Standards As A Cost Effective Way to Energy Efficiency

The Role Of the Energy Efficiency Unit EEU of Egyptian Standards Organization EOS By Dr. Mohamed Helal -AEEE

PREFACE

Standards enable new technologies of energy efficiency to be implemented as they help set requirements for design, performance and safety. They also help foster market acceptance and adoption through the creation of consistency, uniformity and interchangeability. By creating a framework of consistent rules and applications, standards and related certification programs help encourage energy efficiency innovation while supporting certain levels of safety and performance. The purpose of E.E.U. is to keep raising the bar of improving energy efficiency of a product line. By their very nature, standards remove the lower efficiency models and products out of the market. By eliminating the least efficient products from the marketplace, energy savings have translated into lower utility bills for users, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants whether from power plants or from direct combustion appliances. And through mandatory reference of these standards in legislation, such as in provincial energy efficiency acts, or procurement specifications, this process aids market transformation and can help eliminate the possibility of the market digressing to lower energy efficient levels when other incentive based programs cease. EOS E.E.U.adopted a suite of international greenhouse gas accounting standards as well, there are a number of international and national standards available that deal with individual aspects of construction and renovation that can improve Egyptian energy efficiency business demand. EEU of EOS will be implementing the ISO 14064 standards in its upcoming offset system. Implementation of Energy-efficiency standards help provide solutions for improved energy conservation which will help to reduce the energy consumption of small, medium and large companies in Egypt as well as individual users in both residential and commercial sectors in order to reach best economic use of Egypts natural resources and to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. After all, energy efficiency is about reducing waste, both of precious resources and of unwanted emissions, standards are about ongoing improvements for sustained energy efficiency gains. We see standards as being a cost effective tool that will help Egypt to become more energy efficient. Dr. Eng. Mohamed Helal
President of AEEE Cairo Dec 6 2013