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Do coal and gas boilers have a future?
As EU Member States take every day some steps towards renewable and energy efficient solutions, Austria is banning the installation of gas boilers from 2023 and pushing towards switching to renewable energy sources. The Austrian government is also offering subsidies for households willing to implement these renovations.
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Low-energy family house in Zagorje
How can you make your house a low carbon building? This best practice shows how the project REPLACE and REGEA have collaborated to raise citizens´ awareness of energy renovation, renewable energy, and efficient heat pumps. The result is a low carbon building and informed occupants.
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Renewable Power Generation (RPG 2022)
Climate change is real and we need to act urgently. Renewables are key on the road to a net zero future, but many challenges remain: scale-up, cost reduction, system operation with close to 100% renewables.
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Passive House - terraced house in the West Midlands
The Passive House Database is presenting a case study of a residential building located in the UK. The building has been built to be as ecologically friendly as possibile, thus it is made from renewable sources and energy efficient materials and technologies.
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Geothermal-DHC - Including geothermal technologies into decarbonized heating and cooling grids
Geothermal energy has the potential to significantly increase the share of renewable energy sources in heating and cooling networks to 30% in 2030 and 50% in 2050 in Europe. This is what  the COST Action CA18219 - Research Network for the inclusion of geothermal technologies in decarbonised heating and cooling networks (Geothermal-DHC) aims to demonstrate, building on the knowledge of more than 50 national and international research projects and more than 30 planned and existing case studies.
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Pathways for Local Heat Delivery
This study examines the scale of the challenge to stop using gas as source of domestic heat at a national level and how, as an example, an urban area such as East Birmingham might address that challenge.
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Here’s How a Heat Pump Can Cool Your House in the Summer
This article gives some insights from North America regarding the increasing need to cool down inside temperature as a direct consequence of more and more common heat waves. A solution would be to install heat pumps which is an energy efficient way to improve indoor thermal comfort and reduce emissions.
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