S5 Ep53: Deep Focus: Energy transition in the next EU institutional cycle

When the dust settles after the recent European elections, and as
the new Commission takes office, the problem of climate change -
and its accompanying policy challenges - will remain one of the
EU's chief agenda items.

One significant facet is the transition of Europe's energy
generation to more renewable sources. The EU has to find a way to
decarbonise particular sectors much more quickly than has been
managed so far, while allowing for and managing the
distributional consequences of such policies for the continent's
population.

Simone Tagliapietra has co-written a research paper on energy
transition with his Bruegel colleague Georg Zachmann, as well as
Jean-Michel Glachant, director of the Florence School of
Regulation; Pedro Linares, professor at Universidad Pontificia
Comillas; Andreas Loeschel, professor at the University of
Muenster; and Ottmar Edenhofer, director and chief economist at
the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

If you would like to read more on this topic, we suggest Simone
Tagliapietra's article the geopolitical implications of the
global energy transition. Equally, we recommend an episode of our
Backstage podcast series, where the same scholar hosts a
discussion on the next decade of energy transition in Europe with
Sir Philip Lowe, former director general at the European
Commission, DG ENER, and Alberto Pototschnig, director at the
European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
(ACER).