Europe Accelerates Energy-saving Renovation of Elevators, Green and Low-carbon Becomes Mainstream Trend of the Industry

Recently, in line with regional carbon neutrality goals, many European countries have updated the energy efficiency management regulations for special equipment and set new energy efficiency access requirements for elevators in buildings, urging energy-saving upgrading and renovation of stock elevators. Europe has a large number of elevators in service, and the proportion of old elevators that have been in use for more than 20 years remains high. Traditional drive systems feature high energy consumption and loud operating noise, which fail to meet the current low-carbon development requirements.

To implement the new regulations, building management departments across regions have launched special supporting policies, providing financial subsidies and green approval channels for elevator energy-saving renovation projects. During the renovation, the industry generally adopts mature technologies including permanent magnet synchronous traction systems, intelligent standby management and energy feedback devices. Without changing the main structure of elevators, these technologies greatly reduce the operating power consumption of equipment, optimize the operation logic and improve riding comfort.

In addition to hardware renovation, the European market is also promoting the intelligent operation and maintenance system for elevators. Relying on Internet of Things technology, it monitors equipment energy consumption and operating status in real time, and dynamically adjusts the operation mode according to service frequency to further tap energy-saving potential. Industry research data shows that the comprehensive energy consumption of elevators after energy-saving renovation can be reduced by 25% to 40%, and the return on investment of renovation keeps increasing.

Industry analysis indicates that the demand for new elevators in the European market has tended to be stable. Stock renovation, green upgrading and maintenance services have become the main driving forces for market growth. Products and solutions featuring low carbon, high efficiency and intelligence will lead the development of the local industry for a long time.