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    How Norwegians heat their homes

    "Fjernvarme" (remote heat) is the name for district heating in Norway. It's a system where heat is produced centrally and distributed to buildings via a network of pipes, usually transported in the form (...)

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    Germany announces ‘acceleration’ of smart meter rollout

    As electric cars, solar panels and heat pumps are expanding more and more, Berlin has launched a bid to accelerate the installation of smart meters. Smart meters would allow households to manage their (...)

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    An example of sustainable district heating has been developed in Kosovo

    The biomass-fired cogeneration plant and the development of the district heating network that it supplies represents an example in switching to innovative district heating technologies in the Balkans. (...)

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    Sarajevo to introduce heat pumps in district heating system

    To resolve the big issue of air pollution due to the firewood and coal heating in houses and the use of natural gas and heavy fuel oil in district heating, the city of Sarajevo is about to launch several (...)

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    Renovation of old buildings to minimise the environmental impact

    This comprehensive guide explains how to make better use of old buildings to minimise their environmental impact and reduce their carbon footprint. The book also presents a tool which helps to avoid mistakes (...)

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    A new CO2 tax on heating and social climate fund to help households invest in green solutions

    EU legislators have recently agreed to impose a carbon price on buildings which still have a heating system based on fossil fuels. Compared to what the European Commission envisioned, the tax would be (...)

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    Webinar - Novel heat pump technologies based on natural refrigerants and multiple renewable sources

      For the energy transition to succeed, heating & cooling in buildings need efficient, clean and affordable systems. With this in mind, the TRI-HP project has developed trigeneration systems that provide (...)

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    Smart Cities for the energy transition

    Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay What are smart cities? How can they help towards implementing the energy transition and reaching the 2050 climate-neutral targets? The European Commission is placing (...)

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    How to improve the Energy Performance Certificate in your home

    Credits : Alina Kuptsova from Pixabay To sell or rent homes in the UK, it is mandatory to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). How can you make homes more energy efficient and thus save on the (...)

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    Is offsite construction the solution for sustainable buildings?

    Image by JMOSES from Pixabay Offsite construction and standardized process in building can drive the sustainability targets, even though there is still resistance in the sector. In fact, offsite construction (...)

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