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Archives: Environment
  • Column for eceee: “Let cost-effectiveness guide recovery funding to national efficiency programs”

    Posted on January 12, 2021

    by Vlasios Oikonomou, Jean-Sébastien Broc The EU has set ambitious energy efficiency targets for 2020 (32.5%), while the current trend (for the 2020 targets) shows a deviation of 4-6% annually (State of the Energy Union Report) and the IEA confirmed in its recent Energy Efficiency 2020 report that the energy efficiency progress is too slow at […]

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  • Best wishes from the IEECP team!

    Posted on December 18, 2020

    In 2020, we celebrate 5 years of work towards the energy transition and a sustainable future. For 2021, we look forward to a continued fruitful collaboration with many new projects together, and wish you all the best for the Holiday season! The IEECP team

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  • Column for eceee: Time for energy efficiency to be valued as grid resource, by RAP and IEECP

    Posted on December 18, 2020

    Samuel Thomas, from the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and Filippos Anagnostopoulos from IEECP, co-author a column for eceee, introducing a concept studied in the H2020-funded project SENSEI, P4P – Pay for Performance. A quick and valuable read! —————————————————————————————————— What if you, as an electricity consumer, could get compensated fairly for the energy you did not […]

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  • BECoop – A people-powered energy system: activating the community energy market for bioenergy

    Posted on December 15, 2020

    In the updated Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II), the EU clearly considers community energy as a key factor for future Renewable Energy (RE) market uptake and mandates Member States to implement regulatory frameworks for enabling and facilitating this process. At the same time, several barriers prevent citizens from becoming (bio)energy producers and bioenergy projects […]

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  • [IEECP newsletter] November/December 2020 – already 5 years!

    Posted on December 7, 2020

        Download as pdf        View online in html —————————————————————————– Amidst the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the evolutions in the energy policy in the EU are ongoing and Member States are finalizing their plans for the Recovery Package. These plans include a great deal of supporting energy investments and they should contribute directly […]

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  • 7 H2020 projects partner up to advise EU leaders how to prepare buildings for the energy transition

    Posted on December 1, 2020

    The transition to a forward-looking climate neutral economy, announced in the European Green Deal, demands an action plan where public and private sector investments are channeled towards climate-friendly technologies and business models. To support this transition, the SENSEI H2020-funded project, together with 6 other H2020 projects – Triple-A, LAUNCH, Ambience, NOVICE, QUEST, RenOnBill and U-CERT […]

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  • Investigating how to tackle energy poverty in the EU private rented sector

    Posted on November 16, 2020

    Around 50 million households in the European Union are estimated to be living in energy poverty – or energy vulnerability, unable to afford the energy needed to adequately heat or cool their homes. This is caused by a combination of factors including high energy costs, low household incomes and energy inefficient buildings, and can have […]

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  • Peer-Powered Cities and Regions: Success Stories from PROSPECT

    Posted on November 4, 2020

    In urban areas, significant opportunities are available for facilitating the energy transition. Many local and regional governments are implementing initiatives in sectors, such as buildings, lighting, and transport. Although there are political and economic incentives for undertaking such actions, many cities and regions face financial and technical barriers, such as insufficient financial resources and lack […]

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  • Guiding SMEs and national authorities through the energy transition by taking profit of multiple benefits and energy management approaches

    Posted on October 9, 2020

    Conducting energy audits and implementing energy management systems can be a source of multiple benefits for companies if they tap in the wide potential deriving from their recommendations: reduced operating costs, increased productivity, improved working environment and much more. DEESME, a Horizon 2020-funded project started in September 2020, will enable companies, especially small and medium […]

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  • Five countries to become the field of behavioural experiments to encourage energy efficiency habits

    Posted on September 28, 2020

    Achieving the full energy transition potential calls for a paradigm shift, and many solutions are investigated to involve as much people as possible and support them reducing their energy consumption. This September 2020, 10 partners gathered online to kick-off NUDGE, a new project funded by the Horizon 2020 European programme. Their goal? To study, test […]

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  • [IEECP newsletter] September 2020 – efficiency first barriers, energy poverty brief and IEECP annual report 2019!

    Posted on September 16, 2020

        Download as pdf        View online in html —————————————————————————– We are happy to come back after a recharging yet busy Summer, publishing for the first time in our 5 years of existence an annual report for 2019, in which you can read all about our challenges and successes, key policy and outreach highlights. Take […]

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  • Brief of actions and schemes to consider to tackle energy poverty

    Posted on September 1, 2020

    A total of 42 schemes were identified and analysed by the H2020-funded project SocialWatt’s team, based on a number of criteria set. Some of the conclusions include that: the income is frequently used as a proxy to energy poverty, almost all schemes provide information and advice to households, most are funded by a single entity […]

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  • Barriers to implementing the efficiency first principle: new enefirst report

    Posted on August 31, 2020

    The H2020-funded project enefirst releases a new publication, authored by BPIE and co-authored by IEECP and RAP: it focuses on barriers to implementing efficiency first In the EU in several policy areas linked to energy use in the buildings sector (such as network codes, renewable energy policy, building regulations and others). The report builds the […]

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  • IEECP kicks off 7 new H2020-funded projects in September and November 2020!

    Posted on August 26, 2020

    September is an exciting month for the IEECP team, with no less than 6 new H2020 projects starting this month and 1 in November, 4 of which we are coordinating! IEECP Coordinates DEESME, NUDGE, ENPOR and ENERGee Watch and partners in BECoop, StreamSAVE and MICAT. Read more about each below. Where IEECP leads: NUDGE “NUDging […]

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  • Implementing sustainable measures from climate plans through innovative financing schemes: insights of PROSPECT

    Posted on August 19, 2020

    IEECP wrote an article for the Turkish magazine of the Marmara municipality, KENT, about the H2020 project PROSPECTand implementing sustainable measures from climate plans through innovative financing schemes. Two examples of mentor/mentee are provided, Almada in Portugal and Heerlen in The Netherlands. Read their story and the article in Turkish: https://issuu.com/marmarabelediyelerbirligi/docs/kent_002/76 or in English below. […]

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  • [IEECP newsletter] Summer 2020 – efficiency first examples, energy efficiency projects financing and more

    Posted on July 17, 2020

        Download as pdf        View online in html —————————————————————————– Get your summer read with our newsletter and get links to efficiency first examples, tools to assess, agree & assign energy efficiency investment projects and more! The EU Strategy for Energy System Integration was recently presented by EU Commissioner for the European Green Deal Frans […]

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  • [Catch up] Webinar recordings – IEECP on topics such as energy poverty, biofuels and renovation business models

    Posted on July 15, 2020

    IEECP spoke at several events in June and July, and recordings / summaries are now available (click on the titles to access them). Energy transition: new business models to de-risk investments and kick start the EU building renovation wave To effectively de-risk investments in the building sector and facilitate the upgrading of building performance and energy […]

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  • Can energy efficiency investments become more transparent, predictable and attractive for investors, financiers and project developers? News from the Triple A project

    Posted on July 10, 2020

    What is the project about? To borrow the project words, energy efficiency projects could play a crucial role in transitioning to the future economy post-COVID19, where sustainable growth will be the centre of attention. But to secure and therefore boost energy efficiency investments, attractive project ideas should be identified properly: Triple A’s standardised methodology allows […]

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  • Snapshot of alternative measures in Europe, article 7 EED (as of end 2019)

    Posted on June 25, 2020

    Member States are compelled to define policy measures to meet the energy savings obligation set in article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED): these snapshots present an overview of the policy mix used by different European countries, reporting to Article 7 for the obligation period 2014-2020. While Energy Efficiency Obligation Schemes set an obligation […]

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  • Report on international experiences with efficiency first, from enefirst

    Posted on June 17, 2020

    Implementing efficiency first (E1st) is foundational to the EU strategy for sector integration and the Renovation Wave. The latest enefirst (H2020-funded project) report showcases 16 examples of how E1st has been applied across the US and EU in different contexts, from buildings, finance and planning, to gas and district heating. This report reviews examples of […]

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