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EU politicians have voted in favour of sweeping new policies for buildings to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions.
Member states will need to upgrade their worst-performing buildings by one to three places on the standards scale in the next ten years, either through renovation or more broadly through the energy grid or locally-sourced renewables.
The directive requires member states to create a national building renovation plan to decarbonise their building stock by 2050
“We are saying in the law that we want to target the worst performing buildings. The new G energy rating will be the 15% of buildings that are the worst-performing buildings in those countries,” Cuffe explained.
“Then, the A energy rating, we’re redefining it as a zero-emissions building. These are buildings that get all their energy from renewables or from an efficient district heating system, or indeed from what we call energy communities where people work together to provide energy within a neighbourhood,” Irish Green Party MEP Ciarán Cuffe said.
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