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10 Winter 2017 European Energy Innovation
BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY
One very important step
towards energy efficiency
By Bendt Bendtsen, MEP
With the European time indoors, however, according And it comes with many added
Parliament’s adopted to a recent study1, 97.5 per cent of benefits such as lower energy bills,
position on the revision our building stock in Europe can be better living and working conditions,
of the Directive for considered energy inefficient. Keeping improved health, and jobs creation
Energy Performance of Buildings in mind that buildings consume 40 per and growth in the building sector.
(EPBD), we have paved the way for cent of the total energy consumption
improving the energy efficiency of our in the EU, it does not take much As rapporteur for the EPBD revision,
buildings in Europe. attention to realise that buildings hold I am thankful that my colleagues in
the key to delivering cost-efficiently on Parliament share the ambitions to fulfil
We spend roughly 90 per cent of our our international climate commitments. this potential. I am very satisfied that
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