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Press Release On The Legislative Decree July 4, 2014, # 102, Bearing: "implementation Of Eu Directive 27/2012/efficienzaenergetica, 2009/125/ec Amending Directives And Directives 2004/2010 30/eu Eabroga/8/ec And 2006/32/ec. ' (Decree Of The ...

Original Language Title: Comunicato relativo al decreto legislativo 4 luglio 2014, n. 102,recante: «Attuazione della direttiva 2012/27/UE sull'efficienzaenergetica, che modifica le direttive 2009/125/CE e 2010/30/UE eabroga le direttive 2004/8/CE e 2006/32/CE.». (Decreto le...

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In the Decree above mentioned in the inscription, published in the official journal, have made the following fixes:-to page 7, first column, article 7, paragraph 6, instead of: ' c) "1-bis. The incentive provided ... », read: "' 1-bis. The incentive provided ... », and, consequently, instead: d) in article 7, paragraph 3 "... ', read: ' c) in article 7, paragraph 3.
-Finally, on page 20, for clerical error, the annexes have been omitted; Therefore, after the words "Visa, the keeper of the seals: Orlando» shall be deemed an integral part of the Decree adds the following Attachments:" ANNEX 1 products, services and buildings covered by Community legislation +------------------------+------------------+------------------------+ | | | Minimum | Scope | National standard | efficiency | +-----------------------+------------------+------------------------+ | | | Efficiency class | | higher energy | | | | | possible on | Equipment | k || governed by consideration | | 2010/30 the need to | | |/EU | Decree | level | (labelling | sufficient EU energy legislative || |) | 104/2012 | competition; | +-----------------------+------------------+------------------------+ | | | If not covered by a | | | delegated Act | | | under Directive | | 30/2010/EU requirements | | | | minimum efficiency | | | | energy defined in | | | Equipment | Decree | Regulation of || governed by k | implementation of dir. Legislative | 2009/125/EC || (Ecodesign) 125 15/2009/2011 | |/EC | +-----------------------+------------------+------------------------+ | | | Comply with legal requirements | | |-efficiency | | equally stringent | | | | | listed | | | in Annex C | | the agreement's annex | | | Equipment for Office governed decision decision | | | | | 2006/1005/EC 2006/1005/EC | | | regulation | Council of 18 | Council of 18 || 106/2008 (Energy Star) December 2006 December 2006 |, | | +-----------------------+------------------+------------------------+ | | | Minimum | | energy performance | | | | | referred to decrees | | implementation of article 4 | | | | paragraph 1 of Decree No | | | | | 192/2005 and ss.mm. ii., | | | valid for buildings | | | | Decree | new or undergoing | | legislative restructuring | | | | Buildings | 192/2005 | important | +-----------------------+------------------+------------------------+ | Tires-| | || 1222/2009 regulation | | | +------------------------+------------------+------------------------+ ANNEX 2 minimum criteria for energy audits, including those undertaken within the framework of energy management systems for minimum criteria that must own quality audits are stated below: a) are based on the updated operational data on energy consumption, measured and traceable and (for electricity) load profiles; b) include a detailed examination of the existing energy consumption profile of buildings or groups of buildings, business or industrial plants, including transportation; c) where possible, rely on life-cycle cost analysis, rather than on simple payback periods, in order to take account of long-term savings, residual values of long-term investments and discount rates; d) shall be proportionate and sufficiently representative to permit to draw a picture of the overall energy performance and to identify reliably the most significant improvement opportunities; Energy audits provide detailed calculations and validated for the measures proposed in order to provide clear information on potential savings. The data used for energy audits can be stored for historical analysis and performance monitoring.
ANNEX 3 Potential efficiency for heat and cooling 1. A global assessment of the national potential for heating and cooling as referred to in article 10, paragraph 1, shall include: a) a description of the heating and cooling demand; b) predicting how demand is going to evolve over the next ten years; c) a map of the country showing, while protecting commercially sensitive information: s) where there is a heating and cooling demand, identifying:-municipalities and towns with a plot ratio of at least 0.3;
-industrial zones with a total annual heating and cooling consumption above 20 GWh;
II) district heating and cooling infrastructure existing or planned project;
III) possible points for the supply of heating and cooling, including:-the power plants with a total annual production exceeding 20 GWh;
-waste incineration plants;

-the existing and planned cogeneration plants using technologies listed in annex I and district heating and cooling systems; d) identifying the demand for heating and cooling that could be met by high-efficiency cogeneration, including residential, micro-cogeneration and district heating and cooling; e) the identification of potential to increase high-efficiency cogeneration, using inter alia the modernization of industrial plants and generation or other heat-generating waste plants or building new plants; f) identification of energy efficiency potential of district heating and cooling infrastructure; g) the share of high-efficiency cogeneration, potential identified and progress made; h) an estimate of the possible primary energy savings. 2. for the purposes of paragraph 4 of art. 10 of this Decree, the Ministry of economic development, where appropriate, draw up proposals for: s) increasing the share of cogeneration in the production of heating, cooling and electricity; II) develop efficient district heating and cooling infrastructure through development of high-efficiency cogeneration and/or use of heating and cooling from waste heat and renewable energy sources; III) to promote the installation of new electricity generating plants and industrial installations that produce waste heat in sites where it can be retrieved maximum available waste heat to meet actual demand or expectation of heating and cooling; IV) to promote the location of new residential areas or new industrial plants which consume heat in their production processes in areas where the available waste heat, as highlighted in the global assessment, can help to meet the demand for heating and cooling. This could include proposals in favour of grouping several individual installations on the same site in order to ensure an optimal balance between supply and demand for heat and cooling; v) to promote the connection of electricity generation plants, industrial plants that produce waste heat, waste incineration plants and other plants to the local network of district heating or cooling; vi) promote the link of the residential areas and industrial plants which consume heat in their production processes to the local network of district heating or cooling; VII) introduce public support measures for heating and cooling in the annual national budget and the identification of potential elements of aid, without this affecting the notification Bill of public support schemes for the assessment of State aid.
ANNEX 4 cost-benefit analysis Part 1

General principles of cost-benefit analysis cost-benefit analysis is a methodology for the evaluation of expediency of investment projects that, in connection with the provision of energy, must be drawn up on the basis of available resources, climatic conditions and other relevant factors. The cost-benefit analysis can relate to the evaluation of a project related to a single plant or group of projects, for a more comprehensive assessment at local, regional or national level, in order to define the most efficient heating or cooling option in terms of resources and costs and advantageous for a given geographic area, to plan optimally meet local needs in the field of heating and cooling. In particular, the cost-benefit analysis carried out by the Energy Services Manager – GSE S.p.A., as part of the assessment referred to in article 10, shall contribute to the identification of the economic potential of high-efficiency cogeneration, including industrial micro-cogeneration, district heating and district cooling efficient and establishes support tool to support policy development more efficient solutions in terms of resources and costs for heat and cooling needs. The phases and the main contents of this cost-benefit analysis are as follows: a) definition of the boundaries of the energy system and the geographical boundary of the national territory should be divided into relevant energy systems. The area covered by each system must cover an appropriate geographical area well defined, such as a particular region or metropolitan area, to avoid sub optimal solutions based on a project-by-project approach; b) integrated approach to heating and cooling supply and demand options In connection with the offering, the cost-benefit analysis considers all relevant resources within the geographical boundary of the present and future expectations over a period of ten years, including waste heat from electricity production processes, from industrial plants and renewable energy sources. Depending on the application, it takes into account the current needs and future prospects within ten years. c) construction of a reference scenario on the basis of the information obtained as per letter b) is constructed for each geographic reference scenario system, describing the current situation and its probable evolution, form the basis for the assessment of alternative scenarios. d) identification of alternative scenarios the objective of the alternative scenarios is to identify possible ways of satisfying the needs for heating and cooling more efficient than the reference scenario referred to in point c). The scenarios are not feasible for technical reasons, financial reasons, national rules or time limits may be excluded at the initial stage of the cost-benefit analysis if this is justified on the basis of considerations accurate, explicit and well documented. In the cost-benefit analysis, alternative scenarios to consider than are only options for high-efficiency cogeneration, efficient district heating and cooling or individual heating and cooling efficiency. e) method of calculating the cost-benefit surplus i) comparing the baseline and alternative scenarios are performed on the basis of all the relevant costs and benefits; II) the criterion should be that of the net present value (NPV); III) the time horizon for comparison must be chosen in such a way as to include all relevant costs and benefits of the scenarios and must represent the horizon more suited to the characteristics of each energy system. f) calculation and prediction of rates and other assumptions for the economic analysis i) assumptions of price trends are formulated on the expected evolution of the main input/output factors and the discount rate; II) the discount rate used for the calculation of net present value is chosen in accordance with European or national guidelines, taking into account the data provided by the European Central Bank; III) estimating the evolution of energy prices formulated taking into account the forecast for price developments within Europe and internationally, both predictions related to the national context and, where appropriate, regional or local level; IV) prices used in the economic analysis reflect the real socio-economic costs and benefits and include external costs, such as the effects on the environment and human health, as far as possible, i.e. when there is a market price or when it is already stated in the European or national legislation; g) economic analysis: inventory of the effects economic analyses take into account all relevant economic effects. Is it possible to take account, for the purposes of the formulation of development policies, referring only to specific energy systems, cost and energy savings from greater flexibility in providing energy and by improving the functioning of the electricity networks, including avoided costs and savings from reduction in investment in infrastructure, in the scenarios analysed. The costs and benefits to consider for the analysis are as follows: s) benefits-production value for the consumer (heat and electricity and/or mechanical); -external benefits such as collective benefits in the social, environment and health, to the extent possible; II) costs-capital costs of machinery and equipment,-power distribution network capital costs, variable and fixed operating costs, including energy costs, environmental costs, social costs and health costs, to the extent possible; h) sensitivity analysis the cost-benefit analysis should include an analysis of sensitivity in order to take account of possible impacts arising from volatility ' of the development of heating and cooling demand, energy prices, discount rates and other variable factors that pose a significant impact on the results of the analysis.
Part 2

Principles for the purposes of article 10, paragraph 6 If you design a plant for electricity-only or a system without heat recovery, making a comparison between the plants designed or planned modernisation and equivalent facility that produces the same amount of electricity or process heat, but that recover waste heat and provide heat from high-efficiency cogeneration or district heating or cooling networks. Within a given geographical boundary, the assessment shall take into account the planned installation and any existing or potential suitable point where there is a question of warming that could be served by this system, taking into account the rational possibilities (such as technical feasibility and distance). The geographical boundary is established to include the planned installation and the thermal loads, such as buildings and industrial processes. Within the area covered the full cost of supplying heat and electricity is determined for both cases and compared. The heat loads include existing thermal loads, such as industrial plant or an existing district heating system and, in urban areas, the heat load and costs that would emerge if a group of buildings or a field of a town were supplied by a new district heating network and/or connected to it. The cost-benefit analysis is based on a description of the planned installation and the plant or comparison systems covering the thermal and electrical capacity, as the case may be, the type of fuel, the intended use and the projected number of annual hours of operation, location and the demand for electricity and heating. For comparison purposes, account is taken of the thermal energy demand and the types of heating and cooling used from the points where there is a demand for heat located near. Comparing the system infrastructure costs designed and comparison. Projects with positive results in terms of costs and benefits are those in which the sum of the discounted benefits discounted costs exceeds the sum of the analysis (cost-benefit surplus).
ANNEX 5 guarantee of origin of electricity from high-efficiency cogeneration the guarantee of origin referred to in article 10, paragraph 11 of this Decree specifies: a) the name, the identification code, the location and the date of entry into operation of the cogeneration unit; b) a year of reporting; c) cogeneration technology used with reference to the annexes to Decree # 20 February 20, 2007 as supplemented and amended by the Decree of the Minister of economic development August 4, 2011 in consultation with the Minister of the environment and protection of the sea; d) the type, the quantity, and the lower calorific value of fuel used; e) the types of use and the amount of useful heat; f) the gross production of electricity from high efficiency cogeneration in accordance with annexes to the Decree # 20 February 20, 2007 as supplemented and amended by the Decree of the Minister of economic development August 4, 2011 in consultation with the Minister of the environment and protection of the sea; g) the electrical efficiency and nominal thermal cogeneration unit; h) the index PES, calculated in accordance with annexes to the Decree # 20 February 20, 2007 as supplemented and amended by the Decree of the Minister of economic development August 4, 2011 in consultation with the Minister of the environment and protection of the sea; I) any forms of support they have benefited from the unit.
ANNEX 6 energy efficiency criteria for regulating energy networks and for prices of the electricity grid 1. Network tariffs reflect the cost savings in the nets due to supply and demand management measures and distributed generation, including the savings achieved by reducing delivery costs or investments in networks and to a better functioning of the latter. 2. Network regulation and tariffs do not prevent network operators or retailers to provide system services for demand response measures, demand management and distributed generation on organized markets for electricity, in particular: a) moving final customers ' load from peak to peak taking into account the availability of renewable energy, energy from cogeneration and distributed generation; b) the energy savings achieved through demand management of distributed consumers from energy aggregators; c) demand reduction through energy efficiency measures taken by providers of energy services, including energy service companies; d) connection and the dispatching of generation sources in most low voltage levels; e) the connection of generation sources from sites closer to consumer markets; and f) energy storage. For the purposes of this provision the term ' organised markets in electricity» includes non-regulated markets ("over-the counter") and power exchanges for the exchange of energy, capacity, volume balancing and ancillary services in all time slots, including the futures markets, daily or intra-day. 3. Network tariffs or retail can support dynamic pricing for end-customer demand management measures such as: a differentiated rates depending on the period); b) critical peak pricing; c) real time pricing; and d) peak time rebates.
ANNEX 7 energy efficiency requirements for the transmission system

transmission and distribution system operators transmission system operators and distribution system operators: a) shall draw up and make public their standard rules relating to the bearing and sharing of costs of technical adaptations, such as grid connections and grid reinforcements, improved network management and rules on non-discriminatory application of network codes which are necessary in order to integrate new producers feeding electricity produced into the interconnected grid from high-efficiency cogeneration; b) provide to all new producers of electricity from high-efficiency cogeneration wishing to connect to the system all the information necessary for this purpose, including: i) a comprehensive and detailed estimate of the costs associated with the connection; II) a reasonable and precise timetable for receiving and processing the request for grid connection; III) a reasonable indicative timetable for any proposed grid connection. How to connect to the network should not last a total of more than 24 months, having regard to what is reasonably practicable and non-discriminatory manner; c) define standardized procedures and simplified in order to facilitate connection to the network of decentralized electricity producers from high-efficiency cogeneration. The standard rules referred to in point a) are based on objective, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria taking particular account of all the costs and benefits associated with the connection of these producers to the grid. They may provide different types of connection.
ANNEX 8 minimum elements to be included in the energy performance contracts entered into by the public sector or in its tender to) clear and transparent list of efficiency measures to be applied or the results to be achieved in terms of efficiency; b) the guaranteed savings to be achieved by applying the measures provided for in the contract; c) durability and fundamental aspects of the contract, modalities and deadlines; d) clear and transparent list of the obligations imposed on each Contracting Party; e) date (s) of reference for the establishment of savings; f) clear and transparent list of the stages of implementation of a measure or a package of measures and, where appropriate, the related costs; g) the obligation to fully implement the measures provided for in the contract and the documentation of all changes during the project; h) Provisions governing the inclusion of requirements equivalent in any contract concessions to third parties; s) a clear indication of the financial implications of the project transparent and the participation fee of the two parts to save money made (for example, remuneration of service providers); j) clear and transparent Rules for the quantification and verification of guaranteed savings achieved, quality controls and safeguards; k) Provisions which clarify how to handle changes in the framework conditions that affect the content and the results of the contract (for example: change in energy prices, intensity of use of a plant) l) detailed information on the obligations of each of the Contracting Parties and on sanctions in case of non-compliance. ".