EMEEES: Evaluation and Monitoring for the EU Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services

The EMEEES project assisted the European Commission in elaborating common and harmonised methods for the evaluation of energy savings by delivering practical advice, support and results. The European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services has raised concerns among the Member States about how they could evaluate the energy savings from energy services and other energy efficiency improvement measures implemented in order contribute to achieving the target of 9 % energy savings in the ninth year. A Committee of the Member States and the Commission has therefore been included in the compromise text, with the task to elaborate common and harmonised methods for the evaluation of energy savings. The objective of the project is to assist the Commission and this Committee with scientific but concrete and practical advice and support in the development of such concrete methods for the evaluation of single programmes, services and measures (mostly bottom-up), as well as with schemes for monitoring the overall impact of all measures implemented in a Member State (combination of bottom-up and top-down).