Energy Savings Certificates to monetise your energy-efficiency investments

We identify the technical change generating the reduction in final-energy consumption and distinguish genuine efficiency improvements from other investments that do not create eligible savings.

Projects can include improvements in industrial processes, HVAC, building envelope, lighting, mobility and other eligible technologies across the sectors covered by the system.

We establish the situation before the investment and determine the annual final-energy saving generated by the new solution using the methodology applicable to the project.

We review the investment dates and any public support received, because timing and funding sources can affect CAE eligibility.

In particular, an action benefiting from a programme financed through the National Energy Efficiency Fund cannot also be submitted for CAE issuance.

We estimate the certifiable energy savings and use them to assess the potential economic value of the operation before entering negotiations with an obligated or delegated entity.

We review the current catalogue to determine whether the investment matches an existing standardised measure and verify its scope, technical requirements and application conditions.

We apply the variables, formulas, coefficients and technical parameters included in the corresponding sheet to calculate the annual final-energy saving.

We identify the technical documentation, invoices, product characteristics, photographs, declarations and other evidence required by the applicable sheet.

We work with the current version of the catalogue and its latest amendments rather than relying on historical versions of individual technical sheets.

We describe the technical intervention, operating conditions, equipment, processes and energy flows affected by the efficiency improvement.

We establish the reference consumption and define the calculations, measurements or energy-audit methodology required to determine the resulting final-energy saving.

For singular measures with expected final-energy savings above 1 GWh, the regulations allow a voluntary prior consultation before execution, supported by a favourable preliminary assessment from an ENAC-accredited verifier.

This provides greater certainty regarding both project eligibility and the proposed calculation methodology, although final verification remains necessary after execution.

We prepare the technical project, plans, photographic evidence, baseline and post-intervention information, calculations and supporting documentation required for verification and issuance.

The original owner of the savings is generally the person or entity whose decision makes the efficiency investment possible. A company carrying out an eligible investment can therefore benefit economically from the CAE System even if it is not an obligated or delegated entity.

Only obligated and delegated entities can hold CAE. The company generating the savings therefore transfers ownership of those savings to one of these entities so that it can subsequently request the corresponding certificates.

The transfer is formalised through a CAE Agreement, which records the action, expected or achieved savings, consideration, useful life and the parties' obligations.

The consideration must be defined and the agreement transfers ownership of the annual final-energy savings to the obligated or delegated entity.

We quantify the savings and prepare the technical and economic information required to compare proposals and negotiate the transfer of the energy savings.

The CAE System does not establish a fixed sale price: the consideration is agreed between the parties.