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An ex-ante evaluation of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive - article 7

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posted on 2023-06-09, 03:30 authored by Jan Rosenow, Cor Leguijt, Nick Eyre, Zsuzsanna Pato, Tina Fawcett
The European Union's Energy Efficiency Directive calls for EU Member States to put in place ambitious energy efficiency policies and requires them to establish energy saving targets. One of the most important Articles of the Directive is Article 7, which required Member States to implement Energy Efficiency Obligations and/or alternative policy instruments in order to reach a reduction in final energy use of 1.5% per year. This paper assesses how Article 7 has been applied by Member States and what the implications are. Analysing the plans of all 28 Member States we evaluate how Article 7 is implemented across the EU. This includes an analysis of the types of policies used, the distribution of the anticipated savings across the different policy instruments, and whether or not the way Article 7 is applied in reality meets the requirements set by the Directive. Our analysis shows that Member States take very different approaches with some using up to 112 policy measures and others just one. We also identify areas of concern particularly related to the delivery of the energy savings with respect to the Article 7 requirements, the calculation methods, and the monitoring and verification regimes adopted by Member States. We model to what extent the projected savings are likely to materialise and whether or not they will be sufficient to meet the target put forward by Article 7. In our paper we also make suggestions for modifying the Energy Efficiency Directive in order to address some of the problems we encountered.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy

ISSN

2160-5882

Publisher

International Association for Energy Economics

Issue

2

Volume

5

Page range

45-63

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-10-12

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-09-02

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-02-22

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