On 5 April 2016 the JRC presented the interactive and collaborative online European Energy Efficiency Platform. This beta platform is conceived to fill the gap opened by scattered data and fragmented knowledge resulting from a rapidly growing energy efficiency market. It is expected to be both a one-stop shop for information retrieval and a meeting point for experts to exchange data and reduce redundant activities.
Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 16:30 to 17:30
Webinar/Conversation with the Authors of "Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions - Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables".
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Buildings
Refurbished nZEBs and deep retrofit data collection - Harmonisation of criteria for a comparative analysis and information exchange on measures implemented to achieve the objective of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) on existing buildings.
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Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
The Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (CoM) is an ambitious initiative for local climate and energy actions. This document provides signatories with a set of methodological principle, procedures and best practices to develop their SECAP.
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Buildings
Aalborg, DK — Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - 11:00 to 12:30
Join us during CLIMA 2016 (22-25 May, Aalborg, Denmark) in our interactive workshop 'Building automation and control systems: continuous operational energy use optimization'.
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Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
The European Commission has committed unilaterally to recognising cities involved in the Covenant and promote their public visibility.
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Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
The local governments signing up to the Covenant of Mayors commit to submit their Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) within the year following adhesion. The Sustainable Energy Action Plan is a key document that shows how the local government will reach its CO2 reduction target by 2020.
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Policies and Targets
The European Union is leading the global fight against climate change, and has made it its top priority. The EU committed itself to reducing its overall emissions to at least 20 % below 1990 levels by 2020. Local authorities play a key role in the achievement of the EU’s energy and climate objectives.
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Policies and Targets
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 15:00 to 16:00
The International Energy Agency (IEA) launched their recent publication, “Capturing the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency,” at IEPPEC in Berlin (September 2014).
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Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
24 mayors and representatives of local authorities from five countries in the south Mediterranean region just signed the Covenant of Mayors committing to help reduce carbon emissions.
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Policies and Targets
Based on the priority currently given by the European Union to the energy efficiency topic through its Energy Union Package, this feasibility study has focused on the role of location data in support of energy efficiency policies, taking into account the requirements of INSPIRE, EPBD and EED Directives, as well as the CoM initiative. The EU Member States are already due to implement such Directives according to different...
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Products
The European Commmission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has in one of its areas of research a focus on Energy Efficiency in Products.
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Technology and Standards
Buildings
Renovation is an umbrella term which normally describes a variety of interventions in a building: from modernization, retrofit, restoration and rehabilitation to simple maintenance, repairs and routine upgrades. An energy renovation is often “behind the scenes” of many of these actions, with each action delivering different level of energy savings.
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Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
Greenhouse gas emission savings due to renewable energy (2009-12)
Policy context
The EU has made a unilateral commitment to reduce in 2020 the overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its Member States by 20% compared to 1990 levels putting a legally binding target of 20 % of gross final energy consumption (GFEC) from renewable energy sources.
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Products
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector including data centres generates up to 2% of the global CO2 emissions and data centres are estimated to have the fastest growing carbon footprint from across the whole ICT sector, mainly due to new business such as the cloud computing and the rapid growth of the use of Internet services.
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Brussels, BE — Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 09:00 to 14:00
The workshop presents the scale of the highly costeffective energy savings that can be obtained from broader and more effective adoption of energy management (EM) across the EU, followed by an open discussion with representatives of industry and the Commission, on how current EU policy instruments (such as the EPBD and the EED) could evolve to become more supportive of unlocking these largescale savings.
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Industry
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Ispra, IT — Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 08:45 to Friday, November 23, 2018 - 17:30
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Ispra, IT — Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 09:00 to Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 17:00
The transition to renewable energies envisaged by radical scenarios informing policy strategies worldwide is often depicted as just a matter of technological substitution that will not affect our lifestyles. But it may be highly disruptive. Businesses, economies and social life could require a reorganization that has not been thoroughly studied.
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Bruxelles, BE — Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 13:00
JRC Lunch Time Science Lecture on “Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions- Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables”.
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About the Book
Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions is the result of an interdisciplinary effort undertaken by a group of scholars in order to stress the urgency of a double change of gear in mainstream research and policy approaches dealing with the current transition to renewable energies.
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