FFVAV: What the new law means for the energy market

With the FFVAV, the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) was transposed into German lawand has now applied to all heating and cooling suppliers since October 5, 2021.The obligations and requirements must now be implemented immediately.

An overview of the newobligations: This will change

Energy suppliers are now obliged to install remotely readable heat meters.This initially applies to all new installations; from 2027, all measurement technology should be retrofitted. As soon as digital meters are installed,suppliers are obliged to provide their customers with comprehensive billing and consumption information at least once a month.

This includes an overview of

• prices and actual consumption,

• annual emissions and
• year-on-year comparisons of weather-adjusted heating and cooling consumption.

You can find more information on this here.

New requirements, newprocesses - a lot of effort?

The new requirements are putting municipal utilities and metering point operators under enormous pressure: new processes have to be integrated and extensive requirements fulfilled in a very short space of time - and that requires a lot of effort. Or maybe not?

Fast implementation and costsavings with GreenPocket

As an experienced visualization expert, we have developed a future-proof FFVAV-compliant solution that adapts flexibly to your needs as well as new market and legal developments and also offers numerous advantages for energy suppliers:

• Live in 3 months: Fast project planning &  deployment of the solution
• User-friendly presentation: All required information at a glance
• Process digitization: For more time and cost savings
• Digital value-added services: Strong customer loyalty and satisfaction

Depending on requirements, other areas for multimetering, such as electricity, water or gas, can also be integrated and recorded. The software actively informs customers about their own consumption behavior by automatically sending e-mail notifications. Customers without the Internet can receive the information by letter.

Mainova AG has already made the sustainable decision to provide themandatory consumption information digitally during the year: In less than sixweeks, the HKVO and FFVAV-compliant visualization was planned together with GreenPocket and went live in mid-February 2022. In the first year, up to 18,500user units are to be visualized in compliance with the HKVO, while up to 1,500metering points are affected by the FFVAV. Find out more in thejoint press release.

Using the obligation andsecuring competitive advantages

In addition to fulfilling the obligation, the GreenPocket software gives energy suppliers the opportunity to stand out from the competition, especially for customers from the housing industry. This is because the premium version oft he energy management software supplements the legally required basic features with additional value-added functions:

• Automated and individual  reporting
• An appealing dashboard with all relevant data
• Detailed comparative analyses
• Convenient export of data

Compulsory compliance has never been so easy: you supply consumption andmaster data automatically or manually and our competent and experienced teamtakes care of everything else.

Get started now with our FFVAV-compliant visualization solution! We would behappy to present everything else in a detailed webinar.

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