On August 30, 2024, three new Energy Savings Certificates (CEE) notes dedicated to manufacturers were published in the Journal Officiel. Focusing on waste heat recovery, they introduce major changes in eligibility criteria and performance monitoring. Find out how to meet these new requirements, to optimize and get financing for your energy performance.
Reminder: CEE notes, what are we talking about? CEE notes are official documents describing standardized energy-saving operations eligible for financing. They aim to facilitate and encourage the implementation of energy-saving actions in various sectors, including industry. Each note corresponds to a specific energy efficiency action.
The three new CEE notes published this year (IND-UT-137, IND-UT-138 and IND-UT-139) are part of an approach to recovering waste heat, i.e. heat generated on your industrial site by an installation whose primary purpose is something else. Often under-exploited, waste heat recovery offers enormous advantages in terms of energy efficiency, reduced energy costs and environmental impact, since it involves capturing calorific power already produced for reuse.
CEE notes in brief:
Good to know: these new plugs are mutually incompatible and cannot be combined with other existing plugs such as IND-BA-112, IND-UT-103, IND-UT-117 and IND-UT-118. So make sure you choose the right plug for your project.
Since their creation, CEE have mainly financed equipment purchases based on standardized calculations. Energy savings were estimated on the basis of average assumptions, with no verification of actual performance after installation. While simple to implement, this system had its limitations: equipment was not always optimally sized or used, reducing its actual efficiency.
The new CEE notes mark a break with this approach. They no longer simply finance the purchase of equipment, but require in-depth design work and rigorous performance monitoring. This evolution is reflected in two major changes:
This new approach aims to guarantee the real effectiveness of funded projects. It involves greater initial investment in studies and monitoring, but ensures better design and sustainable performance of installations.
This note concerns the installation of a fixed fatal heat storage system connected to the heat distribution network.
Key points:
The sizing study must include:
Implementation criteria:
Financial aspects:
This note applies to the implementation of a system to recover waste heat for conversion into electricity or compressed air for on-site self-consumption.
Key points:
The study must include:
Implementation criteria:
This note concerns the installation of air-to-air, air-to-water or water-to-water heat pumps (PACs), using waste heat as a cold source.
Key points:
The study must detail:
Implementation criteria:
Alongside CEE, the Fonds Chaleur, which celebrated its 15th anniversary this year, remains a major scheme for financing renewable heat projects. Managed by ADEME since 2009, it aims to accelerate the production of renewable and recovered heat in France.
The Fonds Chaleur finances projects to produce heat from:
It is possible to combine Fonds Chaleur aid with CEE, and thus obtain a higher envelope to finance your energy optimization projects. ADEME adjusts the amount of aid according to the expected CEE premiums, so that the gross payback time on investment remains greater than 2 years after subsidy.
Note: Certain standard CEE heat recovery operations, such as those on cooling towers, chillers and air compressors, are eligible for this scheme because they have a payback time of over 2 years.
However, cumulation requires particular care in selecting the technical solutions to be implemented, as well as the associated financing mechanisms. Our recommendation: enlist the support of experts who have mastered these two aspects.
How can an integrated approach, combining technical expertise and financial engineering, lead to the installation of an efficient facility? Illustration with a project recently carried out by LEMON ENERGY.
A major dairy group wanted to invest in more energy-efficient technologies and enhance the quality of its infant and clinical nutrition products. The objective was to install a heat recovery system on its milk drying towers. Our turnkey approach covered the entire process, from initial study to financial package and commissioning.
The various stages:
The results : the project benefited from a subsidy covering 70% of the CAPEX and enabled a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 4000 tCO2eq per year.
The new CEE sheets, combined with the Fonds Chaleur, thus offer manufacturers a new opportunity to recover their waste heat and improve their energy performance. In this increasingly demanding context, thanks to its expertise in financial engineering LEMON ENERGY can help you optimize the energy and economic benefits of your project. Contact us today for a personalized assessment of your renewable heat opportunities.