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.
Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
The Covenant of Mayors (CoM) was launched in 2008 by the European Commission to support the efforts deployed by local authorities in the implementation of sustainable energy and climate policies. At 4 September 2016, 6201 local authorities from 54 countries had joined the initiative, representing 213 million inhabitants.
Created the 10 Nov 201610 Nov 2016Total Views 216216
Policies and Targets
In order to achieve the EU 20% reduction on primary energy consumption target by 2020, a change in consumer behaviour and energy consumption practices is needed.
Created the 08 Nov 201608 Nov 2016Total Views 3030
Policies and Targets
The presentation gives an overview of the Covenant of Mayors initiatives and its main elements (Baseline Emissions Inventories - BEI, Sustainable Energy Action Plans - SEAP, Monitoring Emissions Inventories- MEI).
Created the 11 Oct 201611 Oct 2016Total Views 117117
The Energy Efficiency Directive, in its Articles 9 to 11 focuses on the availability of accurate, up to date information to be provided to final energy consumers in a cost-effective way.
Created the 26 Sep 201626 Sep 2016Total Views 1414
Technology and Standards
The 9th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Motor Driven Systems (EEMODS'15) was be held in Helsinki (Finland) on 15-17 September, 2015. The EEMODS'15 conferences have been very successful in attracting distinguished and international presenters and attendees.
Created the 26 Sep 201626 Sep 2016Total Views 388388
Policies and Targets
This report reviews the current status of European Member States’ regulation supporting Demand Response and Aggregation in the wholesale, balancing and ancillary electricity markets, as stipulated in Article 15 of the Energy Efficiency Directive.
Created the 26 Sep 201626 Sep 2016Total Views 853853
Technology and Standards
This report aims at showing the present status of energy consumption in the EU-28, in the four main energy consuming sectors: residential, tertiary, transport and industry. During the last years, there have been efforts by the European Union to cut down on energy consumption and improve energy efficiency. From 2000 to 2014, there have been various initiatives that aim at reducing final energy consumption.
Created the 21 Sep 201621 Sep 2016Total Views 4343
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.
Created the 06 Sep 201606 Sep 2016Total Views 13431343
This peer review paper presents a new mathematical approach to the diffusion of energy-efficient technologies using the diffusion of natural processes as an analogy. This approach is applied to the diffusion of the electric arc furnace in Japan. The main advantage offered by the new approach is the incorporation of an average effect of barriers to, and support measures for, innovation.
Created the 01 Jul 201601 Jul 2016Total Views 137137
The European Commission considers energy efficiency as a strategic priority for the Energy Union, and promotes 'energy efficiency first' as a principle. It proposes to rethink energy efficiency fundamentally, and treat it as an energy source in its own right.
Created the 25 May 201625 May 2016Total Views 239239
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.
Created the 19 Apr 201619 Apr 2016Total Views 156156
Industry
Results from this recent JRC study show that, in 2050, the energy consumption and direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the European aluminium industry could be decreased by 21% and 66%, respectively, if the sector adopts innovative technological solutions instead of following a conservative technology deployment path.
Created the 30 Mar 201630 Mar 2016Total Views 250250
Policies and Targets
Urban Areas
Cities play a crucial role in mitigating the effects of climate change. Urban energy consumption generates about three quarters of global carbon emissions (IPCC 2014).
Created the 30 Mar 201630 Mar 2016Total Views 136136
Policies and Targets
The main objective of this workshop was to share experience in data collection and methodologies to support energy efficiency policies and scope a possible pilot.
Created the 23 Feb 201623 Feb 2016Total Views 162162
The present report aims to provide an overview of the main issues at stake with the calculation methods for energy savings generated by measures implemented by EU Member States under Article 7 of the Directive 2012/27/EU on Energy Efficiency (EED).
Created the 09 Feb 201609 Feb 2016Total Views 30773077
Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
Renewable energy technologies/sources (hydropower, wind power, solar power, marine-energy, geothermal energy, heat pumps, biomass and biofuels) are alternatives to fossil fuels contributing to the improvement of environment, enhancement of energy security and diversification of energy supply.
Created the 27 Jan 201627 Jan 2016Total Views 6969
Brussels, 17.12.2013
COM(2013) 913 final
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
Together towards competitive and resource-efficient urban mobility
Created the 14 Jan 201614 Jan 2016Total Views 210210
Urban Areas
Informal Meeting of EU Ministers Responsible for Territorial Cohesion and Urban Matters
Declaration of Ministers towards the EU Urban Agenda
Riga, 10 June 2015
Created the 14 Jan 201614 Jan 2016Total Views 115115
Policies and Targets
This report, conducted by the Joint Research Centre for DG ENERGY, during the last trimester of 2013 and the first trimester of 2014, identifies the status of the programmes promoting Energy Audits and Energy Management Systems in the Member States of the European Union in order to realize which of the requirements of Article 8 of the Energy Efficiency Directive were already met and to understand the level of additional...
Created the 04 Jan 201604 Jan 2016Total Views 9696
Energy Generation and Distribution
In the framework of the on-going work to transpose and implement the Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU and in particular its Article 15 on Energy Transformation, Transmission and Distribution, this workshop aims at drawing an overall picture of the status of Demand Response in the Member States.
Created the 15 Dec 201515 Dec 2015Total Views 7272
