Balgarianovinite.com By the end of the year, Bulgaria will submit to the European Commission the first version of the draft national plan for retrofitting residential and non-residential buildings, which is aimed to achieve a highly efficient and decarbonized building stock by 2050, said Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Dora Yankova, as quoted by her ministry on Thursday.
Yankova chairs an interministerial working group developing the plan to transform existing buildings into zero-emission buildings. The group held a meeting earlier in the day.
“Our ambition is to have an approved national plan by the end of next year, including all the policies we need related to building modernization, environmental protection, improving quality of life, and enhancing the country’s economy,” said Yankova. She emphasized that the initial draft is only a framework for the large-scale programme. The national plan will set out in detail all requirements, measures, the roles of the various participants, funding sources, conditions, and all other parameters.
Ivaylo Alexiev, Executive Director of the Agency for Sustainable Energy Development and deputy chair of the working group, noted that large-scale retrofitting of buildings in Bulgaria is proposed to be carried out in two temporal frameworks, by 2030–2035 and 2040–2050. He stressed that the plan aims to involve as many stakeholders as possible – private individuals, central and local government institutions, the construction sector, sectoral organizations, and the banking community, which has an interest in energy efficiency programmes.
“Currently, we retrofit about 1% of the existing building stock each year. To meet the European Commission’s requirements, we need to renovate between 2% and 3% of the identified buildings annually,” Alexiev said.
The preparation of the first version of the plan drew on analyses by the Bulgarian-Austrian Consulting Company (BACC) and the EnEffect Centre for Energy Efficiency, which examined available data from the Agency for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, the National Statistical Institute, the Agency for Sustainable Energy Development, and others.
Tsveta Nanyova from BACC presented an analysis of the existing residential building stock in Bulgaria. According to it, there are currently 1,165,998 buildings with 3,312,056 dwellings, covering nearly 290 million sq. m. Just over one million are single-family buildings, containing more than 1.3 million dwellings. Nearly 83,000 are multi-family buildings, which contain almost 2 million dwellings. Nanyova noted that over the last five years there has been a decline of nearly 200,000 inhabited single-family buildings, offset by multi-family buildings representing new construction in cities.
Experts estimate that nearly 980,000 single-family dwellings and 82,136 multi-family buildings are eligible for renovation. “These are residential buildings with a total area of 277 million sq. m,” Nanyova said.
So far, 3,022 buildings in Bulgaria have been retrofitted using EU and national budgetary funds. With the resources currently available, a further 2,000 are expected to be retrofitted by 2030. Some households have independently undertaken energy efficiency measures with their own funds. As a result, 49% of all inhabited dwellings in the country have replaced windows, and nearly 28% have thermal insulation on external walls.
Nanyova also noted that single-family buildings are the most expensive to retrofit, as 30% of resources for this group of structures go to replacing old pitched roofs. At the same time, relatively few people live in them – 2021 census data show an average of 2.4 persons per dwelling. Multi-family buildings are the most significant for the country’s energy profile, covering 50% of inhabited space and 60% of dwellings and having the highest potential for energy savings.
Kamen Simeonov from EnEffect presented interim data from the analysis of the non-residential building stock, including public institutions such as schools, administrative buildings, and industrial enterprises. To date, estimates show a need to retrofit 129 million sq. m of space.
During the working group meeting, a number of topics were discussed, including the adoption of an energy poverty plan, requirements for the structural resilience of buildings, and the issue of uninhabited buildings. The aim is to ensure effective participation of the public and stakeholders in the early stage of drafting the national buildings retrofitting plan, in accordance with Article 3, point 4 of Directive (EU) 2024/1275. Bulgaria to Submit Draft Buildings Retrofitting Plan to European Commission by Year-End 2025 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2025-12-18 18:08:19 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law
