03.04.2026
EffiComfort Project Also Presented at the Energetics and Environment ’26 Summit
At the central professional event Energetics and Environment ’26, held as the 16th Green Energy Summit at Brdo pri Kranju on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, one of the speakers was also Jure Vetršek, MSc, Head of the Energy Efficiency and Built Environment Department at the Innovation and Development Institute of the University of Ljubljana. He presented the EffiComfort project to a broad audience of participants from the energy, industrial, and financial sectors.
In his presentation, he introduced the concept of transitioning from static to dynamic indoor conditions. Instead of maintaining a fixed room temperature, the EffiComfort project highlights the deliberate adaptation of the indoor environment according to the season, time of day, and users’ needs. This approach, enabled through so-called “temperature training,” can contribute to greater comfort and improved user health, while also supporting more efficient energy use in buildings. The latter is becoming increasingly important in light of the largest disruption of fossil fuel supply chains in history. Vetršek also presented the synergies between a dynamic indoor environment and the management of energy systems with variable sources, which, with the proper integration of storage systems, can bring benefits both for people and for energy grids.
Prosperia, the organizer of the annual event dedicated to new developments in the deployment of renewable energy sources and the opportunities of self-supply, storage systems, and active demand, concluded the event with the observation that “a successful energy transition will depend not only on ambition, but above all on the speed of implementation, system resilience, and cooperation in introducing concrete solutions.” The EffiComfort project also contributes to this mosaic of solutions, as the City of Ljubljana aims, through innovative energy performance contracting in public buildings, to accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral society.
The EffiComfort project is supported by the European Urban Initiative (EUI) and co-financed by the European Union.
