Energies, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 17(17), С. 4417 - 4417
Опубликована: Сен. 3, 2024
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings (IEEBs) is crucial to achieving European Union’s ambitious climate and goals. To channel these efforts, new policies, legislation, sources funding, mechanisms for distributing funds, programs, support tools are being introduced. The purpose this study demonstrate effects disbursement EU Cohesion Policy 2014–2020 funds on IEEBs in Poland Germany, filling research gap regarding regional differentiation investments, beneficiaries, spatial distribution subsidies projects. An analysis was made 7818 projects implemented under operational programs from Regional Development Funds Thematic Objective 4. This conducted two main variables: (1) beneficiaries (8 categories) (2) investments categories). Based division, using a cluster through use Ward’s agglomerative hierarchical clustering method, groupings were relation (6 groups) group). results allowed us identify differences similarities approach IEEBs, indicate highlight trends regard, impact changes territorial affiliation investment targeting, and, furthermore, capture variation sophistication implementation IEEB-related policies legislation. provide well-documented voice discussion regions Germany basis further comparative research.
Язык: Английский