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Energy Performance Certificates as tools to support and track renovation activities

Panel: 6. Policies and programmes towards a zero-energy building stock

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
Filippos Anagnostopoulos, Ernst & Young Special Business Services SCRL
Francesco Mariottini, BPIE - Buildings Performance Institute Europe, Belgium
Aleksandra Arcipowska, BPIE - Buildings Performance Institute Europe, Belgium

Abstract

Energy Performance Certificates are mapping out the energy status of the European buildings stock. Their main objective is the transformation of the European buildings stock via market mechanisms. Currently EPCs contribute to raising awareness of the energy performance of buildings directed for renting or selling. This paper outlines recent developments and showcases the possibility of EPCs becoming information tools to support building owners, policy-makers and the finance and business sectors in upscaling energy efficiency renovations. It is shown how building owners are benefiting from fiscal measures to invest in renovation activities; how policy-makers make use of statistical EPC information to optimize policies; and how businesses and investors are seeing EPCs as sources of data for the marketing of products and services that promote energy efficiency refurbishments. Finally conclusions are drawn and recommendations made on further actions to transform EPCs into highly useful tools for promoting renovation activities.

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