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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....
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...
read moreLetter to President Juncker: 35 companies and business associations call for a relevant role of energy efficiency in the Investment Plan for Europe
Dear President Juncker, Dear Vice-President Katainen, As representatives of progressive companies and not-for-profit organizations working in Brussels to promote improved energy efficiency, we very much welcome your promised focus on improving Europe’s competitiveness...
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Fourth Annual EU-ASE High-Level Dinner Debate
How to realize the EU’s energy efficiency potential within the EU Climate and Energy Package 2030 Leading businesses call for an ambitious EU-wide binding energy savings target for 2030. On 14 October 2014, a broad range of European companies, large and SMEs,...
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Note to the Italian Prime Minister: “Stop agli sprechi!”
Lo sviluppo di una riflessione seria sull’impatto dell’efficienza energetica sull’economia e la società italiana ed europea è spesso ostacolato da tre falsi miti: 1. E’ VERO CHE FARE EFFICIENZA ENERGETICA SIGNIFICA FRENARE LA CRESCITA ECONOMICA ? 2. E’ VERO CHE LE...
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Third Annual EU-ASE High-Level Dinner Debate
Energy efficiency is at the heart the EU energy and climate framework for 2030 and EU regional policy 2014-2020 The European Commission and EU Member States must propose a post 2020 energy-and-climate strategy and plan the use of resources that the EU will make...
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EU-ASE contribution to the public consultation on “A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies”
The 2020 framework was designed without a comprehensive assessment of the synergies and potential trade-offs between the three targets (as recognized by the Green Paper – page 7, 5th paragraph) and had only two binding targets: one for raising the share of energy...
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