Energy Prices for All: Climate and Energy Planning as a Key Driver of Transition’s Affordability

Making the European Green Deal accessible and affordable for all is a significant challenge. However, in times of global uncertainty, affordability and supply security remain the main hurdles – ones that the Green Deal aims to address. This is going to be enforced and achieved thanks to the new Affordable Energy Action Plan initiated by the European Commission and presented on February 26th, and which will lay down several implementation measures.

The first step of the implementation is planning: this is true at the national level with National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) and expected National Social Climate Plans (NSCPs). However, the experience of the NECPs has shown that most of MS are not yet on track to reach the EU Climate and Energy targets. Therefore, lower levels of governance like regional and local authorities and related stakeholders have a huge role to play. Those actors are not waiting for their national governments to take action. They seized the opportunities that the EU is laying down and synergised the tools to ensure a fair, affordable, green and participative energy transition. And this starts with a comprehensive and efficient planning process: discover how, thanks to the examples developed in the frame of the IN-PLAN and Regio1st LIFE CET projects.

Agenda

Draft agenda – subject to changes:

15:30 Welcome and introduction – Jérémy Cléro, IEECP

Keynote speech – MEP Benedetta Scuderi, Greens/EFA

Panel discussion on Energy and climate planning as a key lever for affordability in a just transition perspective

• Joško Klisović, Committee of the Regions Member (HR/PES), President of the Assembly of Zagreb 
• Carlos Garcia, Director of FAEN (Asturias Energy Agency, Spain) for REGIO1st (tbc)
• Miljenko Sedlar, North West Croatia Regional Energy and Climate Agency (REGEA) for IN-PLAN
• Tim Mandel, Fraunhofer Institute for ENE1st+
• Fabrizia Salvi, Area Science Park for IN-PLAN

Discussion with the audience and conclusions

16:30 – 17:30 Networking session