Independent analysis of building energy renovation in Europe: the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, energy performance certificates, renovation policy and the technologies behind lower-carbon buildings.
Of EU buildings energy-inefficient
Of EU energy use from buildings
Renovation rate goal by 2030
EU member states covered
The recast EPBD ends subsidies for stand-alone fossil fuel boilers from 2025 and sets the goal of phasing them out of buildings by 2040. What is and is not banned.
The Entranze Observatory is an independent editorial resource on building energy renovation in the European Union. It explains the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, energy performance certificates and the technologies and policies behind lower-carbon buildings.
Articles draw on primary sources — EU legislation, Commission publications, Eurostat statistics and peer-reviewed literature — and cite them inline so that readers can check each figure at its origin.
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