Check-in and control activities on the energy performance certificates in Emilia-Romagna (Italy).

Because of the transposition of the European Directive 2010/31/EU, Italy will also be forced to adopt systems and procedures aimed at verifying and checking buildings’ energy performance certificates. Through the compliance clause, some regions and autonomous provinces have already realized a certification and control system that, consistent with the European Directive, has achieved excellent results. Since 2011 the Emilia-Romagna region has foreseen and experimentally started a verification and control system on the energy performance certificates in order to check their completeness and correctness. In this way, certificates’ data are examined from the point of view of adequacy and coherence, and the quality of the information about the energy efficiency of buildings can be improved. The results of the verifications carried out on the certificates have proved to be interesting: a considerable amount of the energy certificates registered in 2011 contained at least a technical, even serious, inconsistency. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to analyse the results obtained by the authors during the experimental campaign focusing on the recurring mistakes during compilation and on the wrong interpretations of the relative standards (both regional and national) by the energy certification bodies.