National Programmes in the Netherlands

on upgrading energy efficiency

of existing buildings

European Re-Building Forum, Brussels, 19 January 2010

Frans Versteeg

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Transition to clean, affordable and reliable energy

in the Netherlands

Aim Dutch Energy Transition: sustainable energy by 2050 energy is to be clean, affordable and available

Pragmatic approach, making use of available possibilitiesin both the short term and the long term.

Business Community, governments, knowledge institutes and civilorganizations are taking the lead in seven themes:

• Sustainable Mobility• Biobased Raw Materials • Chain Efficiency• New Gas• Sustainable Electricity• The ‘Greenhouse as Energy Source’• Energy in the built Environment

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Energy Transition in the built Environment

Target:• Energy neutrality new buildings by 2020• Halving primary energy demand existing stock by 2030

General approach:

• Working towards innovative, energy-neutral suburbs• Integral collaboration and concept development,

process-based knowledge development/dissemination, coalition of trend-setters, regulations

Three connected groups:• MEER MET MINDER (More with Less)• Innovation Group• Legislation Group

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Energy Transition in the built Environment

- the importance of efficiency in the existing stock

• Total primary energy usage in the Netherlands: 3200 Petajoules (PJ)

• Builts Environment: roughly 1000 PJ

• Each year some 70.000 new buildings • Total existing stock: roughly 7.000.000 buildings!

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Efficiency Program“More With Less”

• 3 million homes/commercial buildings with 30% less energy demand

• Slogan:

“Saving energy easily”

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Efficiency Program“More With Less”

Grants &

‘Gree

n loans’

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Renovation Projects - Innovation Agenda Energy

Amsterdam - Eigen Haard

“Koningsvrouwen van Landlust”-

240 – monumental!-Apartment Buildings in Amsterdam:

45% - energy efficiency with “box-in-box” insulation

Active participation from local tenants

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Project Innovation Group

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Energy Transition in the built Environment

• Meer Met Minder: creating momentum and volume

• Innovation Agenda: raising ambition levels

PLATFORM ENERGY TRANSITION BUILT ENVIRONMENT (PeGO)

Energy Transition in the built Environment

Most important Challenges

• Knowledge diffusion: faster processing of proven

innovations in generic regulations

• Knowledge diffusion: creating more momentum from lessons learned by trend-setters and their projects

• Boosting integral collaboration throughout the entire

sector