Green buildings, in 2019 binding

Since 2019, all newly constructed buildings in the European Union should produce the same amount of energy that you consume. Parliament voted to end last week as the deadline for achieving this goal should be 2019. For public buildings, the term is established in 2016.

"The potential of buildings to consume less energy and produce renewable energy is huge," said Arianna Vitali Roscini, responsible for European Policy of the World Wide Fund. "Promoting energy efficiency is an extremely beneficial for Europe. By implementing energy efficiency measures to improve energy security, reduce emissions, encouraging technological development and creating new jobs ", and showed Vitali Roscini. A quarter of the buildings date from the first half of the twentieth century Voting has revised previous legislation regarding energy efficiency of buildings. New energy efficiency standards will apply to all buildings refurbished, not only those with over 1,000 square meters, as the previous law provided. This is important because a large part of the European building stock is the existing buildings, of which 25% were built before 1945. In Europe, energy consumption of buildings is 40% of the total, of which 36% is energy-producing emissions. Much of this energy can be saved through insulation, heating and cooling best with double windows, lighting or economically smart meters to monitor energy consumption.