4. Receptors and Benefits

The beneficiaries of the annex results and deliverables will be policy decision makers, property developers, energy contracting companies and financers and manufacturers and designers of energy saving technology. The outcome of the annex can contribute to the further improvement of instruments that are being used for energy ranking and labeling. This will lead to a better understanding of these instruments in general among all building users. The annex will lead to the following benefits:

• substantially improved understanding of effective energy data on real long term performance of buildings and building systems for evaluation and development of new energy saving measures and technologies
• knowledge about the main determining factors for total energy use in buildings and the specific interactions between them to develop new energy saving strategies, technologies, methodologies and policies.
• opportunities for the development of energy saving technologies that take into consideration as well the building related as well as the user related energy use, and the prediction of both expected energy use in new and renovated buildings and cost-benefit relation of energy saving measures to increase implementation of energy contracting and management.
• support for standardization and benchmarking of total energy use in buildings, such as to set down indicators for energy use in buildings that takes occupant related factors into consideration, to achieve the better acceptance of energy labeling systems among the public, and to improve the ability to communicate to the public on behaviors that will influence energy use in buildings.