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
The Energy Efficiency Directive was adopted in 2012, establishing indicative targets for 2020 and a set of binding measures in various sectors of the economy at national level. In compliance with the Directive’s provisions, Member States are required to present the progress and efforts made in the so-called National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAPs) every three years, starting from 2014.
Created the 31 Jan 201731 Jan 2017Total Views 130130
This paper analyses the role of barriers preventing the worldwide take-up of a clean technology: the electrical arc furnace. It also identifies which barriers affect a parameter that summarises the combined effect of all of them. The first step, determination of the combined effect of the barriers, is carried out using a novel approach to model the diffusion of innovations.
Created the 18 Jan 201718 Jan 2017Total Views 9090
This paper analyses the role of barriers preventing the worldwide take-up of a clean technology: the electrical arc furnace. It also identifies which barriers affect a parameter that summarises the combined effect of all of them. The first step, determination of the combined effect of the barriers, is carried out using a novel approach to model the diffusion of innovations.
Created the 18 Jan 201718 Jan 2017Total Views 6767
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 2929
Economics and Financing
Buildings
Whitepaper with 9 interviews on dutch EPC projects from 2014 and 2015.
Created the 01 Nov 201601 Nov 2016Total Views 10261026
Policies and Targets
Buildings
Buildings are a key element of European energy policies due to the high energy consumption and estimated potential energy savings that are associated with this sector. The recast of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) requires Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (NZEBs) as the building target from 2018 onwards.
Created the 17 Oct 201617 Oct 2016Total Views 176176
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 115115
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 382382
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 807807
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 3838
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 12901290Views Today 11
This book contains the proceedings of the 9th International Conference Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities which took place in Frankfurt, Germany 16-18 March 2016.
Created the 04 Aug 201604 Aug 2016Total Views 445445
Policies and Targets
Buildings
The European building stock consumes approximately 40% of primary energy and it is responsible for 36% of the EU greenhouse emissions. A significant reduction of building energy demand is a requisite to meet Europe’s GHG emissions reduction targets.
Created the 26 Jul 201626 Jul 2016Total Views 4040
The European Union is giving more and more emphasis to its energy policy, whose strategy and actions are included in the Energy Union Package and the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy.
Created the 26 Jul 201626 Jul 2016Total Views 102102
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 135135
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 236236
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 155155
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 248248
