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Daniel Apostol analyzes how the Citizens' Energy Package seeks to transform the European consumer from passive to active participant in a context of energy crises and geopolitical pressures. Energy power is shifting from the centers of the system to the citizens, marking the beginning of a new independence in a changing Europe.
For a long time now, the corridors of the Berlaymont building (the European Commission's headquarters) have echoed with a dry vocabulary: „emission targets”, „gigawatts” and „interconnections”. And on March 10, new semantics took center stage. With the launch of the Citizens„ Energy Package (CEP), the European Commission is trying to bring about a historic paradigm shift: from the macro-industrial to the micro-social. In what is meant to be an initiative to produce and deliver ”affordable energy for all", Brussels is no longer just talking to grid operators and large energy conglomerates (especially renewables); it is finally speaking directly to the man who holds the utility bill.
