This issue is sponsored by the Philips Romania, Lighting Division

European experience on the energy
efficiency indicators 2001.
The National Strategy in the energy
efficiency field adopted by the HG
163/2004 underlines that the residential
sector has a primary energy saving potential
at 3.6 million tones equivalent petrol
through 6.8 million tones of the total final
consumers; it means more than 50%. This
potential can be capitalized by the buildings
heating rehabilitation, the improvement of
the heating and lighting systems and of the
electric domestic appliances. The EU
Directives related to the labeling of the
energy parameters for many electric
appliances have been used in order to be
implemented in the Romanian legislation.
The Government Program on the following
years 2005-2008 states the necessity to
accomplish the legislative and institutional
frame in order to apply the flexible
mechanisms adopted by the Kyoto Protocol, to
pursue the implementation of the technical and
economical measures for the reduction of the
greenhouse gases emission, in accordance with
the features of the National Plan for the
Allocation of the Emission Quotas, the
development of the National Plan for the
Climatic Changes Action, the improvement of
the energy efficiency and the promotion of the
renewable energy sources.
In this frame and in accordance with the
EU policies, there is a priority for Romania
"to remove the non technological barriers
by the market formation and education" by
developing:
• Campaigns at the national levels for the people
education and information concerning the
energy efficiency concept, the significance of
the energy efficient electric appliance choose
(related with the appliance energy label), the
CREFEN – An informatic system
opportunities to obtain important reductions of
the energy consumption in residential sector
with low levels of their costs;
• Education and information campaigns in
general and high schools, universities and
even children
gardens concerning the energy
savings.
2. Objectives of the CREFEN project
The problems to be solved by the project
deal with energy efficiency and
saving
energy field (specific objectives):
• Drawing up of scenarios and prognosis of
electricity consumption in residential sector;
• Achievement of an advanced modeling and
simulation software system-tool of electricity
consumption in residential sector and
of
economical and environmental effects;
• Using a tool for defining the potential of
energy saving, prognosis
and scenarios of
consumption evolution;
• Improvement of the degree of taking into
consideration by the consumers, decision
factors and specialists of the opportunities,
advantages of promoting new technologies in
electricity consumption in residential sector,
in the framework of a sustainable
development integrated at the European level;
• Designing and implementation of a web
application with databases for domestic and
lighting appliances available on the
Romanian market, which include information
from the energy label and fiche;
• Design and implementation of the software for
an interactive system and an electronic book.
As measurable objectives we mention:
• Influence of the consumer decision concerning
electricity saving at residential level and
acquisition of energy efficient appliances;
• Consumer education, in general, and young
people, in particular, for environment
protection and reduction of greenhouse effect;
• Interconnection of Romanian research in
electric energy efficiency field in residential
sector to similar European projects (for
example DG JRC project, IES, Ispra, "Energy
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