The Clean Energy Solutions Center, in partnership with Enerdata, hosted this webinar on Energy Efficiency Measures to Boost Building Renovation.

To improve the efficiency of existing building stock and reach national and EU targets, it is important to implement new and innovative support schemes—in particular to address the major barrier to thermal renovation: its initial investment. This webinar explored existing potential savings in building stock and present some innovative financial schemes.

To accelerate the annual rate of renovation in EU countries, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) re-cast asks EU countries to “assure that minimum energy performance requirements for buildings or building units are set with a view to achieving cost-optimal levels” for both new and existing buildings. The webinar explained the cost-optimal level concept and presented the cost-energy clouds generated in the frame of the Entranze project, whose objective is to provide fact based evidence and guidelines to build ambitious, but reality proof policies and roadmaps for renovating the existing building stock towards nearly zero-energy buildings levels.

Because renovation may require high initial investment, energy efficiency measures should incentivize end-use customers and help them implement the renovation package that leads to the best solutions. The second part of the webinar presented a sample of current best or innovative practices in EU leveraging renovation activity. It also presented the most ambitious policy package scenarios set in the Entranze project.