This event has passed. You can find the recording of the 2nd day (Part 1 and part 2) as well as the presentation slides below:
- Quantifying Energy Efficiency First: Tim Mandel (Fraunhofer IS), Lukas Kranzl (TU Wien), Eftim Popovski (IREES)
- Getting EE1st implemented
- Zsuzsanna Pato (Regulatory Assistance Project)
- Mariangiola Fabbri (BPIE) – Focus on buildings
- Benigna Boza-Kiss (Central European University) – Focus on Member States implementation
- Enefirst takeaways: key takeaways from project partners: Tim Mandel (Fraunhofer), Dr. Lukas Kranzl (TU Wien), Eftim Popovski (IREES), Dr. Zsuzsanna Pato (RAP), Mariangiola Fabbri (BPIE), Benigna Boza Kiss, Dr. Jean Sébastien Broc (IEECP).
May 31st (11 am to 6 pm CEST) and June 1st, 2022 (10.45 am to 4.30 pm CEST)
Brussels (Martin’s Brussels EU) and online
With the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the outbreak of war at the end of February 2022, finding ways to secure energy while cutting our dependence to Russian’s energy is now at the top of the European agenda.
In response to this crisis, the European Commission recently published its REPowerEU Communication for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy, and is expected to publish its REPower Action Plan to set out concrete actions.
In line with the Energy Efficiency First (EE1st) principle, reducing the energy demand and increasing the EU’s energy efficiency target has now become crucial. Energy Efficiency First means prioritising investments in energy efficiency and demand-side resources whenever these options are more cost-effective than investments in energy supply.
Organised by Enefirst and sEEnergies, this conference will illustrate how implementing the Energy Efficiency First principle can help make the most out of energy efficiency and other demand-side resources to achieve a sustainable and resilient energy system in the EU.
The two days will combine the latest findings of the sEEnergies and Enefirst H2020 projects, together with experts’ roundtables.
The event will be held in English, in Brussels and with the possibility to join online.
This event is jointly organised by the H2020 projects ENEFIRST and sEEnergies.
May 31: Energy Efficiency First, REPowerEU 2030 and 100% renewable energy in 2050 for Europe
11:00 Welcome – registrations and light lunch
12:00 Session 1:
- sEEnergies energy efficiency 2050 results and 100% renewable energy systems for EU27 and the UK
Brian Vad Mathiesen, Professor and David Maya-Drysdale, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University - Scarcity as a new normal towards 2050 – Antonella Battaglini, CEO Renewables Grid Initiative
- Q&A
13:00 Energy Efficiency Deep Dives
- EE in Transport systems in sEEnergies: Morten Elle, Associate Professor, Aalborg University, Hamza Abid, Research Assistant, Aalborg University
- EE in Buildings in sEEnergies – Martin Jacob, Executive partner, TEP Energy
- EE in Industry in sEEnergies: Katerina Kermeli, Researcher, Utrecht University, Rasmus Magni Johannsen, PhD Fellow Aalborg University
- Grids for Energy Efficient systems – electricity, district heating and gas grids: Dirk Saelens, Professor, KU Leuven, Bernd Möller, Professor, Europa-Universität Flensburg
- Tool Box – Visualisation, Exploitable Tools and Data from sEEnergies: Bernd Möller, Professor, Europa-Universität Flensburg
- Q&A
15:15 Coffee break and poster session
16:00 REPowerEU 2030: EE1st Principle, Energy Security in the light of the Russia-Ukrainian War: Brian Vad Mathiesen
16:30 REPowerEU – the EU Commission answer to energy security in Europe: Hans Van Steen, Principal Adviser, EU DG Energy
Round table: Is EU on track for the harvesting energy efficiency first potentials in REPowerEU?:
– Hans Van Steen, Principal Adviser, EU DG Energy
– Michaela Holl, Senior associate, Agora Energiewende
– Jeppe Juul, Vice President, Transport & Environment.
– Wolfgang Eichhammer, Head Competence Centre Energy Policy and Energy Markets at Fraunhofer ISI
– Eline Blanchard, Senior Policy & Project Officer, EFIEES – European Federation of Intelligent Energy Efficiency Services
– Brian Vad Mathiesen, Professor, Aalborg University
18:00 Wrap up
June 1: Making Energy Efficiency happen First!
10:15 Welcome and registrations
10:45 Opening: Why EE1st is an essential principle for the Energy Union:
- Eleonora Evi (MEP, rapporteur on the EED recast in the ENVI committee, Greens – Italy)
11:00 Quantifying EE1st: Tim Mandel (Fraunhofer ISI), Lukas Kranzl (TU Wien), Eftim Popovski (IREES)
12:15 Experts’ round table: How quantitative assessments can inform the trade-offs between energy efficiency, RES and electrification on the road to carbon neutrality in buildings
- Brian Vad Mathiesen, Aalborg University / sEEnergies project
- Barbara Schlomann, Fraunhofer ISI, MICAT
- Bianka Shoai-Tehrani, RTE, France
- Maria Galavan, SEAI, Ireland
- Sebastian Botzler, Technical University Munich
13:00 Lunch break
14:15 Getting EE1st implemented – ENEFIRST policy proposals to change mindsets from silo thinking to integrated approaches in energy planning and policy design
- Zsuzsanna Pato (Regulatory Assistance Project), Mariangiola Fabbri (BPIE), Benigna Boza-Kiss (Central European University)
15:30 Interview with Veronika Jirickova (DG ENER): Recent and upcoming developments in the EU framework for EE1st
16:00 Open discussion: What’s next to develop the implementation of EE1st?
16:30 Wrap up and conclusions
Disclaimer: sEEnergies and ENEFIRST have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 846463 and 839509 respectively.
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