1. Energy Audit for SMEs Ing. Domenico Santino
Head of the Service on Energy Efficiency in the Industrial Sector - ENEA
Brussels November 30, 2016

2. Lgs. Decree 102/14
Directive 2012/27/EU establishes a common framework of measures for the promotion of energy efficiency (EE) in order to ensure the achievement of the Union’s EE target of 20 % by 2020 and to pave the way for further EE improvements beyond that date.
Italy has transposed the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU) into national law by issuing the Lgs. Decree n°102 of 4 July 2014 (G.U. Serie Generale n°165 of 18/07/2014)

3. Directive 2012/27/EU
According to Art. 8.2 Member States shall develop programs to encourage SMEs to undergo energy audits and the subsequent implementation of the recommendations from these audits.
According to Art. 8.4 Member States shall ensure that enterprises that are not SMEs are subject to an energy audit carried out in an independent and cost-effective manner by qualified and/or certified experts or implemented and supervised by independent authorities under national legislation by 5 December 2015 and at least every four years from the date of the previous energy audit.

4. According to Art. 8 of Lgs. D
According to Art. 8 of Lgs. D. 102/14, the hereinafter mentioned companies must undergo energy audits on their production sites, by 5 Dec. 2015, and at least every four years:
Large Enterprises (paragraph 1);
Energy intensive Enterprises (paragraph 3)

5. According to Art. 8.9 «By December 31, 2014 the Ministry of Economic Development, in agreement with the Ministry of the Environment, shall issue a call for tender aimed at co-financing regional programs addressed to support the implementation of energy audits in SMEs or the adoption of EMS according with ISO 50001”.

6. Art. 8.9 The regional support programs shall envisage that incentives will be granted to the beneficiary enterprises in compliance with State aids Law and following the actual implementation of the energy efficiency opportunities identified from energy audits or after achievement of the ISO certificate.

7. MD 21 dicembre 2015
Programs issued by 14, out of 20, Regions, aimed to support energy audits implementation or adoption of an EMS according to ISO in SMEs, have been approved by the above mentioned Ministerial Decree .

8. Italian government allocated about 10 million euros for co-financing regional programs. Taking into account the amount to be funded by Regions, 20 million euros will be finally available to cover 50% of the costs that SMEs shall bear to carry out energy audits or to implement EMS according to ISO

9. Annex 1- List of recipient grant programs
Recipient autonomous Province/Region
Maximum amount of MiSE grant (€) 1
Lombardia 2
Veneto 3
Valle d’Aosta 4
Emilia Romagna 5
Piemonte 6
Sicilia 7
Liguria 8
Marche 9
Abruzzo 10
Friuli Venezia Giulia 11
Sardegna 12
Umbria 13
Provincia Autonoma di Trento 14
Basilicata
TOTAL AMOUNT

10. On going Regional call for tenders:
Lombardia
Piemonte
Sardegna
Signed agreements by Regions and Ministry:
Friuli
Liguria

11. 2016 August 4th Call for tender
This Call for tender is providing Regions and autonomous Provinces with 15 million of Euros to support energy audits implementation or adoption of an EMS according to ISO in SMEs.
The expiry date to send programs is 2016 October, 15th.

12. 2016 August 4th Call for tender
Taking into account the amount to be funded by Regions, 30 million Euros will be finally available to cover 50% of the total costs that SMEs shall bear to carry out energy audits or to implement an ESM according with ISO
This action will be put in place every year until 2020, with the same amount of public funding.

13. ENEA’s role
ENEA’s role is to provide the Ministry of Economic Development with technical-scientific support for the implementation of Art. 8 of the Lgs. D. 102/14 as technical advisor. Mandatory energy audit reports shall be sent to ENEA that shall manage an ad hoc database. ENEA has to control over the energy audit reports in order to check their compliance with law. Energy audit reports from SMEs eventually will be sent to ENEA for their inclusion in the database, after Regions approval.

14. Thanks for your attention