Andy Warren, President of Maracay Homes in Arizona, writes for the Explorer news about a new study that quantified the link between energy-efficient homes and mortgage risks. Separately, NV Energy in Nevada spent $267 million on energy efficiency programmes during 2007-12. This led to savings of 1.9 billion kilowatt-hours per year, the amount of savings … Continue reading Benefits of energy efficient homes
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Finns support building renovations in Moscow
The Science Codex writes that VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is helping Moscow address the technical problems of the poor quality buildings in Moscow. The work covers both individual buildings and entire districts. Finnish researchers to provide solutions for energy-efficient repairs in Moscow There are many old and decrepit residential buildings in Moscow … Continue reading Finns support building renovations in Moscow
Impact of energy performance certificates questioned in Scotland
Malcolm Cannon of ESPC.com in Scotland writes in the Guardian about the impact that EPCs are having on the Scottish housing market. Energy performance certificates won't change human behaviour Scottish government plans to improve energy efficiency can't prevent buyers placing more space above green credentials In late January, the Scottish government published a draft … Continue reading Impact of energy performance certificates questioned in Scotland
New survey tries to come to grips with “deep” energy efficiency in buildings in Europe
The Global Buildings Performance Network and its European Hub, the Buildings Performance Institute Europe, have just released a survey undertaken by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to better understand what the “buildings community” is thinking on the importance and feasibility of going “deep,” achieving very ambitious savings, compared to past performance. Are Businesses Ready … Continue reading New survey tries to come to grips with “deep” energy efficiency in buildings in Europe
India looks to energy efficiency in buildings
Radhika Khosla recently wrote for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s blog on the aftermath of the Clean Energy Ministerial recently held in New Delhi. Importantly, India is looking to improved energy performance of high rise buildings and NRDC launched an important new report on the importance of energy efficiency in buildings. These are all important … Continue reading India looks to energy efficiency in buildings
How big a problem is there in measuring floor area?
Tanya Powley writes in the Financial Times about the discrepancies in measuring the floor area in residential buildings in the UK. The discrepancy can be 10 to 15%. While it seriously affects valuation of properties, it can also impact on the UK’s total floor area, an indicator used in developing its buildings energy performance strategies. … Continue reading How big a problem is there in measuring floor area?
New energy efficiency regulations for renovation work in Finland
Finland’s Ministry of the Environment issued new regulations on February 27th for improving the energy efficiency of buildings during renovation and alteration works. The regulations will come into effect on June 1, 2013 for buildings in public use and on September 1, 2013 for other buildings. The regulations define the minimum requirements for energy efficiency … Continue reading New energy efficiency regulations for renovation work in Finland
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In the past few months, we have had data hubs from the IEA’s Sustainable Building Centre and the BPIE. They are both excellent, and constantly evolving, which is good. On February 8th, EiD had a post that included reports coming from ENTRANZE, a project funded by Intelligent Energy Europe to support policy making to encourage … Continue reading More interaction . . .
Focus on buildings
There are some very interesting books that have come out recently on the energy performance of buildings. Here are some of them: 1 Simply Green This book presents an overview of all main global and some national environmental and energy assessment systems. It discusses six environmental and three purely energy-based certification systems along with fourth … Continue reading Focus on buildings
What is going on in energy efficiency in the UK?
For the past couple of weeks, EiD has had posts on the VAT spat that the British government is having with the European Commission. Already this year, there have been raised concerns about the flagship financing programme, the Green Deal. Now we have another major issue that appears to be going to the courts to … Continue reading What is going on in energy efficiency in the UK?
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