of
actions
• Regional, national (& international) exchange of experiences
for municipalities
• Training and exchange of experiences for eea advisors,
complete best practice database open to advisors
Embedded in national programs for
communal energy policy

11. Goals of energy policy
& level of achievement
Time
Path without eea
Path with eeabetter =quality level win
more stable = continuity and sustainability win
Benefits of the EnMS eea for a SEAP

12. Quality level win trough eea
Energy Action Plan
• Based on SW > priorities
• Concrete actions/measures
• Deadlines, persons, budgets
> integrated into processes
• Annual controlling,
input of eea advisor
Contribution eea
EAP
Paper or Action?

13. Sustainability win through eea
Structured, longterm
& integrated
process
Contribution eea
Annual controlling
with licensed
external eea
advisors
4-annual audit with
licensed external
eea auditor

15. Thank you for your attention!
info@european-energy-award.org