EFFECT4BUILDINGS NEWS ENERGY EFFICIENCY PLATFORM CAMS ESTABLISHED IN BALTIC SEA REGION Author: Marit Ragnarsson, County Board of Dalarna, Sweden
As lead partner for EFFECT4building, Dalarna County Board participates in a new platform collaboration with other energy projects in the Baltic Sea region. The platform is funded by the Baltic Sea Program and is called Climate Adaptation & Mitigation Synergies Energy Efficiency Platform, CAMS.
There is also a great untapped potential in not collecting data in a standardized way that enables comparisons and generation of new knowledge. The EFFECT4building project has tested and participated in the development of the NEAD platform, which has been developed by Nordic Energy Audit and has come to the conclusion that there is great transnational added value in developing this together in the Baltic Sea Region. The method that is developed can at the same time serve as a platform for disseminating results from other ongoing / completed energy projects.
Methods for energy auditing in the Baltic Sea region Within the collaboration, methods for large-scale implementation of cost-effective energy auditing of high quality will are being tested. The method is based on using comparable data in a database and is a continuation of the EFFECT4buildings project that has worked to develop the method.
CAMS also develop recommendations on how to combine energy measures with climate adaptation measures in buildings. In this way, experiences from the EFFECT4buildings project can be disseminated and experiences can be exchanged between the ten other projects involved; LowTEMP, AREA 21, Co2mmunity, Act Now, BEA-APP, RDI2CluB and also HORIZON 2020's HERON, SIM4NEXUS, ENLARGE, and ARCEE funded by EuropeAid.
"EFFECT4building focuses on what happens after an energy audit is made, by developing and providing financial tools to get more measures implemented. However, we can state that many thousands more energy audits need to be made in each BSR state, and this quickly to cope with the climate challenge. For this, methods are needed that enable us to carry out energy audits more rationally, while at the same time the quality needs to be increased without a price increase," says project partner Marit Ragnarsson from the County Board of Dalarna in Sweden.
Read more about the CAMS platform.
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