The Coalition for Energy Savings

📜 Last week, on Thursday, Ursula von der Leyen presented her political priorities for the mandate 2024-2029 to the European Parliament before being re-elected for a second term as the European Commission’s President. Here are our three key takeaways from her speech where energy efficiency has a key role to play: 1️⃣ The Commission sets its focus on implementation of the Fit for 55 package and the existing legal climate and energy framework for 2030. This, alongside the proposal to enshrine a 90% reduction in emissions target for 2040, confirms a continued commitment to ambitious energy and climate policy. 2️⃣ Competitiveness and industry are at the heart of the guidelines, with a proposal for a European Competitiveness Fund, a Clean Industrial Deal, and a strong focus on investment, particularly in clean technologies. 3️⃣ The guidelines highlight a commitment to social fairness, proposing an EU Anti-Poverty Strategy and a European Affordable Housing Plan, both the first of their kind. The Social Climate Fund is highlighted as a key tool for delivering affordable and energy-efficient housing, confirming the inextricable link between energy poverty and poverty more broadly. 👏 We welcome the Commission's renewed commitment to upholding the Green Deal, as well as the attention given to housing renovations, energy poverty, and European competitiveness. We urge the new European institutions to recognise and leverage energy efficiency as a crucial and effective strategy to deliver on the above proposals for the next mandate. 

📆 Ahead of Ursula von der Leyen's presentation of the Commission priorities for the next mandate tomorrow, we want to reiterate a few of our own asks for the new political term.⚡Energy efficiency and savings must continue to be leveraged as crucial tools to address the challenges the EU is facing, including boosting its competitiveness and ensuring its energy security. We ask for the new European Commission to:      ✅ Reconfirm its commitment to meet the objectives of the European Green Deal: The previous mandate initiated and lead to the adoption of major European climate, energy, and environmental legislation. This new European Commission must be focused on the full and adequate implementation of approved legislation, particularly the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. It is essential for Ursula von der Leyen to reaffirm her commitment to do so.      ✅ Make energy more affordable by improving the efficiency of the EU energy system: Both households and industries are increasingly concerned about affordability of energy. Energy savings and energy efficiency measures reduce the total investments required for new energy infrastructure and lower the cost of decarbonising the EU energy system. We believe that to make the transition more affordable for all, energy efficiency.  must be a central aspect of the next European Commission actions. ✅ Set a supportive framework for energy efficiency industries: Energy efficiency industries play a vital role in the energy transition by providing solutions that enable households and companies to reduce their energy consumption and remain resilient to fluctuating energy prices and possible supply shocks, while maintaining high level of comfort and productivity. We ask the next European Commission to recognize and support the energy efficiency industrial ecosystem as one that is essential to increase Europe’s competitiveness and achieve the EU climate neutrality goal.    Prioritizing energy savings and energy efficiency is fundamental for building a renewable-based, affordable, secure, and competitive EU energy system fit for the future, all while supporting a socially-just transition. We hope to see these considerations reflected in tomorrow’s address!  💪

🏆The results are in: only five Member States submitted their final #NECP updates on time! We commend Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden for respecting the June 30 deadline. 🤝 We hope to see the rest of the 22 EU Member States submitting their final NECP updates as soon as possible, as the timely submission of these plans is key to the effective implementation of the 2023 #EED. 

🥁And the first final #NECP update submitted is... The Netherlands! 🏆 👏 Even more positive, the Netherlands sets its primary energy and final energy contribution according to the #EED formula, committing to do its fair share to reach the 2030 EU efficiency target. On the more negative side, the Netherlands does not concretely quantify the public sector obligation or the renovation requirement for public buildings, which are important provisions of the new EED. 💪 We hope to see many more plans submitted before the deadline on the 30th of June!

⌛Member states have one week to submit their final National Energy and Climate Plan updates on time! Unfortunately, delays are likely for several countries. Member States must improve their draft #NECP updates and be compliant with the 2023 Energy Efficiency Directive! To do this, Member States must:   ✅ Take into account the country-specific recommendations received on their respective draft NECPs.  ✅ Use the corrected national energy efficiency contribution communicated to them by the Commission. ✅ Follow the published guidance notes on the 2023 EED (for the time being on Articles 4, 8, 9, and 10). 📑We also encourage Member States to read our analysis of their draft NECP updates: https://lnkd.in/egWsskdv This is a crucial step to set in motion a comprehensive plan to accelerate energy efficiency measures and ensure the timely and effective implementation of the #EED! 💪

✨ Yesterday, our Secretary General Arianna Vitali Roscini took part in an interactive #EUSEW session, which explored energy efficiency policy impacts using a new policy simulator tool, REFEREE. 🛠 At the Coalition, we are already using REFEREE to simulate energy efficiency policies at the EU level and across countries and to quantify their multiple benefits in terms of competitiveness, environmental impacts and societal gains. 👊 We're also glad to see more women playing an inspiring and leading role in energy efficiency policy! ➡ Check out the REFEREE tool here: https://refereetool.eu/ 

🤗 Today marks the start of the #eceee2024 summer study!   📝 Over the next 5 days, energy efficiency experts will exchange on the latest academic findings, discuss ideas for innovative policies, and share inspiring examples from all over Europe!   🙋♂️ On Tuesday morning, our Antonin Chapelot will present the lessons learned from the Coalition's extensive analysis of the draft #NECP updates.   ⏱ With the deadline to submit the final #NECP updates only a few weeks away, these guiding principles will support all stakeholders to assess the robustness of these plans. ➡ Full programme here: https://lnkd.in/euZpjhnG

🎉We are thrilled to announce that Eurovent has joined the Coalition for Energy Savings! Eurovent is the leading voice of the European heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration manufacturers, representing over 100 companies directly and more than 1,000 indirectly through its 16 national associations with more than 350 manufacturing sites across Europe.  Eurovent becomes the 27th member of our unique and diverse coalition, bringing together businesses, local authorities, energy agencies, energy communities and civil society organisation. 🤝Welcome to Eurovent! We are looking forward to working together to support the #energyefficiency agenda!  Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gPWSFiD3

🌟The 2023 #EnergyEfficiencyDirective strengthens the renovation requirements for public buildings! Member States must ensure that:  ✅ At least 3% of the buildings owned by public bodies are renovated every year (in contrast to only those owned and occupied by central governments, as in the 2012 EED).  ✅ Renovations achieve nearly zero-energy building or zero-emission building standards, in line with the new EPBD (in comparison to only minimum level of performance, as it is currently the case). Our recent analysis of the 26 available draft #NECP updates finds that most Member States’ must improve their plans to deliver on this obligation: too many of them have not yet planned additional measures to cover the expanded scope and to address stronger performance requirements.    👇Have a look at our map below to see how EU countries perform in terms of compliance with the 2023 EED's public buildings objective and read our full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/egWsskdv   ⌛Last call to improve the NECP updates: Member States must ensure that their public buildings lead by example in the energy transition!   

🌟The 2023 #EnergyEfficiencyDirective calls on Member States to reduce the energy consumption of their public bodies – meaning their national, regional or local authorities – by 1.9% per year. To ensure they play an exemplary role, efficiency measures can be implemented in any area of the public sector, including transport, public buildings, healthcare, spatial planning, water management and wastewater treatment, district heating and cooling, energy distribution, supply and storage, public lighting and many more. Concerningly, our recent analysis of the 26 available draft #NECP updates finds that Member States have overwhelmingly failed to adequately recognise and plan for this objective, making it the EED requirement that has been the least integrated in the draft plans. 👇Have a look at our map below to see how EU countries perform in terms of compliance with the 2023 EED's public sector obligation and read our full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/egWsskdv ⌛Last call to improve the NECP updates: Member States must plan effectively to help their public bodies to implement energy efficiency measures across sectors!