EEG Workshop: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies in Buildings (EEG)

The EEG workshop "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Buildings" (EEG) is part of the global programme "Energy Efficiency and Building Technology Accelerator" (EEB) of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Climate-KIC.The programme is being implemented together with local actors. Worldwide, 11 cities have already participated in this way: Amsterdam, Bangalore, Houston, Jaipur, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore and Warsaw.

In autumn 2017, we at TEP Energy organised the three-part EEG workshop in Zurich, which was attended by over 140 experts and stakeholders from various areas of the building lifecycle:
architects, planners, installers, general contractors, investors, lenders, facility managers, researchers, intermediaries, energy suppliers, technology suppliers, building users and others.
Participants from politics, administration, research and industry from the fields of energy and buildings came together to identify potentials for increasing energy efficiency, added value and the use of renewable energies.
These existing potentials are only partially used today, as there are obstacles on various levels.

The aim of the workshop was to draw up an EEG action plan with innovative, cross-sectoral and holistic approaches to remove the identified market barriers and to promote market activities.

Thematically, we focused on the following five areas in the EEG workshop:

• Further development of legal building requirements, labels and standards
• Improving the commissioning and operation of buildings and plants
• Further development of existing and new financing models
• Managed shared economy, for example self-powered communities and instruments for more efficient land use
• Integral, long-term planning as well as modular approaches and standard solutions

The EEG action plan based on this contains around 80 EEG actions that have been developed.

From the point of view of the participants in the EEG workshop, a central organisation is necessary for the initiation, further development and coordination of concrete actions from the EEG action plan. To this end, the EEG plattform (project description) was set up following the workshops and in cooperation with SwissEnergy and leading companies and institutions.
The EEG platform thus has the aim of further developing and implementing individual EEG actions with a positive impact on energy and resource efficiency, CO2 emissions and the local and sustainable economy in a cross-sector network.