Economic and legal aspects of Energy in Buildings - Support notes
1
Intro
2
Intro
2.1
Main topic
2.1.1
Energy Prices
2.1.2
Project Management
2.1.3
Energy Contracts
2.1.4
Regulation
3
Energy Prices
3.1
Market design
3.2
Market Players and Supply Chain
3.3
Price for energy Components
3.4
Drivers of Energy Prices
3.4.1
Context
3.4.2
Demand Side Management
3.4.3
Dynamic Pricing and Intervention in Prices setting Mechanisms
3.4.4
Further readings
4
Project Management
4.1
Basic Concepts
4.1.1
Economic and financial dimensions
4.1.2
Opportunity cost
4.1.3
Time value of money
4.1.4
Money
4.1.5
Annuities
4.2
Indicators
4.2.1
Net Present Value (NPV)
4.2.2
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
4.2.3
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
4.2.4
Payback Period
4.2.5
Accounting Equation
4.2.6
Financial Statements
4.2.7
The Relationship Between the Financial Statements
4.3
Cash Flows
4.3.1
Nature
4.3.2
Fix costs and variable costs
4.3.3
Break even analysis
4.3.4
Cash Flows in EE
4.3.5
Investments
4.3.6
Capital Structure Decisions
4.3.7
Fiscal Impact
4.4
Project Evaluation
4.4.1
Liquidity trap
4.5
EE metrics
4.5.1
Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE)
4.5.2
Cost-Optimaly Methodology
4.6
Scenario and Risk Analysis
4.6.1
Risk and uncertainty
4.6.2
Financial risk and operational risk
4.6.3
Due diligence
4.6.4
Externalities
4.6.5
Project evaluation steps
5
Energy Contracts
5.1
Basic Concepts
5.2
Energy Services Contracts (ESA´s)
5.2.1
Further references
5.3
Energy Performance Contract (EPC)
5.3.1
Templates and Models
5.4
Power Purchase Agreement (PPA´s)
5.4.1
Curtailments
5.4.2
Templates
5.5
Energy Management Contracts (EMC)
5.5.1
Why
5.5.2
Mandate and authorisations
5.5.3
Types of services:
5.5.4
Role of Data energy Companies
5.5.5
Other
5.5.6
Models (templates)
5.5.7
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
5.6
Other (Distributed models)
5.6.1
Blockchain as register/clearance/DB
5.6.2
Automatability: a spectrum from simple to complex
5.6.3
Further references
5.7
Incentives and other schemes to support EE implementation
5.8
Interconnections with Public Law
6
Regulation & Standards
6.1
Intro Regulation
6.1.1
Trends and international agreements
6.1.2
European and National Legal Frameworks - Types of Regulatory mechanisms
6.1.3
“Soft Law”
6.1.4
Scope and Articulation between EU, National Frameworks and International Standards
6.1.5
EU regulation
7
References
8
Formulae
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Economic and legal aspects of Energy in Buildings - Support notes
Economic and legal aspects of Energy in Buildings - Support notes
Técnico Lisboa
Jan 2018
Chapter1
Intro