“The serious risks of climate change are at the heart of [citizens’] concerns,” the six countries write in reference to young people who have led the climate marches that have swept Europe for over a year. “As leaders, we have the...
Reliance on fossil fuels has left countries more exposed to the economic shock of global crises like coronavirus, and governments should look to renewable energy to help reduce such risks, a leading financial economist has said.
Dr...
The renewable energy sector added 176 gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity globally in 2019, marginally lower than the (revised) 179 GW added in 2018. However, new renewable power accounted for 72 per cent of all power expansion last year...
THERMOSS the final project newsletter!
We are happy to share the final newsletter of the THERMOSS Project. This fifth edition will introduce you the final video of the project and demo sites. You will also find...
Renewables’ share of total clean energy generation in Europe topped 60% for the first time in the first three months of the year.
That was a standout statistic in the latest quarterly report on the European power generation market from...
We are happy to share with you the third edition of the SCORES project newsletter created by FENIX TNT.
In this newsletter we will introduce the REDOX thermal battery system and show you the update of the SCORES demo site. You...
Following the success of earlier events in the series, SEB-20, the Twelfth International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings will take place in Split, Croatia organised by the KES International.
SEB-20 invites...
This January 2020, STARDUST organised a session at the Tampere Smart City Week called, Carbon Neutral Building and Energy
January 28, 2020, Tampere - STARDUST in partnership with its Lighthouse city of Tampere, Energy Wise...
As part of the Tampere Smart City Week, STARDUST’s Lighthouse city of Tampere organised a series of replication workshops on January 29 and 30, for both Finnish cities and for STARDUST’s Follower cities respectively
For two days...
The contents of #5 RenoZEB newsletter are the following:
the first results of tests about Human-centric monitoring system texted at Kubik
Plug and play for deep renovation: lessons learned on the decision-making...
The theme of the 2019 UP STRAW YEARBOOK is ’the straw experience to learn in’. It aims to inform and inspire you about the application of straw as a building material in schools and educational buildings. The article we highlight today...
Around the world, more people are living with more space at home than at any other time in history.
This may be surprising – cramped, dingy rooms are as familiar in Shanghai as they are in London. But on average, the space per person in...
Prefabricated straw bale construction systems use a natural, low carbon, renewable product, providing high levels of thermal insulation. This modular approach appeals to the creative side of architects and can make life much easier for...
Renewable energy will play a fundamental role in achieving the EU’s energy and climate objectives. Not only is it abundantly available within the EU, but it is also cost-competitive with fossil fuels. As such, it can help make our energy...
A new EU Regulation on external power supplies aimed at making a range of household appliances more energy efficient - from laptops to electric toothbrushes – enters into force as of 1 April 2020 within the context of EU ecodesign measures...
Energy agencies have many important roles through which they can support sustainable energy investments: as facilitators, aggregators or project developers, and therefore are in a unique position to support energy investments in their...
As part of the European Green Deal, the Commission will put forward a comprehensive plan to increase the EU’s 2030 climate target in September this year. The plan will propose to increase the EU’s current 2030 target of at least -40%...
The decision-making process is one of the biggest challenges for deep renovation: difficulty to reach an agreement between parts, lack of sufficient financing schemes, and no clear vision of expected results, just to mention a few issues....
Enefirst is an H2020-funded project that seeks to provide the EU with a common vision of the principle of E1st and a holistic pathway to achieving it, embedded across our energy system models, impact assessments, funding and infrastructure...
The Enefirst consortium has launched its first publication, which defines the principle of Efficiency First (E1st) in a way to make it operational. The 2.5-year project, funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme for Research...