The Future of Energy Efficiency: Insights and Replication from InEExS
📅 Wednesday, 15 October 2025 | 📍 Brussels
The InEExS project concludes this autumn with its Final Conference. This high-level event will showcase pioneering business cases and explore their replication potential, while fostering synergies with other innovative European smart energy projects.
As Europe advances towards its climate neutrality and energy efficiency targets, the conference will highlight how new business models and smart energy solutions can help Member States deliver on the recast Energy Efficiency Directive (EED).
🟢 Agenda
Morning Plenary Session
8:30 Welcome participants
9:00 Introduction – Filippos Anagnostopoulos, InEExS
9:10 Keynote from European Commission (TBC)
9:20 The DSO landscape and the impact of digitalisation – Carmen Gimeno, GEODE
9:30 – 10:45 The InEExS Five Business Cases (with Q&A)
- BC1: Innovative energy contracts with Pay4Performance guarantees – Franziska Tucci, Berlin Energy Agency
- BC2: Improved self-consumption of DER in Energy Cooperatives (Crevillent, Spain) – Efren Guillo Sansano, Enercoop
- BC3: Efficiency & flexibility services for legacy natural gas boilers (Athens, Thessaloniki, Larisa, Trikala, Volos) – Stratos Keranidis, Domx
- BC4: Smart energy management for EV chargers & electricity-based HVAC appliances (Norway, Sweden, Finland)
- BC5: Decentralized Energy Efficiency Power Plant (DEEPP, conceptual) – Filippos Anagnostopoulos, InEExS
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:25 Smart Energy Cluster: The Power of Collaboration
- Presentation – Katerina Papapostolou, NTUA
- Panel discussion with Smart Energy Cluster representatives:
- Nektarios Matsagkos, NTUA – ENPOWER
- Zoi Agorastou, ITI – DATAWiSE
- Elissaios Sarmas, NTUA – DEDALUS
- Matthias Strobbe, Ghent University – Bluebird
12:25 – 12:30 Concluding words
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch & Poster Session
Afternoon Smart Energy Cluster Workshop with InEExS
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome, agenda & format – Katerina Papapostolou (NTUA)
14:10 – 15:10 Presentations from InEExS Business Cases & Smart Energy Cluster projects (ENPOWER, DATAWiSE, DEDALUS, Bluebird)
- Pilot cases, replication & synergies potential
- Key Exploitable Results & Lessons Learned
15:10 – 16:00 Replication Labs – Four parallel sessions (moderated by Business Case leaders)
16:00 – 16:20 Key findings from the Labs
16:20 – 16:30 Survey distribution (evaluation of the mentoring approach)
16:30 End of workshop
This final conference is not just a conclusion of InEExS, it is a launchpad for future collaboration within the Smart Energy Cluster, helping to scale up innovative solutions that support the EED’s provisions on energy efficiency, demand-side flexibility, and integration of renewables.
👉 Find more information about registration and poster application here: https://ieecp.org/events/save-the-date-please-look-up-efficient-resilient-fair-and-smart-what-does-our-energy-and-climate-future-look-like/