Support for heat production from RES; support for energy savings and renewable sources within the Eco-energy programme; efficient lighting does not only apply to light sources in households; Challange Bibendum 2011 in Berlin; the world's first renewable heat incentive to be launched in Great Britain; green procurement: smarter and cheaper; support for EPC in the Czech Repulic; awards for the EPC method; EU draft Energy Efficiency Directive; supporting the implementation of energy-efficient buildings legislation in Belarus; new susidy for absorption heat pumps; SEVEn new publications in 2011 - a selection.