Maria Csutora presented the most important insights of the Hungarian case study on heating, which drew on the data of 1022 energy consumers and the outcomes of focus groups focusing on the energy-saving opportunities of households. The data revealed that overheating is quite common in Hungary: about two thirds of the households claim to heat […]
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ASSET (A holistic and Scalable Solution for research, innovation and education in Energy Transition) is an European project funded under Horizon2020 that aims to build and provide the tools required to create abilities, skills and knowledge needed to foster the energy transition. ASSET aims to: Engage a variety of actors – universities, research centres, students, […]
During this session, which focused on the governance implications of the energy transition in Europe, experts from Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Norway and Serbia outlined some important bottlenecks that hamper the policy design and implementation in their countries and how they could be overcome. Emilie Magdalinski (JDI) highlighted the difficult coordination of the energy transition in […]
What has shaped our energy consumption over the past 40 years? How do we consume energy now? What will energy consumption look like in 20 years? And what can we do to change the path we’re on? The ENABLE.EU project has spent the last three years studying people’s energy consumption and prosumption. A new interactive […]
Vitalii Martyniuk, Acting Executive Director of the Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”, and expert working on the ENABLE.EU project, noted that, even just 7-8 years ago, Ukrainians did not use to save energy resources in heating because the resources were cheap and not measured properly. But the situation changed dramatically in 2014, when the […]
The session on heating and cooling built on the ENABLE.EU heating case study involving France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine and Hungary, focusing on the role of heating practices, energy-saving opportunities and obstacles to energy efficiency improvements in households. After presenting the outcomes of the research in Hungary, France and Ukraine, the audience was asked about the […]
To build a clean energy future, the European Union aims at increasing energy efficiency by 32.5% by 2030. With households making up a large share of a country’s energy consumption, the successful implementation of this aim hinges on citizens’ electricity consumption. But what policies actually influence citizens’ electricity consumption? This session discussed this question by […]
In 2018, Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) generated by industrial activity account for about 40% of the total EU emissions. Some EU governments have already adopted policies aimed at reducing industrial emissions. France, for example, developed an ambitious policy framework for the energy transition, including carbon pricing instruments. To determine implications of these policies on industry […]
On the way towards the EU Energy Union, the question on the consumers’ role in the energy transition becomes more and more appealing. By understanding what drives their energy choices, policymakers can make targeted decisions and influence the consumers to choose more sustainably. Since 2016, researchers from 12 European organisations have put consumers’ energy behaviours […]