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[IEECP Newsletter] December 2022: A knowledge-hub of pragmatic results, innovative ideas and science-based expertise towards the energy transition & a sustainable future
The IEECP newsletter gathers news from projects receiving funding from the European Horizon and LIFE programmes, on topics such as energy poverty, the smart readiness indicator, building cooling, industrial energy efficiency and many more. See all projects IEECP coordinates or participates in:
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[IEECP Newsletter] November 2022: A knowledge-hub of pragmatic results, innovative ideas and science-based expertise towards the energy transition & a sustainable future
The IEECP newsletter gathers news from projects receiving funding from the European Horizon and LIFE programmes, on topics such as energy poverty, the smart readiness indicator, building cooling, industrial energy efficiency and many more. See all projects IEECP coordinates or participates in.
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[Podcast] Energy efficiency: the solution to Europe’s energy crisis
While Europe’s energy crisis fuels fears of a harsh winter for millions of European residents, much discussions are revolving around diversifying the EU’s energy suppliers and reducing European countries’ dependency on Russian hydrocarbons. Yet, solutions can also be found within Europe with the implementation of demand side measures to reduce energy consumption. Senior associate at […]
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[IEECP Newsletter] Summer 2022: annual report and news on energy and climate policies
We offer today and for this summer edition a new version of our newsletter: shorter texts with direct links to the news and categorised news items. We hope that this will help you find quickly what interests you and can feed your work and will be happy to receive your feedback. In the next months, […]
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[IEECP Newsletter] May 2022: heating decarbonisation to alleviate energy poverty and more
This newsletter comes timely, sharing a lot of useful resources when the European Commission is expected to present the RePowerEU package tomorrow, unveiling its Action Plan and complementary proposals. The variety of topics included matches well our portfolio of projects, which results can feed into the package. We presented to key decision-makers in April some […]
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Policies to decarbonise residential buildings in Central, Eastern and Southern EU: impact on energy poverty and mitigation strategies
Almost 34 million Europeans are unable to keep their homes adequately warm, and just as energy prices keep rising, the European Union is increasingly targeting energy poverty in its policy action. To better understand how to measure and identify energy poverty and evaluate the adequate policies, IEECP established for the European Climate Foundation a study […]
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Energy poverty and the future costs under the Energy Efficiency Directive: the role of article 7 policies
The event organised by IEECP allowed gathering members of the European Commission, European Parliament and National Ministries to discuss key results from projects and initiatives on the topic of energy poverty and the role of policies to alleviate it. Speakers discussed the role of the Fit-for-55 package, Art7 EED policies as well as EU funds […]
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Podcast – Changing people’s habits
In this episode, host Mathias Steck, Service Area Manager for Renewables Northern Europe at DNV, is joined by Filippos Anagnostopoulos, co-ordinator for a project called NUDGE, a European Union Horizon 2020 initiative. Together they explore how behavioural science can be used to incentivize people to make positive changes in terms of their energy use. They […]
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[IEECP newsletter] March 2022: resources to understand and mitigate climate change, switch the energy focus and towards more efficiency
The issues the world is currently facing are difficult to understand: we navigate amidst much confusion and sometimes finding the reason why continue to work can appear as a daunting task. Yet it all seems more than just linked – our work to alleviate energy poverty, to provide tools to understand and mitigate climate change, […]
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BECOOP – Unlocking the community bioenergy potential
This short video explains in 2 minutes concepts such as biomass / bioenergy, energy communities and introduces BECoop and its key actions to foster a broad deployment of bioenergy heating technologies across Europe and empower policy to transfer the community energy momentum to bioenergy heating. The ambition of BECoop (2020-2023), a project supported by the […]
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Recent developments in the field of Energy Efficiency First
This short seminar focused on the latest developments in the field of Energy Efficiency First. The war in Ukraine and current tensions with Russia put in the spotlight the vulnerability of Europe to energy imports. Energy Efficiency First (EE1st) is more than ever an essential principle to secure that Europeans’ energy needs are met while […]
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[IEECP newsletter] December 2021: season’s greetings with great resources on P4P, energy poverty & more!
An important lesson from 2021 is that the global perception towards climate change and the urgency for undertaking actions has increased substantially. Next to the second year of COVID-19 and its impacts on energy and climate, the entire society has realized the aggressive impacts of climate change and new dilemmas appear in terms of how […]
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Tackling energy poverty : learning from experience in 10 European countries
Led by IEECP and Enerdata and realised for the ONPE (the French National Observatory for Energy Poverty) – with funding from ADEME, this brochure compiles recent data and knowledge on measures to prevent energy poverty. Based on information available in 2020, 10 country factsheets and a European factsheet allow an international comparison according to the […]
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IEECP annual report 2020 – celebrating 5 years!
Welcome to the second edition of our annual report. The Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP) is a non-for-profit, independent research foundation working, since 2015, on science-based climate change mitigation, energy efficiency and renewable energy policy, with an international interdisciplinary team of experts generating and disseminating scientific knowledge. We act as a knowledge-hub […]
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[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 will determine whether the EU […]
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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 fuels) under the umbrella of […]
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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 progress is too slow at […]
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[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 and they should contribute directly […]
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[IEECP newsletter] September 2020 – efficiency first barriers, energy poverty brief and IEECP annual report 2019!
Download as pdf View online in html —————————————————————————– We are happy to come back after a recharging yet busy Summer, publishing for the first time in our 5 years of existence an annual report for 2019, in which you can read all about our challenges and successes, key policy and outreach highlights. Take […]
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Brief of actions and schemes to consider to tackle energy poverty
A total of 42 schemes were identified and analysed by the H2020-funded project SocialWatt’s team, based on a number of criteria set. Some of the conclusions include that: the income is frequently used as a proxy to energy poverty, almost all schemes provide information and advice to households, most are funded by a single entity […]
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