Coordinating an Energy Efficiency Initiative for the Swedish Energy Agency
The Situation
Single-family homes make up a significant portion of the overall annual energy use within Sweden. As a result, creating national policies or incentives that address key challenges and enable energy efficiency in new and existing homes presents a significant opportunity to reduce overall emissions.
BeSmå is the Swedish Energy Agency’s network for energy-efficient single-family homes. The Swedish Energy Agency initiated BeSmå to create a dialogue and drive development projects to reduce energy end use in both new and existing single-family houses.
The initiative aims to develop methods and tools to deliver a resource-efficient energy end-use and create conditions for profitable energy efficiency measures while maintaining or improving the indoor environment air quality of the homes.
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Our Solutions
Anthesis has coordinated the BeSmå network since 2020. As coordinators of BeSmå, Anthesis oversees a network of up to 20 single housing manufacturers and building component manufacturers from various industries. Anthesis’ role includes planning activities for members, create bridges between manufacturers and academia, conducting feasibility studies and initiating projects to produce requirement specifications, calculation methods, tools, work instructions and incentive models.
The work with BeSmå focusses on four areas, including:
- Drivers for energy renovation
- The effects of a changing climate
- A climate neutral single-family house industry
- The role of the single-family house sector in a changing energy system
Impacts of the Project
Through this initiative several studies were conducted to support new and innovative solutions that could potentially be rolled out on an agency level. Examples of innovations include looking at for a wider implementation and consideration are battery storage in residential housing, evaluation of new energy systems implementation, residential housing as a service and green financing.
As a result, the project and overall network delivers on a range of benefits:
- A decreased energy demand dependence in the form of both heating and electricity in the single-family house sector, whilst simultaneously reducing the impact on the climate from a life cycle perspective.
- A reduction in the power and energy needs for the heating of buildings and enabling increased flexibility in the electricity grid.
- The creation of conditions for profitable energy efficiency while maintaining or improving the indoor environment.
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