2005 - 04

• Fifteen years of SEVEn
• Seven billion crowns to promote energy saving and renewable energy sources
• Emission allowance trading commences
• Lack of interest in drawing subsidies from the operational programme brings about a change in methodology
• Saving energy? Slowly but surely, or surely but slowly

Selected references and SEVEn’s activities over the past 15 years:

• Preparation and implementation of EPC projects
• Energy market opening, liberalisation and privatisation of the energy sector
• SEVEn activities abroad
• Reconstruction of district heating in Jindřichův Hradec
• Energy labelling of household electrical appliances
• EEBW: Energy Efficiency Business Week international conference
• How to build low-energy apartment houses without increased capital costs
• Mass-media campaign promoting energy efficient lighting
• Support for economically most effective renewable energy sources

• Saving at least 1% more energy each year – an obligation or recommendation?
• First feed-in tariffs with a 15-year guarantee
• United Nations conference on climate change – Montreal 2005
• Conferences, exhibitions and presentations January – March 2006

2005 - 03

• Act supporting the use of electricity from renewables
• International Energy Agency comments on the Czech Republic’s energy policy
• AAU sale, or will we be trading in hot air?
• Examples of institutions and programmes supporting energy-efficiency and renewable energy projects in Central and Eastern Europe
• European Commission Green Paper on Energy Efficiency – ambitious
  goals and tools
• New SEVEn projects – local significance with a European dimension
• Energy performance of buildings – new European legislative requirements
• If you sing in the shower, choose shorter songs
• How to turn energy price rises to your advantage
• Energy services and our largest hospital
• Conferences, exhibitions and presentations / October – December 2005

2005 - 02

• First international Energy Service Award to the Czech Republic
• Survey of local energy agencies, or 327 organisations can‘t be wrong
• Foreign interest in the Czech Republic‘s experience
• Objectives of European Energy Policy for 2005
• Databases of projects and initiatives pertaining to energy saving and renewable energy sources
• Voluntary energy labelling scheme for circulation pumps can save energy worth millions of euros
• Prague Energy Concept approved
• Visit of Moldavian experts to the Czech Republic facilitates change in local legislation
• Reduction of buildings‘ electricity consumption and its purchasing from renewable energy sources
• OECD supports export of technologies using renewable energy sources
• South Bohemia Regional Energy Agency soon to celebrate second anniversary
• Energy planning in practice
• Sušice low-energy apartment house - first evaluation of energy consumption for heating surpasses expectations
• Renovation of residential buildings in Central Europe - the case of the Czech Republic
• CO2 emission allowances allocated
• Conferences, exhibitions and presentations - July - September 2005

2005 - 01

• Czech Senate passes Bill on support for use of renewable energy
• What’s new in technical legislation on energy performance of buildings?
• Emissions trading – interest from all continents, prices differ
• Emissions trading – only limited impact on green energy production?
• Compulsory recycling of electrical appliances
• Tradeable guarantees of origin as the most effective mechanism of promoting renewable energy sources?
• Proceedings from the EEBW 2004 conference available on the internet
• Electricity generation and consumption grows
• Heat pumps and changes in electricity prices
• Electricity generation and consumption grows
• World Bank buys green electricity
• Energy subsidies in Europe
• District heating – how to implement a successful project
• Green purchasing – Handbook on green public procurement
• Low-energy house in Železný Brod handed over to tenants
• Electricity and gas market liberalisation – status in 2004
• Costs and potential of biomass use in the Czech Republic
• Conferences, exhibitions and presentations