Energy Transition, Environmental legislation
Energy Efficiency, Energy infrastructures
The European Commission ‘Competitiveness Compass’ released on Wednesday 29 January sent the right signal for the Clean Industrial Deal. EGEC supports the initiatives set out for ensuring a competitive energy for people and business. To supply affordable energy, more competition is required on energy markets to supply electricity, heating and cooling, and for storage.
Environmental legislation, European Green Deal, Geothermal Strategy
Geothermal strategy, Lithium, National policies
Over 200 stakeholders across the value chain of the geothermal sector, government agencies, municipalities, consumers, academia, researchers, think-tanks and civil society called on the European Commission to prepare a European geothermal energy strategy and action plan.
Environmental legislation
EGEC welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commission’s guidelines on designating renewables acceleration areas (RAAs) and highlight the following: Need for a fair evaluation of geothermal-based electricity A higher use of non-price criteria is needed Need for renewable energy auctions by technology Read the full EGEC Response. See EGEC factsheet on Auctions to deploy geothermal.
Environmental legislation, Financing
EGEC welcomes the Commission's effort to assess the state of public funding and the capacity of EU countries to increase the uptake of private investment in energy efficiency. We firmly believe that geothermal energy can give a great contribution towards this objective.
Energy Transition, Environmental legislation, Financing
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.
Energy Transition, Environmental legislation, EU Climate and energy framework
European Green Deal
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.
Environmental legislation, EU Climate and energy framework
Energy price crisis, Licensing and EIA, Renewable Energy Directive
In a bid to accelerate renewable energy deployment, the European Commission is looking at means to accelerate permitting processes.
Environmental legislation
Licensing and EIA
EGEC invites all geothermal stakeholders to take part in the two consultations below on EIA and licensing.
Environmental legislation
Circular Economy
The integration of circularity into geothermal energy production indicates that all its components and products need to be optimised, re-used, repaired, redistributed, refurbished, and/or remanufactured. Circularity is the cornerstone of a sustainable future, where geothermal and other renewable sources have a crucial role to play.
Energy Transition, Environmental legislation, Financing
Sustainable finance
Sustainable finance is an increasingly important topic in European policy making. A proposed regulation by the European Commission on this topic will have a major impact on the private financial sector, and its relationship with geothermal and other renewable energy investments.