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Articles by Andreas Rüdinger
Buildings Renovation: if Europe had started a decade ago it wouldn’t have a Russian oil & gas problem
It’s a message we are starting to see a lot. If ambitious climate policies struggling to be implemented today had been launched a decade ago, Europe wouldn’t have a Russian oil and gas problem. Andreas Rüdinger at IDDRI looks at buildings renovations in France. Two missed targets, proposed in 2008, are a 38% reduction in energy consumption in existing buildings by 2020, and 400,000 “major” renovations annually.
Buildings Renovation in Germany: success story or potential failure?
The German Federal Association of Housing and Real Estate Companies (GdW) has claimed that money and effort spent on the nation’s buildings renovations have not worked. But Andreas Rüdinger at IDDRI has looked into the evidence and concluded that the opposite is the case. CO2 emissions from the residential sector in 2018 were 37% lower than in 1990. Though final energy consumption was broadly stable, that’s because efficiency gains were offset by an increase in the residential building stock.
Energy renovation in Germany: success story or potential failure?
WARNING: SIGN-IN You need to be a member of Energy Central to access some features and content. Please sign-in or register to continue. Originally published on IDDRI site. On 4 October 2020, Le Monde published an article on the energy efficiency of Germany’s building stock, claiming that consumption has not been reduced, that energy retrofitting policies have failed, and that the sector’s CO2 emission reduction targets were unlikely to be achieved.
Buildings Efficiency: France must embed deep retrofits into its market
France’s energy efficiency ambitions for buildings are well off target. Buildings account for 28% of the nation’s emissions and they’ve hardly reduced since 1990 – only by 3%. It’s because of the lack of development of the buildings renovation sector, explains Andreas Rüdinger at IDDRI. Without it, there’s little chance of renovating 500,000 housing units per year and bringing the entire housing stock up to the “low-energy building” (BBC) performance level by 2050.
Énergies renouvelables : comment soutenir efficacement les projets citoyens et participatifs en France ?
Le développement des énergies renouvelables (ENR) représente l’un des piliers de la stratégie française de transition énergétique. Afin d’atteindre les objectifs ambitieux fixés à l’horizon 2030 – soit 32 % d’énergie renouvelable dans la consommation finale d’énergie, 40 % pour l’électricité –, la nouvelle Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie indique qu’il faudra doubler les capacités d’énergies renouvelables électriques installées entre 2017 et 2028 dans l’Hexagone.
Energy transition strategies in high coal consuming countries - Iddri Blog
The EU member states are required to put in place a significant transformation towards a low-carbon economy in order to meet the 2030 EU emission targets. Poland faces specific challenges due to its high reliance on domestic coal. The efforts undertaken by other coal intensive economies—like China—to reduce emissions could provide Poland with valuable lessons learned. The EU has set ambitious emissions targets to face the threats from climate change.
Four scenarios for understanding the energy programmes of the Presidential candidates - Iddri Blog
None of the French Presidential candidates have expressed any doubts about the need for energy transition, which involves a deep decarbonization of the French energy system. But there is a significant difference in the solutions envisaged to achieve this transition, particularly in relation to two points: the intensity of the action needed to control the energy demand; and the choice of the electricity generation mix.
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