The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Directives are central pieces of legislation to achieve Europe’s energy and climate objectives in a cost-effective way by delivering the needed radical transformation in the way we produce, consume and distribute energy. They represent a major opportunity to support an efficient, secure and fully decarbonised energy system with active consumers at its core.
For this to happen, the EU framework should overcome barriers to the uptake of cost-effective and innovative solutions and to the activation of demand-side flexibility from all consumers. This will ensure buildings, transport and industries can reduce and shift electricity consumption in a time-dependent way to increase the penetration of renewable electricity (generated on-site and/or distributed through the network) in all end-use sectors while shielding citizens and business from volatile energy prices and reducing the EU energy dependency towards gas imports.
Our paper sets out recommendations for the negotiations of the Renewable Energy (RED) and Energy Efficiency (EED) Directives.
