Australia sees poor performance from its vehicle fuel efficiency standards

Energy efficiency policy is heavily reliant on minimum energy performance standards for many technologies, including cars. Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School at Griffith University explains in an article on The Conversation website about the less than impressive developments in vehicle efficiency in Australia. How is it in your country? Australia has stalled on … Continue reading Australia sees poor performance from its vehicle fuel efficiency standards →

Blog from Catrin Maby – And/and, not either/or: reflections on the eceee summer study

I have just returned from the excellent and thought provoking eceee summer study. Impressed with the range of the discussions, it struck me that this is in fact key to the theme of achieving an energy efficient economy. It’s a matter of doing all of it, not pitting solutions against each other. A case in … Continue reading Blog from Catrin Maby – And/and, not either/or: reflections on the eceee summer study →

Important upcoming events

EU Sustainable Energy Week will soon be upon us. EiD encourages you to check out all the events that will be occurring between June 19th and 25th. Last week we featured the event on June 20th of the Energy Advice Exchange that EiD belongs to. More information is available below. The other event we would … Continue reading Important upcoming events →

Appreciating the impact of sustainable energy

Innovation, energy efficiency & renewables can help us reduce global warming, says Anirban Ghosh, CSO of the Mahindra Group on the Business Standard website in India. Energy efficiency and the path to 2 degree The greenest power is the power you don’t have to produce – Anonymous The most appropriate reaction to the announcement … Continue reading Appreciating the impact of sustainable energy →

American energy efficiency policies and programmes in bumpy ride

Daily we are reading something new about the Trump administration and it is a concern what is happening to climate and energy policies. Lauren Urbanek writes a good article on the Natural Resources Defense Council website about some of the positive and the negative developments recently. Efficiency Standards: A Few Steps Forward, A Few … Continue reading American energy efficiency policies and programmes in bumpy ride →

Some things just sneak up on you

Evidence is showing every day how energy efficiency really is first! Julie McNamara, an energy analyst writes on the Union of Concerned Scientists website about some important new evidence. While You Weren’t Looking, Energy Efficiency Became One of Our Nation’s Top Energy Resources Here’s a fact I bet you didn’t know: in 2015, energy … Continue reading Some things just sneak up on you →

New toolkit to reduce the energy performance gap in new homes

Britain has a new energy performance improvement toolkit prepared by researchers from a sustainable charity. Will Worley explains in an article on the buildings.co.uk website. Toolkit launched to improve energy efficiency of new-build homes The Building Energy Performance Improvement Toolkit is the result of a four year-long research project, backed by £1.5m of government … Continue reading New toolkit to reduce the energy performance gap in new homes →

Energy Advice Exchange co-organising important roundtable discussion June 20th: Think local first: a building policy to deliver on EU renovation challenge

The Energy Advice Exchange is pleased to be co-organising an event in Brussels on June 20th. Consumers, local authorities and energy advisory services are the three leading forces, whose combined actions will enable Europe to deliver on its 2050 renovation challenge. Their manifold collaboration on the ground, in cooperation with other private and public stakeholders, … Continue reading Energy Advice Exchange co-organising important roundtable discussion June 20th: Think local first: a building policy to deliver on EU renovation challenge →

Blog by Energy Advice Exchange: One measure can’t be all things to all people

Louise Sunderland and Rod Janssen provide the following blog on Article 7 of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive. Since the launch of the Clean Energy for All Europeans package, we have been trying to better understand Europe’s renovation strategy. For building renovation one of the main (only) concrete measures proposed is the continuation to … Continue reading Blog by Energy Advice Exchange: One measure can’t be all things to all people →

Developing an affordable ambitious renovation

There are more and more efforts to go for more and more ambitious energy renovations of buildings. Patrick Sisson writes a good article on the curbed website about a project at Harvard University to create a new proto-type of ultra-efficient existing building that requires almost zero energy. How do you think it compares to other … Continue reading Developing an affordable ambitious renovation →