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New publication on Energy Efficiency in Europe

The overall objective of the EEW Project (Energy Efficiency Watch) is to promote energy efficiency across Europe by analysing Member States’national energy efficiency strategies and by highlighting good practice energy efficiency policies, (...)

By Blandine Pidoux, on 27 May 2009 | 14h49 | 403 visits
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The Bali-Poznan-Copenhagen Road Map

Together with other local authority networks at European and global levels, Energie-Cités is involved in a process aimed at getting local authorities recognised as indispensable players in the post-Kyoto strategy. This strategy is currently being defined and should be finalised in December 2009 (...)

     
     
 

Low energy buildings save 65% of energy in the municipality of Brno – Novy Liskovec (CZ)

They invested 7 M EUR coming from the municipal budget, municipal fund (collected tenants’ rents) and commercial loans from the banks. The calculated pay-back period of this investment was 17 years in 2001 while thanks to the increasing energy prices it fell to 10 years in 2009. In the very (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 26 May 2009 | 17h56 | 388 visits
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The city of Cascais (PT) hired the “Watt Busters” to chase their “Caça Watts”

The city of Cascais found out that 50% of its energy is consumed by the households. Therefore the city decided to hire the “Watt Busters”- enthusiastic employees of the local energy agency - to chase the watts in the private households through the communication with citizens, provision of free (...)

By Jana Cicmanova, on 26 May 2009 | 17h54 | 247 visits
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"Energy and cities are central to this renewal"

"Our development is not sustainable.(...) It is up to us to come up with and implement new, original, adapted and proportionate solutions to the challenges we face." In this excerpt, in particular : The Covenant of Mayors in practical Our new challenges The Crisis: a brake or an (...)

     
     
 

European Mobility Week

The European Mobility Week Newsletter n°17 has been released by the European Coordination of the European Mobility Week. Energie-Cités takes part in the European Coordination.You can freely download it on the EMW Website at: http://www.mobilityweek.eu TABLE OF CONTENTS: News from the European (...)

By Olivier Lagarde, on 22 May 2009 | 16h58 | 267 visits
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The message of Sunita Narain

Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. Her research interests are wide-ranging - from global democracy, with a special focus on climate change, to the need for local democracy, within which (...)

     
     
 

Hannover’s act2 demonstration projects are now online

Datasheets are now ready on four demonstration projects: • Retrofitting multiple-occupancy buildings • Solar thermal installation at Lister Bad open-air pool • Wood pellet heating plant at Burgweg depot • Stadtwerke Hannover wood energy centre At the end of 2007 the extensive energy-efficiency (...)

By Peter Schilken, on 7 May 2009 | 14h50 | 416 visits
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