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Renewable Matter sat down with #EUSEW2026 Coordinator Loredana Crucitti to discuss 20 years of energy landscape evolution, citizens engagement, the different pillars of the event and what this edition means to the EUSEW community and beyond.

EUSEW 2026 is officially open for registrations and the programme is now live! This year, we are celebrating a new milestone: for 20 years, EUSEW has been the place where Europe’s energy future took shape.

By Thomas Nowak – On why the buildings that house half of all Europeans have more clean heating options than typically acknowledged.

By Bianca Bittencourt and Tom Vasseur – About accelerating clean heating and scaling up investment to cut fossil fuel dependence and secure affordable energy for European households.

By Jiří Bím - Examining how agrivoltaics can accelerate Europe’s decarbonisation, enhance energy security, support farmers’ incomes, and overcome land-use challenges across the European Union.

By Chris Vrettos and Sara Tachelet - Explaining the EU’s Citizens Energy Package and highlighting its 90 GW community energy target while questioning its effectiveness without legally binding support.

By Thomas Hillig - Explaining that the European Union must act quickly and together to close the price gap, strengthen the hydrogen market and build its own industry, or risk losing economic leadership to China.

By Luke Haywood - Urging Europe to overcome political and structural barriers to unlock cheaper, homegrown renewable energy and strengthen competitiveness and energy independence.

Planning an event between March and June 2026 to engage your community around clean and renewable energy? Apply for the Sustainable Energy Days and give your work the visibility it deserves.

By Heike Winkler - Explaining how expanding offshore wind in Europe can decarbonise industries like steel while supporting affordable energy, jobs, and energy independence.

By Anna Cocchi and Meie Kleijburg – Emphasising the need to involve young people early as essential partners in local energy projects to accelerate renewables and achieve a just net-zero transition.

Want to help shape Europe’s clean energy future? Learn what it means to be a EUSEW Young Energy Ambassador and discover the opportunities the programme offers.

By Irene Paoletti – Showing how linking industry and cities through urban industrial symbiosis can cut energy use and help EU industry become cleaner, stronger, and more competitive.

By Niklāvs Tamanis, Veronica Saletti, Marco Costa and Marina Fernández Fernández-Campoamor - Highlighting the need for inclusive benefit-sharing mechanisms to ensure environmental gains also deliver social equity and shared community value in energy communities.

From 9-11 June 2026 in Brussels, the Energy Fair will run alongside the EUSEW Policy Conference and will be hosted entirely at the Charlemagne building. Applications to host a stand close on 12 March 2026.

Over the years, the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) community has grown into a dynamic, professional network of policymakers, researchers, businesses and organisations shaping Europe’s clean energy transition. We have been listening closely to how and where this community is most active.

By Parvathy Sobha, Brida Mbuwir and Bart Overdevest - How Europe’s race to net zero is testing grid stability, and what the Nordic power system reveals about keeping the lights on while integrating large shares of renewable energy.

If you are planning to host a session in 2026, this article will help you with the key information on how to craft a compelling application that stands out. 

By Brida Mbuwir - Have you tried asking ChatGPT what the world’s most pressing challenge is? It ranks climate change as the first challenge. So how about we use the technology behind ChatGPT to solve that challenge?