Monitoring the energy efficiency service market in Germany

摘要

There is a large potential for profitable energy efficiency services(EES) for various market actors in Europe. According toestimates by different studies and by the European ChangeBestproject, the EES market is expected to grow by several billionEuros per year until 2020. Nevertheless, the EES market needsfurther acceleration by adjusting and improving the current legalframework in order to reach the EU-target of 20 % energyefficiency improvement until 2020.Policy decisions, business strategies and business cases ofEES providers should be based on sufficient data and informationon the market. Moreover, according to the Directive2012/27/EU on energy efficiency (Energy Efficiency Directive– EED), Member States are obliged to provide ‘a qualitative reviewin the framework of the National Energy Efficiency ActionPlan regarding the current and future development of theenergy services market’ (EED – Article 18.1e).However, there are several problems for such a monitoringand evaluation of the market: First, there is no category ‘energyservice’ or ‘energy efficiency service’ in national statistics.Second, products and markets are heterogeneous, with servicesranging from very simple energy efficiency advice by singleconsultants via services contributing to energy managementto complex integrated performance contracting. Third, associationsof EES providers themselves have problems to get fullmarket coverage and sufficient information from their members.Fourth, only few publicly available studies on the EESmarket cause a problem of circular reference.The paper discusses available data and problems of monitoringand evaluation of the EES market. Based on this, the paperpresents a concept for a systematic, regular monitoring of theEES market in Germany commissioned by the German FederalEnergy Efficiency Center (BfEE). The concept looks both at theEES supply-side as well as at the EES demand-side. The paperalso discusses the transferability of this approach to other EuropeanMember States.