The Clean energy for all Europeans package, adopted in 2019, aims to help decarbonise the EU’s energy system in line with the European Green Deal objectives.
The Clean Energy Package includes a broad set of measures designed to get the EU on a path to carbon neutrality while empowering consumers. Specifically, the Clean Energy Package promotes energy efficiency first, sets a target for the share of energy from renewable sources (gross final) consumed in the EU of at least 32% by 2030, provides guidance to EU Member States on meeting the Paris Agreement, expands consumer rights to make self-generation easier, and promotes cross-border cooperation to increase the reliability of supply and the efficiency of electricity markets (European Commission, 2019). In the context of the expansion of consumer rights, the Clean Energy Package, with the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive (REDII) and the 2019 Internal Electricity Market Directive (IEMD), has introduced two new instruments with the aim of empowering citizens and achieving the following ambitions:
- Increasing citizen involvement and consumer empowerment, mobilising private capital
and expanding customers rights - Introduce flexibility to the grid, increase supply security
- Increase local acceptance of renewable energy projects
- Provide environmental, economic, social community benefits for members or the local
areas.
Source: Energy communities in the clean energy package – Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu)