How can your city access energy planning support?
The Act!onHeat Support Facility includes specific tools and assistance for municipalities to start, complete, or improve upon their district H&C planning, in order to diversify their energy supply, transition to clean, renewable alternatives, and provide their residents with cost saving options.
Solar energy will become a lot cheaper than gas in Europe
Based on a Norwegian study, in the long term it would be 10 times cheaper to build new solar PV capacity rather than operating gas-fired power plants. In fact, natural gas has become very expensive due to the plunge in Russian gas exports.
The importance of decreasing the demand of the energy supply
The Managing Director of REHVA shares her opinion on current EU energy policies, highlighting the real causes of the current crisis: the ever-increasing total energy demand and the slow transition to a low-carbon Europe with sustainable energy sources.
Lithuania leading green-building retrofit in Europe
With a combination of public grants and private financing, Lithuania has carried out 1 billion euros’ worth of energy-efficient building upgrades. Now the EU wants to scale up its success.
Bill on renewable energies: what changes to expect?
On Monday, December 5, a text was discussed with the deputies of the National Assembly which could give new impetus to the production of solar and wind power on French territory. Here are the main measures it includes.
BIGG events: from the standardization workshop to the first and upcoming BIGG training sessions
The BIGG project organized on November 8 the standardization workshop “Leveraging on standardisation for building data aggregation and analytics” in collaboration with the sister projects MATRYCS and BuiltHub and hosted by BUILDUP.
The EU plan to accelerate the implementation of renewables
Due to the current energy crisis, the European Commission has proposed a temporary emergency regulation to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy. According to the European Environmental Bureau, such decision would be done at the expense of environmental safeguards and democratic checks and create legal uncertainty.
How can the New European Bauhaus shape the future of the built environment?
The EIT Climate-KIC, alongside other KICs and partners, have been supporting the growth and scale-up of bottom-up projects through several programmes, supporting innovative climate projects.
De Hooch, il nuovo edificio residenziale ad Amsterdam con una particolare tipologia di vetro in facciata
L´edificio residenziale De Hooch, progettato da MVSA Architects, è caratterizzato da un particolare tipo di materiale in facciata: una tipologia di vetro a controllo solare ad alto isolamento, il quale è capace di assicurare il massimo livello di luminosità all’interno degli edifici e il minimo apporto di calore.
POWERSKIN+ Project: Switch2Save workshop
The POWERSKIN+ project coordinator Jorge Corker from IPN participated in the Switch2Save workshop on the 20th of October presenting the "Different approaches towards smart building envelopes designs – Examples of EU funded projects" segment of the workshop.