Energy efficiency & Buildings
We coordinate efforts for improving energy efficiency and management in various sectors, including public buildings and homes all over Europe. Energy Cities provide solutions for better buildings, including new modes of governance with which local authorities encourage and help home owners retrofit or build in a climate-friendly way.
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Powering heritage buildings and districts with solar panels
Berlin’s Reichstag and the Vatican show that heritage is not a barrier to well-designed solar panels
Join the North-South MED exchange & replication programme
City partnerships - call for applications
Resources for a Rapid Renovation Wave
A collection of guides, case studies and possibilities to ramp up the renovation wave across Europe
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One-stop-shop Riga
Covering 50% of the renovation cost with a municipal pilot fund
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The one-stop-shop accelerator report
About the why, how and what of this European experimentation
The 11 partners of the INNOVATE project aimed at overcoming market barriers to deep energy-efficient retrofits of the private housing stock. They spent three years […]
How to set up a one-stop-shop for integrated home energy renovation?
A step-by-step guide for local authorities and other actors
If you are part of an organisation that plans to launch a one-stop-shop, this guidebook is for you. You can find learnings from the project and recommendations that will help you to kick start your project.
Boosting energy retrofits in condominiums
Approaches for local authorities to facilitate change
Through this guide, partners from the EU-funded ACE Retrofitting project share their learnings on how to act as facilitators between co-owners in condominiums and building experts when it comes to energy retrofits.
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ORFEE
Office of Renovations and Financings for Energy Efficiency
The project aims to set-up a shared resource platform for third-party financing companies (STF) acting as One-Stop-Shops: The Office of Renovations and Financings for Energy […]
Innovate
One-stop-shops and energy retrofit packages for homeowners
Home owners have difficulties in tackling a retrofit project. In order to facilitate the process, INNOVATE develops and rolls out attractive energy retrofit packages, ideally offered in one location – a one-stop-shop.
PROSPECT
Peer-powered cities and regions
The overall aim of PROSPECT is to enable peer-to-peer learning in regional and local authorities in order to finance and implement their sustainable energy plans.
