Participation in Ensuring Climate Neutrality: Right or Duty of Apartment Owners?
Scientific Problems of Engineering Economics of Construction and Real Estate Management, Regional and Territorial Development ICEREE’2022: Book of Abstracts 2022
Mārtiņš Auders, Ineta Geipele, Sanda Lapuķe

In multi-apartment residential buildings apartment owners have a different and often conflicting vision of the necessary investments for their shared ownership. Therefore, both, from the point of view of all apartment owners and also from the public interest point of view, it is essential to find a fair balance between the interests of the interested parties. As a social reality and society’s economic needs change, the concept and scope of real estate management has been constantly improved both in Europe and in Latvia. If historically property management has been understood as dealing with the property as a whole or its parts, as well as participation in joint expenses for its maintenance and preservation, then in the context of climate goals, the question of the place of energy efficiency issues in the management activities of residential houses is especially relevant not only in Latvia but also elsewhere in Europe. Currently the Law on the Management of Residential Buildings generally provides that the provision of measures to improve the energy efficiency of a residential house is a mandatory management activity, however, prima facie it can be concluded that such regulation can be improved, as it does not provide answers to many important questions. For example, is an individual apartment owner obliged to participate in the installation of solar panels or the creation of a parking space for electric cars? What are house manager’s responsibilities in informing apartment owners about climate goals (energy transition) and drawing up a management work plan related to these goals? Therefore, in order to successfully ensure the achievement of energy transition, in addition to the already known management activities, the scope of management activities established by the law should be expanded, also providing for the rights and obligations of those involved in the management of residential buildings – apartment owners, associations of apartment owners and house managers in relation to energy communities.


Keywords
energy communities, energy efficiency, energy transition, residential house management
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Auders, M., Geipele, I., Lapuķe, S. Participation in Ensuring Climate Neutrality: Right or Duty of Apartment Owners?. In: Scientific Problems of Engineering Economics of Construction and Real Estate Management, Regional and Territorial Development ICEREE’2022: Book of Abstracts, Latvia, Rīga, 29-30 September, 2022. Riga: RTU Press, 2022, pp.30-30. ISSN 2592-9372.

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