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At the moment, there are already some official definitions of nZEBs available at least in Denmark, Estonia, and France, but most of the Member States intensively work with national definitions and plan for nZEBs. In the following, the situation in some selected countries is reported. At the end of the chapter, the issue of comparison of national requirements is discussed and comparison results of some countries based on the data of January 2013 are shown. Some harmonization in minimum energy performance requirements can be seen.
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Kurnitski, J. et al. (2013). Present Energy Performance Requirements and nZEB Targets in Some Selected Countries. In: Kurnitski, J. (eds) Cost Optimal and Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB). Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5610-9_3
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