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Parallel Panel sessions are where most of the “magic” happens and they are among the most popular parts of the programme. One of the many things that make C4E Forum special is interaction among participants. The whole morning on both Wednesday and Thursday will be dedicated to Panel sessions in which participants will have an opportunity to share their experience, discuss issues and look for inspiration for their everyday work.
We insist strongly on short presentations (12 min; 3 presentations per session) and reserving at least half of the 90 min session for engagement with audience and break-out work moderated by an experienced Panel Leader (who is also earlier engaged in preparation of the session with the Presenters by providing comments to their outlines etc.).
Room: Ana4
1. The role of household heating in meeting the goals of the Energy Union and its economic implication by Boglarka Molnar, Camridge Econometrics, Hungary
2. Pay-for-performance (P4P) – accessing the value of energy to energy systems: practical examples from the H2020 SENSEI project by Samuel Thomas, RAP (France/UK)
3. Efficiency First, from words to actions: practical examples from the ENEFIRST project by Janne Rieke Boll, BPIE (Germany)
Room: Ana 1
1. Potential of the single-family houses’ renovation in Slovakia and Czech Republic – Katarina Nikodemova, B4F, Slovakia
2. Renovation programmes for residential buildings in Romania in 2014-2020 – financial exercise – Catalina Calbureanu, AAECR – Romanian Association of Energy Auditors for Buildings, Romania
3. Circular economy and low-carbon industry – review of the policy instruments implemented in the EU – Katarzyna Korczak, Research and Innovation Centre Pro-Akademia, Poland
Room: Ana 2
1. Green Homes & Green Mortgages by Daniel Butucel, Romania Green Building Council-RoGBC (Romania)
2. Green Homes criteria and local strategies, with international recognition by Sanela Klarić, GBC BiH (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
3. Mitigating Energy Poverty with hybrid green finance solutions by Iva Merheim Eyre, People in Need (Czech Republic)
Room: Ana 3
1. Fighting off energy poverty through deep energy building retrofitting – Dragomir Tzanev, EnEffect, Center for Energy Efficiency, Bulgaria
2. Energy poverty, solid fuel use in Hungary – Nora Feldmar, Habitat for Humanity Hungary, Hungary
3. Transition to Just: who pays for and who benefits from the energy transition – Louise Sunderland – RAP, UK
Room: Ana4
Presentations by panelists
1. Supporting homeowners in energy efficient refurbishment in post-Soviet countries by Johann Strese, IWO e. V. – Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (Germany)
2. Energy efficiency renovations of multi-apartment buildings, challenges, and prospects for the homeowners by Liljana Alceva, Habitat for Humanity Macedonia (North Macedonia) – ONLINE contribution
3. Engagement of energy poor households in the renovation process in Bulgaria by Dragomir Tzanev, EnEffect – Center for Energy Efficiency (Bulgaria)
Room: Ana3
1. NZEB into the existing building fund as an affordable solution – Ancuța Maria Măgurean, AAECR, Romania
2. Deep retrofit public buildings energy efficiency financing programme – Mihai Tudorancea, Raluca Teodosiu, TUD Consult, Romania
3. The use of Key Enabling Technologies in Zero Energy Buildings through Monitoring, Control and Intelligent Management – Laura Aelenei, National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, Portugal
Room: Ana1
1. Energy and resource efficiency in the European construction sector, based on European Construction Sector Observatory – Analytical Report – Improving energy and resource efficiency, Giulio Milanesi and Giovanni Signorini, PwC, Luxembourg
2. Monitoring of energy performance of multi-family buildings renovated with public finance – Emilia Mladin, AAECR – Romanian Association of Energy Auditors for Buildings, Romania
3. How to build up and operate buildings with the guarantee of minimum aggregate costs? – Ales Chamrad, ESCO Association, Czech Republic
Room: Ana2
All EU countries must establish a long-term renovation strategy (LTRS) to support the renovation of their national building stock into a highly energy efficient and decarbonised building stock by 2050. C4E Forum brings us the great opportunity to share experiences with LTRS among EU countries mostly from CEE and Balkan region and within whole range of stakeholders like decision makers, academia, business, NGOs and politicians.
These strategies will form part of EU countries’ integrated national energy and climate plans (NECPs) and are an important input to the ‘renovation wave’ initiative announced as part of the European Green Deal. LTRS are precondition to effective usage of EU structural funds and other financing schemes.
The outcomes of the workshop contribute to prepare better LTRS in 2023, with focus on lessons learned, best practices and share the knowledge to Western Balkan countries where LTRS are only being prepared.
Room: Ana1
1. Integrated Services to Boost Renovation in Hungarian Homes – Introduction of the first Hungarian one-stop-shop: the RenoHUb project by Zsuzsanna Koritar, MEHI, Hungary
2. RenovActive SK – removing barriers for a affordable renovation by Klara Bukolska, Ondrej Bores, Velux (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
3. When the Policy Stars Align: How new financial disclosure and ESG rules are converging with the EPBD to drive building energy efficiency by Lisa Chase, King’s College London/Lucky Fish Communications, LLC (USA/UK)
Room: Ana3
1. Customer feedback on New Green Savings support scheme, Tomas Trubacik, Chance for buildings, Czech Republic
2. How did CZ accelerate its SFH renovation program by 30% in one year?, Jakub Hrbek, State Fund of Environment, Czech Republic
3. Single family buildings support scheme in Poland, Andrzej Guła, Institute for Environmental Economics, Poland
Room: Ana3
Room: Sport M/1
1. The renovation strategies of small Bulgarian municipalities: the crux of energy poverty and smart development by Dragomir Tzanev, EnEffect, Center for Energy Efficiency, Bulgaria
2. Accelerating climate action in buildings –Enabling municipalities to design ambitious long-term renovation strategies by Janne Rieke Boll, BPIE (Germany)
3. Long term renovation strategies adapted to small and medium size cities, in accordance to the Romanian and European regulation by Camelia Rata, OER – The Romanian Network of Energy Cities (Romania)
Room: Ana2
1. Introduction to the ENSMOV & SocialWatt H2020 Projects and the new proposals on energy poverty in the EED by Louise Sunderland, RAP, UK
2. Experience of using EEOSs to tackle energy poverty, including in Croatia by Lovorko Marić, Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar, Croatia
3. The utility experience of delivering energy poverty focused measures and the wider Romanian context by Alisa Vlasa (CEZ, Romania) and Camelia Vasile (Institute for Studies and Power Engineering, Romania)
Room: Ana3
1. Is that an nZEB? Stimulating the market for quality buildings to raise the demand for nZEB-related vocational training and education by Dragomir Tzanev, EnEffect, Center for Energy Efficiency, Bulgaria
2. Overcoming the mismatched skills for delivering NZEBs using Building Information Modelling by Sanjin Gumbarević, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
3. Setting up National Qualification and Training Schemes for Craftsmen in Four Countries by Jiri Karasek, SEVEn, The Energy Efficiency Center (Czech Republic)
Room: Ana2
1. Solutions in the built environment to improve air quality by Piotr Łyczko, Małopolska Region (Poland)
2. Building public awareness of air pollution by Anna Dworakowska, Kraków Smog Alert (Poland)
3. Health impacts of air pollution by Alexander Simidchiev Air4Health (online)
Room: Ana4
1. IBRoad – The Individual Building Renovation Roadmaps by Alexander Deliyannis, Sympraxis Team (Greece)
2. PROSPECT2030: Low carbon energy planning in HU, PL, HR by Karoly Oelberg, AACM Central Europe Llc/Archenerg Renewable Energy Cluster (Hungary)
3. How can Eastern European countries become European leaders in climate policies? by Katarina Nikodemova, B4F (Slovakia)
Room: Sport M/1
1. Energy poverty, energy efficiency and health in Poland – Jakub Sokołowski, IBS, Poland
2. How to tackle energy poverty in Hungary – lessons from past – Anna Zsofia Bajomi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
3. Role of municipal networks in the fight against energy poverty – Iva Merheim Eyre, People in Need, Czech Republic
Room: Ana1
1. Boosting building renovation within Slovak Recovery Plan – Richard Paksi, B4F, Slovakia
2. Using carbon revenues from the EU ETS to fund building renovation – Louise Sunderland, RAP, UK
Anyone who has relevant and interesting topics to share at the conference. We encourage all participants to submit presentation outlines about interesting developments in energy efficiency policy in their countries in the CEE region.
All presenters have to register as participants. The registration fee structure is outlined here