News Digest Item
21 Apr 2017

“Efficiency first: A crucial building block for the Energiewende”

Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) / The Energy Collective

Prioritising efficiency measures that cost less or deliver more value than planned investment in supply resources and infrastructure is “a crucial building block” for Germany’s Energiewende, writes Andreas Jahn of the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) in an article carried by The Energy Collective. Since the German government published its green paper on energy efficiency, it is now up to citizens and organizations to “step up to ensure that this topic becomes part of the next election platform and, thus, part of the next coalition agreement,” writes Jahn.

Read the article in English here.

For background read the CLEW dossier The Energiewende and Efficiency.

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