This week’s briefs

There are quite a few briefs this week that should be of interest to EiD readers.

 

• CLASP

EiD was disappointed to hear of the closing of the CLASP Europe office. Only a few weeks, we posted a new discussion paper from the organisation [https://energyindemand.com/2014/02/20/discussion-paper-on-developing-measurement-methods-for-eu-ecodesign-and-energy-labelling-measures/]. We wish Pernille Schiellerup and the team all the best in the future.

 

• eceee industrial Summer Study

Please mark it in your calendar to attend the upcoming Summer Study, June 2-5^th, in Papendal, Arnhem, the Netherlands. The theme is “Retool for a Competitive and Sustainable Industry.” It covers all types of industry, from manufacturing and food processing to heavy process industry, and it covers large companies as well as SMEs. There are six themes for the 2014 Summer Study:

– Programmes to promote industrial energy efficiency

– Sustainable production design and supply chain initiatives

– Matching policies and drivers: Policies and directives to drive industrial efficiency

– Undertaking high impact actions: The role of technology and systems optimisation

– The role of energy management systems, education, outreach and training

– Business models to improve industrial efficiency, global perspective.

You can come and help EiD do some blogging and tweeting since Rod, together with Luigi Meli, will be one of the panel leaders for the panel on Business Models. Industrial energy efficiency is starting to get the attention from policymakers that it should have had years ago. The new Energy Efficiency Directive is a major step forward. The Summer Study will be an ideal opportunity to come and discuss the topic in a convivial and relaxed atmosphere.

More information on the Summer Study is available on the eceee website.

 

• Focus must be on implementation if we are to see needed impact of energy performance of buildings

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 the on-going discussion in Europe

The discussion paper is available here.

• new eceee Maze report on nearly zero energy buildings

eceee published a new guide in its “Steering through the maze” series. The new guide – Understanding (the very European concept of) Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings – is an easily accessible guide to the policies and concepts of nZEB. The guide complements the new FAQ section on the EPBD published a short while ago.

The new eceee steering through the maze guide is an update of the very popular guide on nZEBs.

• IEA was on the right track linking energy security and energy efficiency

As you try to figure out what can be done to help overcome the Ukraine/Crimea crisis, why not have a look at two important reports from the IEA written several years ago. Saving Electricity in a Hurry details the three main strategies to save electricity quickly: raise electricity prices; encourage behavioural changes; and introduce more energy efficient technologies. Saving Oil in a Hurry provides a new, quantitative assessment of the potential oil savings and costs of rapid oil demand restraint measures for transport. These measures may be useful both for large-scale supply disruptions and for smaller or more localised supply disruptions in individual countries.

While they don’t solve everything, they could give you some useful guidance.