Boosting Electrification in Europe and the Resilience of Critical Value Chains
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Ifri is hosting a high-level closed-doors discussion aimed at creating a shared space for open and operational reflections on the future of EU’s technological and industrial resilience against the backdrop of ever-more fraught geopolitics, eroding energy intensive industries, mounting value chain vulnerabilities, and populism.
Based on an analysis of the barriers and challenges facing the implementation of the Clean Industrial Deal and the regulation on critical raw materials (CRMA), the discussion will focus on the search for solutions, participants will be invited to take the floor to address the following questions:
- After the Competitiveness Compass and the Clean Industrial Deal, what policy tools could further reinforce electrification of end uses and maximise strategic benefits of electrification for competitiveness and flexibility?
- After the Northvolt collapse, amidst difficulties in leveling the playing field, technological uncertainties, China predominance, and based on the CRMA and Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), which tools can be realistically mobilized to secure clean tech and CRM value chains in the short-middle term?
- How could the EU become more strategic and agile in ramping up financing and funding for electrification of uses and resilient value chains?
Program
12:00 - 12:30 : Welcome buffet
12:30 - 14:00: Round table
kick-off remarks by Diego Pavia, CEO of EITInnoEnergy and Jean-Christophe Laloux, Director general at the European Investment Bank, Marc-antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director of the Center for Energy & Climate of Ifri, Diana-Paula Gherasim, research fellow, Cédric Philibert, associate research fellow at Ifri, followed by a discussion with participants, public and private stakeholders of the European energy sector.
14:00 - 14:30: Coffee
The event will be held under the Chatham House rule .
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Alexandra Bor, Assistant of the Ifri's Center for Energy & Climate
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Marc-Antoine EYL-MAZZEGA
Director, Center for Energy & Climate, Ifri
Diana-Paula GHERASIM
Former Research Fellow, Head of European Energy and Climate Policies, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri
Cédric PHILIBERT
Associate Research Fellow, Energy and Climate Center, Ifri
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