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Reducing energy consumption and achieving energy savings is essential to deliver the European Green Deal.
Energy from renewable sources reduces greenhouse gas emissions and lowers our dependence on imported fossil fuels.
The EU's integrated internal energy market helps to keep energy affordable and guarantee secure supplies.
EU policies and local initiatives ensuring a just energy transition by engaging with and supporting citizens right across the EU.
Industrial carbon management and a gradual phase-out of fossil fuels is key for a just and clean energy transition.
A modern energy infrastructure, connecting markets and regions, is crucial to meet the EU’s energy and climate goals.
A resilient EU energy system ensures secure supplies at any time, even during human-made accidents, natural disasters or other disruptions.
Innovation in low-carbon and clean energy technologies are essential to fulfil the EU’s energy union strategy.
Our energy systems need to be sufficiently flexible to facilitate cross-border, cross-sector innovation and investment.
EU programmes, calls for tenders and private-public initiatives are available to finance energy projects.
EU energy cooperation with countries around the world and international institutions.
The EU aims to ensure the safe and secure use of civil nuclear energy, which generates almost 23% of the EU's electricity.
Highlights
In 2015, the EU’s energy union strategy set out a bold vision to fundamentally transform our energy system. It envisioned a resilient energy union, with an ambitious climate policy, to deliver secure, sustainable, competitive and affordable energy for all Europeans.
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The Annual Political Dialogue is the flagship event of the EU coal regions in transition initiative, launched in 2017.
The 2025 edition of the event takes place on 24-25 June and will bring together an array of stakeholders from the EU and beyond to exchange ideas, discuss solutions to shared challenges, and learn from the latest research on shaping the energy transition.
