EU Energy efficiency action plan
"Gas prices rising", "Increase of country's energy safety levels", "Fuels to become more expensive", "Energy resources are depleting", "A sudden climate change"
These messages make us realize how difficult it is to live without energy, and it is even more difficult to...find cheap energy.
The European Commission has presented an Action Plan to improve energy efficiency in EU countries, which shows that at least 20% of energy consumption costs the European Union 100 billion a year, while simultaneously adding to the further degradation of the environment. If no action is taken to reverse this trend, energy use is predicted to increase by more than 10% by the year 2015. The Commission's Action Plan aims to limit energy use by 20%. For the average user, this means saving a few hundred PLN a year; for the environment, it means limiting overall CO2 emissions to 780 million tons by year 2020, in fulfillment of Kyoto protocol requirements.
We use about 40 percent of energy at home. We should use energy-saving heating appliances and lights, but the most crucial aspect is limiting the amount of heat escaping through walls and ceilings of our houses. In order to limit such inefficiency, attics, garrets and walls in buildings should be insulated. Specialists estimate that lack of proper insulation causes buildings to lose up to 30% of their energy!
In the new financial perspective for the years 2007-2013 it has been predicted that 3 percent of European Union funds should be devoted to activities that increase energy efficiency. Unfortunately, the Polish government plans to allocate a much lower proportion of funds towards goals related to environmental protection and increasing the competitiveness of the Polish economy. The Czech Republic - a country with a similar climate - plans to allocate 3 percent of European Union assistance funds. Lithuania - a country in close proximity to us, not only in terms of history - as much as 6 percent. Meanwhile, the Polish government and self-government authorities will transfer only about 0,9 percent of EU funds towards thermomodernization and improvement of energy efficiency of buildings.
| 26/06/2008 - | Knauf Insulation Group forms Manson Insulation Ltd. |
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| 19/12/2007 - | Knauf announces steps for the future management of the group |
| 11/07/2007 - | A new glass wool factory for Knauf Insulation in Lannemezan |
| 27/06/2007 - | New campaign : « It’s Time to Save Energy ! » |
