On April 16, 2015 Parliament of Ukraine and the USA Energy Department held a seminar on “Energy efficiency and district heating, directing strategic policy to improve energy security of Ukraine”.
During four sections issue of energy was discussed as a strategically important step for Ukraine dedicating close attention to the operational priorities for the sector. The program can be viewed HERE 1– 2 (in Ukrainian).
We offer you attention useful links from presentations of the workshop:
1. The best legal practice of energy efficiency measures implementation. Presentation by Oleg Dziobinski, UNECE Sustainable Energy Division
http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=39075&L=0
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/energy/se/pdfs/geee/study/ECE_Best_Practices_in_EE_final_draft.pdf
2. Models and means to assess policy options for energy efficiency. Presentation by Meredith Evans, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Models of energy consumption buildings – http://energy.gov/eere/buildings/building-energy-modeling
Platform FORECAST, to calculate future scenarios of energy demand at country level – www.forecast-model.eu
Energy database MURE. It contains information on more than 2,000 energy efficiency measures – http://www.odyssee-mure.eu/
Global change evaluation model (GCAM). It is used to assess long-term changes in the demand for electricity, the use of land and water on global climate change – http://www.globalchange.umd.edu/models/gcam
Thermal modernization Program. Examples of successful programs public buildings (FEMP) – http://energy.gov/eere/femp
Global performance network of buildings. An interactive method for comparing energy efficiency measures in buildings – http://gbpn.org/databases-tools/purpose-policy-comparative-tool#
