While energy efficiency via retrofitting old buildings and giving more control to citizens over their energy demand are part of the Cologne project, just as they are in many other European cities, the CO2 emissions produced by urban traffic are also a major headache. Cologne has identified four possible solutions that, when implemented, should reduce traffic emissions by a targeted 60%:
Post date: 26 Aug 2019
Type: News
Concept Most of the existing building stock has reached the age for renovation: 90% of the total stock was built before 1990 and over 75% of the total floor area of the existing stock can be attributed to residential buildings.
Post date: 26 Aug 2019
Type: Link
Concept, Objectives and Methodology C-ENERGY 2020 V2 is a 18-month Coordination and Support Action having three specific objectives: - ensuring high quality Energy NCP services for Horizon 2020 and related programmes applicants;
Post date: 26 Aug 2019
Type: Link
Conference Registration is free but mandatory, please click Register link at bottom of the page. Conference Agenda to view below in English and French. AGENDA: 9.00 – 9.30 Registration 9.30 – 9.40 Introduction by the moderator (Chris Ashe)
Post date: 26 Aug 2019
Type: Event
European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with Canadian Institute of Technology will organize the 8th ICSD 2020 International Conference on Sustainable Development, with particular focus on Environmental, Economic and Socio-Cultural Sustainability. The Conference theme : Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: Research, Practice and Education Date: 9- 10 September 2020
Post date: 10 Aug 2019
Type: Event
The challenge The EC estimates that about 35% of the EU's buildings are over 50 years old, and almost 75% of the building stock is energy inefficient. At the same time, only 0.4-1.2% of the building stock renovated each year (depending on the country) [1].
Post date: 6 Aug 2019
Type: News
Climate change is driving Europe to transform its energy sector. As we transition from a fossil-based to a zero-carbon economy in the next few decades, we will use more renewable energy, and the electricity we generate won’t come from a central plant. Instead, it will come from multiple, decentralised renewable energy sources that are near to load demands. But is the existing networking capable of hosting this increase in capacity? And how would the electrical grids of the future work?
Post date: 31 Jul 2019
Type: News
The event highlights how architects, designers, developers, and researchers take up the challenge of letting photovoltaic systems interact with landscapes and buildings. “Energy as a landscape infrastructure” is the challenge for this year’s edition, in Marseille.
Post date: 31 Jul 2019
Type: Event
In the 2050 EU Energy Strategy, the EU has set a long-term goal for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80-95% when compared to 1990 levels, in line with the efforts of the Paris Agreement to limit the temperature increase to 1.5° above pre-industrial levels. In order to achieve this ambitious goals, public authorities at all levels need the technical know-how and resources to develop long-term climate and energy actions.
Post date: 30 Jul 2019
Type: Event
New solar photovoltaic (PV) installations are set to reach a record high this year, driven by improving markets in Europe and the United States and fast growth in India and Vietnam, consultancy Wood Mackenzie said on Thursday. Low auction prices are also expected to help boost new solar PV capacity by the end of this year to 114.5 gigawatts (GW), 17.5% higher than 2018 and the first time new installations have exceeded 100 GW.
Post date: 30 Jul 2019
Type: News