H2020 BEcoop project: News #1 – Unlocking the community bioenergy potential

In this newsletter, we would like to introduce you to the BECoop project, provide you with some background material, explain the ways of working and update you on past and future activities. You may always browse through the project website where you can find, among else, additional information with regard

[IEECP newsletter] April/May 2021: energy efficiency first, energy poverty in the rented sector, challenges of energy auditing, and much more

In the era of the new normal, we are all in need of new solutions to battle the same old problems. The last year has, more than ever, made us aware that there are uncertainties that can change our lives and businesses in an instant. As with every obstacle, there

[Lunch seminar video] ENERGee WATCH, peer-to-peer learning program for regional and local authorities

In this IEECP Lunch Seminar, you can hear more about the Horizon 2020-funded project ENERGee WATCH, launching a peer-to-peer learning program to enable regional and local authorities to timely and accurately define, monitor and verify their sustainable actions. The learning will focus on regional/provincial authorities and their agencies that are

Visit our Knowledge Transfer Platform on Article 7 EED

If you want to learn more on Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive implementation issues, visit our Knowledge Transfer Platform. It serves as a place of knowledge, learning materials, webinars, case studies, good practice examples and national level information. Our objective is to help national authorities in the implementation

Priority areas of implementation of the Efficiency First principle: enefirst report

This report, delivered by the enefirst H2020 project, identifies promising policy approaches as regards Efficiency First (E1st) in several EU policy areas: buildings, power markets/networks, gas markets/networks, district heating, energy efficiency, climate and EU funds. The report screened the policy areas and approaches for each policy area by reviewing the EU

H2020 DEESME project: first newsletter out, guiding SMEs and national authorities to take profit of the multiple benefits from energy audit and energy management approaches

Dear readers, This is a pleasure to share the DEESME project first newsletter. Reaching the European Union’s net zero greenhouse gas emissions objectives will require a fundamental change in the coming decades. This change will impact enterprises of all types and sizes. Improving the efficiency of how enterprises supply and

[IEECP newsletter] February 2021: nudging consumers to energy efficiency behaviours, e-learning platform for F&B energy efficiency & more

    Download as pdf        View online in html —————————————————————————– We are coming at the end of February, and after two months of 2021, the European economy is still struggling with the COVID19 scars yet trying to escape the uncertainty and move on to a recovery phase. The policy trajectories

IEECP and ABN AMRO collaboration for energy efficient projects in The Netherlands / IEECP en ABN AMRO werken samen aan energie efficiëntie projecten binnen Nederland

< Nederlandse vertaling hieronder > IEECP is glad to join forces with the ABN AMRO bank in The Netherlands to work on two interconnected projects funded by the European H2020 programme: ICCEE, seeking to identify and implement significant energy efficiency performance benefits in the food and beverage cold supply-chain sector,

Transferring global experience of “efficiency first” to the EU: enefirst report

This report, delivered by the enefirst H2020 project, highlights 16 international case examples of efficiency first in practice. Learning from international experience is key to helping policymakers in the EU and its Member States establish a level playing field between demand and supply-side resources, and thus embed the efficiency first

[Policy Brief] The role of the Energy Efficiency Directive article 7 in alleviating energy poverty

H2020 projects SocialWatt and ENSMOV join forces, making use of both projects’ learnings to deliver policy recommendations to improve the consideration of energy poverty through Article 7 of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). Article 7 of the EED specifically requires European member states to consider the need to alleviate energy

Opinion – Hiding fossil fuel subsidies under clean energy targets?

IEECP’s Vlasis Oikonomou and NTUA’s Haris Doukas co-author a piece, published on Euractiv, touching upon the reaction of 10 Member States for the green taxonomy to allow them to consider natural gas as a transition fuel. This opens up the discussion on the subsidies for natural gas (and other fossil

The MICAT (Multiple Impacts Calculation Tool) project launches a call for Pilot Cities

Emissions reductions, improved health, better air quality, and new employment opportunities are only a few examples of Multiple Impacts of Energy Efficiency. What are other ancillary benefits of energy efficiency measures? And how can your city assess and monitor them? Join the MICAT team as one of their Pilot Cities

Column for eceee: “Let cost-effectiveness guide recovery funding to national efficiency programs”

by Vlasios Oikonomou, Jean-Sébastien Broc The EU has set ambitious energy efficiency targets for 2020 (32.5%), while the current trend (for the 2020 targets) shows a deviation of 4-6% annually (State of the Energy Union Report) and the IEA confirmed in its recent Energy Efficiency 2020 report that the energy efficiency

Best wishes from the IEECP team!

In 2020, we celebrate 5 years of work towards the energy transition and a sustainable future. For 2021, we look forward to a continued fruitful collaboration with many new projects together, and wish you all the best for the Holiday season! The IEECP team

Column for eceee: Time for energy efficiency to be valued as grid resource, by RAP and IEECP

Samuel Thomas, from the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and Filippos Anagnostopoulos from IEECP, co-author a column for eceee, introducing a concept studied in the H2020-funded project SENSEI, P4P – Pay for Performance. A quick and valuable read! —————————————————————————————————— What if you, as an electricity consumer, could get compensated fairly for

BECoop – A people-powered energy system: activating the community energy market for bioenergy

In the updated Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II), the EU clearly considers community energy as a key factor for future Renewable Energy (RE) market uptake and mandates Member States to implement regulatory frameworks for enabling and facilitating this process. At the same time, several barriers prevent citizens from becoming

[IEECP newsletter] November/December 2020 – already 5 years!

    Download as pdf        View online in html —————————————————————————– Amidst the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the evolutions in the energy policy in the EU are ongoing and Member States are finalizing their plans for the Recovery Package. These plans include a great deal of supporting energy investments

H2020 PROSPECT ends, with much resources for regional and local authorities to finance and implement their SECAPs

After three and a half years of hard work, this is time for the H2020-funded PROSPECT project to end, but not without great successes and achievements to look back at! Innovative financing is often an option for climate projects, but cities, municipalities and regions need to know how to activate

7 H2020 projects partner up to advise EU leaders how to prepare buildings for the energy transition

The transition to a forward-looking climate neutral economy, announced in the European Green Deal, demands an action plan where public and private sector investments are channeled towards climate-friendly technologies and business models. To support this transition, the SENSEI H2020-funded project, together with 6 other H2020 projects – Triple-A, LAUNCH, Ambience,

Investigating how to tackle energy poverty in the EU private rented sector

Around 50 million households in the European Union are estimated to be living in energy poverty – or energy vulnerability, unable to afford the energy needed to adequately heat or cool their homes. This is caused by a combination of factors including high energy costs, low household incomes and energy