The PEN approach, bolstered by EU policies, emphasises community involvement and scaled-up building renovations, demanding effective national implementation and key factors like harmonised definitions and tailored financing for success.
Integrated photovoltaics has emerged as key to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions across different sectors, such as building, transport, and agriculture. This article reviews the competitiveness of Building-Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) and Infrastructure-Integrated Photovoltaics (IIPV) in residential applications.
Developing methodologies for the integration of low-grade energy sources into high-temperature district heating networks.
Energy Vault and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) are developing gravity energy storage systems for urban high-rises that generate electricity.
Residents of Burgas can invest in a municipal solar plant for a 30% return over ten years, as part of a citizen energy community.
Despite a sales slump, heat pumps are dominant in new German buildings, with over 76% of planned new buildings intending to use them, though production and foreign trade saw declines in late 2023 and early 2024.
The 12th annual edition of Sustainable Places (SP2024) is a hybrid event, from 23th to 25th September 2024, with the in-person sessions hosted in Luxembourg.
The EU Peers Summit in Brussels highlighted the critical role of one-stop shops in advancing energy-efficient building renovations to achieve a zero-emission EU building stock by 2050.
In the article, project manager Kadri Kallast takes a closer look at the barriers homeowners need to overcome when renovating buildings placed under heritage protection and how they should be supported along the way.
The GreeNest project has released a training video as the first session in the GreeNest Training Series.