Efficiency: powering on!

Europe is facing converging crises in security, economics, and the environment. These crises are compounded by geopolitical instability and the need to balance green and digital transitions with social resilience.

The political discourse has narrowed with a focus on competitiveness, defense, energy security and resource supply chains.

By neglecting energy efficiency we all risk coming out as losers.

We know it is easy to argue that energy efficiency is a key component in managing all these converging crises. Without making efficiency a key tool to meet the challenges we face, we are making the response slower, harder and more expensive for everyone.

Energy efficiency technologies and applications are constantly getting cheaper and more powerful, every day, month and year. With the right policies and institutional framework, efficiency can make a significant difference.

Why energy efficiency is needed to reach zero carbon
We simply won’t manage the climate urgency without ambitious and effective energy efficiency policies, programmes and investments. Electrification and decarbonisation are key to the carbon-neutral energy transition, but without energy demand reduction where possible, we simply won’t make the transition to a renewables-based energy system fast enough or be able to afford it.

The eceee Summer Studies are a cornerstone in our mission to build and support the generation and sharing of evidence-based knowledge on energy efficiency and demand reduction.

The event offers sector-wide coverage
Just like in 2024, the 2026 Summer Study will continue to cover the broad range of topics from energy consumption and behaviour, over policy & evaluation, to local energy planning, transportation, buildings, appliance and product policy, and industry.

The Summer Study features nine parallel panels and we will welcome both peer-reviewed papers and extended abstracts:

Panel 1. Dynamics of people: Consumption and empowerment
Panel 2. Future and innovative policies
Panel 3. Policy, finance and governance
Panel 4. Monitoring and evaluation
Panel 5. Sustainable communities
Panel 6. Energy-efficient and low-carbon mobility and transport
Panel 7. Policies and programmes for buildings
Panel 8. Products, systems for efficient and decarbonised buildings
Panel 9. Energy efficiency and sustainability of industry

Possibility to have your paper reviewed for a scientific journal
The panel leaders and a scientific committee will select the best abstracts and offer authors a possibility have the paper reviewed for publication in a scientific journal (title to be announced later). This will not be an additional review, but a more strict review (double blind) that replaces the proceedings review. The paper will still be part of the proceedings.

New platform – quick scopus indexing and introducing DOIs
Peer-reviewed papers accepted for publication in the eceee Summer Study proceedings will be indexed in Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. In addition, each paper will get a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Although you submit abstracts in our old system, accepted papers and extended abstracts will submit their papers in the new system.

Previously, indexing has been very slow. We are now moving to a new platform hosted by the UK company Ubiquity, specialised in academic press. This should allow for very speedy indexing. In addition, all papers will be available in both html format and as a pdf

Environmental impact of our Summer Studies
eceee is acutely aware of the fact that an in-person event has an environmental impact in terms of travel, venue and food. However, we believe it is important to meet in person. We also believe that our event is one of the best events on energy efficiency, long enough, and held relatively seldom, and thereby justifies the travel. The event takes place about one hour from Paris, and this allows most participants to travel by train or other low-carbon modes of transportation.