Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...

Die Steigerung der energetischen Modernisierungsrate im Wohngebäudebestand zählt zu den strategischen Zielen der Klimapolitik in Deutschland. Gemessen am Anteil von WEG-Wohnungen am Gesamtwohnungsbestand ist die Sanierungsaktivität dieser Eigentümergruppe im Vergleich zu anderen Gruppen...

The German government is committed to reducing the primary energy demand of buildings by 80% by 2050. This requires increasing the rate of thermal retrofits from the current 0.8% to 2.0% per year. To explore how new and existing policies and programs could deliver the increased retrofit rate,...