His appointment marks the beginning of a new term aimed at strengthening the industry’s role and reinforcing the dialogue with European institutions.

“CEMEP is representing a European key industry. Our products and systems offer a decisive lever for improving electrical energy efficiency. We will promote this in a very target-orientated approach together with competitiveness and growth opportunities.”

As Europe’s manufacturers of key energy efficient technologies, our role as enablers of an ambitious and sustainable growth strategy for the EU Green Deal can only be achieved by putting energy efficiency and energy savings on the political agenda.

Energy efficiency is called the ‘’first fuel’’ in clean energy transition, as it provides some of the quickest and most cost-effective CO2 mitigation options while lowering energy bills and strengthening the Union’s energy security.

In this context, we call on European legislators to maintain the focus ahead of the EU elections on key areas for decarbonisation, namely to:

1.       Ensure effective implementation of existing legislation

2.       Enable a consistent approach with other related EU legislation

3.       Use existing international standards to implement regulation

4.       Decrease the regulatory burden for companies and SMEs

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PEMD is a prime opportunity for power electronics, machines and drives experts to share new ideas and results, meet prospective commercialisation partners, and hear about new technical developments that are driving the electric revolution. Successful authors will also have their paper submitted for indexing on IET Inspec, IEEE Xplore and Ei Compendex.

CEMEP welcomes the push to support Member States to end dependency on fossil fuels and ramp up investments for the green transition. In particular, we strongly support the proposal to upscale existing energy savings solutions to incentivise reduction of energy demand, under Article 21(c) which details the objectives of the REPowerEU chapter in the recovery plans.

We also welcome the proposals that the reforms and investments laid out in the REPowerEU chapter should be stated from 1 February 2022 onwards, with their corresponding milestones and targets and quantification of the energy savings. Such detailed assessment of the energy savings and corresponding milestones and targets should be developed as soon as possible to prepare all relevant stakeholders moving forward with the energy transition.

Such proactive proposals can enable the support of the most relevant technologies to enable energy efficiency and energy savings, core to the ambitions of the REPowerEU and Green Deal. While the EU & Member States strive to increase electrification in key sectors, such as buildings, transport, and industry, upgrading inefficient equipment with new best-in-class devices, such as variable speed drives, can lead to immediate energy savings, typically with short payback times which can reduce reliance on unstable fossil fuel sources.

The latest IEA & Commission’s report, about the available options to empower and protect SMEs to mitigate the impact of the energy crisis, shows that increased control over motor operating parameters can reduce energy use by 15%-40%. Replacing a conventional motor driven pumping system with an energy efficient system can result in a 57% reduction in energy use. In addition, the report notes that the energy cost of the typical electric motor over 20 years of service is 50 times its purchase price. For every euro invested in improving the energy efficiency of motor-driven systems, at least seven will be saved in energy use over the lifetime of the equipment

As the Parliament and Council will soon come together to review the proposal following the plenary session, CEMEP strongly calls for alignment on upscaling energy savings solutions, including technologies such as variable speed drives, to overcome the EU’s current energy crisis and achieve the REPowerEU objectives.

This week marks the official start of the EU Sustainable Energy Week. On this occasion, CEMEP publishes a new Brochure which details the importance of using a system approach to maximise energy savings potential in electric drive systems.

The Full Brochure highlights the value in matching the motor and control method to the actual application needs, and analyses the challenges but also the numerous opportunities to start saving energy and implement energy efficient systems.

Investing in a system approach means shifting the regulatory focus from a component approach to consider the operation of all components and their influence on each other. Such a system-approach can help find the most appropriate ways to reduce the energy consumption in a system and enable efficiency. For example, an Electric Drive System Technology, such as electric motors and variable speed drives (VSDs), has the potential to drive huge

energy savings, with up to 40% depending on the application.

This potential is even more important in the current context, in which the need to save energy is key to fast forward the green transition.

To achieve greater levels of energy savings CEMEP highlights the following key messages:

• Only increasing the efficiency level of individual components (e.g. motor or VSD) does not generate significant energy savings.
• A System Approach must be implemented to enable efficiency, when components become a system optimising the energy consumption of the application.
• Key measures should be mandated to start saving energy, such as using Life Cycle Cost assessment; expert cooperation & knowledge creation; and highlighting non-energy benefits (e.g. lower carbon footprint).

To reach our Full Brochure click here.

To read the shorter version of the Brochure, click on our Factsheet.