Competitiveness

Competitiveness Hub

Maintaining competitiveness while decarbonising is a top priority for European industry. This hub explores cost reduction strategies, innovation drivers, and policy mechanisms such as CBAM, offering insights into how companies balance climate ambition with global market pressures.

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Stay up to date with the latest Competitiveness news, featuring fresh insights, breakthrough innovations, and key developments from across the energy sector. Explore how this theme is evolving and shaping the future of the industry.

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Leveraging the Innovation Fund Heat Auction to decarbonise heat

In this Energy Transitions podcast, Daniel Galis of the Renewable Thermal Collaborative, explains how competitive auction mechanisms are being used to support renewable heat technologies.

Pamela Largue
02/06/2026

Europe's energy transition enters its infrastructure era

For much of the past decade, Europe's energy debate has been dominated by targets. Renewable energy targets. Emissions reduction targets. Electrification targets. Hydrogen targets.

Areti Ntaradimou
02/06/2026

Europe cannot afford to import its energy future

If you work in energy, policy or industry, you have probably seen this pattern before. A geopolitical crisis erupts somewhere else, markets react immediately, and Europe is reminded, again, that too much of its economic stability still depends on fuels priced beyond its control.

Areti Ntaradimou
28/04/2026

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Making clean energy competitive and resilient

Elevion Group CEO outlines how digitalisation, electrification and practical solutions can support Europe’s balance between green ambition, competitiveness and resilience.

Enlit Editorial Team
28/04/2026

CEOs back clean hydrogen for industrial competitiveness

Industry leaders have launched the European Resilience Alliance for Clean Hydrogen & Derivatives to create a cost-competitive clean energy value chain.

Pamela Largue
16/04/2026

Can Europe’s energy transition run on slow unanimity?

Within hours of Viktor Orbán’s electoral defeat, Ursula von der Leyen moved to shift EU foreign policy beyond unanimity and into Qualified Majority Voting.

Areti Ntaradimou
15/04/2026

Strengthening European resilience to combat energy shocks

In this Energy Transitions podcast, Ann Mettler, Co-Founder of Catalyse Europe, calls for localisation, diversification and decentralisation in the face of global energy shocks.

Pamela Largue
31/03/2026

Is electrification the cushion Europe needs against energy market volatility?

Volatility once again is a defining feature of global energy markets; electrification might just be a needed balm.

Yusuf Latief
20/03/2026

Energy security must not overshadow affordability in Europe

Geopolitics has once again highlighted the fragility of global markets and how Europe is extremely vulnerable to global gas markets.

Areti Ntaradimou
09/03/2026

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