The 2022 REPowerEU[1] plan considers the electrification of the heating and cooling sector as one of the strategic pathways towards reducing natural gas imports. Reversible heat pumps can cover the space heating, space cooling, and...
The installation of heat pumps is central in the REPowerEU plan, and the European Commission has set the ambitious goal to install 10 million new heat pumps in 5 years. Although the installation of heat pumps in new buildings is...
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Energy Utilities: Panorama 2023
This article focused on utilities, looks at the market situation in the UK, and the customer attrition rate, and also discusses the energy efficiency services that utilities can offer to their customers, reflecting some of the key...
Today, Europe is facing an energy, climate, and social crisis. It is hence more urgent than ever to showcase how energy, climate and social policy objectives can be combined. Current policies have proved to be inadequate to deliver the...
Habitat for Humanity International Europe and the Middle East Area Office (HFHI EME) published the second volume of articles under the Residential Energy Efficiency Observatory in Central and Eastern Europe.
The energy crisis has pushed ESCOs to shift their models to remain competitive. More than ever, in a sector constantly evolving, with volatile prices and digitisation processes, challenges and opportunities are arising rapidly. Therefore,...
The survey "The State of Energy Management 2022" has been released and can be downloaded here. As in previous editions, this year it is also focused on Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), the challenges they faced in 2022, their priorities...
The SmartBuilt4EU project has set up four task forces investigating issues related to smart buildings: their objective is to identify the remaining challenges and barriers to smart building deployment, and the associated research and...
The 17th century farm house Ritterhof has been renovated by architect Michael Felkner and it is now home if his office, family´s flat, grocery shop and granny flat.
The architect has developed a utilisation (and renovation) concept that...
The ENI CBC Med BEEP project has just finished and one of its main outcome is the development of guidelines for the energy renovation and environmental improvement of public historic buildings through the use of Heritage Building...
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An antology of pathways of cultural heritage
This new antology edited by three Swedish researchers explores places and buildings of human history and cultural heritage by looking for pathways. Fifteen researchers from countries including India, Israel and the UK and the researchers...
Electrically-driven heat pumps represent a solution to dramatically improve the efficiency of energy use for space and water heating. However, there is a lack of data in costs and performance of heat pumps available for policy makers,...
This new study by Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) proves that the improvement in the insulation of existing residential buildings helps to improve EU energy independence and achieve climate-neutral goals expected for 2050.
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What makes a façade intelligent?
Opaque façade technologies have incrementally evolved both in new construction a by increasing their thermal insulation and airtightness levels aiming to reduce the overall energy demand from the buildings...
To answer the urgent need to reduce thermal energy consumption of buildings, opaque façade technologies have evolved, increasing their thermal insulation and airtightness levels to effectively block energy flows. However, as evidenced by...
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Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: a bottom-up approach for integrated system efficiency
Squaring security of supply and decarbonisation of buildings is not going to be straightforward. Buildings are the single largest source of energy consumption in the EU, representing 40% of final energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions...
Becoming the first climate-neutral continent will require a variety of climate-friendly solutions to ensure a cost-effective energy transition, combined with citizens’ engagement and economic competitiveness. Buildings of all kinds (...
COGEN Europe welcomes the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) in the context of the Renovation Wave, to ensure that the buildings sector boost EU Green Deal ambitions and foster a green post-pandemic recovery....
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AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.4: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Belgium
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.4 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Belgium.
This is the fourth paper of a series being developed and dealing with trends in building and ductwork...
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AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.6: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in France
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.6 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in France.
This is the sixth paper of a series being developed and dealing with trends in building and ductwork...
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AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.5: Trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Latvia
AIVC's Ventilation Information Paper #45.5 summarizes current knowledge on trends in building and ductwork airtightness in Latvia.
This is the fifth paper of a series being developed and dealing with trends in building and ductwork...
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The State of Energy Management in 2022 [Report]
Last December, a Energy Management survey was launched and it gathered more than 250 responses. The survey was aimed at companies directly related to energy, such as ESCOs or energy suppliers, but also at companies from other sectors such...
Professor Zhibin Yu from University of Glasgow has found a solution to recover the waste heat of heat pumps and divert it to resolve the frosting problem, improving the heat pump´s overall performance. The main point is that heat pumps,...
The development of new technologies in the building industry has influenced the working construction cycle. In fact, it affects designers who need to know how to design a new technology or energy system and integrate it into the building;...