Soon after the release of its Planning Framework, the Regio1st LIFE-CET project is now releasing a guidance helping regional energy planners in Europe to develop and implement sustainable, cost-effective energy strategies while prioritising energy savings in buildings and energy efficiency solutions in line with the EE1st principle.

EAE’s Energy Efficiency Guide is a meta-study that summarises relevant facts and figures about the energy efficiency of Europe’s building stock, relevant legislation, technical developments and how ETICS contribute to achieving Europe’s environmental, economic and social objectives. It condenses the evidence of numerous global, European and national scientific studies and provides recommendations on what can be done to triple the number of buildings undergoing deep or staged deep renovations or new buildings to become net carbon neutral by 2050.

Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) are new policy components introduced in Article 9 of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD 2024/1275). This report examines the policy requirements for implementing MEPS in the focus countries of the EPBD.wise project: Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine.