The city of Poznań in Poland has been involved in different projects to tackle air pollution and decarbonise heating. For example, through the partnership with Veolia which was aimed at designing an energy transition and clean air strategy...
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Retrofitting solutions for draughty UK homes
British houses are among the oldest and less efficient in Europe, hence households are currently challenged by rising energy bills. The government has set a price cap that limits the average bill to no more than £3,000 ($3,600) a year...
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. Both occupants´...
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Local Handbook of the European Green Deal
The Committee of the Regions has published a Handbook that provides targeted guidance on financial aid and technical assistance for local and regional authorities who are responsible for the implementation of the European Green Deal.
In...
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The policy toolkit for heat pump deployment
Heat pumps are expected to become the most important and effective technology to decarbonise heating. The Regulatory Assistance Project, CLASP and the Global Buildings Performance Network have developed a heat pump policy toolkit which...
The report quantifies the impact of the implementation of energy efficiency policies and measures in different sector of the American economy and highlights how investments in energy efficiency can actually reduce carbon emission, reduce...
IRENA has published a report for policymakers on how to design effective renewable energy targets in order to respond to the climate and energy security goals, making also energy more affordable. The recent geopolitical and climate-related...
As part of the Hotmaps project which developed a database and toolbox for strategic heating and cooling planning, the city of Frankfurt has set the targets of reducing by 50% CO2 emission by 2030 and become carbon-neutral by 2050. At the...
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Community energy systems can become a solution for Europe if appropriate funding is available
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....
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The renovation of "Modernism Housing"
“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 Cities has published this innovative case study of the city of Bordeaux and the development of its district heating network in order to attain to the mitigation and adaptation measures for cities.
In particular, Bordeaux Metropole...
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ENVISION is a H2020 EU funded project that aims to develop technologies for harvesting energy using all the available surfaces of a building. In particular, the ones not commonly used such as building façades. Different...
Within the context of the ENVISION project, different technologies have been developed aiming to harvest energy while being integrated into the façade of buildings. These have been tested in a variety of demonstration sites with a...
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The path of Bulgaria towards more efficient and greener heating systems for residential buildings
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...
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 WEDISTRICT project has developed a brochure illustrating and describing the retrofitting solutions that have been made to an old district heating system at University Polithenica of Bucharest.
The old district heating network was...
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Informe País GBCe 2022: sobre el estado de las urgencias de la edificación sostenible en España
Actuar sobre la descarbonización, la economía circular, la salud, la biodiversidad, la renovación integral y la resiliencia de la sociedad es imperativo para un sector, el de la edificación, al que se le exige un cambio de sistema para dar...
What makes an intelligent façade?
Its ability to modify autonomously and reversibly some behaviours, thanks to an external control system which optimises the performance under different weather conditions.
But what about the rest of the...
In this infographic you can learn more not only about intelligent façades, but also about other elements of the building envelope, as intelligent opaque components also play an important role here.
In the building sector, and especially in offices and commercial areas, roofs have traditionally been considered to just be spaces to place equipment, such as Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and associated subsystems,...
Are roof spaces well exploited? How do they contribute to the efficiency of buildings? This article proposes several ways of redesigning roofs to enhance Sustainability parameters such as Renewable PV production, energy savings, thermal...
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. They are running two subsidies programs...
The report assesses the technological developments of deep geothermal energy and addresses a promising development of deep geothermal for heat production in district heating.
The main problem with deep geothermal are still the up-front...