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Meeting the energy saving obligation
- Publication category
- Other algorithms
- Impact assessment
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- Status
- In use
General information
Theme
Begin date
Contact information
Link to publication website
Responsible use
Goal and impact
Companies, social institutions, and a few private individuals, report four-yearly on the energy saving obligation. This per location with energy consumption from 50,000 kWh electricity or 25,000 m3 natural gas equivalent. The energy savings obligation obliges these parties to implement energy-saving measures. The energy saving information obligation obliges these parties to report on this.
Reporting must be done in a central, national digital counter. This desk is managed by the Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO).
Formally, reports are submitted to the local competent authority (municipalities, provinces). Via the basic task package, supervision and enforcement of these duties are the responsibility of the environmental services. The reported data are therefore made available to the competent authority and the environment services without delay.
The aforementioned single private individual is then the owner of a building that he rents out to a company or social institution. Then an information and energy-saving obligation applies to building measures. This concerns about 200 sites reported by a private individual out of a total of about 50,000 sites currently reported.
The information obligation is attached to the energy savings obligation in 2019 to enable information-driven supervision. Information-driven supervision means that environment services will be the first to inspect businesses that are least compliant with the energy savings obligation.
A company or social institutions meets the energy saving obligation by implementing all applicable measures from the Approved Measures List for Energy Saving (EML). A company ticks off in the digital counter which measures have or have not yet been implemented, and which are not applicable. Based on these answers, a classification code is generated. This code indicates the degree of compliance with the energy saving obligation. This code is included in the reports that are made available to the competent authority and the environmental services so that the environmental services can prioritise their activities on this basis.
Considerations
There are no disadvantages of deploying the algorithm. Nor are there any ethical considerations at play. In fact, it is a summary of what the rapporteurs themselves have entered in the digital counter.
The alternative is not to provide a classification code. Environmental services would then have to perform such a calculation themselves to determine which companies are first in line for supervision and enforcement.
Human intervention
Based on the classification codes generated, omgevingsdiensten can prioritise their work. There is no feedback on the actual prioritisation of work by the environment departments.
Risk management
There are no risks. Only a qualification is added to a report based on data provided by the submitter.
Legal basis
The information and energy-saving obligations are laid down in Sections 5.15, 5.15a and 5.15c of the Activities in the Living Environment Decree (Bal) and Sections 3.84 and 3.84a (Bbl) of the Building Works in the Living Environment Decree.
Section 10.49b of the Environment Decree stipulates that submitted data must be brought within reach of the competent authority without delay.
Links to legal bases
- Informatie- en energiebesparingsplicht: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0041330/2024-01-01/#Hoofdstuk5_Afdeling5.4_Paragraaf5.4.1_Artikel5.15
- Informatie- en energiebesparingsplicht: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0041297/2024-01-01/#Hoofdstuk3_Afdeling3.4_Paragraaf3.4.1_Artikel3.84
- Omgevingsbesluit: https://wetten.overheid.nl/jci1.3:c:BWBR0041278&hoofdstuk=10&afdeling=10.8¶graaf=10.8.8&artikel=10.49b&z=2024-07-01&g=2024-07-01
Operations
Data
The submitter can provide the following answers for each recognised measure:
- Fully implemented
- Partially implemented
- Not yet implemented
- Alternatively implemented
- Not applicable (multiple reasons)
These answers are used for the algorithm.
Links to data sources
Technical design
The algorithm first determines whether there is a deviation from the EML system (R3) or whether the reporting is not covered by the duty due to too low energy use (R5).
The algorithm then counts the number of applicable measures.
It then considers whether any measures have not yet been implemented and how many. If so, the code R1 is generated, possibly with 1, 2 or 3 exclamation marks if more than 25%, 50% or 75% of the applicable measures have not been implemented.
It then considers whether there are no measures that have not yet been implemented, but there are measures that have been partially implemented and how many. If so, the code R2 is generated with possibly 1, 2 or 3 exclamation marks if more than 25%, 50% or 75% of applicable measures have not been implemented.
If there are no applicable measures yet to be (fully) implemented, code R4 is generated. The site then meets the energy saving obligation.
An A is added to the code R4 if compliance is achieved by having implemented an alternative measure for at least one recognised measure.
An E is added to the code R4 if the building meets the renovation standard https://www.rvo.nl/onderwerpen/renovatiestandaard .
See also: https://www.rvo.nl/onderwerpen/toelichting-rubriceringscode-informatieplicht .
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