Blog - REELIH - Residential Energy Efficiency for Low-Income Households

21. 06. 2017 08:06

REELIH Conference through the eyes of a young researcher

I could participate at the conference Reducing Energy Poverty by Energy Efficiency Projects in Residential Buildings: The Case for Eastern Europe organised by Habitat for Humanity with the support of USAID. The conference not only offered the audience a deeper insight in the most important outcomes of the REELIH project but it also presented the issue of energy poverty and energy efficiency in its whole complexity.

29. 05. 2017 01:05 EU

Responding and Reforming: My Experience at the REELIH Conference in Brussels

Three weeks ago, I was on a plane from DC to Brussels, Belgium. The REELIH project I had learned about from my desk was coming to life for me, and I was getting to play a part of the implementation of a conference that one year prior, I would have only been able to read about online.

Blog post 12. 04. 2017 08:04 Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, International, Macedonia, Regional

Role and importance of homeowner associations in Georgia

The way forward for reforms in the housing sector: empowering grassroots homeowners’ associations in Georgia

10. 03. 2017 04:03 Bulgaria, Croatia

Building renovation: Improving living conditions for millions of European citizens and safeguarding energy security

Written by Cosmina Marian, based on the work of Dan Staniaszek, Filippos Anagnostopoulos, Maarten De Groote and Oliver Rapf from BPIE An analysis of the...

14. 02. 2017 08:02 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Warm homes page for Bosnian homeowners is launched!

Get warm homes website is launched in Bosnian language destined to help the Bosnian homeowners. Marian Petrovic from Enova explains the state of residential energy efficiency in the country.

30. 01. 2017 01:01 Slovakia

Case Study: Slovakian subsidies for residential energy efficiency

Slovakia is very often taken as THE “best practice” when it comes to the large scale refurbishments of the multi-apartment residential buildings. In line with the research for REELIH project of USAID and Habitat for Humanity we wanted to discover why.

25. 01. 2017 08:01 Armenia

Access to renewable and efficient energy in municipalities of Armenia

HFH Armenia is implementing Access to Renewable and Efficient Energy in Municipalities Vayk and Spitak (AREEM) project funded by the European Union. The project is implemented in consortium for a period of four years from December 2014 to December 2018.

09. 01. 2017 02:01 Romania

Improving living conditions in Romania: national subsidy schemes supporting energy efficient renovations

Romania's subsidy scheme for residential energy efficiency renovations resembles a lot the system implemented in Hungary. However, initially it did not work well, so certain adjustments to the structure and sources of subsidies had to be made.

05. 12. 2016 01:12 Poland

National subsidies for renovation of multi-family buildings in Poland

Unlike the Hungarian subsidy scheme the state interventions for supporting the renovation of residential units were not introduced in Poland as a part of a large housing subsidy package, but together with environmental and energy policies.

01. 12. 2016 02:12 Hungary

Lessons learnt from renovations of multi-family buildings in Hungary

The article is a summary of the case study about residential energy efficient subsidy schemes in Hungary that was done as a part of a broader research on residential energy efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe.

24. 11. 2016 11:11

Energy Poverty Handbook is out!

At the end of November the Energy Poverty Handbook was published in Brussels. The aim of the Handbook is to offer a complex overview and up-to date knowledge for those who are concerned about the levels of energy poverty in Europe.

04. 11. 2016 10:11 International

Promoting Residential Energy Efficiency in the New Urban Agenda

As part of Habitat for Humanity’s participation in the global dialogue of Habitat III, delegates advocated for affordable energy solutions to climate change, using REELIH as a model for energy efficient residential building, and had the opportunity to present the model as part of both Conference events and pre-events.

Blog post 28. 10. 2016 12:10 EU, Regional

Impact of the Energy Union on Residential Energy Efficiency in CEE

A report conducted by Central European University assesses how this new initiative of the European Commission called Energy Union will affect residential energy efficiency countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

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REELIH Conference through the eyes of a young researcher

Responding and Reforming: My Experience at the REELIH Conference in Brussels

Role and importance of homeowner associations in Georgia

Building renovation: Improving living conditions for millions of European citizens and safeguarding energy security

Warm homes page for Bosnian homeowners is launched!

Case Study: Slovakian subsidies for residential energy efficiency

Access to renewable and efficient energy in municipalities of Armenia

Improving living conditions in Romania: national subsidy schemes supporting energy efficient renovations

National subsidies for renovation of multi-family buildings in Poland

Lessons learnt from renovations of multi-family buildings in Hungary

Energy Poverty Handbook is out!

Promoting Residential Energy Efficiency in the New Urban Agenda

Impact of the Energy Union on Residential Energy Efficiency in CEE

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