Speech by Commissioner Dan Jørgensen at the IEA 10th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency

European Commission -Speech [Check Against Delivery] Speech by Commissioner Dan Jørgensen at the IEA 10th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency Brussels, 12 June 2025 I am extremely honoured to welcome you here, as co-host of this important conference. Let me kick off by sharing a few tangible examples of what we will be talking about today. I bet that the first thing many of you did this morning was switch on the lights: if it was an LED bulb that you switched on, it used 90% less energy than a traditional bulb. Then I'm sure most of you went to take a shower. If water is boiled with a heat pump or a solar water heater rather than standard boiler – in Europe, that will typically save a family almost 900 euro per year. These are small examples, but they show a very important lesson: energy efficiency has huge potential for savings. Now I want to start by outlining the main challenges we face, in Europe and in most countries on this planet, when it comes to energy policy. The first challenge is accessibility and affordability We have hundreds of millions of people on this planet who do not have access to clean energy. We have companies struggling, to compete and to grow, because their energy bills are too high. At the same time, we are facing a tremendous climate crisis – that unfortunately is just getting worse and worse. If that wasn't a tall order in itself, for many countries, energy policy is also about security. Let's start by looking...