
New report from JRC: Enabling Positive Energy Districts across Europe: energy efficiency couples renewable energy
New report by European Commissions Joint Research Centre. It aims to understand how to handle energy performance targets. This is a relatively new endeavour in both scientific research and realised projects. There are several ‘zero energy and ‘energy community concepts that exist, in terms of the legal framework, but there is no such definition in current European legislation. But there are many instruments in the Clean Energy for all Europeans package that can support citizens, local communities and national authorities to develop such districts or communities (in particular REDII, EPBD, EED) The literature review and interviews undertaken in this study came to to a common conclusion: although there are still some applicability barriers - it is possible to develop cost-optimal performance targets for a PED and in order to meet the targets of the EU Green Deal and the Paris Agreement the following steps should be taken into account when designing. The report is available here. and provide a roadmap for local municipalities,.
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