Europe’s Jobs and
Recovery Act.
Why the UK needs a European framework for
energy efficiency.
Tony Robson
CEO of Knauf Insulation and Chairman of the European Alliance to
Save Energy
• We all sit in the midst of a major economic crisis.
• This is first a fiscal crisis but now, due to budget necessities &
the resulting austerity, a very real employment crisis.
• There is an ever widening gap between our commitments to CO2
reduction and the reality.
• For most countries, including the UK, energy imports are a very
significant balance of payments issue.
• Energy security issues are increasingly being brought to the
forefront of our thinking and policy making.
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We need to get people
back to work
We need to continue to fight
climate change
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We need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels,
as the costs
go far beyond the pump
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We need to insure ourselves against
the consequences of a world where
competition for resources is growing
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• Why is it that one (admittedly only one)
solution is consistently overlooked?
• And why is legislation essential to
ensure that it is not?
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EU Energy Efficiency Directive
Efficiency
First
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We must stop
wasting
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Energy efficiency is not sexy.
Its not particularly hi-tech.
Mostly its not great new inventions.
Frankly, its mundane, boring even.
Its not even bad news so there very little PR
opportunity in it!
 In the world we live in today people don’t
automatically consider energy efficiency.
 And it’s the reason we need legislation.
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EU Energy Efficiency Directive
 Tell me to renovate my buildings to
modern standards.
 Make me audit my factories.
 Force energy companies to help
customers save energy.
 Get your own house in order and ensure
we stop wasting energy in government
buildings.
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At our Money Matters Conference in
Brussels we heard from banks that
there are literally $trillions
waiting to be spent
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EUASE Mission
We have members with energy
service companies who have invested
to ensure that the capacity and
expertise to solve the problem exists.
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EU Energy Efficiency Directive
1=5
In Germany for every euro the
government spends on energy
efficiency in buildings, the
exchequer gets back up to
five euro’s
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The jobs, the growth, the
climate action, the reduced
exposure to energy prices,
is all for free
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Governments should not be
asking to lower the ambition of
the energy efficiency directive
but asking to
increase it
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They should be asking me, how
fast can I build new factories,
asking our members how fast can
they grow their ESCO companies,
asking banks what can be done to
make the money flow,
And asking how quickly we can
employ new workers.
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AND the UK should be the
leading light in this…Europe’s
new law builds on the
best of British
Builds on CERT, builds on
government targets, builds on
the Green Deal.
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Mr Davey, you should be the
biggest cheerleader of this new
law, convincing your European
colleagues to build on the
best of British.
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And in the meantime we also
need your help to ensure that
the Green Deal works. The
eyes of Europe are on us and
we must make it work
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We need to secure a good
transition or we risk
decimating the very
industry that the Green Deal
will need
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