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European Citizens Climate Cup

Initiative [EN] The European Citizens Climate Cup is a household competition between different countries/regions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. ECCC addresses European private householders, families and singles, and is based on the energy consumption of their houses. Participants have one year to implement in their own houses strategies and measures to reduce their overall energy consumption – the greater the reduction the bigger their chance of winning the competition!

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Birštonas - Ecotown, Kaunas, Lithuania - ENNEREG Good Practice in Energy Efficient Buildings and Renewables

ENNEREG Good Practice [EN] Birštonas – the smallest Municipality of Kaunas region - participated in the ECO-Life project (Sustainable zero carbon ECO-town developments improving quality of life across EU) under CONCERTO initiative in FP7. The large number of demonstration activities is based on both the demand side (demonstration of ECO-buildings and rational use of energy) and the production side (demonstration of various renewable energy technologies). All demonstration projects are defined in a "Whole Community Approach".

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European Commission - Intelligent Energy eLibrary - Local/Regional Energy Management

Tool / Methodology [EN] This portal supported by the Intelligent Energy Programme of the EC provides a list of tools and guidebooks covering Local/Regional Energy Management. It is divided into several sections covering Islands, Regions, Rural Areas and Urban Areas. It includes guidelines, guidebooks, action plan models, contract models for green procurement, decision support systems, communication and training strategies and tools, evaluation systems and many other tools.

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Shining Examples for the Implementation of the Energy End-use Efficiency & Energy Services Directive (MINUS 3%)

Initiative [EN] The goal of the project was to establish shining examples for the implementation of the Energy End-Use Efficiency & Energy Services Directive (2006/32/EC) in cities. The participating cities aimed to show that it was possible to save 3% of the City Authority’s own energy consumption per year. The energy reduction targets are long term aiming to reach minus 30% by 2020.

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Certified European Passive House Designer

Initiative Throughout Europe interest in Passive Houses has risen sharply in recent years and the "Passive House Standard" has now become widely known amongst stakeholders in the construction sector. This website provides information on the concept as well as resources and links for the quality requirements for the Passive House standard. It includes information indicating how designers and architects are able to acquire the required skills to meet these objectives, for example in a course for passive house designers.

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Case studies on Build Up - the European Portal for energy solutions for better buildings

Good Practice Collection / Publication [EN] As part of the Build Up website this section covers case studies. It is divided into two sub-sections, Highlighted Cases and Cases of Good Practice in Energy Saving. In all around 250 cases are presented from around the world with an emphasis on European Member States.

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Build Up - Energy solutions for better buildings

Initiative [EN] The European web portal for energy efficiency in buildings, covering news, events, publications, case studies and tools as well as links to organizations, networks and useful information from throughout Europe.

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Clearinghouse Facilitation - Cost and Energy Savings for RUE measures in buildings

Publication [EN] The overall aim of this report is to help develop standardised solutions for RUE in buildings. The main objectives of the work were to collect and prepare information on technical issues related to retrofitting buildings for RUE and to encourage an adequate level for RUE applications in new buildings, as well as to evaluate the impact of retrofitting RUE applications in buildings.

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EnergyCities - where action and vision meet

Initiative [EN] Energy Cities is the European Association of local authorities inventing their energy future. The association, with a Board of Directors from 11 European cities, was created in 1990 and now represents now more than 1,000 towns and cities in 30 countries. It has offices in Brussels (BE) and Besançon (FR). It is an Official Associate of the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign.

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Make your building smile - Renewable energy in buildings

Publication [EN] This publication from the European Commission (2009) covers 25 projects funded by the IEE programme within the Renewable Energy sector. It shows that although buildings are amongst the greatest consumers of energy, they also have the greatest potential to reduce the EU’s conventional energy consumption by combining energy-saving measures with renewable energy sources, the total consumption of conventional energy in buildings can be reduced to zero. Buildings can even become net producers of clean energy since they can be fitted with solar water and space heating and cooling.

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The beauty of efficiency - Energy-efficient homes and buildings

Publication [EN] This publication (2008) from the European Commission covers 48 projects funded by the IEE programme in the Energy Efficiency sector. A key element of the programme concerns energy-efficient buildings with the aim to tap into the energy saving potential through innovative measures designed to raise the energy
performance of new and existing buildings. The savings potential is estimated at around 28%, mainly through environmentally-friendly retrofitting enabling European citizens to benefit in the short term from improved comfort and reduced environmental impact.

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European project on consumer response to energy labels in buildings

Initiative [EN] The European Union has committed itself to increase energy efficiency with 20% up to the year 2020. A main instrument for reaching this target in the residential sector is the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), originally introduced in 2002 and recently recast by Directive 2010/31/EU. This European directive proposes, among others actions, the introduction of energy performance labels for dwellings in all European Member States.

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Low energy buildings in Europe - current state of play, definitions and best practice

[EN] The proposal for a revision of the Directive on the energy performance of buildings suggested that all EU Member States should endorse national plans and targets in order to promote the uptake of very low and close to zero energy buildings. This document provides background information regarding definitions, calculation methods and policies, as well as best practice examples of low energy buildings in Europe.

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Regionales e-bulletin Oberpfalz 01/2012

e-Bulletin [DE] Regionales e-bulletin zur Darstellung des Arbeitsstands am Regionalen Rahmenplan Energie für die Oberpfalz 01/2012, ZREU 2012

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Planificación Energética Municipal

Presentation [ES] This presentation shows how to carry out the energy management of a Muncipality in the framework of the Covenant of Mayors initiative.

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Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock

Background Information [EN] This website of the Baltic Energy Efficiency Network for the Building Stock provides information on the BEENetwork and the related BEEN project as well as information on publications, activities and events related with energy efficiency in the European residential building stock, with special geographical focus on the Baltic Sea Region.

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Sustainable energy Communites - Common actions for common goals

Publication [EN] This publication (April 2009) covers 34 projects dealing with sustainable communities funded under the integrated initiatives action of the IEE programme of the European Communities. Sustainable Energy Communities (SEC) are communities that implement a set of sustainable energy policy measures in the field of renewable energy, rational use of energy and sustainable mobility with the strong involvement of the local population in the planning and implementation process. More than 30 projects have been funded involving more than 290 cities and regions across Europe representing most European countries.

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Field Trial of Solar Heating Systems

Assessement / Review [EN] This study provides results from the largest independent trial of solar water heating systems so far carried out in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

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Energy-efficient residential buildings

Residential buildings Resources