We really need to work on the buildings; buildings are still 40% of our energy consumption. We need to insulate our houses, introduce more efficient windows, more efficient products in our daily life. That can help us exit the crisis and, of course, reach our 2030 targets.
➢ Rewatch the session: Keynote speech on energy efficiency and renewables
What sometimes complicates the work of local initiatives is that there is no national official definition of energy poverty.
➢ Rewatch the session: Multilevel governance: addressing energy poverty in the energy transition era
There is a huge potential in waste heat, which unfortunately still remains untapped. It's 2,860 terawatt hours… and to put it a little bit into perspective, this corresponds to the total primary energy consumption, more or less, in France, so it's huge, but it's not being used.
➢ Rewatch the session: No hot air! The potential of waste heat for decarbonising industry, cities, and buildings
The key message I'd like to leave is that the fate of Europe’s aluminium industry is a very strong indicator of how well we're doing more generally when it comes to industrial decarbonisation and Europe’s Green Deal. The reason that I say this is that the Green Deal is based massively on the electrification of buildings, of road transport, and of course of industry as well.
➢ Rewatch the session: Fit for 55: how can we remove the barriers to decarbonisation in industry?
In order to produce energy, you need a lot of water, typically for cooling so whatever solution we want to find for energy, we need to take water into account.
➢ Rewatch the session: No hot air! The potential of waste heat for decarbonising industry, cities, and buildings
Energy efficiency means doing the things right, energy demand reduction – energy efficiency –means doing the right things.
➢ Rewatch the session: Less is more: empowering net-zero strategies by reduced energy demand
We are on a mission to power the planet with clean electricity from ocean waves. Wave energy has been developed over the last decades, and we have now proven it with a commercial scale kit.
➢ Rewatch the session: Renewables made in Europe: competitiveness of wind, solar and ocean energies
Lowering energy prices must be a priority for all policymakers and decision makers and all business leaders across Europe.
➢ Rewatch the session: Closing ceremony
This is EUSEW: highlights from Day 2
Here are a few of the highlights from Day 2 of EUSEW 2024. Today’s sessions centred around action that can be taken at city level and the need for decarbonisation. If you missed any of them, follow the links below. Don’t forget to share your thoughts and experiences using #EUSEW2024.
I invite you now to see this work as a down payment on the crucial work that lies ahead, not just to deliver on our 2030 targets, but to guide us towards becoming the world's first climate neutral continent by 2050. The next stage in our journey binds the Green Deal and our competitiveness agenda even more closely together.
➢ Rewatch the session: Keynote speech on city actions and decarbonisation
As we were working with vulnerable populations, we understood that they’re coping with summer energy poverty. And we realised it’s quite complex; I would like to say even more complex than working with winter energy poverty. As there are many variables, it is not only about dwellings; it is also about behavioural patterns and the use of the public space.
➢ Rewatch the session: Cool in the city: adapting to new climate conditions
AI also understands the levels of risk and uncertainty and adapts safety margins dynamically, will detect anomalies and perturbances and it’s also very interesting when there are several options of achieving flexibility.
➢ Rewatch the session: Artificial Intelligence in the energy sector
We have to harness the potential that we have in these local communities. We have to invest in empowering them, in involving them, and also making sure that the knowledge that we have in this room gets even broader.
➢ Rewatch the session: From waste to renewable energy: biomethane and renewable energy communities
Intelligent digitalisation can make a significant contribution; it is an essential enabler of that energy transition. That's the reason, or one of the reasons, we refer to a twin transition as both a green transition and a digital transition, and they really go hand in hand: one will not deliver fully without the other.
➢ Rewatch the session: Artificial intelligence in the energy sector
Energy transition entails rapidly building up new infrastructure to facilitate the energy transfer, at the same time also upgrading the existing infrastructure and maintaining the operational functionality while running the grid to the limits. There are several emerging technologies that can help us overcome these challenges, and one of them is artificial intelligence.
➢ Rewatch the session: Artificial intelligence in the energy sector
We need to think about the future generation, so when we talk about communities, we also need to think about what the young people are thinking; what do they think they want our energy system to look like in the future? So, it's not just about us today deciding it should be like this and these are our targets, it's also listening to the younger generations.
➢ Rewatch the session: From waste to renewable energy: biomethane and renewable energy communities
What I can tell you is that in my 13 years of activism, working with business leaders, teachers, students, policy makers, is the biggest challenge we need to overcome; it is, in fact, at the intersection of all of these areas. And that is the mindset.
➢ Rewatch the session: ManagEnergy Talk - Powering the future: how we can reimagine our energy system
This is EUSEW: highlights from Day 1
Here are a few of the highlights from Day 1 of EUSEW 2024. Remember that you can catch up on any sessions you missed on our online platform. Don’t forget to share your experiences on social media using #EUSEW2024, and let the community know what resonated with you.
➢ Rewatch the session: Opening session
The European objective to be zero-emission by 2050 is a very interesting goal. But to reach that, we have to change our behaviour and not continue to develop new technologies systematically.
➢ Rewatch the session: Opening session
Only when green electrons can flow freely across our borders and energy efficiency is truly acknowledged will we fully reap benefits of a unified European energy market and transform Europe into a self-sufficient electricity powerhouse, ensuring our collective prosperity and security for generations to come. Much has been done, but there's still so much work ahead.
➢ Rewatch the session: Opening session
We have to learn to handle and share our resources, our scarce resources, in a better way. And I think these projects show that it really can be done.
➢ Rewatch the session: EUSEW Awards Ceremony
In order to achieve this reduction of dependence on Russia, we deployed a number of different instruments. One of them was the accelerated deployment of clean energy, of renewable energy in particular, and we have simply facilitated that deployment through a series of measures, investment, financing, but also an acceleration of permitting, a reduction of the barriers to the deployment of renewable energy.
➢ Rewatch the session: Where generations meet to power the future
If you're aware of the challenge that you face with climate change, ensuring peace and security everywhere, prosperity for everybody, that can be very frustrating work. It can feel pretty much of a burden, but that's really a normal reaction. And don't let those feelings stop you. Keep pushing. Keep dreaming that rock is rolling faster and faster because more and more people are pushing it.
➢ Rewatch the session: Where generations meet to power the future
