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The Austrian city of Salzburg published 10 tips to reduce a household’s energy consumption by around 10% for the winter of the cost of living crisis in Europe. Energy efficiency is a major way to incr..
Britons will soon receive practical information on how to reduce their energy usage in winter.
Delivering his keynote speech at EnergyUK’s annual conference, Jonathan Brearley, Ofgem Chief Executive, said: “We will shortly be launching a campaign to explain the support that is available, on how to reduce energy consumption and what customers should expect from their providers.
Member states have pledged to redistribute the energy sector's surplus profits to low income customers
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a strategic tool in the EU’s climate policy toolkit has awoken: energy independence. However, as the EU Commission’s plan for energy independence looks towards other fossil-fuel-rich suppliers to wean member states off Russian energy imports, Rafael Pinto argues the EU is missing an important opportunity to bring its energy security policy in line with its climate goals.
The Commission adopted today a Communication on Energy Prices, to tackle the exceptional rise in global energy prices, which is projected to last through the winter, and help Europe's people and businesses. The Communication includes a “toolbox” that the EU and its Member States can use to address the immediate impact of current prices increases, and further strengthen resilience against future shocks. Short-term national measures include emergency income support to households, state aid for companies, and targeted tax reductions. The Commission will also support investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency; examine possible measures on energy storage and purchasing of gas reserves; and assess the current electricity market design.
Planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from buildings and construction are jeopardising global goals to keep devastating climate change at bay, a UN-backed coalition warned on Wednesday (16 December), after data showed they hit an all-time high in 2019.
The first energy community offering citizens and about 900 companies in the Pilastro-Roveri district reduced tariffs thanks to a combination of renewable sources, distributed generation, energy storage and optimization of consumption, is kicking off in Bologna.
Is rooftop solar in the U.S. getting more support than it deserves? One main argument from its advocates is that it will cut grid transmission and distribution costs that total hundreds of millions. Severin Borenstein at the Energy Institute at Haas crunches some numbers to try to uncover the true “avoided costs”. He shows that …
At the start of the new decade, denial of the energy transition in the Energy Community is fading away and a path to the decarbonization of the energy sector is taking shape. While the days of opted-out thermal power plants are numbered, carbon pricing and renewables auctions, resulting in increasingly cheaper electricity, are gaining momentum.
In creating this new energy landscape, the Contracting Parties should recognize and embrace the role end-consumers play in the energy transition. Giving consumers a right to generate, consume, store, and sell self-generated renewable electricity can accelerate the energy transition, whilst allowing renewables self-consumers to reap the benefits of technological development and lower their electricity bills.
Understanding how people decide to use less energy at home or at work is crucial to boost virtuous behaviours. Our reaction to any novelty is so complex that a lot of socio-psychological research has been done to try to make it more predictable. Gianluca Dotti discusses much of this research in an article on the…
Réunissant plusieurs professionnels du secteur et baptisé « Énergies renouvelables pour tous », il a présenté le 3 mars plusieurs propositions « pour un développement réel de l’autoconsommation collective ». La « petite » loi énergie (art. 39) prévoit une ordonnance pour appliquer en France la directive de 2018 sur les énergies renouvelables, dont un volet vise à lever les freins à l’autoconsommation.
As a region the EU is a transition leader. Its primary energy consumption increased by only 0.2% in 2018 (globally it rose by 2.6%) and its CO2 emissions dropped by 1.7% (globally, up 1.7%). But the EU’s move towards greater “subsidiarity” and devolution of power, to counterbalance too much centralisation, has made it harder for …
Climate-consciousness is rising among ordinary citizens. But most fossil fuels are consumed by large technological systems (electricity networks, urban transport systems, built environments, industrial and agricultural systems), not by individuals. Simon Pirani says we need to trace that consumption to its true source, and thereby put the pressure directly on them to transition. It’s not …
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Citizens across Europe are concerned about their heating bills as a result of the energy price crisis, but sustainable heating and cooling do not yet receive much attention in the EU’s agenda
Governments across the continent have announced a range of measures to tackle any energy shortages this winter
La ministre de la Transition énergétique, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, esquisse les premiers contours du plan pour réduire de 10 % notre consommation d’énergie d’ici deux ans.
Energy prices have skyrocketed in the past months, increasing the concern that millions of Europeans will have to choose between paying their bills and putting food on the table this winter.
Consumers can play a significant role in the energy transition as distributed energy resources and the electrification of heating and transport increase on the system, says Zsuzsanna Pató from the Regulatory Assistance Project
Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union dropped by 3.7% last year, bringing the bloc on track to smash its 2020 emission goals by 4 percentage points, according to the European Environment Agency.
Nous sommes heureux de partager avec vous le troisième volet de nos travaux sur l’impact environnemental du numérique : « Déployer la sobriété numérique ».
Nos deux premiers rapports, « Lean ICT – Pour une sobriété numérique » (2018) et « Climat : l’insoutenable impact de la vidéo en ligne » (2019), nous ont permis de définir notre vision du concept de sobriété numérique. Les constats ainsi établis ont alimenté, notamment grâce à la production de chiffres, une prise de conscience de l’importance de l’empreinte environnementale du numérique, de son augmentation préoccupante et des raisons systémiques qui conduisent à cette situation.
Ce troisième rapport vise à proposer des cadres méthodologiques opérationnels pour mettre en place la sobriété numérique : dans les stratégies et politiques publiques, dans l’entreprise, dans les systèmes d’usages du domaine privé.
A new project called NUDGE, funded by the European Horizon 2020 programme, aims to study, test and evaluate different behavioural interventions for energy efficiency in Greece, Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Croatia. Reducing energy consumption demands behavioural changes – from the way we use our heating and electric appliances to the way we cater. Recent studies and social engagement practices have identified ways to influence behaviour through nudging interventions to support people’s behavioural choices in a predictable manner.
Many of the structural causes of greenhouse gas emissions have not been affected by the lockdown measures imposed to fight the coronavirus, write Bertrand Piccard, Claude Turmes, and several other authors who put forward 12 proposals for the post-crisis period.
EU is moving towards a climate neutrality goal in 2050 with heating of buildings posing a major challenge. This paper provides a deep understanding of the historical development, path dependency and current status of the EU-28 residential heat sectors to inform strategy and policy makers and to open up this black box. Data is combined for buildings, installed technologies, fuel consumption and energy supply for Member States from 1990 to 2015, to analyse the importance of large-scale infrastructures and supply chains.
Even if many cities are finding it a challenge to meet decarbonisation targets, they have made progress over the last decade and are becoming increasingly ambitious
The letter’s signatories – experts, business leaders, politicians and more – call on the IEA to make the 1.5°C target the central scenario in its highly influential annual World Energy Outlook. At present, its “New Policies Scenario” puts us on track for between 2.7°C and 3.3°C. That’s a problem, because too many energy decision-makers cite …
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