Today, the European Commission launched its proposal for a new energy market design in Europe. ECOS, together with 13 actors from Europe’s energy sector ranging from green NGOs, cities, industry and consumer groups, have sent an open letter to Vice President Šefcovic and Commissioner Cañete to support their work in delivering demand side flexibility and “efficiency […]

ECOS co-organised and spoke at three different events at the 2015 EU Sustainable Energy Week:   Energy Label 2.015  The Coolproducts campaign, of which ECOS is a founding member of, held an event on the revision of the EU Energy Labelling Directive, looking at upcoming challenges, and possible solutions that will lead to quicker market transformation and […]

In the context of the EU Sustainable Energy Week [1], energy stakeholders gathered today in Brussels’ Charlemagne building for a unique event focusing on ideas to capture the potential of flexible demand. Members of the I.D.E.A.S platform [2], the informal coalition promoting full demand-side participation in Europe’s electricity system, invited MEP Claude Turmes, Frauke Thies […]

Call for experts to represent the environmental interests in the development of European standards related to the design and performance of lamps, luminaires, and related equipment. In particular, we are looking for experts to represent ECOS in the following groups: IEC/TC 34 ‘Lamps and related equipment’, responsible for international standardisation in the field of lamps, LEDs, control […]

Vice President Maroš Šefčovič addressed the audience at a full-packed IDEAS platform event, which ECOS co-organised, at the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2015. Through his video-message, VP Maroš Šefčovič called the workshop on flexible demand “of paramount importance and very timely.” Referring to the European Commission’s consultation on the energy market design next month, the Vice President […]

Call from renewable energy, energy efficiency and environmental associations: The European Council’s guidance from last year for 2030 targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency falls far short of the EU’s potentials. Without tapping those potentials, the EU will miss out on major benefits for the economy, employment, energy security and climate action. Ending the historic […]

ECOS has long been advocating for bio-based products to have a verifiable physical bio-based content, sufficient to claim that the product is largely derived from biomass, and therefore truly promote the sustainable use of renewable sources in our circular economy. We have been involved in the standardisation developments in the area of bio-based products which were […]

ECOS has just issued recommendations for making the Union work programme for European standardisation deliver on major environmental policy objectives in 2016. Overall the actions by the European Commission reflect the Union’s objectives in the environmental area, however it is missing to address horizontal aspects of the European Standardisation System, in particular with regards transparency, inclusiveness […]

Senior Policy Officer Stamatis Sivitos presented a paper at the ECEEE Summer Study on the importance of appliance settings for delivering energy savings; he highlighted the importance of clear test conditions, representing real life use instead of using plasmatic modes for achieving misleading energy label ratings. Above all, he identified upcoming opportunities for taking these considerations further […]

Can we have zero-energy buildings in Europe? ECOS’ Policy Officer Christoforos Spiliotopoulos will be explaining how this can be made possible at the European Standardisation Summit in Riga on the 4th of June. Stressing the importance of a common language, and robust methodologies, ECOS believes that through following its recommendations, seen in the leaflet below, a […]