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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Where should green hydrogen fit in your city?
A short guide to where we think hydrogen can make the biggest impact in a city's energy transition.
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One-stop-shop Riga
Covering 50% of the renovation cost with a municipal pilot fund
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Finance your sustainable and climate action: Experience from 195 public authorities in your hands for learning and replication
A comprehensive guide
Innovative financing is often an option for local energy and climate projects, but cities and regions need to know better how to activate and use […]
Success Stories from PROSPECT
Over the past months, almost 200 local/regional authorities and agencies got to exchange and learn about innovative mechanisms to finance their sustainable energy and climate […]
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 […]
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Energy Efficiency Watch 4
Making the implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive a reality
What is a Directive without a proper implementation? Energy Efficiency Watch 4 (EEW4) monitors how Member States translate the European Energy Efficiency Directive into impacting […]
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.
