Tony Robson

CEO of Knauf Insulation and Chairman of the European Alliance to

Save Energy

Europe’s Jobs andRecovery Act.

Why the UK needs a European framework for energy efficiency.

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• 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.

We need to get people

back to work

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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

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?

EU Energy Efficiency Directive

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Efficiency First

We must stop wasting

EU Energy Efficiency Directive

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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EU Energy Efficiency Directive

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 = 5In 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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EU Energy Efficiency Directive

The jobs, the growth, the climate action, the reduced exposure to energy prices,

is all for free

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EU Energy Efficiency Directive

Governments should not be asking to lower the ambition of the energy efficiency directive

but asking to

increase it

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EU Energy Efficiency Directive

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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EU Energy Efficiency Directive

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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EU Energy Efficiency Directive

We need to secure a good transition or we risk

decimating the very industry that the Green Deal

will need

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