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EU Buildings Renovations: get ready for minimum energy performance standards (MEPS)

February 23, 2021 by Louise Sunderland

To meet Europe’s 2030 climate targets the buildings sector must cut its emissions by 60%. That means annual renovations need to jump by an order of magnitude; at the moment it’s crawling at 1% per year. Worse, standard renovations save very little energy, just 9% in homes and 16% in commercial buildings. It’s the deep renovations that cut energy by 60% or more, but that’s only happening to under 0.3% of the stock. Louise Sunderland at RAP … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Energy Tagged With: buildings, commercial, CzechRepublic, efficiency, EU, GreenDeal, MEPS, Netherlands, Poland, recovery, renovations, residential, Romania

Europe’s 55% emissions cut by 2030: proposed target means even faster coal exit

October 5, 2020 by Sören Amelang, Kerstine Appunn and Julian Wettengel

The EC is proposing a target emissions reduction of 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, instead of the previously agreed 40% (which the EU is on course to surpass). The main tool for achieving it will be the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). Prices for allowances will rise, making coal increasingly uncompetitive. Sören Amelang, Kerstine Appunn and Julian Wettengel at CLEW talked to a number of experts who say the new target implies a near total … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Oil, Gas & Coal, Policies Tagged With: Bulgaria, coal, CoalExit, CzechRepublic, EC, emissions, ETS, gas, Germany, oil, Poland, renewables, Romania

Russia and U.S. are backing next generation Nuclear

July 2, 2020 by Dan Yurman

Russia’s Rosatom is positioning itself to lead research and testing for Generation IV fast neutron reactors, including high temperature gas-cooled, molten salt, and lead-bismuth designs. Following an update of plans released by Rosatom in June, Dan Yurman fills in the details. It is creating an International Research Centre and has signed up four partnering nations so far – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The R&D facility … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Nuclear Tagged With: CzechRepublic, FastNeutronReactor, Hungary, Nuclear, Poland, Rosatom, Russia, Slovakia, US

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