Hungary: Obtaining better energy efficiency data

Obtaining better energy efficiency data

The Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in Hungary is progressing towards a low-carbon economy by renovating its public buildings and by better monitoring their resulting energy efficiencies. All this is thanks to good practices from Italy, Romania, Greece, Sweden and the UK.

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The project ‘Renovation for energy efficient buildings’ (REBUS) brings together eight partners from eight countries. Their ambition is to save energy and public funds through good practices that will help public authorities upgrade the energy efficiency of their public buildings.

The Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Development Agency Nonprofit LLC (BORA 94) joined the project to learn how to improve the energy efficiency of their local government buildings. Their ambition was to lower their CO2 emissions with the help of good practices from other regions, all with the support of Structural Funds.

The exchange of experience with public authorities in Italy and Romania proved especially fruitful, which meant that BORA 94 was able to help the Hungarian managing authority of the Territorial and Settlement Development Programme to review their indicator definitions. The improved data collection, processing and monitoring methodology for energy efficiency projects is now providing the managing authority, as well as the County, with more accurate information about energy savings.

In addition, ideas from study visits and staff exchanges with the UK, Sweden and Greece on alternative data collecting methods are helping BORA 94 to prioritise which public buildings to renovate. BORA 94 was also able to build its capacity for long-term strategy development for the shift towards the low-carbon economy in the county, which used to depend on mining.

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