Briefing 2/2017: Energy Renovation – Making Financing Accessible to the People
Briefing 2/2017: Energy Renovation - Making Financing Accessible to the People Here's a riddle. Why is a product that can prevent energy poverty, dangerous global warming, indoor air pollution and energy import-dependence not the hottest ticket in town? Doubtless there are several factors – from the power of legacy energy lobbies to the sexiness of the brand – but the financing hurdles remain a key barrier to overcome. Simply put, upfront renovation costs are perceived as being too high to attract the people who need them most, and governments have proved reluctant to invest heavily in public…
Home Sweet Home – the Economic Case for Building Renovation
Wednesday 10th May 2017 - 8h00-9h30 - European Parliament Breakfast Event - Hosted by Bendt Bendtsen MEP (EPBD rapporteur), Moderated by Adrian Joyce from Renovate Europe Download the Event Overview and Programme Download the Press Release of the event Relevant documents: Download the Draft Report on the EPBD drafted by MEP Bendt Bendtsen Download the Renovate Europe Briefing “Energy Renovation - Making Financing Accessible to the People” Download the eceee 2-Pager: “How to Finance Energy Efficiency”
The sky is the limit for Poland’s air pollution crisis
28th April 2017, by Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign Director If a European police force dispatched scent-sensitive drones across the suburbs in a last ditch bid to prevent thousands of deaths, you might think a terror attack was imminent. But the Polish police officers filmed last month surveilling residents in Zywiec were tailing a crime wave motivated by nothing more sinister than the desire to keep warm. Its effects though are clear, or rather they are smoggy. For cheap wood, coal and waste burned indoors are contributing to a smog problem in the town that sometimes surpasses even…
Energy Renovation: The double-brainer solution to Europe’s indoor air quality problem
28th April 2017, by Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign Director Energy renovations are often labelled a “no brainer” but on the basis of new research, it might be more accurate to call them a double-brainer. In one double-blind study published last year, the cognitive performances of workers in an enhanced green building environment were found to be 101% higher than in conventional buildings. Crisis response scores were 131% better, strategy scores 288% greater and information usage scores a staggering 299% higher for employees not exposed to the sort of elevated levels of CO2 and…
France: Where energy efficiency tops the polls
France: Where energy efficiency tops the polls 20th April 2017, by Adrian Joyce, Renovate Europe Campaign Director Whoever is elected in the French elections, it seems that the building renovations industry will win. Energy renovation programmes have been a substantial feature in the manifestos of all leading presidential candidates - and in the presidential TV debates. That means French voters can choose from a range of often detailed energy efficiency programmes, in the first round of polling on April 23. But how did it happen? “The subject emerged in this campaign because we built a…
Op-ed: Energy poverty: A blight on the EU (Euractiv)
Published by Euractiv on: 6 April 2017 | For something that blights the lives of between 50 and 125 million European citizens it is strange to discover that there is no EU-wide definition of ‘energy poverty’, writes Adrian Joyce.