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White Paper on Energy-efficient buildings as job-creation motor

Source/Author: Paul McCormack, Serena Pagliula, Nathalie Richet, Maria Capogreco, Mafalda Coelho da Silva, Nouha Gazbour, Steinar Grynning, Targo Kalamees, Gokhan Kirkil , Joana Maia, Fernando Sighos , Matteo Giovanardi , Laura Quant Colon, R. Venkatesha Prasad

The White Paper on Energy-efficient Buildings as Job-creation Motor identified jobs at risk in the construction sector and considered reskilling strategies considering new job opportunities arising within the scope of the clean energy tr...

The White Paper on Energy-efficient Buildings as Job-creation Motor identified jobs at risk in the construction sector and considered reskilling strategies considering new job opportunities arising within the scope of the clean energy transition. The white paper should touch upon the gender dimension, aspects of societal transformation as well as European policy recommendations and instruments focusing on skills and just transition.

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White Paper on Affordable, Sustainable Energy Transition and Building Renovation

Source/Author: João Pedro Gouveia (NOVA University), Teresa Cuerdo (CSIC), Silvia Caneva (WIP Renewable Energies), Claudio Del Pero (Politecnico di Milano) Diletta Ricci (Delft University of Technology), Emiline Elangovan (Chalmers University of Technology), Erwin Mlecnik (Delft University of Technology), Esra Abdelhalim (Politecnico di Milano), Fabrizio Leonforte (Politecnico di Milano), Graziano Salvalai (Politecnico di Milano), Niccolò Aste (Politecnico di Milano) , Kristina Mjörnell (Lund University), Liane Thuvander (Chalmers University of Technology), Mafalda Silva (INEGI)

This white paper underscores selected key EU and national initiatives aimed at promoting a fair and inclusive energy transition alongside building renovations.

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Public attitudes to energy-efficient-buildings and how to address them; community responses to the potential for NZEBs and how to support them

Source/Author: Duygu Celik (WIP Renewable Energies), Silvia Caneva (WIP Renewable Energies), Alain Zarli (ECTP), Constanze Marambio (PtJ), Annett Kühn (PtJ), Abdullah Turan (TÜBITAK-MAM), Maryam Fakhari (EURAC, currently at Lund University), Nicolas De la Vega (EUREC), Ciarán O'Regan (EUBAC), Dan Stefanica (EHPA), Elisabetta Tillier (EHPA), Corentin Girard (Clima i Energia), Paula Casamayor (Grup Imedas)

This report represents the outcome of IWG5 Project that emphasizes the societal dimensions of achieving energy-efficient buildings across Europe. Through annual Study Tours held between 2023 and 2025 in Berlin, Brussels, and Valencia, th...

This report represents the outcome of IWG5 Project that emphasizes the societal dimensions of achieving energy-efficient buildings across Europe. Through annual Study Tours held between 2023 and 2025 in Berlin, Brussels, and Valencia, this report explored how energy efficiency in buildings can be realized not only through technical innovation, but also through inclusive, people-centered approaches.

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2023

Towards Sustainable and Massive Deployment of Photovoltaics: The Nexus of Socio-Economic and Technological Challenges

Source/Author: Chiara Busto (Eni), Chiara Candelise (Imperial College London, Bocconi University), Silvia Caneva (WIP Renewable Energies), Duygu Celik (WIP Renewable Energies) Alessia Cornella (Eurac Research), Letizia Bua (Eni), Edouard Breniaux (Carnot Institute Chimie Balard Cirimat), Nouha Gazbour (CEA), Ivan Gordon (imec), Wander Jager (University College Groningen), Rudolf Kapeller (Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz), Gokhan Kirkil (Kadir Has University), Paola Mazzucchelli (Circe), Osbel Almora Rodríguez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Marcello Passaro (Sunzest Solar), Alessandro Sciullo (University of Turin), Sebastien Lizin (UHasselt), Alessandro Martulli (UHasselt), Atse Louwen (Eurac Research)

The experts of the Social PV Working Group of the ETIP PV with contributions from the Reliability and Circularity Working Group developed this publication. The white paper provides a set of recommendations to increase support, fund rese...

The experts of the Social PV Working Group of the ETIP PV with contributions from the Reliability and Circularity Working Group developed this publication. The white paper provides a set of recommendations to increase support, fund research and innovation, and engage with stakeholders and policymakers.

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Report on intersectional analysis of emerging examples of energy citizenship

Source/Author: Niall P. Dunphy, Breffní Lennon, Lauren Quinlivan, Alexandra Revez, Michael Brenner- Fließer

This deliverable presents a treatment of existing and emerging ideas of citizenship in the energy system and around energy more generally. An analysis of modes of (citizen) participation and related manifestations of energy citizenship i...

This deliverable presents a treatment of existing and emerging ideas of citizenship in the energy system and around energy more generally. An analysis of modes of (citizen) participation and related manifestations of energy citizenship is forwarded. This report – the first of two on characterizing and (re)conceptualizing expressions of energy citizenship – will both contribute to the ongoing discourse on the place of the citizen in the energy domain, and feed into the development of an energy citizenship typology to be presented in the second report from this package of work. Acknowledging that privilege(s) shape the type of relationships particular individuals and groups might have with energy, this report opens a discussion on the type(s) of energy citizenship experienced by those at the margins. In this way, an understanding of multiple (sometime overlapping) expressions of citizenship around energy is forwarded. This report will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners interesting in transforming the currently energy system (and its implications) for the way we live our lives.

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Project GRETA’s Case Studies

Source/Author: Danila Longo, Luise Schlindwein, Lurian Klein, Izaskun Jimenez, Lucía Polo, Eguzkiñe Saenz de Zaitegui, Dr. Anne Kantel, Dr. Sabine Preuß, Maria Stadler, Dr. Carlos Montalvo

Project GRETA is studying energy communities in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Citizens in these communities will adopt renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, monitor their efficient energy behaviours...

Project GRETA is studying energy communities in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Citizens in these communities will adopt renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, monitor their efficient energy behaviours, and participate in the sustainable planning of mobility.

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Placing consumers at the center of a clean energy transition

Source/Author: Achille Hannoset, European Commission, DG

1.Outlook European Energy System, Clean Energy Package: putting consumers at the center, Role of citizens and communities under REPowerEU

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2022

CASE STUDY INFORMATION

Abundance Swindon Common Farm Solar

Source/Author: RES Crowdfunding Platform

Abundance worked with Swindon Borough Council for interesting projects: to build and finance of a 4.8MW ground mounted solar park and the first Council low carbon project.

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EnergEtica

Source/Author: RES Cooperative

EnergÉtica S. Coop. is a consumer cooperative which counts more than 1100 members and 1300 electricity supply contracts. This cooperative owns 20% of a mini- hydroelectric power plant (1MW).

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CASE STUDY INFORMATION

I-ENER

Source/Author: RES Coopertative

I-ENER is a citizen society focusing on the development of renewable energy projects, mainly the production of electricity and heat (e.g. photovoltaic, biomass, etc.), in the Basque country.

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CASE STUDY INFORMATION

GoParity

Source/Author: ES Cooperative & RES Crowdfunding Platform

The case study provided by Go Parity includes the case study of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) signed between the RES cooperative Cooperative Agricola de Mangualde (CAM) and Coopernico, and the RES crowdfunding case study Peer to Pee...

The case study provided by Go Parity includes the case study of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) signed between the RES cooperative Cooperative Agricola de Mangualde (CAM) and Coopernico, and the RES crowdfunding case study Peer to Peer (P2P) lending for the Lisbon Swedish School.

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CASE STUDY INFORMATION

Lake Constance Fundation

Source/Author: RES Cooperative

The case studies provided by Lake Constance Fundation include a cluster of German citizen energy cooperatives in Baden-Württemberg. Two examples of energy cooperatives are the Bioenergy Villages and Bürgerenergie Bodensee (Civil ener...

The case studies provided by Lake Constance Fundation include a cluster of German citizen energy cooperatives in Baden-Württemberg. Two examples of energy cooperatives are the Bioenergy Villages and Bürgerenergie Bodensee (Civil energy cooperatives at Lake Constance).

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