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Renewable Heating and Cooling, the Strategic Agenda for European funding is now ready
A strategic agenda for Renewable Heating and Cooling has been defined during the the international RHC conference in Dublin.
A strategic agenda will dictate the future of research and innovation in the field of new technologies for renewable air conditioning: the text was made official at the Fourth RHC-Conference, the European conference about renewable heating and air conditioning which was held in Dublin on 22 and 23 April.
The event saw the participation of European industry representatives, the European ministers of energy, the European Commission, the International Energy Agency and the major research centers.
The two-day conference has allowed the elaboration of a document with guidelines that the European Commission and the individual Member States must follow in order to get the funds to finance research and development on the use of energy produced from renewable sources in homes and building: the projects will also be part of the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 initiative, which focuses on research and innovation.
Currently in Europe, about 50% of the energy consumed is produced almost exclusively by fossil fuels, it is used to cool and heat the buildings: a hefty percentage, which is also reflected in a significant portion of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. The Agenda developed during the conference, started from these data to define the priorities at European level, focusing on technologies powered by renewable sources on which it is important to invest for the future in order to increase the utilization level capillary, and to make these technologies more competitive on the market
The text considers the renewable air-conditioning of private buildings, industrial plants and heating nets for city districts: in this scenario, the technologies listed in Agenda include biomass technologies, district heating, geothermal and solar energy, heat energy storage and heat pump systems.
The text examines also the funds allocated for the Seventh Framework Programme dedicated to the research, where only 7% of the funded projects concerns renewable systems for heating and cooling, while 69% of the funds are dedicated to nuclear energy: dates disconnected from the real consumption, where in fact almost 50% are related to the air conditioning of buildings, while only 21% concern electricity consumption (which is satisfied by nuclear energy in a small percentage).
"The data presented - underlined Wolfram Sparber and Simon Pezzutto of the Institute for Renewable Energy EURAC, who participated to the drafting of the strategy document - show how the European Union is supporting only in part the sectors that could make a decisive contribution in achieving long-term goals on climate.
From this areas we expect a sharp increase and now the Agenda clearly indicates in which direction where funding need to go to contribute to the diffusion of these technologies".
The event saw the participation of European industry representatives, the European ministers of energy, the European Commission, the International Energy Agency and the major research centers.
The two-day conference has allowed the elaboration of a document with guidelines that the European Commission and the individual Member States must follow in order to get the funds to finance research and development on the use of energy produced from renewable sources in homes and building: the projects will also be part of the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 initiative, which focuses on research and innovation.
Currently in Europe, about 50% of the energy consumed is produced almost exclusively by fossil fuels, it is used to cool and heat the buildings: a hefty percentage, which is also reflected in a significant portion of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. The Agenda developed during the conference, started from these data to define the priorities at European level, focusing on technologies powered by renewable sources on which it is important to invest for the future in order to increase the utilization level capillary, and to make these technologies more competitive on the market
The text considers the renewable air-conditioning of private buildings, industrial plants and heating nets for city districts: in this scenario, the technologies listed in Agenda include biomass technologies, district heating, geothermal and solar energy, heat energy storage and heat pump systems.
The text examines also the funds allocated for the Seventh Framework Programme dedicated to the research, where only 7% of the funded projects concerns renewable systems for heating and cooling, while 69% of the funds are dedicated to nuclear energy: dates disconnected from the real consumption, where in fact almost 50% are related to the air conditioning of buildings, while only 21% concern electricity consumption (which is satisfied by nuclear energy in a small percentage).
"The data presented - underlined Wolfram Sparber and Simon Pezzutto of the Institute for Renewable Energy EURAC, who participated to the drafting of the strategy document - show how the European Union is supporting only in part the sectors that could make a decisive contribution in achieving long-term goals on climate.
From this areas we expect a sharp increase and now the Agenda clearly indicates in which direction where funding need to go to contribute to the diffusion of these technologies".
