environmental impact of households

environmentally friendly | environment-friendly

ecotourism | environmentally-friendly tourism | environmentally-sensitive tourism | green tourism | soft tourism | sustainable tourism

deputy head housekeeper | executive housekeeper | housekeeping manager | housekeeping supervisor

coordinate housekeeping duties | oversee housekeeping operations | supervise housekeepers' duties | supervise housekeeping operations

environmentally favourable energy strategies

electrical appliances store manager | electrical superstore manager | domestic appliances shop manager | shop manager (electrical household appliances)

household consumption [ household spending | Private consumption(STW) | household expenditures(UNBIS) ]

charworker

keep one's options open

Lower speeds may constrain take-up by businesses in rural areas as well as take-up by households that are unable to undergo a true multimedia experience.

It is crucial, however, that a favourable environment for innovation is created, in particular, for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

Highlights the importance of taking into account the differences between micro, small and large producers; notes the need to develop suitable conditions and tools for ‘prosumers’ (active energy consumers, such as households, both owners and tenants, institutions and small businesses that engage in renewable energy production either on their own or collectively through cooperatives, other social enterprises or aggregations) to contribute to energy transition and facilitate their integration into the energy market; recommends reducing to an absolute minimum the administrative barriers to new self-generation capacity, in particular by removing market and grid access restrictions; suggests shortening and simplifying authorisation procedures ...[+++]by moving to a simple notification requirement; suggests that the revision of the renewable energy directive could include specific provisions to remove barriers and promote community/cooperative energy schemes via ‘one-stop shops’ dealing with project permits and providing financial and technical expertise; encourages the Member States to make use of de minimis exemptions under the European Energy and Environment State Aid Guidelines, so that small and medium-sized projects continue to benefit from dynamic feed in tariffs, exempting them from complex auctioning processes.

Stresses that if Member States establish a levy-funded energy efficiency scheme (Article 20), this should prioritise households affected by energy poverty; insists that the revised Energy Directive should provide Member States with a long-term stable policy environment to ensure a sustainable increase in energy efficiency investments, in particular at the local level; requires that the EU and the EIB upscale their capacity-building and technical assistance efforts to develop bankable energy efficiency projects that attract private investment from the market; calls for the EU funding programmes (e.g. Structural Funds, Juncker Plan, ELE ...[+++]NA-EIB) to increase the proportion of funds allocated to energy efficiency capacity-building and technical assistance.