1st issue of LiCEA newsletter

The project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF

Life Cycle based Energy Audit

st1 issue of newsletter

July 2013

Introduction

. Dear readers,

you are holding first Newsletter of the LiCEA project. Following text is

devoted to all who is interested in Energy auditing, energy efficiency within production

procesess or wants just to catch new knowledge and experiences in given field.

We firmly hope you will enjoy Newsletter from the beginnig till the end.

Newsletter provide you throught project background, Lead Partner and 2 crucial

project activities.

We are in process of building the corporate design of the project, so there will

be available project official website, about which we will inform you by next issue.

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Newsletter´s content

3 Key Questions & answers 4

Project background 5

Project objectives / goals 5

Target groups 6

Project process 7

Benefits 7

Project partnership 8

Lead Partner - Province of Mantova 9

Crucial activities 12

Establishment of the LiCEA Guidance 14

Follow-up creation of the LiCEA Tool 15

Contacts 16


What project does?

Project LiCEA develops and simplifies model of energy audits for SMEs and

their clusters, based on Life Cycle analysis, to ensure energy savings and cost reduction

along the production chain.

Why it does it?

Application of LiCEA tool to SME will identify energy saving opportunities and

thus open possibilities for reductions of energy consumptions and by that reducing

production costs and emissions. Project deals with increasing sustainability and

competitiveness of SMEs and their districts.

Why is it important?

The envisaged energy and cost reduction in industrial production means

increasing the competitiveness of the European industry, in particular of the SMEs

based in clusters and local districts.


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Main objectives and goals

he goal of LiCEA is to The objective is to apply a develop, create and simplified model of the energy audit in Tapply SMART tools a life cycle perspective towards specific

that allow the discovery of industrial sectors and related SMEs.numerous unexploited energy Through an energy audit of the state of saving opportunities in regional the art and created SMART tool, the industrial clusters along the supply

LiCEA project aims to indentify and chain of SMEs

analyze an energy inputs in SMEs and Accompanied with the

is able to provide measures for organizational and technical support

reducing the amount of energy input of energy and innovation agencies and

into the system without negatively the political framework and policy

affecting the output.knowledge of involved institutions, a

One of the foreseen long-cross-sector breakthrough in energy

term tangible outputs of LiCEA efficiency can be reached, which can´t

project is at least 5% energy be possible in one company level reduction across SMEs in Central without the support of an envisaged Europe.project.

Project background


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Target groups

roject is focusing on formal and substantial connection with se lected indust r ia l Public Bodies ensures the Psector districts (selected possibility to share and export the results of

SMEs with non complicated production the project, with the main aim to insert process such as hosiery, bakery, diary, them in the public energy program, to bring mechanical, plastic and wood industry), them to the institutional level and to where the application and testing of promote program´s implementation as a simplified LiCEA tool is achievable in public utility and interest.primary phase. The connection with

industrial districts and their service centers

is strategic and basic for the project

imp lementa t ion : i t ensures the

involvement of a consistent number of

SMEs in the project.

The local energy Agencies and In the end we should see the final

Business Development Centers are beneficiaries – inhabitants / involved

involved in LiCEA project as the target SME´s customers. They can actually benefit

group as well. The long-term objective of f rom more a f fordab le pr i ces o f

LiCEA tool is to strengthen their position products/services provided by SMEs where

and development process. Moreover the the application of LiCEA tool will be

project enables to gain many new successful.

experiences in Life Cycle based Energy

auditing.

Project results and outputs will

be disseminated to local Public

administrations as policy-makers. The


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Project process

Benefits of the project to:

SMEs:

źCreation of simplified energy audit tool accessible for SMEs

źExecution of energy audit for 40 SMEs in selected industrial sector

źIdentification of energy use in SMEs

Energy Agencies and Business Development Centers:

źMapping of the region in field of energy efficiency within SMEs

źAccess to the developed tool

źProviding training in the field of energy audit

Public administrations:

źIncreased awareness about energy savings in the region

źInvolvement into the field of energy audits

źCreated potential for improvement of regional policies

Local survey on energy analysis 1 Integration of life cycle concept and simplification of energy audit scheme2 Development of LiCEA tool („to measure is to know“)3Testing on small sample of companies and verification of the tool4Training for using the tool 5Testing of the developed tool on different industrial sectors in different 6 regions - 240 energy audits done.


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Project partnership

AGIRE Energy

Management Agency

PBN Pannon Business

Network Association

EAR Energy Agency

of the Regions

NAPE National Energy

Conservation Agency

AIEC Agency for Innovation

and European Cooperation

Province of MantovaLead Partner


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Province of Mantova - Lead partner of the project

h e P r o v i n c e o f Other significant field of its Mantova is a local operat ion is development of Tpubl ic author i ty , sustainable tourism providing

situated in the south-east area of employment, training programmes Lombardy region. It promotes a and social security for its inhabitants. balanced development of the Mainly rural and cultural tourism has territory, protects environmental

shown a positive trend over last years.and cul tura l resources and

Tourism and cultural heritage integrated welfare systems and

department has a competence in social opportunities as well. The

coordinating all policies and services operating area consists from 70 related to the tourist activities (e.g. municipalities.monitoring of touristic flows in the The challenge consists in province of Mantova.territorial planning, promotion,

P r o v i n c e o f M a n t o v a va lor i sat ion and equi l ibrated coordinates 70 municipalities in the infrastructural development. The manner of planning the TCCP Province of Mantova deals with (Territory Coordination Provincial competitive environment for economy Plan) for urbanization, economic and preservation of natural and activities, public transports, water cultural assets as well.(rivers, lakes) and green areas.

he 1000 years old The Province aims to enhance

history of art, culture RES (the renewable energy savings) Ta n d p o l i t i c a l within territory. To promote the use of

independence of Mantova land, has RES, it has designed the „Piano

Energetico della Provincia di left a strong imprint of unusual Mantova” (Energetic Plan), which features: 2 cities of Mantova and

Sabbioneta were recognized as a defines objectives, tools and results of

World Heritage by UNESCO in 2008. planned activities.


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o r e o v e r , t h e Mediterranean Coasts of Spain, Province created France, Italy and North Africa.Mwith help of IEE Within the Province of

funds AGIRE Ltd., the local Agency Mantova is promoted start-up of the for Intelligent management of clusters (a socio-territorial entity renewable energy. characterized by the presence of both

Responsibility for authorizing a community of people and a public and private installation of RES population of firms in one naturally plants in the territory belongs to the and historically bound region). In this Province too. context it is fundamental to support

The Province of Mantova has a the transferability of energy 10 years experience in European efficiency actions and tools (energy projects such as INTERREG, TEN-T,

audit + life cycle assessment) from one DG MOVE etc. and is a member of

cluster to another one in the same EFIP (European Federation of Inland

production, but also from one Ports) and ARCOLATINO (association

industrial specialization to another of local public authorities along the

one.


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h e P r o v i n c e o f In both cases, the Province Mantova will work in will work with the District Offices T2 productive districts: (Centro servizi Calza for the Hoisiery

Hoisery District which counts with destrict and Centro Tecnologico Arti e Mestieri for the mechanical about 400 enterprises, most of them district), which have the role of SMEs, situated in the northern part of involving the SMEs in LICEA activities, the province, and the Technological support the LICEA team in collecting District, which counts with about 100 data performing audits and finally enterprises working on the mechanic disseminating the LICEA outputs and sector mostly related with the results creating consensus among the agricultural field and situated in the associated enterprises.southern part of the province.


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District Offices cooperating

with Lead Partner

trategic focus of this About the state of the art, activity is production European directives and standards So f a g u i d a n c e about energy audit and LCA for SMEs

document on energy audit for SMEs were analyzed, together with their considering the state of the art and national transposition: the attention of describing the guide lines to the international institutions about improve it also considering LCA (the

these issues is increasing strongly Life Cycle Assessment) approach.

during the last years, but laws, During the first months the

instruments and tools are still not well LiCEA partners focused their attention

defined as, for example, in the field of on the WP3 Guidance LiCEA activities,

sustainable mobility and, most of all, analyzing the state of the art about

energy saving in buildings.industrial energy audit and life cycle

assessment, selecting their districts,

involving the first enterprises and

exchanging information and points of

view with similar projects developers.

Crucial activities


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bout the application LiCEA partners have checked of the instruments, the regional industrial reality of their Athe delay is even territories, focusing their attention on

higher. But energy auditing is SMEs, to select the most interesting defined as a very strategic activity to local industrial districts for the first reduce the energy consumption and application of the LiCEA tool during the greenhouse gases emissions:

the project. On a side, contacts with they are mandatory for big

SMEs have been taken, building a i n d u s t r i e s , w h i l e n a t i o n a l

LiCEA stakeholders map that includes governments have to find and apply

SMEs interested in the LiCEA tool s o l u t i o n s t o p r o m o t e i t s development and application, but also performance also in not obliged other actors as local institutions and small and medium enterprises. associations, energy experts and Directives and standards specify technology suppliers. More than 200 that a state of the art energy audit

has to consider a life cycle costs contacts have already been insert in

analysis of products. the map, but new updates will quickly The L iCEA too l , which increase this number.

characteristics will be defined in the

WP3 Guidance document within the

end of summer 2013, aims to fill that

gap offering an operating solution.

Crucial activities


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Establishment of the LiCEA Guidance

he selected districts At the end of May in Sárvár, f o r t h e L i C E A Hungary, PBN organized a seminar T to exchange information about the application during the

state of the art in energy audit project development are: baking, between partners of different dairy, hosiery, mechanical, plastic projects: the LiCEA partners met and wood processing. similar realities, Innospirit and Erasme

projects, exchanging visions, ideas and

plans with their developers. Needs for

simplification, involvement and

training for SMEs and their staff,

increasing their independence in The LiCEA tool will be tested energy auditing and reducing its costs for the first time in the hosiery cluster are the common approaches of the of Castel Goffredo, in the Province of projects. But the LCA perspective is a Mantova, in Italy, at the beginning of specific aspect of the LiCEA project.2014. The LiCEA partners have also

analyzed in the state of the art in

energy auditing and LCA, the situation

of the selected local districts,

describing their size, kind of

production and processes and their

past experiences about energy

auditing, saving measures and LCA

analysis. Only few attempts have been

made till now and the partners have

tried to identify limitations and barriers

that have reduced the results of those

activities, to find solutions in the

definition of the new LiCEA tool.


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Follow-up creation of the LiCEA Tool

trategic focus is the Works on the LiCEA tool are in creation of draft the phase of discussing preliminary Sversions of the LiCEA outlines for the tool among the project

tool, a smart electronic instrument experts. Ideas and suggestions have according to the LiCEA guidance been discussed extensively during the document (viz article about) to project meeting last month in Sárvár. guide and to perform the simplified

The final conclusions have not been industrial energy audit considering

reached yet, as there are many factors the LCA approach.

requiring broader analysis, before the An analytic tool supporting

requirements for the LiCEA tool can be Life Cycle based Energy Audit in SMEs

s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r m u l a t e d . T h e will produce quantitative results in

requirements for the LiCEA tool will be terms of untapped potential energy

set out in the Guidance Document for savings. The tool has to be specifically

LiCEA. a d j u s t e d f o r s i x

industry/manufacturing sectors

(mentioned above).


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Prague

Bratislava

Contact us

Province of Mantova - LEAD PARTNER

Via Principe Amedeo 30, 46100 Mantova, Italy

Contact person: Roberto Grassi, [email protected]

AGIRE

Piazza Sordello, 43, 46100 Mantova, Italy

Contact person: Massimiliano Musci, [email protected]

EAR

Hans-Kudlich-Straße 2, 3830 Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria

Contact person: Markus Hödl, [email protected]

PBN

32-36 Zanati Rd., H-9700 Szombathely, Hungary

Contact person: Adrienn Németh, [email protected]

NAPE

Swietokrzyska 20, 00-002 Warsaw, Poland

Contact person: Andrzej Rajkiewicz, [email protected]

AIEC

Jelačičova 8, 821 08 Bratislava, Slovakia

Contact person: Tina Igličar, [email protected]

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