The EU energy system needs investments for the years to come with a magnitude of hundreds of billion euros per year. Such massive investment challenge is worth assessing what options can be the most beneficial for the society. In the meantime, policies are increasingly interacting as they can have impacts beyond their core objectives. Energy policies can indeed have significant impacts on competitiveness, economic activity, health, among others.
Despite strong legislative backing, translating EE1st into concrete planning, investment and policy decisions remains challenging. Stakeholders may also be reluctant to engage in broad assessments and to consider impacts beyond their usual field of expertise. Whereas the literature has shown that this may affect assessment results, and thereby decisions.
This event gathers experts from various countries and types of organisation to share experience and recent findings illustrating:
- how multiple impacts can be assessed in an easy way, to identify where they can make a difference, or where further analysis is worth it;
- how EE1st can be implemented in practice, and what added value this can bring to planning and decision-making processes, as well as to policy design.
Building on this, the event also aims at discussing further developments in this field and the role of energy efficiency in the upcoming post-2030 energy & climate framework.
This event is jointly organised by two complementary EU LIFE projects aiming to address implementation gaps:
- SEED MICAT – developing and extending the MICATool, an open-access online tool for quantifying the Multiple Impacts of Energy Efficiency (MI-EE) at European, national and local levels, and embedding Multiple Impacts analysis into real policy processes through three pilot cases in Germany, Italy and Czechia.
- ENEFIRST Plus – providing practical guidelines and hands-on support to Member States and key stakeholders to operationalise EE1st in energy infrastructure investment, energy planning and incentive scheme design, tested through eight real-life pilot cases in Croatia, Greece, Italy and Poland.
This event is meant for policy officers, practitioners, researchers, experts and any stakeholders involved or interested in energy planning, assessing or designing energy transition policies, and assessing or deciding investments in energy infrastructure (including demand-side resources).
The event will be hybrid (in Brussels and online). It will also include a poster and networking session for in-person participants only. The number of in-person participants is limited: registration is free, but required.
See the agenda below:
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