Webinar #14: How to improve the evaluation of complex systems to improve policy-making
How to improve the evaluation of complex systems to improve policy-making
Webinar #14 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speaker: Sara Giorgi (Research Consultant & Evaluator)
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Evaluation is intended to provide policymakers and practitioners with feedback and recommendations to improve policy making and implementation. The success of an evaluation and the impact of its findings hinges on the way policymakers and practitioners are involved in and perceive the evaluation process. The more complex the policy, the more challenging this relationship becomes.
Webinar #13: Energy Program and Policy Evaluation Capacity Building in the Asia Pacific
Energy Program and Policy Evaluation Capacity Building in the Asia Pacific
Webinar #13 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speaker: Edward Vine (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
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The Asia Pacific region is a center of interest and activity for energy efficiency and renewable energy technology, programs and policies. Evaluation will play an essential role to developing effective policy and to understanding the impacts of policy and program implementation.
Energy Evaluation Asia-Pacific (EEAP) is a non-profit organization that is taking a leadership role in expanding the practice of, and capacity for, objective evaluation in the energy efficiency and renewable energy fields.
This presentation highlights evaluation capacity building, EEAP, and key topics of EEAP’s Second Evaluation Conference (held in Bangkok in October 2019).
Webinar #12: Evaluation of Compliance Framework of Labeling Program in India
Evaluation of Compliance Framework of Labeling Program in India
Webinar #12 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speaker: Neha Dhingra (CLASP).
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Standards and Labeling programs have proven to be highly effective in stimulating the development of cost-effective, energy-efficient technologies, offer enormous carbon reduction potential, save consumers money and reduce power demand.
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is responsible for monitoring, verification and enforcement (MVE) of India’s labeling program. A comprehensive evaluation of BEE’s MVE framework helped identify several gaps and a need to strengthen BEE’s procedures and processes.
The presentation discusses several of the concrete measures that were implemented by BEE as a result of the evaluation.
Webinar #11: Intersections of energy efficiency and health and wellbeing: findings from the UK
Intersections of energy efficiency and health and wellbeing: findings from the UK
Webinar #11 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speaker: Ian Hamilton (UCL Energy Institute)
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The presentation covers the intersections of energy efficiency and health and wellbeing in the residential housing sector in the UK.
It provides a summary of findings from recent energy performance and retrofit programme health impact evaluations in the UK and the impact of future retrofit programme to meet the UK’s climate change targets in the residential sector.
Webinar #10: Multiple impacts of energy efficiency: approaches, results and insights from the COMBI project
Multiple impacts of energy efficiency: approaches, results and insights from the COMBI project
Webinar #10 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speakers: Johannes Thema, Felix Suerkemper (Wuppertal Institut)
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There have long been around: co-, non-energy or multiple benefits of energy efficiency. Since 2014 with the IEA report Capturing the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency, they also arrived at the heart of political discourse in Europe. What do we know on those multiple impacts at European level, which quantifications are there? What methods can be applied for assessing multiple impacts of future policies, in order to take better informed decisions? Do we have an idea of the size of multiple impacts?
This webinar gives the first answers to these questions and introduces participants to the online tool containing all quantifications from the COMBI project (“Calculating and Operationalising the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Europe”)
Webinar #9: Plugging the gap between energy poverty management and the lived experience: five principles
Plugging the gap between energy poverty management and the lived experience: five principles
Webinar #9 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speakers: Koen Straver (ECN part of TNO), Dr Lucie Middlemiss (Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds) .
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As an introduction we will elaborate on the current policy and activities in the Netherlands and the UK, to show differences and promising examples of new ideas on how to tackle energy poverty. Accordingly, we will articulate a new approach to energy poverty policy, based on bringing insights from a multi-disciplinary understanding of the lived experience of energy poverty into policy design.
We argue that understanding the lived experience of energy poverty is critical in designing appropriate policies, which are both effective and aligned with people’s day-to-day lives. In addition, the range of disciplines that examine the lived experience of energy poverty (housing, employment, education, social policy, health, energy etc.) help to give breadth to our understanding of this challenging condition.
We propose five principles for policy design, informed by a multi-disciplinary understanding of the lived experience. These principles can be applied at a range of scales (local, regional, national and super-national).
Webinar #8: Evaluating energy efficiency policies: new online resources to share knowledge and experience
Evaluating energy efficiency policies: new online resources to share knowledge and experience
Webinar #8 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speakers: Barbara Schlomann, Barbara Breitschopf (Fraunhofer ISI), Jean-Sébastien Broc (IEECP) .
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Experience sharing about evaluation practices for energy efficiency policies is limited due to lack of time for stakeholders to disseminate or document evaluation activities. Front-runners publish their work in journals or conferences, but most of evaluation activities remain in national language and are difficult to find.
This webinar presents new online resources developed by the European project EPATEE to make knowledge and experience more easily available: a Knowledge Base including and a set of case studies.
The webinar also discusses stakeholders’ needs about evaluation practices.
Webinar #7: The De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform DEEP
The De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform DEEP
Webinar #7 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speaker: Carsten Glenting (COWI).
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This webinar introduces the De-risking Energy Efficiency Platform (DEEP), an open-source initiative to up-scale energy efficiency investments in Europe through the improved sharing and transparent analysis of existing projects in buildings and industry.
DEEP is the largest pan-EU, open-source evidence-base containing over 7800 industrial and buildings-related energy efficiency projects from 25 data providers including large companies, public banks, private investment funds, financial institutions and ESCOs.
Webinar #6: Ensuring effective delivery of EU energy efficiency targets
Ensuring effective delivery of EU energy efficiency targets
Webinar #6 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speakers: Joe Durkin (SEAI) and Gregor Thenius (Austrian Energy Agency)
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The European Union’s so-called ‘Winter Package’ sets out an ambitious trajectory for energy efficiency for the period after 2020. Reaching the energy efficiency targets requires not only new policies but also a rigorous monitoring and verification regime at the national level. Otherwise there is a risk that many of the claimed energy savings exist only on paper.
Two countries with sophisticated monitoring and verification policies in place (Austria and Ireland) share their experiences of how to set up effective systems to ensure that energy efficiency improvements are being delivered effectively.
Webinar #5: Evaluation Measurement & Verification (EM&V) – Overview of Best Practices for Europe
Evaluation Measurement & Verification (EM&V) – Overview of Best Practices for Europe
Webinar #5 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speaker: Kathleen Gaffney (Navigant).
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Now that the European Commission’s ‘winter package’ has been released, it is critical to consider the potential for a radically different EM&V regime for Europe – i.e., one that can ensure that Member States are delivering real savings through 2020 (and beyond).
This webinar provides a ‘refresher course’ to those with a basic understanding of EM&V methods and focus on a few best practices examples including EM&V methodologies for efficiency obligation schemes, white certificate schemes, and voluntary measures. Participants will learn what types of EM&V might work best within different policy contexts, regulatory drivers and other constraints (e.g., data availability).