Agreement for increased energy efficiencybetween property owners and tenants : For an increased share of sustainable grocery stores

Abstract: Every day, climate change with increasing greenhouse gases becomes a bigger and bigger problem due to a growing population, urbanization and higher living standards, where the energy sector is the biggest cause of the emission problems. Housing and service correspond to onethird of Sweden's carbon dioxide emissions and one-third of Sweden's total final energy use, and a reduced climate impact and reduced energy use are required, not least from buildings that represent such a large part of the problem. For properties containing a grocery store, an installation of heat recovery from the cooling system can be a way to utilize energy that is already available to thereby reduce the building's energy use and climate impact. This project aims to investigate both the advantages and problems of heat recovery when a property owner takes advantage of a food store's condenser heat. The work focuses on analyzing administrative issues such as distribution of responsibilities, costs and clarifications in the rental agreements. The report presents a literature study containing information on Sweden's and EU's environmental requirements, existing requirements for the rental agreement and a description of the technology behind heat recovery. In addition, interviews were conducted with both property owners and grocery retails in order to get their opinion on the advantages and problems of heat recovery. The property owners contacted during the study were Castellum, Humlegården Fastigheter, AMF Fastigheter, Vasakronan, Skandia Fastigheter and Atrium Ljungberg. Furthermore, the retail companies ICA, Coop Butiker och Stormarknader and Hemköp were contacted. The results of the interviews indicate that the rental agreements often doesn’t contain enough information about the division of responsibilities, cost distribution and operating conditions. This leads to communication deficiencies that are often due to lack of knowledge and further, to operational problems where neither the cooling system nor the heat recovery is utilized to the maximum. In addition, there is no financial incentive for property owners to invest in energyefficient installations such as heat recovery, as the majority of tenants pay for electricity, water and heating costs themselves. There are also different opinions on administrative issues such as contract length, compensation, cost distributions and which information that should be included in the rental agreement between the various companies that have been contacted. Despite the problems that have been located, the majority of the property owners and the grocery retails still have a positive contribution to installing heat recovery, especially for environmental reasons. The study shows that a clarifying rental agreement would make it easier for both parts, since the division of responsibility becomes clearer and the risk of poorly managed systems decreases. Since all companies thinks different to different types of issues, a standard contract cannot be developed, but the most common problems have been located. With the help of this information, this study was able to present the information that the two parts need to discuss and involve in the rental agreement if heat recovery is installed.