The energy performance of buildings directive was recast in 2010 and EU member states are busy implementing it. A new EiD discussion paper by Rod Janssen considers many of the challenges facing member states in this implementation phase. It reviews the challenges in improving the energy performance of buildings as a whole: gaining and maintaining long-term policy priority, improving data quality and analysis, developing the long-term renovation strategy, ensuring the building codes are reflecting the objectives, ensuring there is sufficient capacity to implement ambitious renovation strategies, the need to constantly improve implementation and ensuring there is a sustainable flow of financing. Hopefully this paper will contribute to a discussion in Europe that is sorely needed.
The discussion paper is available here.
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Energy in Demand - Sustainable Energy - Rod Janssen 
A genuinely perceptive and helpful analysis, which reveals clearly that the single most valuable role that the European Commission needs to play is to ensure purposeful implementation by every European Government of the directives which they themselves agreed to adopt.
Thanks for the kind words, Andrew. I hope we can get the EC to play a more effective role on this. We will have a credibility problem if this Directive is allowed to languish as has happened to others in the past. I hope EiD readers can help push the themes I started developing.