Energy Efficiency

• GREEN PAPER on Energy Efficiency or Doing More With Less
     
   

• Report on the Analysis of the Debate of the Green Paper on Energy Efficiency
  
  Annexes
  
   

• Slide presentation
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• Press release "Commissioner Piebalgs: Europe could save 20% of its energy by 2020" (IP/05/774)
  
   
• Memo "20% energy savings by 2020"
   
   
• Speech "Energy Efficiency – what can I do?" (MEMO/05/218)
  
   
• Speech "Europe could save 20% of its energy by 2020" (MEMO/05/216)
   

Recorded Broadcast Commissioner A. Piebalgs Press Conference on 22 June 2005

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• Video "Energy use in buildings: Use it better, use it less"

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In Europe 40% of our energy use is consumed in buildings, more than by industry or transport. That is a lot. It is too much. There is great potential for energy savings in this field, often at little cost. A new European directive contributes to improving the energy performance of buildings. It provides, for example, for: the application of minimum standards of energy efficiency to buildings in every country in the EU; the creation of a certificate to inform buyers or tenants of the energy performance of the building they hope to occupy; the posting in large, frequented, public buildings of energy performance certificates for information

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• An Energy Performance Certificate is awarded today to the European Commission's headquarters "The Berlaymont" (IP/05/773)
   

Today, a group of Member States’ experts handed over the Certificates on the Energy Performance of the Berlaymont Building to the Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. Such certificates are one of a number of measures set out in the European legislation on the Energy Performance of Buildings. From 2006, all large public buildings in the European Union will be required to display them for the visiting public to see. Commissioner Piebalgs said: “The Berlaymont certification is an excellent and timely initiative to illustrate and raise awareness of this important legislation in the buildings sector. Buildings account for 40% of the energy consumed in the Union and more than 1/5 of this energy could be saved by applying tougher standards on buildings. This is also a sector where the energy efficiency measures could have important job-creation impacts as we highlight in the Commission’s Green Paper on Energy Efficiency”.  Read more...

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• Public consultation (closed: 31/03/2006)

Report on the Analysis of the Debate of the Green Paper on Energy Efficiency

Annexes

Questionnaire

TREN-ENERGY-EFFICIENCY

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