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EGEC response to the call for feedback the guidance on designating Renewables Acceleration Areas (RAAs)

PUBLISHED: February 27, 2024

EGEC welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commission’s guidelines on designating renewables acceleration areas (RAAs) and highlight the following: Read the full EGEC Response.

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Energy Transition, Environmental legislation, Financing

EGEC response to the call for feedback on Unlocking private investment in energy efficiency – guidance to Member States and market actors

PUBLISHED: February 27, 2024

EGEC welcomes the Commission effort to provide guidance to Member States and market actors on how to unlock private investment, notably by developing innovative financing tools, scaling up financial instruments and making the most of public budget support.

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Energy Transition

European Green Deal

19 organisations urge EU Commission: publish Heat Pump Action Plan for a net-zero Europe

PUBLISHED: January 23, 2024

A coalition of 19 organisations, including industry associations, NGOs, consumer groups, and think tanks issued an urgent call to European Commission President von der Leyen. The unexpected delay in publishing the Heat Pump Action Plan, originally set for the first quarter of 2024 and now postponed until after the EU elections, threatens Europe’s energy transition, they warn.

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Energy Transition, EU Climate and energy framework

EGEC response to the call for evidence on the 2040 Climate Target Impact Assessment

PUBLISHED: July 3, 2023

EGEC welcomes the call for evidence on the 2040 climate targets as it provides regulatory certainty for the geothermal sector to adjust to climate neutrality as well as ensuring the need for effective regulatory support to replace fossil fuel consumption in buildings, transport, agriculture and electricity generation.

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Energy Transition

Lithium

EGEC response to the Critical Raw Materials and Net-Zero Industry Acts from the Commission

PUBLISHED: March 16, 2023

EGEC welcomes the European Commission’s proposals for a Critical Raw Materials Act and the Net Zero Industry Act. It is vital to strengthen existing European industrial value-chains for geothermal energy to meet the rapid demand driven by consumers and EU policy.

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Energy Transition, Environmental legislation, EU Climate and energy framework

European Green Deal

EGEC views on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act

PUBLISHED: November 24, 2022

EGEC views on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act   EGEC, the voice of the European geothermal industry, is a not-for-profit association representing the entire value-chain of the industry across 28 countries. It is included on the European Transparency Register number: 11458103335-07. Further information can be found at www.egec.org.

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Energy Transition

REPowerEU

PUBLISHED: May 20, 2022

On 18 May 2022, the Commission presented its REPowerEU plan as a response to the hardships and global energy market disruption caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Energy Transition, Financing, Research, Innovation & Development

2030 targets, Energy infrastructures, Lithium

Industry call to the EU: “We cannot lose the global race for this sustainable local resource”

PUBLISHED: April 5, 2022

The Batteries Strategy cannot be implemented without a sustainable supply of Lithium, with security of supply ‘Made in Europe’.

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Energy Transition, EU Climate and energy framework

Energy Efficiency, Energy price crisis

EGEC Action Plan: Eight point plan to REpowerEU with Geothermal

PUBLISHED: March 14, 2022

EGEC has published an action Plan for implementing geothermal in Europe and as a support for the European Institutions to implement the REpowerEU and face the energy crises. Eight actions to allow geothermal to REpowerEU. Geothermal heating, cooling and power has already saved 10 bcm of gas and other fossil energy imports from Russia.

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Energy Transition

National policies

EGEC Contribution to the French Pluriannual energy programming consultation

PUBLISHED: February 24, 2022

EGEC, on behalf of the European geothermal energy industry contributed to the stakeholder consultation process undertaken by the French climate and energy ministry ahead of the drafting of its next PPE (Programmation Pluriannuelle de l'Energie - Multiyear Energy Programming).

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