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Provisional EU Deal to Cut Energy use in Buildings

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EU have reached a provisional agreement to cut average primary energy use in residential buildings by 16% by 2030 and by 20-22% by 2035 as buildings currently account for about 40% of the EU’s total energy use according to Montel.

  • Existing public and non-residential buildings will gradually install solar from 2027 where “technically, economically and functionally feasible,” and new buildings must be able to host either rooftop solar or solar thermal installations.
  • The bloc is ideally looking to completing phase out fossil fuels in heating and cooling by 2040 and includes measure to ban subsidies for stand-alone fossil fuel boilers from 2025.
  • All new public buildings to have zero on-site emissions from 2028 and all other new buildings from 2030.
  • The provisional deal may take several months before it is formally adopted and published in the EU’s Official Journal.

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