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Buildings are in the spotlight as the EU contemplates a long, hard winter on the back of an energy price crisis intensified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Already the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ climate package aimed to double renovation rates by 2030 and pioneer minimum energy performance standards for buildings.
As a community, as a state, as a nation, and as a world, we are at a pivotal moment in the fight to slow climate change. The past few months have brought much speculation on how the coronavirus pandemic might help usher in the triumph of renewable energy over fossil fuels.
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals requires trillions of dollars in investments in sustainable energy infrastructure globally in the coming decades. This paper, written by our LAUNCH Partner, Research Institution TNO, explores the important role that institutional investors can play in providing these required investments, and thus in the transition to a clean energy system.
Over the last three years, the NOVICE project, coordinated by IERC, has been testing the validity of a new business model for Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) that combines both energy efficiency and demand response services into a single service offering.
The Club of Amsterdam invited our VP Finance, Michael Pachlatko, to talk about how Joule Assets is working to ensure a just energy transition and to accelerate capital deployment in energy efficiency through the LAUNCH H2020 project.
Joule Assets Europe has proudly contributed to the February issue of the REHVA Journal with the article with an article on how to overcome the energy efficiency financing challenges in the HVAC and building sector.
Today, CAN Europe, CEE Bankwatch and WWF networks are publishing a letter co-signed by national NGOs, cities, regions and business associations calling for the EU institutions to ensure that cohesion policy excludes fossil fuel subsidies in order to support a sustainable and just transition to climate neutrality.
With rising GDP, the European Union is once again at risk of missing the 2020 targets for energy efficiency, and yet more ambitious targets for 2030 lie ahead.
Joule: /jool/ noun. The standard unit of energy.
