Fifteen years of SEVEn; Seven billion crowns to promote energy saving and renewable energy sources; Emission allowance trading commences; Lack of interest in drawing subsidies from the operational programme brings about a change in methodology; Saving energy? Slowly but surely, or surely but slowly; Selected references and SEVEn’s activities over the past 15 years: Preparation and implementation of EPC projects; Energy market opening, liberalisation and privatisation of the energy sector; SEVEn activities abroad; Reconstruction of district heating in Jindřichův Hradec; Energy labelling of household electrical appliances; EEBW: Energy Efficiency Business Week international conference; How to build low-energy apartment houses without increased capital costs; Mass-media campaign promoting energy efficient lighting; Support for economically most effective renewable energy sources; Saving at least 1% more energy each year – an obligation or recommendation?; First feed-in tariffs with a 15-year guarantee; United Nations conference on climate change – Montreal 2005; Conferences, exhibitions and presentations January – March 2006