Post by Raffaele Piria

🚨 Our New Policy Brief Out Today🚨 “Europe’s energy security on the path to climate neutrality. Devising a resilience strategy for the mid transition” by Agora Energiewende and Ecologic Institut - which I am proud to have co-authored. 👉 Main Takeaway : #energysecurity and decarbonisation reinforce each other, if Europe adopts a forward-looking, adaptive strategy. Key messages: ▶️ The EU should rethink energy security in light of increasingly renewable, decentralised and electrified energy systems. ▶️ The EU spent € 1.3 trillions on fossil fuel imports in just three years. Thereby funding foreign, and often adversarial, actors. ▶️ A renewables-based system built on domestic capital stock is inherently more resilient than the legacy system reliant on fossil fuel imports. ▶️ As the energy transition advances, the core energy security issues shift to power system stability, cybersecurity and industrial resilience. ▶️ Unlike fossil fuel supply security, these goals can largely be met through domestic policies. ▶️ Achieving them affordably requires EU-wide infrastructure planning, smart use of green molecules where they are most needed, stronger circularity, and a massive expansion of domestic renewables and energy storage capacities. ▶️ A coherent strategy that integrates these elements can cut costs, strengthen resilience, drive decarbonisation, and underpin open strategic autonomy. 👉 here the full Policy brief: https://lnkd.in/eY6CJdAX I am honoured to have worked with lead author Marco Giuli and co-authors Frauke Thies and Krisztina Zálnoky. Warm thanks 🙏 also to many other colleagues for their insights, inspiration and data that directly or indirectly supported this journey over the last year, including Emeline Spire, Dimitri Pescia, Megan Anderson, Frank Peter, Christian Hochfeld, Simon Gabriel Müller, Michaela Holl, Matthias BUCK, Francesca Batzella, Gabriele Cassetti, Sanna Markkanen, Marc-Antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Mats Engström, Neil Makaroff, Margherita Bianchi, Lorena Stella Martini, Hannah L., Louise van Schaik, Christoph Heinrich, R. Andreas Kraemer 孔 安德, Dr. Camilla Bausch, Eike Karola Velten, Elke Thiele, Matthias Duwe and several others as well.