“Energy Efficiency: challenges, opportunities and solutions” Workshop
On the 27th of March, the second workshop promoted by RELOP’s Energy Transition Working Group took place. With one workshop taking place per month up until July of 2024, the working group pretends to be an enriching forum of discussion with the aim to encourage the sharing of knowledge and experiences among the participants. The second workshop focused on the theme “Energy Efficiency: challenges, opportunities and solutions”.
The opening of the event was done by the Working Group coordinator, Djane Melo, who emphasised that the current energy transition is a transformation process for the low carbon economy, due to the climate emergency. The importance of the energy efficiency was highlighted, given that it is the source with the lowest prices for the consumer and can also be a path to sustentability. The coordinator also took a moment to recall the COP 28 commitment, of doubling the energy efficiency until 2030. In the end, Djane reinforced that each country posesses its particularities and that a social vision of the energy transition is also needed.
Following the opening statements, a panel on myths and barriers of the energy transition took place, presented by the representative of the entity from Portugal, Fernando Martins. Amongst the debated topics were themes such as: What is energy efficiency? Main concepts, barriers, and tools for the promotion and benefit of energy efficiency, with special notice to the good practices and successful initiatives.
Afterwards, a panel about ANEEL’s role in the energy efficiency scope took place, carried out by Carlos Eduardo Firmeza, in which the regulation for the Energy Efficiency Program was shared.
In the end, an interactive dialogue was promoted, with debates on themes such as: identification of common challenges and opportunities in each RELOP country; discussing how the energy efficiency can be adapted in the specific contexts of RELOP countries; discussing specific experiences of the participants and how they can implement the energy efficiency politics and, for last, a session of questions and answers. The event was closed with a brief summary of the main points discussed.
Until the month of July, several workshops will take place with the objective of discussing the reflections of the energy transition in the member countries of RELOP.
