Articles on energy themes

Opting for home appliances and other products that are cheaper to run because they waste less energy can have a significant impact on bringing down overall energy consumption and reducing your household energy bills.

The Commission is committed to supporting young people’s participation in energy policy discussions.

On an individual level, we all can continue to take small actions to save energy, reduce our energy bills, contribute to lower fossil fuel imports, and reduce CO2 and methane emissions.

The EU is pursuing a bold agenda to promote a fair, sustainable, and ambitious global energy transition, which leaves no one behind.

Developing cross-border energy infrastructure fit for the 21st century is essential to delivering the EU’s world-leading energy transition.

Innovative technologies like ICM will help the EU reduce emissions that are difficult or costly to reduce by other means.

While legal protection for consumers is undeniably important, empowered and informed consumers are better equipped to manage their individual energy consumption and bills.

35% of the clean energy technologies that will help EU reach its decarbonisation targets by 2050 need to be scaled up significantly in the coming years. What opportunities and challenges lie ahead?

Delivering energy and cost savings for EU citizens.

Nuclear power generated just over a fifth (21.8%) of the EU’s electricity in 2022, with 12 EU countries currently including it in their energy mix. However, in one way or another, EU nuclear energy policy is relevant to all citizens across the EU.

AggregateEU has been the EU’s central effort to diversify its energy imports away from Russian fossil fuels and successfully contributed to our security of supply in 2023. But, what exactly is it? How did it come about? And, what has it achieved?