Representatives from the European
Union, civil society as well as experts plan to discuss about the Energy Union
strategy and Europe’s path to a low-carbon system in Brussels on September 7.
Europe’s energy markets and sector
are in the middle of a large transformation process towards a low-carbon system
with a much more diverse landscape of market participants.
According to the European Economic
and Social Committee (EESC), this transition process has – in many countries –
been driven forward by civil society organisation, from companies that produce
solar panels at ever lower costs to local energy cooperatives supplying
renewable energies to their members.
A conference in Brussels on
September 7, hosted by the EESC, will focus on the European Energy Dialogue on
the Energy Union: progress, Governance and Civil Society Participation.
Following keynote speeches among
others by DG Energy Director-General Dominique Ristori, panel discussions will
address questions received from citizens and civil society organisations across
Europe. Among others, the following topics will be covered: Governing the
Energy Union; greening the economy; and financing the energy transition.
Politically, Europe’s energy
transition is developed within the framework of the Energy Union strategy from
early 2015 and has been made concrete through numerous strategies, legislative
proposals, and communications, among them, most recently, the ‘Clean Energy for
All Europeans’ package from November 2016.
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/eu-civil-society-focus-energy-union-low-carbon-system/