Tracking Progress to 2020

SEAI and the Department of Communications Energy & Natural Resources are developing an energy monitoring and reporting system to help organisations track their progress towards the 2020 targets. The system will be implemented in phases throughout 2011 and 2012:

Schedulefor system implementation (click image to view larger version)

The new system will:

• Enable public bodies to track their energy consumption, their energy performance and their progress towards the 2020 target;
• Add value for public body users by enabling them to better understand energy consumption, target areas for improvement, identify opportunities, review progress, monitor & benchmark performance and validate savings;
• Use a baseline period of 2001-2005, but will accommodate other baselines in the absence of this data;
• Accommodate the reporting of electricity, thermal and fleet consumption;
• Access energy consumption data for electricity and natural gas directly from the databases operated by the regulated meter operators;
• Link to, and insofar as is possible, integrate with, other existing reporting systems, including the Change.ie Carbon Management Tool;
• Incorporate a methodology for calculating energy savings that is easily understood, workable and robust, that can accommodate new entrants and which can capture changes in activity over time.