smartEn, the European business association integrating the consumer-driven solutions of the clean energy transition, welcomes the upcoming revision of the Climate, Energy and Environmental Aid Guidelines (CEEAG) as an opportunity to put Europe on track to achieve climate neutrality in cost effective way and to make the clean energy transition a success for the environment, economy and society.
We are deeply concerned of the incomplete approach reflected in the revised draft State aid Guidelines which focus only on the clean electrification of end-use sectors and their efficiency improvement at individual level without considering their contribution to the whole energy system. With the revised State Aid Guidelines, the European Commission should set a framework geared toward system efficiency and climate neutrality.
The present document outlines smartEn’s wording formulation for the revision of the State aid guidelines to ensure that whenever applied, state aid foster system efficiency through the empowerment and active participation of all European energy end-users, by unleashing demand-side flexibility potential.
