Minimum Energy Performance Requirements
Relevant information, the exchange of knowledge and discussions on minimum EP requirements in the European Member States.
Minimum energy performance requirements for buildings are important to ensure that the energy consumption of dwellings and non-residential buildings is reduced and the energy supply is secured. Several European Union Member States had minimum energy performance requirements before the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, others have just started to fix such limits. The requirements are influenced by different parameters such as building tradition, climate, available technologies, costs for energy efficiency measures, costs for energy carriers, etc.
Still many questions remain:
- Can minimum energy performance requirements be compared between different countries?
- Does country A have tighter requirements than country B?
- Where can I find the latest information regarding the minimum energy performance requirements in the different EU Member States?
- How could the benchmark tool of the EU Commission look like that shall guide the Member States towards more ambitious cost-optimal levels of energy performance requirements?
Articles 4, 5 and 6 of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) deal with the procedures for setting minimum energy performance requirements for buildings in the Member States. While the current EPBD demands from the Member States to set these requirements, states that they might differ between new and existing buildings and different building categories and defines the general framework such as the influence parameters that shall be considered, the recast proposal of the Commissions foresees slightly more influence on the national level of minimum EP requirements. The main change is that the Commission intends to develop a benchmark tool which guides the Member States towards more ambitious cost-optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements. How will this be realised and how will it influence the requirements in the Member States? Have cost-efficiency studies for national energy performance requirements been made earlier in the various countries? What were the results?
If you are:
- a national policy maker in the field of energy efficiency or
- an expert advising these national policy makers or a building professional or
- a member of an industrial association…
-> This is the possibility to exchange knowledge, gain insight in other Member States plans and studies and join the discussion on the future of setting EP requirements in Europe. Join the Community on Minimum EP requirements now!
Still many questions remain:
- Can minimum energy performance requirements be compared between different countries?
- Does country A have tighter requirements than country B?
- Where can I find the latest information regarding the minimum energy performance requirements in the different EU Member States?
- How could the benchmark tool of the EU Commission look like that shall guide the Member States towards more ambitious cost-optimal levels of energy performance requirements?
Articles 4, 5 and 6 of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) deal with the procedures for setting minimum energy performance requirements for buildings in the Member States. While the current EPBD demands from the Member States to set these requirements, states that they might differ between new and existing buildings and different building categories and defines the general framework such as the influence parameters that shall be considered, the recast proposal of the Commissions foresees slightly more influence on the national level of minimum EP requirements. The main change is that the Commission intends to develop a benchmark tool which guides the Member States towards more ambitious cost-optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements. How will this be realised and how will it influence the requirements in the Member States? Have cost-efficiency studies for national energy performance requirements been made earlier in the various countries? What were the results?
If you are:
- a national policy maker in the field of energy efficiency or
- an expert advising these national policy makers or a building professional or
- a member of an industrial association…
-> This is the possibility to exchange knowledge, gain insight in other Member States plans and studies and join the discussion on the future of setting EP requirements in Europe. Join the Community on Minimum EP requirements now!
Contact email: minimum-ep-requirements@ibp.fraunhofer.de
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