REHVA Journal published and article about a Reinforcement Learning control framework that helps to optimise the control of the building energy system, taking into consideration occupants´ behaviour and PV power production.
Post date: 13 Jan 2023
Type: Publication
"Fjernvarme" (remote heat) is the name for district heating in Norway. It's a system where heat is produced centrally and distributed to buildings via a network of pipes, usually transported in the form of hot water. It represents one of the cheapest ways to heat your home, and it is indeed well-liked in Norway for many reasons.
Post date: 13 Jan 2023
Type: News
Investments in heat pumps in the US are becoming more and more appealing to customers who see their benefits in reducing energy consumption and thus energy bills. The deployment of heat pumps also help to reduce carbon emissions, thus reaching the climate and decarbonisation targets.
Post date: 13 Jan 2023
Type: News
Community energy systems (CES) support citizens during periods of energy crisis as they can directly power themselves in a secure and affordable way. However, this big potential still needs to find its way in Europe and find investors. Community projects at the moment provide only less than 0.1% of the retail market for electricity in the European Union.
Post date: 11 Jan 2023
Type: Publication
“Holistic Renovation of Modernism Housing” is an initiative coming from the New European Bauhaus and developed in the Baltics. The main concept is to renovate the post-war period prefabricated housing stock. These type of buildings are energy inefficient, are no more aesthetically attractive and do not respond to residents´ needs.
Post date: 11 Jan 2023
Type: Publication
The Energy Agency of Plovdiv has been advocating for greener and more sustainable heating coming from homes, for example, through the use of local bio-mass and increasing the energy efficiency of heating devices. Bulgaria indeed needs to solve the problem of energy poverty, meaning that low-income households can only affoard bad quality wood or coal which is burnt in inefficient stoves.
Post date: 10 Jan 2023
Type: Case
Germany has launched a new program for sustainable heating to support households in changing their heating and cooling system and install heat pumps. The program covers up to 40% of the costs to buy and deploy heat pumps, with a basic subsidy rate of 25%.
Post date: 9 Jan 2023
Type: News
The Heat Pump Award is an EHPA project which recognises the most efficient, smart and sustainable Heat Pump project at the local level.
Post date: 4 Jan 2023
Type: Event
The Regional Government of Castilla y León and EREN, the Regional Energy Agency, is supporting consumers in the Region to overcome the energy crisis which is spreading across Europe and the Region.
Post date: 23 Dec 2022
Type: Case
The Trento EEMI Bauhaus Week (13-16 Feb 2023) is the first in a series of market events intended to launch a new movement in the design, scale-up and roll-out of home ecosystems globally through the exchange of ideas, knowledge and best practice between financial actors, SMEs, start-ups, architects, scientists and academics, local authorities, to name but a few.
Post date: 22 Dec 2022
Type: Event