Expert support to Implementation Working Group 5 of the SET Plan - Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Duration: 2022 - 2025 ● Client: European Commission ● WIP Role: WIP will lead Task 1.4 “Educate and inform IWG5 and the public about energy-efficient buildings; understand societal drivers” via study tours. ● www.iwg5-buildings.eu

IWG5’s brief is to deliver the Implementation Plan on energy-efficient solutions for buildings, requiring Member States to put in place measures favouring both innovation in building design and energy technologies for buildings, and the uptake of these technologies by builders.

Fed with ideas, quantitative analysis and with white papers produced by Task Forces tackling specific innovation-related topics, the IWG5 will update its Implementation Plan. A new release will come every year and be given lots of publicity. The IWG5 members will be invited to promote it within their ministries, in order to deliver it with appropriate national policies.

IWG5-CSA will play close attention to the revision of National Energy and Climate Plans in 2023 (a joint activity with ETIPs) and, depending on the final legislated EPBD, National Building Renovation Plans in 2024. These plans are where Member States lay out the policies to reach their targets. We will work for take-up by countries of each other’s good ideas.