Vlasta KRMELJ
Vice-President for Financing and Investments
CEO of ENERGAP and Mayor of Selnica ob Dravi (SI)
"<p>With good technical documentation and cooperation of stakeholders, different financial mechanisms and sources can be found to implement energy projects. A lack of money should not be the excuse for not implementing the energy transition!</p> "
Biography
Vlasta Krmelj is the Director of regional Energy and Climate Agency of Podravje in Slovenia – since 2006
She is the Mayor of Municipality of Selnica ob Dravi in Slovenia – since 2018
She is an Expert for innovative financing scheme for sustainable energy and climate action plan projects (EPC, Green Bonds, Citizens Financing – crowdfunding and cooperatives), 2020.
Since 2025, she is a member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), serving in two key commissions: the Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) and the Commission for the Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE).
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