Friday, December 7, 2012

Energy Efficiency: an eye to the future

In terms of energy efficiency and although projections show that we will reach the first two targets of the 20-20-20 strategy with the current trend, we are significantly behind the energy consumption reduction. Improvements in energy efficiency are tipped to be crucial if we want to meet this goal too. For that, a new energy efficiency directive has been agreed aiming to help considerably by introducing (for instance) mandatory retrofitting of public buildings, energy-saving schemes for utilities, and energy audits for all large companies and industries. 
 

If we do reach our target this will mean that the EU will not import 2.6 billion barrels of oil, will save 368 million tons of equivalent oil of primary energy and 193 billion €!


1 comment:

  1. Why not to try to make your house efficient one? What's bad in saving money and helping our planet? Here're some ideas concerning this:

    Energy-efficient house

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