The regulation Net Zero Industry Act supports manufacturing net-zero technologies, significantly impacting building sector decarbonisation by boosting green technologies like heat pumps, solar panels, and smart facades. The building sector can enhance the act’s goals by optimising these technologies’ lifecycle impacts and integrating them with energy efficiency and passive heating and cooling systems.
The goal of net-zero technologies is to balance the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere with an equivalent amount removed or offset, effectively achieving a state where no additional carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere. Stemming from the Green Deal Industrial Plan, the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) seeks to boost the EU’s clean energy technology manufacturing to stay competitive in the global move towards a net-zero economy.
It compiles a comprehensive yet non-exhaustive list of net-zero technologies and their components, including batteries, heat pumps, solar panels, fuel cells, wind turbines, and carbon capture and storage systems and Member States are allowed to expand upon this list following a certain procedure.
© BUILD UP, The European portal for energy efficiency and renewable energy in buildings
