From Crisis to Opportunity: Dublin’s Vision for a Consumer-Centric Energy Future

The 2023 edition of the Citizens Energy Forum will take place in Dublin on 9 November 2023, from 09:00-16:00 Dublin Time. The event will be web streamed with the possibility for the onsite and online audience.
The Forum will engage a wide range of local stakeholders, including NGOs, cities, communities and businesses, as well as national policy makers on lessons learnt from the energy crisis in terms of consumer issues and solutions, and the opportunity it presents to design a more consumer-centric energy system of
the future.

The event will focus on citizens and the solutions they can access or put in place. It will take stock of what has been done during the energy crisis by local actors and citizens to better protect and empower household consumers and explore the building blocks for a more resilient energy system and future where all consumers can reduce and steer their demand, as well as access affordable renewable energy, including energy poor and vulnerable households.
Active participation at the Forum will be facilitated through Sli.do polls, citizen testimonies, hands-on, informative and inspiring examples of consumer actions, and lively discussions in break out groups.
Back-to-back with the Forum, there will be two events for specialised audiences at the EU and local level, the day before and the day after. A closed-door Regulatory Roundtable on EU consumer policy on 8 November and the Joint Closing Conference of the Energy Communities Repository and Rural Energy Community Advisory Hub on 10 November.