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CO2MPAS follows a hybrid approach between a more general-purpose emission model (which attribute average performance indicators, namely emission factors, to the various vehicle types and classes) and a fully developed vehicle simulation model

The EC-DG Joint Research Centre is creating an international database of nZEB and deep retrofit buildings through a data collection which will allow comparison across MSs.

The expert workshop "Spatial Data for Modeling Building Stock Energy Needs" took place on 24-26 November 2015 in Ispra, at the EC Joint Research Centre. 

This section is dedicated to news and activities within the pilot project on energy and location, jointly carried out by the EC DG JRC project on Energy and Location and the European Union Location Framework (EULF) action of the EC Programme Interoperability Solutions for Public Administration (ISA)

The European Commmission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has in one of its areas of research a focus on Energy Efficiency in Products.

The work being developed is ocurring in several institutes of the JRC, thanks to its multidisciplinarity.

Recommendation ITU-T 1440 gives general guidance on city level environmental assessments related to information and communication technologies (ICT), and provides a description of the methodologies to be used for the assessment of the environmental impact of ICT in cities.

Demand Response (DR) is not new, since long before the liberalisation of the energy markets in Europe, Demand Response has been a means to manage the electricity networks particularly in case of shortage risks in national energy systems.

Studies conducted by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission show a huge potential for saving energy through better energy efficiency. Fewer than three out of ten bulbs in European households are low energy consumption Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)

The European Commission together with several national governments, energy agencies, public and private organisations/industries is promoting the end-use energy efficiency in lighting through several instruments as a key component of the EU energy policy 

Autonomous vehicles are currently attracting the attention of researchers in many fields. The number of scientific papers published on this topic is growing exponentially (reaching more than 400 papers published in 2014) and the types of journals considering it worth of publications is also widening