RES-H building obligations

Updated: 07.02.2019

Author: Jasmin Schwarz

All new buildings and buildings undergoing major refurbishment must make use of integrated RES (Art. 11, c. 1 DL 28/11).
RES-H plants must guarantee:

  • 50 % coverage of the foreseen consumption of warm sanitary water; and
  • Coverage of the following percentages of the cumulative foreseen consumption of warm sanitary water, heating and cooling
    • 20 % if the request of the relevant building permit occurs between 31/05/2012 and 31/12/2013
    • 35 % if the request of the relevant building permit occurs between 01/01/2014 and 31/12/2017;
    • 50 % if the request of the relevant building permit occurs after 01/01/2018 (Art. 1, Annex 3, DL 28/11)

This obligation does not apply:

  • To certain buildings with historical value (Art. 11, c. 2 DL 28/11);
  • To buildings connected to district heating networks that cover their entire need for heating and warm sanitary water (Art. 5, Annex 3, DL 28/11)

Obligated entities

All new buildings and buildings undergoing major refurbishment (Art. 11, c. 1 DL 28/11). 

Competent authority

The building permit is released by the manager or responsible of the one-stop shop (Art. 13, c. 1, DPR 380/01). In case the RES building obligations (either the ones mentioned above or other ones related to RES-E) are not respected, this permit is not provided (Art. 11, c. 3, DL 28/11).

Obligation on regional level

Regions can increase the above-mentioned obligations through a regional law (Art. 11, c. 1, DL 28/11).

Italy

Basic information on legal sources