Regulations, 2016

L.N. 236 of 2016

REGULATOR FOR ENERGY AND WATER SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 545)

BUILDING REGULATION ACT

(CAP. 513)

Energy Efficiency and Cogeneration (Amendment)

Regulations, 2016

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 37(1) of the

Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act and article 6(1) of the

Building Regulation Act, the Prime Minister, as Minister responsible

for Energy, and the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, after

consultation with the Building Regulation Board, the Regulator for

Energy and Water Services, the Environment and Resources

Authority and the Planning Authority, have made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Energy Efficiency and

Cogeneration (Amendment) Regulations, 2016, and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Energy Efficiency and

Cogeneration Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be

substituted by the following

" Requirements

(1) (a) Without

prejudice

to

as to

regulation 8 of the Energy Performance of

Government

Buildings Regulations, the Building Regulation

buildings, etc.

Board shall take cost-effective measures,

including deep renovations and measures for

behavioural change of occupants, to achieve by

2020 an amount of energy savings in eligible

buildings owned and occupied by Government

which is at least equivalent to that required by

paragraph 1 of Article 5 of Directive 2012/27/

EU which amount shall be reported to the

Minister on an annual basis.

(b) The Building Regulation

Board shall estimate the energy savings referred

to in paragraphs 1 to 4 of Article 5 of Directive

2012/27/EU by using appropriate standard

values for the energy consumption of reference

central Government buildings before and after

renovation and according to estimates of the

surface of their stock. The categories of

reference central Government buildings shall be

representative of the stock of such buildings.

(c) The Minister shall notify to

the Commission, the measures that are planned

to be adopted and showing how they would

achieve an equivalent improvement of the

energy performance of the buildings within the

Government estate.

(2) For the purposes of establishing

equivalence of the savings required to be

achieved in terms of sub-regulation (1) with the

energy savings referred to in paragraphs 1 to 4 of

Article 5 of Directive 2012/27/EU, the Building

Regulation Board in collaboration with the

Government Property Division shall establish

and make publicly available an inventory of

heated and, or cooled central government

buildings with a total useful floor area over 250

m 2 , excluding buildings exempted on the basis

of paragraph 2 of Article 5 of Directive 2012/27/

EU, containing the following data

the floor area in m 2 ; and

(a)

(b)

the energy performance of

each building or relevant energy data.

(3) The Building Regulation Board shall

encourage public bodies, including at regional

and local level, and social-housing bodies

governed by public law, with due regard for their

respective competences and administrative set-

up, to

(a)

adopt an energy efficiency

plan, free-standing or as part of a broader

climate or environmental plan, containing

specific energy saving and efficiency

objectives and actions, with a view to

following the exemplary role of

Government buildings laid down in sub-

regulations (1) and (2);

(b)

put in place an energy

management system, including energy

audits, as part of the implementation of

their plan;

(c)

use,

where

appropriate,

ESCOs,

and

energy

performance

contracting to finance renovations and

implement plans to maintain or improve

energy efficiency in the long term.".

3. Regulation 10 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a)

sub-regulation (1) thereof shall be substituted by

the following

"(1) The Minister shall promote the availability to

all final customers of high quality energy audits which are

cost-effective and carried out in an independent manner by

qualified and, or accredited experts according to

qualification criteria."; and

(b)

in sub-regulation (2) thereof, for the words "in sub-

regulation (1)(a)" there shall be substituted the words "in sub-

regulation (1)".

4. In sub-regulation (6) of regulation 17 of the principal

regulations, for the words "in the Tenth Schedule" there shall be

substituted the words "in the Eleventh Schedule".

5. In sub-regulation (3) of regulation 19 of the principal

regulations, for the words "The entrusted parties" there shall be

substituted the words "The Minister".

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