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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY BULGARIA

Tsvetomira Kulevska

Lyudmil Kostadinov

SEDA Bulgaria

Energy Efficiency and policies in Households -

Bulgaria

Third meeting of the project “ODYSSEE-MURE” – Vienna, Austria

26-27 April 2018

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

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Content

EE Households – status quo

National Program for Energy Efficiency of Multifamily

Residential Buildings

nZEB definition in Bulgaria – applicability for residential

buildings


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Households Sector – General data

The energy intensity in this

sector is calculated in terms of

the growth of individual

household monetary

consumption.

Reducing energy intensity in

terms of monetary consumption

is an indicator of increased

efficiency of household energy

use, which limits the growth of

energy consumption.

Increased household energy consumption due to:

increased living area per capita; increased provision of household appliances; increasing the level of thermal comfort in the

dwellings, both in the winter and in the summer.

Number of homes: 3 943 989 (NSI, 2016)

Number of multifamily buildings:


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Households Sector – Main EE measures

Residential Energy Efficiency Credit Line (REECL) - http://reecl.org/en/

Provides loans for energy efficiency home improvements→ 2017 - funded and implemented 725 projects. Total amount of € 4,3 mln.

→ Saved energy – 12,42 GWh

→ Reduced CO2 emissions - 8 481 t CO2eq

Demand Side Residential Energy Efficiency Through Gas Distribution Companies

In Bulgaria - DESIREEGAS - https://desireegas.bg/en/

Dedicated and effective mechanism to support the gasification of Bulgarian households

→To support gas supply and installation of high-efficiency boilers in about 10 000 households;

→To save energy equivalent to 142,000 MWh per year;

→To achieve additional energy savings of 70,000 MWh per year due to switching from coal, biomass and

oil to natural gas because of higher combustion efficiency;

→To save around 213kWh for every 2 BGN of grant for the average economic life of 15 years of the

equipment installed;

→To reduce GHG emissions by 70,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year, or more than 1 mln. tons of carbon

dioxide in the economic life of the equipment installed.

http://reecl.org/en/

https://desireegas.bg/en/


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Targeting: Residential buildings constructed industrially to three or more floors of a minimum six (6) separate objects with residential

use up to 36 separate objects with residential use and massive buildings, designed before April 26, 1999 of three or more floors with

six (6) or more separate objects with residential use.

National Energy Efficiency Program for Multifamily Residential Buildings

All 265 Bulgarian municipalities are eligible to participate in the Program.

Financial support: Up to 100% grant support for eligible expenditures covering mainly measures to:

(i) improve the EE of the buildings (thermal insulation of building envelope improvements of the heating, electrical work, etc.) and

common spaces; and

(ii) measures to improve the structural soundness of the buildings to, amongst other things, comply with the current building code, if

needed.

Measures to be implemented should bring the energy consumption of buildings to at least Class C (energy use of 191 kWh/m2 to 240

kWh/m2) at the lowest cost.

Implementation mechanisms: The Program is administered mainly through municipalities. They not only

approve project application and sign the contracts, but also are responsible for all procurement and acceptance of

the energy and structural audits, approval of detailed designs and issuing of construction permits and perform

construction supervision.

Financing of the Program: In the state budget for 2017, a state guarantee has been included in the amount of

BGN 1 billion.

http://www.mrrb.government.bg/bg/energijna-efektivnost/nacionalna-programa-za-ee-na-mnogofamilni-jilistni-sgradi/

http://www.mrrb.government.bg/bg/energijna-efektivnost/nacionalna-programa-za-ee-na-mnogofamilni-jilistni-sgradi/


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Residential buildings renovation program – roles and responsibilities (1/2)

Program Coordinator

✓ Provides methodological guidance on non-financial aspects of the Program;

✓ Observes the process of Program implementation;

✓ In the framework of the budgetary procedure for a given year plans the funds for

inclusion in the national budget and in the medium-term budget forecast

Ministry of Regional

Development and Public

Works

Ministry of Finance

✓ Methodological guidance regarding the budgetary aspects of the PforR, supporting the

NEEPMB;

✓ The relevant actions by issuing a state guarantee under Art. 100 of the State Budget Law

of Republic of Bulgaria for 2015

Bulgarian Development Bank

✓ Participates in negotiating the agreement/s to provide loans of BDB to ensure financial

resources for the implementation of the Program, for which a state guarantee will be

issued;

✓ Signs contracts for targeted financing (CTF) with the mayor of the municipality and the

regional governor.

Municipal administrations

✓ Managing the registration of House Owner Associations (HoAs) and maintaining a public

register;

✓ Maintaining a register recording applications from HoAs for the financing of renovation

works under the Program;

✓ Maintaining a database for the implementation of the Program;

✓ Approving the received applications and investment proposals. Contracting and payment

of all renovation activities;

✓ Administering the public procurement procedures related to the Program;

✓ Issue construction permits, necessary for the rehabilitation of multifamily buildings;

✓ Construction supervision; Exercise investment control.


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Residential buildings renovation program – roles and responsibilities (2/2)

Regional governors

✓ Observe the process of renovation of residential buildings on their territory in compliance

with the rules and regulations that are relevant for the Program;

✓ Participate in committees for final approval of objects and signs of all protocols during

construction.

Home Owners Associations

✓ Submit applications of interest for financial assistance;

✓ Conclude a contract with the respective municipality;

✓ Control the implementation of renovation for energy efficiency in the building by an

authorized technician or the association representative.

External contractors

✓ Develop technical and energy surveys/investigations for establishing the technical

characteristics related to the Spatial Planning Act;

✓ Elaborate an energy efficiency audit and prescribing the necessary energy - saving

measures in accordance with Energy Efficiency Act;

✓ Implement the construction and installation works;

✓ Perform compliance assessments of the investment projects and construction

supervision if required.

SEDA

✓ Prepares an annual evaluation of the estimated savings under the Program and

calculates the EEOS;

✓ Annually prepares an analysis and assessment of the progress made on the

implementation of the measure as part of the NEEAP report;

✓ Maintains database for the elaborated energy audits; Controls the quality of the audits;

✓ Gives cumulative monthly information about the energy audits to the Ministry of

Development and to Bulgarian Development Bank.


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Residential buildings renovation program – results 2017

Renovated buildings 769

Improved housing infrastructure, m2 4 835 789

Number of renovated homes 49 501

Num. of residents benefiting from the improved infrastructure 101 761

Expected energy savings from renovated residential buildings,

MWh/ann.415 074

Estimated annual greenhouse gas emission reductions (CO2

equivalent) - incl. saving of kt CO2/ann.136

Value of all building activities, mln. EUR 380,4


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Before and after


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More “Before and After”


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The art of renovation


Nearly zero-energy building – national definition

"Nearly zero-energy building" shall be a building which simultaneously fulfils

the following conditions:

а) the energy consumption of the building, defined as primary energy, complies

with Class A on the scale of energy consumption classes for buildings of the

relevant type;

б) not less than 55 per cent of the energy consumed (supplied) for heating,

cooling, ventilation, domestic hot water and lighting is energy from renewable

sources produced on-site or near the building.


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New construction in the Residential buildings:

• Scenario A: baseline year 2014 and annual growth

1%;

• Scenario B: baseline year 2014 and annual growth

2,5%;

• Scenario C: baseline year 2014 and zero growth in

the next years.

Projections expressed as newly built gross floor area

Investment required for residential buildings (new

construction)

New buildings segment - scenarios


New residential buildings – interim National targets

Year

Floor

areaInvestments Savings (FEC and emissions)

m2 € ktoe GWh tCO2

2016 0 0 0,00 0,00 0,00

2017 4 414 650 717 0,06 0,64 154,5

2018 11 312 1 626 636 0,14 1,65 395,9

2019 23 189 3 435 478 0,29 3,39 811,63

2020 35 654 3 413 015 0,45 5,21 1 247,9

Cumulative 74 570 8 934 739 1,19 13,83 3 314,9


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Overview of the construction of new nZE buildings and the expected energy and

environmental savings by 2020

National targets for new nZE buildings


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