Recognition of Energy Agencies in the new EED

Since July 2021, the Energy Efficiency directive has been under revision by EU’s co-legislators. FEDARENE focused its advocacy efforts on strengthening the role of regions and their energy agencies and use their experience to inform the revisions (see here FEDARENE’s amendments). Negotiations ended in March 2023, and multiple amendments of FEDARENE are part of the final text.

For the first time since the EED exists, energy agencies are recognised as important stakeholders and Member States are encouraged to engage with them. Co-legislators agreed among other modifications: to set the 2030 EU energy efficiency target at an 11.7% reduction; a new binding target for Member States to reduce the energy consumption of all public bodies combined by 1.9% each year from 2024 onwards; Member States will have to ensure that regional and local authorities prepare local heating and cooling plans (with municipalities with less than 45,000 inhabitants being excluded) based on the comprehensive H&C assessments; a specific article on the application of the Energy Efficiency First principle; enterprises with an energy consumption over 85 Terajoules (TJ) to set up an Energy Management System; companies under 10 TJ will have to carry out an energy audit, at least once every four years, unless they have an Energy Management System already in place.

In the next weeks, FEDARENE will launch a campaign promoting the role of regions and their energy agencies, building on the text of the EED as well as their role in the REPowerEU action plan. All FEDARENE members will be strongly involved in this campaign.

Please find here a summary of the revisions of the EED

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