{"id":787,"date":"2024-10-19T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T07:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webink.pl\/projekt\/certynergia\/uncategorized\/prch-white-certificates-new-opportunities-and-possibilities-to-support-energy-saving-investments\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T20:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T19:28:55","slug":"prch-white-certificates-new-opportunities-and-possibilities-to-support-energy-saving-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/prch-white-certificates-new-opportunities-and-possibilities-to-support-energy-saving-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"PRCH: White certificates &#8211; new opportunities and possibilities to support energy-saving investments."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>White certificates &#8211; new opportunities and possibilities to support energy-saving investments.<br\/>On October 1, 2016, an amendment to the Law on<br\/>Energy Efficiency, which has been in effect since 2012, came into force with the aim of bringing Polish legislation in line with the provisions of<br\/>the European Union directive and the changing business and economic conditions.<br\/>The law provides for a number of new obligations, but also a palette of previously unavailable<br\/>opportunities related to improving the energy efficiency of the economy, which Poland<br\/>is obliged to do, and which can be implemented by companies or<br\/>public administration units.<br\/>One of the tools for supporting investments that improve the efficiency of energy consumption is<br\/>a system of energy efficiency certificates, commonly known as &#8220;white certificates.&#8221;<br\/>In a nutshell, this system consists in the possibility of obtaining the above-mentioned<br\/>certificates for the energy savings<br\/>achieved in the enterprise thanks to the realized or planned investment. The resulting certificates can be liquidated through transactions<br\/>on the Polish Power Exchange and thus provide an additional source of financing<br\/>investments.<br\/>Last year&#8217;s amendment introduces many changes from the previous law,<br\/>below I will cite a few of them:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Replacing the tenders<br\/>announced by the Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) from time to time for obtaining white certificates with a system of continuous call for applications with a 45-day<br\/>deadline for the ERO to issue a decision. This change greatly simplifies and simplifies<br\/>the acquisition of certificates, and also defines &#8211; not insignificantly &#8211; the timeframe within<br\/>which an investor can acquire certificates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allowing companies that are participants in the<br\/>European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to participate in the support system<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enabling the acquisition of certificates for projects already implemented (completed<br\/>between 1.1.2014 and 30.09.2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>enabling the acquisition of certificates for projects that have already received<br\/>partial support from public funds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enabling the acquisition of certificates for projects yet to be planned &#8211; the condition<br\/>for obtaining support is to perform an energy efficiency audit of the project and<br\/>submit an application to the ERO for the issuance of white certificates before proceeding with<br\/>investment. This is important because the ERO already considers the signing<br\/>of a contract with a contractor or the execution of orders for its implementation as the &#8220;start of the investment.&#8221;<br\/>The most important element of the procedure for obtaining energy efficiency certificates<br\/>is the conduct of an energy efficiency audit. From the professional implementation of this part<br\/>of the procedure depends not only on the correct determination of the number of white certificates possible<br\/>to obtain (while this number may depend on the correct and insightful look at<br\/>savings not only directly resulting from the solutions used, but also those,<br\/>that are potentially generated by other equipment in the enterprise as a result<br\/>of the modernization activities carried out), but also the fact that a professionally performed<br\/>energy efficiency audit protects the investor from the risks that arise from the law, and<br\/>that may occur as a result of improper implementation of the audit, that is:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the need to redeem at the ERO certificates issued without coverage in<br\/>realized savings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Potential penalty (up to 10% of the company&#8217;s turnover in the year prior to<br\/>submissions)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a ban on applying for certificates for the next 5 years<br\/>It should be noted here that some professional companies involved in<br\/>performing audits and consulting on obtaining white certificates are<br\/>able to take some of these risks on themselves by &#8220;replacing&#8221; the investor in<br\/>activities directly related to obtaining and then selling on the white market<br\/>certificates. This approach also guarantees the ability to get the best price for white<br\/>certificates on the market.<br\/>Use the professional services of companies that perform audits<br\/>Energy efficiency also provides other opportunities &#8211; very often experience in<br\/>implementation of such work results in greater awareness of what projects can<br\/>be the subject of applying for white certificates &#8211; in practice, it is very common that<br\/>people implementing investments overlook such an opportunity due to lack of awareness of the possibility<br\/>of using the support system.<br\/>Another added value is the potential opportunity to benefit from a support system for<br\/>projects that do not meet the minimum level of savings achieved (this<br\/>is 10 tons of oil equivalent &#8211; equivalent to about 116 MWh of savings per year).<br\/>In fact, according to the law, there is the possibility of &#8220;aggregation&#8221; of projects of the same nature &#8211; companies<br\/>engaged in obtaining certificates for their clients often have a database<br\/>of projects, which opens up the possibility of obtaining additional<br\/>funding even for smaller projects.<br\/>Examples of projects for which white certificates can be obtained are:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Replacement of lighting with energy-efficient lighting &#8211; in this case, even a small reduction in<br\/>lighting power leads &#8211; with a long period of use &#8211; to savings that<br\/>allow to obtain white certificates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optimization of the operation of air conditioning, ventilation and heating equipment &#8211; starting<br\/>from measures obvious for older installations such as replacing compressor equipment<br\/>with devices with so-called free-cooling, and ending with new installations, where<br\/>additional devices can be introduced &#8211; such as heat pumps &#8211; allowing<br\/>to optimize the operation of the system, and thus achieve large savings in the consumption of<br\/>electricity and heat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Installation of a system for monitoring and control of energy consumption at a detailed level &#8211;<br\/>monitoring of energy consumption not by the entire installation, but by individual receivers, which<br\/>allows not only for better management of energy consumption (including water, heat and gas), but<br\/>enables better management of assets &#8211; allows you to compare energy<br\/>consumption of similar devices in different locations and thus assess their use<br\/>or the possibility of finding a fault, which in turn allows you to improve the management of issues<br\/>repairs or repairs or better plan the schedule of replacement of equipment. In extreme<br\/>cases, such systems make it possible to detect abuses in the work of a particular branch of the company<br\/>By monitoring energy consumption&#8230;<br\/>In addition to the direct effect of reducing<br\/>bills, improving energy use can also serve image purposes and indirectly influence<br\/>competitiveness in, for example, the rental market for facilities such as shopping malls or<br\/>warehouse premises, which become<br\/>more attractive to tenants by reducing energy use charges.<br\/>Finally, it should be noted that the white certificate system will<br\/>most likely be maintained until 2030 due to the already announced plans by the<br\/>European Union to extend the<br\/>efficiency targets for member countries while increasing the target to 30%.<br\/>Remember &#8211; the cheapest energy is the one saved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White certificates &#8211; new opportunities and possibilities to support energy-saving investments.On October 1, 2016, an amendment to the Law onEnergy Efficiency, which has been in effect<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-about-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certynergiapolska.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}