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.
JRC briefing notes on building integrated photovoltaics in 2020
Created the 13 Apr 202213 Apr 2022Total Views 245245
Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
European energy policy has developed rapidly in the last decade, and energy conservation has become a recognized indispensible tool and one of the most straightforward solutions to a number of challenges, such as the threat of global climate change, energy security challenges, financial and environmental pressure on the society and the individual.
Created the 10 Dec 202010 Dec 2020Total Views 118118
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Energy Generation and Distribution
With the increasing importance of establishing long-term synergies between end-use energy efficiency and energy market opening a number of EU Member States have embarked on implementing energy efficiency policy portfolios that consist of energy saving obligations imposed on some category of energy market operators eventually coupled with a trading system for energy efficiency measures resulting in certified energy...
Created the 10 Dec 202010 Dec 2020Total Views 20522052
Economics and Financing
Energy Generation and Distribution
Energy efficiency is not a single market: it covers measures in a diverse range of end-user sectors, end-use equipment and technologies and consists of very large numbers of small, dispersed projects with a dispersed range of decision makers. Overall, many EE technologies are proven and economic: if properly financed, the investment costs are paid back over short periods from energy cost savings.
Created the 10 Dec 202010 Dec 2020Total Views 284284
Policies and Targets
The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA) supports local authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa in the climate challenge and in their efforts in ensuring access to clean energy. It is one of the "Regional Covenant" of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM).
Created the 16 Sep 201916 Sep 2019Total Views 334334
Ispra, IT — Monday, September 23, 2019 - 08:30 to Friday, September 27, 2019 - 13:30
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Created the 10 Apr 201910 Apr 2019Total Views 22522252
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.
Created the 17 Dec 201817 Dec 2018Total Views 355355
Several countries in the world are currently engaged in an energy transition entailing a massive shift to renewable energies and a progressive increase in the efficiency of processes whereby energy inputs are used by economies.
Created the 26 Nov 201826 Nov 2018Total Views 422422
Ispra, IT — Thursday, November 22, 2018 - 08:45 to Friday, November 23, 2018 - 17:30
Created the 26 Nov 201826 Nov 2018Total Views 884884
Energy Generation and Distribution
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 17 Oct 201817 Oct 2018Total Views 8080
Policies and Targets
This guidebook provides guidance to local authorities in the elaboration and implementation of their Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan (SECAP). This document supports local authorities in defining the key elements of the initiative, in building a Baseline Emission Inventory (BEI), performing a Risk and Vulnerabilities Assessment (RVA), and the guides them in the elaboration of the actions included in the plan.
Created the 04 Oct 201804 Oct 2018Total Views 481481
Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
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 02 Oct 201802 Oct 2018Total Views 4848
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Energy Generation and Distribution
The presentation aims to produce an outlook on the (i) bioenergy progress in the EU over 2005-2016; (ii) some considerations for sustainability and conversion efficiency; (iii) overall measures related to the biomass use for energy in the EU; (iv) the support framework for biomass in electricity, heating/cooling and transport in the EU.
Created the 17 May 201817 May 2018Total Views 7171
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.
Created the 29 Mar 201829 Mar 2018Total Views 426426
Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
The need to integrate higher shares of renewables in the EU energy sector brings into discussion the way the renewable technologies/sources have been supported to date. Support schemes are currently the major drivers for investment in the EU electricity sector, while investments in grid assets are driven mainly by regulation that guarantees investors a reasonable return on equity.
Created the 24 Mar 201824 Mar 2018Total Views 12281228
Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
The slowdown of renewable energy deployment is a concern and needs to be avoided in the time the EU is aiming higher shares of renewables in 2030. Through a cost-optimal approach the EU ought to double in 2030 the current share of renewables in electricity sector.
Created the 11 Mar 201811 Mar 2018Total Views 7777
Behaviours and Social
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 12 Feb 201812 Feb 2018Total Views 141141
Frankfurt, DE — Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 09:00 to Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 18:00
Created the 23 Jan 201823 Jan 2018Total Views 34933493
Policies and Targets
Energy Generation and Distribution
The energy sector accounts for the lion’s share (55 %) of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU). While EU emissions had fallen by 22.1 % in 2015 compared with 1990, and continue to fall, the bloc’s economy grew by 27 % over that period.
Created the 10 Jan 201810 Jan 2018Total Views 7070
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”.
Created the 07 Dec 201707 Dec 2017Total Views 231231
