Consuming smarter — not more — to ensure everyone has enough energy within planetary limits.
Energy sufficiency is about consuming smarter—not more. While efficiency relies on technology to reduce energy use, sufficiency focuses on behaviour, lifestyle choices, and collective organisation to cut unnecessary demand and ensure fair access to resources. From cycling-friendly cities to durable product design, sufficiency measures are already part of our daily lives, yet they remain under-recognised by policymakers.
By tackling overconsumption, sufficiency helps reduce energy poverty, strengthen social equity, and improve health and well-being, all while easing pressure on the climate. Ultimately, it is about guaranteeing that everyone has enough energy to live well—without exceeding the limits of our environment.
FEDARENE’s Energy Sufficiency Working Group met to discuss how sufficiency can support the energy transition through behavioural change, structural measures and practical action across mobility, buildings, industry and public administrations.
Read moreFEDARENE's working group on energy sufficiency recently met online to define the topic, share their approaches, and outline next steps…
Read moreThis editorial by Marie-Laure Falque Masset, FEDARENE Vice-President for Energy Sufficiency, explores how behavioural nudges can help us save energy…
Read moreCheck out this Editorial by Marie-Laure Falque Masset, FEDARENE Vice-President for Energy Sufficiency & senior expert at Paris Region Institute,…
Read moreFEDARENE and more than 70 organisations call on the EU to mainstream energy sufficiency into its legislative framework, for a…
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Discover the measures implemented by AREC, the Regional Energy and Climate Agency of the Île-de-France…
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Discover the mission of Energikontor Sydost, to implement an energy sufficient approach to travel with…
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The Paris Region Institute's Energy and Climate department (AREC) has instigated several actions to develop…
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You missed the Energy Sufficiency WG meeting? Watch the recording!
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EU Policy Roundtable organised by Regio1st project as EUSEW parallel event on the link between…
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How can regional authorities and energy agencies put the Energy Efficiency First principle into practice?…
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