Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 22:46:36 GMT -5
The negotiation of the Building Energy Efficiency Directive continues in Europe. At stake is a recalibration of the different letters of the energy efficiency certificate and the urgency in making improvement works mandatory for 15% of the Spanish real estate stock built, the most inefficient in energy terms.
After the agreement reached last May by the European Parliament on the reform of the Energy Efficiency of Buildings Directive (EPBD, in its acronym in English), the complex European legislative machinery got underway. During this phase of trilogues, the Parliament, the European Commission and the Council defend important nuances in its application.
“What is clear is that the EU is going to implement minimum energy efficiency standards for housing, the difficulty is agreeing on how . And there is the discussion now,” explains Raquel Díez , Project Director of GBCe (Green Building Council Spain).
And it is still too early to anticipate what the Czech Republic Mobile Number List final wording will look like. However, it is important to understand what the positions are in a Directive that, with its transposition into Spanish Law, can force the owners of a home with the minimum qualification to carry out improvement works up to label F, before selling or renting . in the same way that today requires having the Energy Efficiency Certificate.
What percentage of housing is being acted upon urgently?
The biggest point of friction revolves around the so-called minimum energy efficiency standards, as Díez explains: “The objective is to harmonize the energy certificate in the EU countries because until now, except for some common minimums, it was very dispersed.
The EU wants to establish a rating system based on common objective criteria , but taking into account the specificity of each climatic region: it is obvious that the thermometer of a Greek island or a town in northern Poland conditions energy consumption in both. households.
“The problem arises when deciding how this harmonization is going to materialize,” continues Díez. The solution may involve a self-referenced scaling of energy labels in each country. In this way, the letter G would group together the worst 15% of the housing built and the A would be a Zero Emission Building, as defined by the Directive. In between, in each country a proportional scale would be made with the rest of the labels.
But faced with this technical adjustment, the three European institutions are resolving an action of great impact for European housing. At stake is the urgency in the application of the measures with which the EU wants to advance towards climate neutrality by 2050 in residential buildings.
After the agreement reached last May by the European Parliament on the reform of the Energy Efficiency of Buildings Directive (EPBD, in its acronym in English), the complex European legislative machinery got underway. During this phase of trilogues, the Parliament, the European Commission and the Council defend important nuances in its application.
“What is clear is that the EU is going to implement minimum energy efficiency standards for housing, the difficulty is agreeing on how . And there is the discussion now,” explains Raquel Díez , Project Director of GBCe (Green Building Council Spain).
And it is still too early to anticipate what the Czech Republic Mobile Number List final wording will look like. However, it is important to understand what the positions are in a Directive that, with its transposition into Spanish Law, can force the owners of a home with the minimum qualification to carry out improvement works up to label F, before selling or renting . in the same way that today requires having the Energy Efficiency Certificate.
What percentage of housing is being acted upon urgently?
The biggest point of friction revolves around the so-called minimum energy efficiency standards, as Díez explains: “The objective is to harmonize the energy certificate in the EU countries because until now, except for some common minimums, it was very dispersed.
The EU wants to establish a rating system based on common objective criteria , but taking into account the specificity of each climatic region: it is obvious that the thermometer of a Greek island or a town in northern Poland conditions energy consumption in both. households.
“The problem arises when deciding how this harmonization is going to materialize,” continues Díez. The solution may involve a self-referenced scaling of energy labels in each country. In this way, the letter G would group together the worst 15% of the housing built and the A would be a Zero Emission Building, as defined by the Directive. In between, in each country a proportional scale would be made with the rest of the labels.
But faced with this technical adjustment, the three European institutions are resolving an action of great impact for European housing. At stake is the urgency in the application of the measures with which the EU wants to advance towards climate neutrality by 2050 in residential buildings.