Stimulating Consumer Demand for Energy Efficiency Investments

Mafalda Silva is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. She has participated and managed multiple projects concerning energy planning and sustainability. Silva has developed a heat and cold matching platform that determines the costs and benefits related to excess heat utilization routes for the industry and end users.

European cities, regional and national organisations have to transition towards Circular Economy. Only 10% of the cities have advanced on circular transition, as it is particularly complex. Municipalities and local businesses across Europe are facing four interlinked challenges.

Next week sees the start of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2023 in Brussels. The RE4Industry project uses this flagship event to showcase its amazing results and has developed a fun-learn mobile quiz: 5 questions, 45 seconds, fastest 25 daily winner get a nice price.

SUPER-i survey is an online survey aimed at collecting insights on the current state of the energy-efficient refurbishment of social housing stocks in Europe. Results will identify areas for improvement, enable benchmarking of energy efficiency performance, and inform decision-making processes at various levels.

OneNet project delivered a report on Cross stakeholder Data Governance for Energy Data Exchange. It was concluded that the majority of the recommendations are yet to be addressed. The deliverable analyses the OneNet system architecture and functional approach from.

Until now, there was no efficient way for industries generating excess heat to provide it to nearby users who need it. Now the EMB3Rs platform, a tool that matches thermal energy sources with potential demand, offers an effective way for these heat sources and sinks to find each other.

The market for sustainability-linked bonds hit the $100 billion mark in 2021. This growth rate is significantly faster than that of green bonds, which took almost six years to reach the same market size.

The final video about EMB3Rs heat and cold matching platform has been released. It features the different application options for the platform. Discover four case studies in Portugal and Greece, take a visit at the platform developers office and listen to what the coordinator.

Biomass plays a crucial role in the production of zero-carbon heat and electricity. The future of biomass in industrial applications remains promising. Some industries, such as the cement industry, have already invested heavily in adapting their processes to use biomass.