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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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[Newsletter] Guiding SMEs and national authorities through the energy transition by taking profit of multiple benefits and energy management approaches
The DEESME newsletter is out! If you missed the first one, you can find it here: it introduced DEESME’s concept, objectives and activities. What happened since then? Over a year since the project start, we have released several publications, on the policies and multiple benefits of energy audits and management approaches, we provided guidelines for […]
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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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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 the energy you did not […]
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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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How to apply Pay for Performance pilot experiences in Europe: hints from H2020 SENSEI
Following the publication of a report on experiences and lessons learnt from pay-for-performance schemes in the US, the SENSEI team prepared a short video presentation of the results with examples and how to apply the experiences from P4P pilots in a EU context. SENSEI would appreciate receiving your feedback, so if you also wish to […]
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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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Barriers to implementing the efficiency first principle: new enefirst report
The H2020-funded project enefirst releases a new publication, authored by BPIE and co-authored by IEECP and RAP: it focuses on barriers to implementing efficiency first In the EU in several policy areas linked to energy use in the buildings sector (such as network codes, renewable energy policy, building regulations and others). The report builds the […]
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Implementing sustainable measures from climate plans through innovative financing schemes: insights of PROSPECT
IEECP wrote an article for the Turkish magazine of the Marmara municipality, KENT, about the H2020 project PROSPECTand implementing sustainable measures from climate plans through innovative financing schemes. Two examples of mentor/mentee are provided, Almada in Portugal and Heerlen in The Netherlands. Read their story and the article in Turkish: https://issuu.com/marmarabelediyelerbirligi/docs/kent_002/76 or in English below. […]
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[IEECP newsletter] Summer 2020 – efficiency first examples, energy efficiency projects financing and more
Download as pdf View online in html —————————————————————————– Get your summer read with our newsletter and get links to efficiency first examples, tools to assess, agree & assign energy efficiency investment projects and more! The EU Strategy for Energy System Integration was recently presented by EU Commissioner for the European Green Deal Frans […]
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[Newsletter] enefirst – Efficiency First is not a new name for energy efficiency
Considering that the energy demand is not a given input to energy scenarios, but that options exist to better manage or reduce the energy demand: the idea is not new. Concepts such as Demand-Side Management or Integrated Resource Planning have existed since the 1980s. Liberalization of energy markets in the 1990s, and increased awareness of […]
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[VIDEO] Hellenic Parliament TV- Discussion on energy poverty, in Greek
H2020-funded project SocialWatt was presented around disccusions on the energy poverty condition in Greece on the 15th of February 2020. 5 experts participated in a TV show presented by the Hellenic Parliament TV and discussed the current situation in Greece and other European countries. Over 50 million Europeans are facing the energy poverty and are […]
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[IEECP newsletter] February 2020 – Article 7 EED, energy poverty, smart finance and more
Download as pdf View online in html —————————————————————————– Dear readers, With the submission of the final National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) of most Member States (MS) end 2019, many discussions question the types of support MS need to reach the EU Green Deal targets. The reality is that the EU is far […]
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PARIS REINFORCE First Stakeholder Council Dialogue
The #H2020 PARIS REINFORCE 1st Stakeholder Council Dialogue will take place on November 21st, in Bruegel (Rue de la Charité 33, 1210 Brussels, Belgium). Over the course of the projects’ three years, a Stakeholder Council will be developed and engaged with, embodying a diverse group of representatives, including national and EU policymakers; trade unions; industry […]
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IEECP newsletter September 2019
IEECP September 2019 newsletter Dear IEECP friends and colleagues, we are happy to present you our September 2019 newsletter. This newsletter demonstrates updates on EU energy efficiency policy and lessons from European Horizon 2020 projects that we are working on. More specifically: PROSPECT project (Peer powered cities and regions – http://www.h20202prospect.eu) – 120 cities and regions participated […]
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