Conferences

Energy
Efficiency Policy
Conference 2025

6 March 2025
in Wels

Programme

Energy Efficiency Policy Conference

DATE

Thursday, 6 March 2025

VENUE

Stadthalle, Pollheimerstrasse 1,
4600 Wels/Austria

LANGUAGES

English, German

What is it all about?

  • New Directives (Energy Efficiency, Buildings)  
  • EE finance & markets   
  • Building Renovation  
  • Energy Communities  
  • Energy Efficiency Watch

2025: Competitive, collective, climate-neutral!

Find out more!

Conference Fees

  • 65 Euro for the Energy Efficiency Policy Conference (6 March)
  • 410 Euro for all WSED conferences (4 - 7 March)
  • further details on conference fees

All fees include an entrance ticket to the tradeshow and conference documentation. All fees plus 10 % VAT.

PROGRAMME

Thursday
6 March

09.00 Policies, markets and programmes

Staying on target for climate neutrality is a key challenge in changing political and economic frameworks. Energy efficiency has a crucial role to play in this profound transformation.

This session presents energy efficiency policies and markets from Europe and beyond. It shows how increasing energy efficiency strengthens our competitiveness and resilience

  • Opening and welcome
    Gerhard Dell, OÖ Energiesparverband, Austria
     
  • EU energy efficiency policies and their future developments
    Nikolaos Kontinakis, European Commission, DG Energy
     
  • The IEA Energy Efficiency Market Report 2024
    Mine Isik, International Energy Agency
     
  • Best Young Energy Efficiency Researcher Award
     
  • Energy efficiency improvements and EU policy impacts
    Enrico Clementi, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
     
  • International energy efficiency financing 
    Gursimran Rooprai, Global Multilateral Development Bank Expert, UK
     
  • Zero emission buildings: The new European Energy Performance Directive
    Jaap Hogeling, EPB.Center, ISSO, The Netherlands 

Key elements of the new energy system

Energy markets are undergoing profound changes. Strong growth in renewable energy production, electrification, highly volatile energy prices and geopolitical changes are creating new challenges and opportunities.

This session presents key elements of a new energy system, including improved infrastructure, the ramp-up of energy storage and decentralisation. Energy Communities and municipalities show how citizens can be put at  the centre of the transformation. 

  • Best practice in energy infrastructure planning
    Charles Esser, European Distribution System Operators (E.DSO)
     
  • No energy storage, no energy transition
    Maximilian Fichtner, Helmholtz Institute Ulm, Germany
     
  • Energy Communities – sharing energy, sharing investments  
    Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband, Austria
     
  • Municipalities as driving forces in the new energy system
    Vlasta Krmelj, Municipality of Selnica ob Dravi/ENERGAP, Slovenia
     
  • Empowering citizens for the energy transition 
    Elisabeth van de Grift, TNO, The Netherlands
     
  • Energy management – best practice examples 
    Valérie Plainemaison, EFIEES
     
  • New narratives for the energy transition  
    Daniel Becker, Guidehouse, Germany

Chairperson:
Jan Geiss, Eufores

13.00 Conference lunch
 

This conference is organised in the context of the LIFE project "Energy Efficiency Watch 5": www.energy-efficiency-watch.org

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