“From 2016 the obligation to equip apartments in condominiums with thermostatic valves on centralized heating systems will come into effect: this is what a set of rules for the application of measures aimed at implementing energy efficiency provides. The legislator’s intention is to make the customer responsible by making them aware of their consumption, but in reality we are facing another bureaucratic levy that also includes very heavy penalties.
AiCARR believes that the direct availability (through displays or interfaces) of the measurement data for end customers is fundamental to allow full awareness of their consumption in order to adopt energy-saving logic and interface with simple home visualization systems. In fact, the declared objective is to achieve, through knowledge of individual consumption and the ability to manage energy, greater responsibility on the part of users, leading to more virtuous behavior and reducing energy waste.” This is stated by Livio de Santoli, president of Aicarr, Italian Association of Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration.
“In this sense, it is extremely important that the Energy Authority provides – something it has not yet done – the definition of both the metrological requirements of heat measurement devices and the methods of verification and approval of the same.
The end customer must be directly involved in the system of temperature regulation and accounting, but also in heat allocation, while ensuring the continuity of data measurement and insofar as the costs resulting from the assignment of the task of measurement, allocation and accounting are reasonable.
As things stand now, the dictates of the European directive regarding transparency of measurements and user awareness are undermined, and only the usual, further, useless levy imposed on families remains.”
