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The proposal would affect to 500.000 inmuebles to the year and would generate more than 150.000 places of work initially

The Renewable Foundation demands a plan of energetic rehabilitation of buildings

Editorial Interempresas16/03/2012

16 March 2012

The Renewable Foundation demand to the Govern concrete performances in this field and proposes like first measure the approval of a Plan of Energetic Rehabilitation of the Buildings that initially would affect to 500.000 inmuebles annually, so that in the term of 20 years have acted especially the park of buildings of this country, and that in a big part would fund with the savings in power and would generate more than 150.000 new employments in the first year, that would increase as it advances the program.

This proposal has to frame in the obligation that has Spain with the European Union to initiate the transposition this year of the Directive 2010/31/EU of Energetic Efficiency of Buildings and in which it contemplates the obligation that all the states members will present in 2012 a National Plan of Buildings of Consumption of Power Almost Invalid through the integration of the renewable and of the autoconsumo, so much in the new edificación as in the rehabilitation of the existent, with intermediate aims in 2015, so that in 2020 all the edificación fulfil with this criterion. This initiative requires another Technical Code of the Edificación and that Spain fulfil with the previous managerial and the new, establishing the obligation of a certification of the energetic efficiency of the buildings so that it can not buy, sell or rent any building that do not have energetic qualification.

The Plan of Energetic Rehabilitation of the Buildings initially would affect to 500.000 inmuebles annually.

The Foundation regrets that, in addition to approving a nefasta moratorium for the renewable energies, the Government do not concern by the Saving and the Efficiency of Power ignoring that at present the Spanish economy needs to consume a 20 percent but of power to produce his goods and services that the average of the European Union, what supposes a loss of increasing competitiveness, to the rivalizar with economies much more efficient. The potential of technological development, of efficiency, of competitiveness, of development of our exports, of regional progress, of creation of employment and of impulse to a new industrial base for the economy is gigantic.

This potential of a complementary system based in the technologies of saving of power and in all the renewable sources has a stage prioritario: the cities, where concentrates the majority of the inhabitants; 60% of the population lives in 10% of the territory. It is prioritario, by criteria of efficiency, face the uses of the power in the sectors of greater consumption, as they are the edificación and the transport and therefore has to incentivar and promote the saving and the energetic efficiency in the domestic sector and in the edificación, imposing the consideration of the factor power in all the urban developments and of infrastructures. Likewise, the Renewable Foundation demands a resorting of all the sector of the transport to go limiting the use of the private vehicle, elevating the quota of the public transport and by railway industry.

The approach in matter of Saving and Energetic Efficiency has to tackle from a double slope. In the first place, optimising the transitory process from the current reality until reaching the aims that pose , fundamentally in the processes of transformation of primary power to final power and in the coverage of the demand. And second, adapting the demand of power in function of the characteristics of the sources of available power, attending to the need of replacement of sources of power no renewable, so much by environingingmental questions and of hygiene of supply as by idoneidad economic, in a wide temporary horizon, by renewable energies.

The central point has to be the development of a National Plan of Energetic Rehabilitation of increasing Buildings, of 2% the first year (500.000 buildings), and with a horizon of total rehabilitation in 20 years

Performance prioritaria

The Renewable Foundation considers that in the current circumstances the performance on the edificación has to be prioritaria, since the current park of more than 24 million buildings requires of a frame of performance decided, so much by the existent potential as by the aims fixed in the distinct Managerial.

The Foundation considers that it is precise to act on line with the proposals posed in his document The way to the energetic sustainability:

to. Plans so that all the new edificación and rehabilitation of the existent realise with the criterion of buildings of invalid energetic balance.

b. Systems of certification of energetic efficiency of buildings and of inspection of installations.

c. Establish the forcing that all the licences, permissions of works, equipments and infrastructures have a report of energetic impact.

d. Extension of the frame of performance with specifications of sustainable urban renewal.

And. Establish in the Law of Horizontal Property and in the ordenanzas municipal the forcing of an energetic regulation and efficient use of the temperatures of the heatings and systems of refrigeration, elevators and ACS.

f. Extension of the regulation of the energetic efficiency in all the buildings to the demands of equipments, loads of process and lighting. Modification of the Technical Code of the Edificación to increase the exigencias of isolation in the buildings.

The central point of this performance has to be the development of a National Plan of Energetic Rehabilitation of increasing Buildings, of 2% the first year (500.000 buildings), and with a horizon of total rehabilitation in 20 years. Will have to implant a fiscal incentive program in function of the energetic certification and with financial instruments, guaranteeed by the percentage of reduction of the energetic bill, of agreement to the concept of optimum of profitability of the energetic efficiency that establishes the new directive of buildings and that it has to constitute the base of performance of the companies of energetic services. The rehabilitation of the public buildings will be initially of 3% every year for his total rehabilitation in 15 years.

On the other hand the Foundation demands a Plan of renewable energies of thermal sensors application in the industry. In the edificación, the regulation has to promote the optimum integration of the renewable generation distributed with the exchange with the network of electricity 100% renewable as well as the set up of a global plan of labelled with levels of compulsory minimum efficiency and development of incentives/penalties like consequence of the same, that receive to the following equipments: vehicles, appliances and equipments, motors and buildings.

To do reality these proposals is necessary the establishment of a frame of specific support for the incorporation of financial instruments and officials that help to the set up of the distinct initiatives of energetic efficiency, with the end to break the reticencias existent by part of the consumer to invest in programs of saving, situation that has to reach by education, information, compulsory measures and signal of sufficient price.

The Renewable Foundation considers that in the current circumstances the performance on the edificación has to be prioritaria.

This frame has to include the promotion of the Companies of Energetic Services or agregadores of demand like instruments to achieve the aims of energetic saving and management of the demand in installations of the consumers; the introduction with compulsory character of the figure of the energetic agent like a necessary support to set up, monitor and do a follow-up of the aims of saving in institutions and companies; and the creation of independent entities for verification of savings as I complement to the THAT and the energetic agents.

Finally, the energetic efficiency demands the acceleration of the implantation of the intelligent networks with the obligation to incorporate TIC in the edificación and in the urbanismo, considering to the consumer like main element of the system and adapting the existent infrastructures to models of management type Smart Grid (intelligent networks). This answers to the need to approach the generation to the consumption and the reduction of the size of each generator, what requires to have of a system of management and measure of big capacity and flexibility, zonificando the frame of performance in structures of intelligent networks.