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Energy as a Service Market: How It Is Going To Impact on Industry to Grow In Near Future

Global Energy as a Service Market: Introduction   Energy as a service (EaaS) can be defined as one or more aspects of a customer’s energy portfolio including strategy, program management, energy supply, energy use, and asset management by...
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OPENGELA to become a reference for urban regeneration

«I hope that Opengela will be a reference for other urban environments and inspire other initiatives,» said Miguel de los Toyos, Deputy Minister for Territorial Planning and Urban Agenda of the Basque Government. Read the full interview...
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Smart buildings: meet EU innovators

For EU to become climate-neutral by 2050, buildings need to transform from passive isolated elements to energy-efficient and smart-grid ready buildings, able to act as active nodes well integrated to the energy grids and other...
This webinar took place on the 17th June, 12.00 to 13.30. Watch here
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Energy app to teach energy saving at home, school and work

eTEACHER is the app that teaches a different way to save energy, in your everyday places. It’s designed and developed 100% on users’ feedback to provide all functionalities you want in one single app.   To pursue energy efficiency in...
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GridRule tool

GridRule is one of the COMPILE projects tools that enables the community managers (aggregators, micro-grid operators, etc.) an operation and management of the local grid within network limits. It sets up the coordination of individual...
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Framework for carbon neutral buildings and sites

The Framework for carbon neutral buildings and sites of the DGNB makes a significant contribution to making the decarbonisation of the building stock practically feasible by 2050. The current version of August 2020 is based on an initial...
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Sustainable Energy Skills in the construction sector

‘Sustainable Energy Skills in the construction sector’ is a series of webinars devoted to energy efficiency area from different perspectives. It is organized jointly by 7 EU founded projects: BIMEET, BUSLeague, INSTRUCT, HP4ALL, The nZEB...
This webinar took place on the 27th May, 13.00 to 14:30. Watch it here
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Innovation actions reinforcing and complementing the current building energy performance schemes

With the Renovation Wave Strategy, the European Commission aims to at least double renovation rates in the next ten years and make sure renovations lead to higher energy and resource efficiency. This will enhance the quality of life for...
This webinar took place on the 19th May, 12.00 to 13:30. Watch it here
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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - 4RinEU project

As European buildings are responsible for 36% of CO2 emissions, the subject of deep renovation of buildings has become central in its role for making Europe climate neutral by 2050. Henceforth, there is a compelling need for a new set of...
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Mapping culture and climatic energy drivers: A new visual library to achieve successful Plus Energy Building design

A new online GIS tool is helping designers, researchers and policymakers to understand how different European climates and cultures can influence energy demand in buildings. Researchers from RMIT University, Eurac Research and University...
The Cultural-E project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Number 870072. This article reflects only the author's view and the Commission is not...
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Open Research Europe tool

Open Research Europe is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020 funding across all subject areas. The platform makes it easy for Horizon 2020 beneficiaries to comply with the open...
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X-tendo toolbox

The X-tendo toolbox enables you, as a public authority or implementing agency, to improve the current Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) scheme of your country, evolving towards the next-generation.   The elements of the X-tendo toolbox...
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GET READY FOR 2050: the upcoming event series you don’t want to miss

The Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy – Europe, H2020 projects C-Track 50 and PentaHelix are all working towards the same goal: supporting cities and regions in developing and implementing sustainable energy and climate plans. It...
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EuroPACE Webinar: Cities and Regions kickstarting the Renovation Wave

This webinar hosted by JAE explored the mechanisms by which cities and regions can kick-start their renovation wave through the facilitation of collaboration between the public and private sector.   EuroPACE was presented alongside the...
This webinar took place on the 25th March 2021. 
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Building Energy Performance Certificates for the people

Learn from U-CERT team, our guest keynote speaker, the 6 guest representatives of the Next Generation EPCertficates cluster of H2020 projects and take part in the interactive activities, led by IRI-UL, targeted at all 6 projects to try to...
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4RinEU Deep Renovation Game

4RinEU launches an online game to teach young students the benefits of deep energy renovation.   This educational game has been designed to engage with citizens and, ultimately, drive behavioural change in their communities. What does deep...
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Waste heat recovery calculator

Even though rejected heat from a number of industrial processes is called waste heat it often contains large amount of exergy and could be efficiently reused through one of the many waste heat recovery technologies. This simple web-...
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ENTROPY Platform

ENTROPY regards an energy-aware IT ecosystem aiming to support energy efficiency in the buildings sector through behavioral change of the occupants with regards to their daily energy consumption patterns. The main distinguishing...
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EnerMaps project: A news open energy data tool for energy transition

EnerMaps Open Data Management Tool aims to improve data management and accessibility in the field of energy research for the renewable energy industry.   It accelerates and facilitates the energy transition offering a qualitative and user-...
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HARP online tool

Use the HARP online tool to find out where your installed heating appliance fits on the energy label.   The tool is also there to help you find a replacement! Fill in a few details about the characteristics of your dwelling and get an...