Germany must catch up with other EU countries and collect building efficiency data - report

Germany must systematically collect building efficiency data like all other EU countries, which would boost its lagging efforts to make its housing stock climate-neutral, according to the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE), an independent think tank. “Building data is central to monitoring the energy transition and achieving climate targets. However, Germany is currently poorly equipped when it comes to building data,” BPIE said, adding that Germany is the only country in Europe without a database for energy performance certificate data.