Tuning EPC and SRI instruments to deliver full potential

Introduction

tunES brings together 7 national Energy Agencies, representing 132 million citizens, who will tackle the common challenge of making building energy efficiency and smartness instruments work. Member States (MS) receive technical assistance, support, and consulting from 4 research organisations, forming the Technical Support Team (TST).

Objectives

tunES will impact positively on the shortcomings of implementing EPC, SRI, and linked instruments by structuring work into five building blocks to better collect, share, implement, and replicate good practice:

1. Understanding EPC
2. Upgrading EPC
3. Databases & Tools
4. SRI Development & Deployment
5. Integration of Instruments (as a horizontal block) to maximise harmonisation, coherence, and synergies.

Each building block is represented by MS Leaders who have implemented good practice. MS Followers design policy options, packages, and pathways that will facilitate the uptake of good practice.

Technical Support Framework

tunES deploys a Technical Support and Assistance Framework based on the EU Better Regulation Guidelines (BRG). This framework is applied at each stage of the policy design process:

• Inception
• Data collection
• Analysis
• Policy options design
• Prioritisation
• Impact assessment
• Iteration
• Roll-out planning
• Stakeholder engagement

Simultaneously and across the building blocks, the TST prepares for the Energy Agencies the necessary methods and tools to safeguard consistency within and across MS. From the beginning, results on good practice as well as how to apply BRG methods are publicly shared in guidance. Other MS are invited to apply all or selective methods in sync with the project.

Expected Outcomes

The core outcome is seven national policy measure packages, including extensively vetted policy options, with clear impact, stakeholder reaction, and concise actions for realising full national implementations.

On the EU level, a comprehensive guidance strategy allows other stakeholders not only to access use cases but also to have all tools readily at hand for effective replication.