Vlasta KRMELJ

Position: Vice-President for Financing and Investments
Region/Organisation: CEO of ENERGAP and Mayor of Selnica ob Dravi (SI)

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 the Energy and Climate Agency of Podravje, Slovenia (ENERGAP), a role she has held since 2006. Since 2018, she has also served as the Mayor of Selnica ob Dravi, Slovenia.

Vlasta is an expert in innovative financing schemes for sustainable energy and climate action plan projects, including EPC, Green Bonds, and Citizens Financing (crowdfunding and cooperatives).

Since 2025, she has served as a member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), participating in the Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) and the Commission for the Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE).

As FEDARENE’s Vice-President for Financing and Investment, Vlasta supports members in leveraging diverse financial mechanisms to implement effective climate adaptation and mitigation initiatives. She aims to strengthen knowledge sharing across the network by surveying energy agencies to better understand their funding models, identify innovative approaches, and disseminate the findings throughout the network.