IEEE EPPI Working Group on Energy: Challenges for Energy Policy in Europe: a technologists’ approach

Panel session organizerIn the field of energy, policy plays a crucial role in determining the pace of technological development and deployment of new technology. It is therefore important that the engineering society keep an open dialogue with policy makers to leverage knowledge and provide policy makers with recommendations to address technology-related policy. In this panel session, we will explore the links between technologies that are crucial to the energy revolution and the relevant European energy policy. Through the ongoing work in the working group, the panellists will highlight opportunities and challenges, both for the technology, as well as for the policy. About us: The IEEE European Public Policy Initiative (EPPI) was created in 2013. The Initiative aims at expanding the dialogue between the European engineering community and European public authorities to enable technologists to more easily share their expertise and concerns and to enable the EU institutions and other policy stakeholders to more easily obtain technologists’ input in matters relating to IEEE’s fields of interest. The Energy Working Group is comprised of 12 leading electrical engineers from all walks of life, including academia and industry. The group develops technical policy statements and other documents (e.g., white papers, responses to consultations, etc.) on a wide range of issues with the aim of informing policy makers at the technical level on key topics in the energy realm.status: publishe