Brussels, 8 June 2022 - The publication of the EGEC Market Report provides an in-depth assessment of the geothermal industry’s evolution during the year 2021.The European geothermal sector made a strong recovery from the COVID slowdown in 2021. (more…)
EGEC drafted a letter reaching out to the President of the European Commission to highlight the importance of geothermal energy in enabling the EU to meet its objectives of energy independence and mitigating the current energy price crisis as well as preventing future ones. (more…)
Geothermal energy offers many advantages for the clean and sustainable energy transition by covering the demand of low temperature heat between 10°C and around 150°C. Geothermal energy is a long-term stable and reliable heat source providing high system efficiencies and low surface space consumption. However, the overall share inside the heating & cooling market is still less than 2%. (more&
Today EGEC together with five renewable associations sent a joint letter to Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice-President for the Green Deal, and Kadri Simson, Commissioner for Energy, proposing for an EU Tender Scheme which makes the Green Recovery Plan more inclusive. (more…)
The associations representing the renewable heating & cooling (RES-H&C) industries, AEBIOM, EGEC, EHPA and Solar Heat Europe/ESTIF, welcome the agreement on the REDII, as it finally brings to life the first dedicated provision on H&C (article 23) in EU legislation. (more…)
EGEC’s policy paper on the European Commission scenarios for the Clean Energy Package, updated version in March 2018 to include evolutions since the presentation of the European Commission proposal on 11/2016 as the Renewable Energy Directive is debated in Trialogue. (more…)
As the "little Package", meaning the first half of the Clean Energy Package reaches the phase of negociations between the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council (commonly refered to as "trialogue"), the Renewable Heating and Cooling industry associations (AEBIOM, EGEC, Solar Heat Europe) issued a joint position. (more…)
On May 22nd, join the EURACTIV event supported by European Copper Institute, AEBIOM, EGEC and Solar Heat Europe on heating and cooling. (more…)
Renewable Heating & Cooling associations welcome the ambition level and call on the Council to uphold it. (more…)
The associations representing the renewable heating and cooling sector (biomass, geothermal, solar thermal) jointly developed factsheets on key topics for RES-HC in the Renewable Energy Directive. (more…)
