News
IEA's "World Energy Outlook 2009" confirms EU energy and climate policies are on the right track
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has recognised the contribution of the EU energy policies in the fight against climate change but highlighted that if global temperature rise is to be kept below 2 ° Celsius, much remains to be done. This is one of the main messages of a presentation of the IEA's World Energy Outlook 2009 (WEO 2009) for European Commission high level officials, hosted by Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs today. The IEA's Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka and Chief Economist Fatih Birol presented the recent upheavals in energy markets and discussed their implications for EU policies.
Energy-saving buildings: agreement reached between the Council and the Parliament
All buildings built after 31 December 2020 must have high energy-saving standards and be powered to a large extent by renewable energy. Public authorities will lead the way two years earlier and part of the funding for these changes will come from the EU. These are among the key points of a deal reached on Tuesday evening between Parliament and Council negotiators.
UK housebuilder offers homes for sale that meet all different levels of Government's Code for Sustai
Miller Homes, a UK housebuilder has designed and built five homes in Merton Rise, Basingstoke, that comply with the Government's Code for Sustainable Homes, a national standard to reduce carbon emissions from dwellings. Each of the five homes has been built to meet a different level of the Code with Code 6 being a carbon zero building. The incorporated technologies and techniques will reduce water consumption, energy use, CO2 emissions, waste and pollution. Key features are: - triple glazed windows - underfloor heating - rain water harvesting - biomass boiler - photovoltaic solar panels - ground source heat pump The UK Government plans to make Code 6 mandatory for all new build properties by 2016.
Embassy to become a zero emission building
The German embassy building in Canberra, Australia, will be soon retrofitted in an energy efficient way. The foreign ministry has assigned Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics to develop an energy efficient retrofit concept which aims at an emission free building use. The retrofit shall be realised with high-tech products of the German building and service system industry allowing the building to be operated with zero CO2 emissions if balanced over the year.
Danish project provides HP subsidies
The Danish Energy Agency has announced a research project aiming to measure the effectiveness of energy-labeled heat pumps. The project will award grants of up to 15,000 DKK (about €2,000) to 300 households for the installation of heat pumps that are energy-labeled, while additional funding wil be available for the metering equipment.
| 2 3 4 | | Next > |
