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To deliver the ambition of new energy efficiency directives
Switching all conventional light points to LEDs is one of the easiest, quickest and most cost-effective ways of reducing energy consumption, says Alice Steenland from Signify says Alice Steenland of Signify in Foresight Climate & Energy ahead of the second edition of European Energy Efficiency Day. A simple change can make a big difference....
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MEPs fail to boost EU renewables, efficiency targets before COP21
The European Parliament’s energy committee today (10 November) rejected a push by MEPs to increase the EU’s 2030 climate and energy targets and to make them legally binding. MEPs today called for three binding 2030 targets of at least 40% greenhouse gas...
read moreLetter to the Italian Minister for Economic Development: Italy to support a robust governance 2030
Nel nostro Paese la green economy ha contribuito e sta contribuendo in modo determinante a rilanciare la competitività del made in Italy. Una propensione che abbraccia tutti i settori della nostra economia – da quelli più tradizionali a quelli high tech,...
read moreLetter to Energy Ministers: Efficiency First to be recognized also in the Council conclusions
We are writing to express our encouragement at the increased recognition that energy efficiency is being given in current discussion regarding the Energy Union. It is our hope that as those discussions advance toward revision of existing EU legislation in 2016, they...
read moreLetter to MEPs: Energy Efficiency as a key pillar in the European Energy Security Strategy (EEES)
We are convinced that the decisions the EU will take in the next months over the priorities of its energy policy will be crucial to improve Europe’s competitiveness and the well-being of its citizens. We are therefore pleased that the European Parliament is...
read moreEU-ASE letter to President Tusk and all 28 Heads of State and Government: Energy Union will succeed by putting Efficiency First
At the forthcoming European Council on 19-20 March you will be discussing further orientations in view of building an Energy Union. The European Council has regularly acknowledged that the cheapest and cleanest energy is that which is not used. The vision set out in...
read moreLetter to the College of Commissioners: “Energy efficiency first” in the Energy Union
On behalf of the European Alliance to Save Energy (EU‐ASE), we are writing to express our full support for the creation of the Energy Union and to encourage you to place energy efficiency firmly at the forefront of its development and operation. In the same way that...
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