Passive House Regions with Renewable Energies (PassREg)

This project aimed to help accelerate implementation of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings throughout the EU, using Passive House with renewable energy sources. Several European municipalities and regions were already committed to energy efficient Passive House principles (maximum heating and cooling demands of 15 kWh/m²a in new builds). The experiences from these front runner regions, or PassREgs, helped to pave the way for other EU regions to achieve the EU's 2020 energy targets. Front runner regions that had already implemented successful, cost effective strategies were highlighted. The models that they had used to promote implementation of PassREg concepts were adapted and implemented in the aspiring regions. Beacon projects, real construction and refurbishment exemplars, provided concrete case studies of best practice. The experiences were fed into a set of solutions web tool that made best practice accessible to advance the large-scale uptake of further PassREgs across the EU.