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With the aim of generating more efficient buildings and industries, the European Commission recently presented the Strategy on Heating and Cooling, which seeks to establish key points in the issue of energy policy in that continent.
Currently, the production of heat and cold accounts for 50% of energy consumption in the European Union. Of the total fuels used by these systems, renewable energies represent 18%, compared to 75% of fossil fuels.
The replacement of equipment emerges as an important alternative to achieve energy efficiency by acquiring systems that are based on the use of renewable energies. Currently, 50% of buildings in Europe have old or inefficient boilers installed before 1992.
On the other hand, the European Commission highlights the need to implement recovery solutions such as district heating, cogeneration cooling and absorption chillers.
The steps to be taken to achieve the objectives proposed by the Strategy are to carry out legislative and non-legislative actions. Among the non-legislative actions are measures to facilitate rehabilitation in multi-residential buildings, promote energy efficiency models in service buildings such as schools and hospitals and extend the work of the BUILD UP Skills campaign, which aims to qualify construction workers to obtain qualified labor in energy efficiency and renewable energies by 2020.
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