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Antwerp, Belgium, 30–31 january 2024.

An event within the EU-funded Energy Efficiency Watch 5 project

Following the success of the 2022 Zero Carbon Industry event, eceee is proud to announce a follow up conference on deep decarbonisation of industry. 

A short and compact event

The Zero Carbon Industry event starts 30 January in the morning and ends in the afternoon 31 January. It will feature high-level plenaries, three parallel thematic tracks with five sessions each and 2–3 workshops. More than 70 presentations are expected in total.

Panel/track 1: Processes and technologies to meet future challenges
Panel/track 2: Energy management and corporate culture
Panel/track 3: Drivers to change

In total 60 presentations were accepted. See programme pages for more info.

Informal atmosphere with quality content

The atmosphere is informal – one of the hallmarks of eceee’s industry events and summer studies, while all presentations are of high quality. Presentations are based on submitted abstracts from a large group of companies, government bodies and research institutes. However, no formal papers are presented.

Why an event on industrial decarbonization and energy efficiency?

Industry is a very important element in European economies, generating wealth and employment and plays a key role in achieving Europe’s long-term climate and energy objectives. The EU has stepped up its ambitions with its Green Deal Industrial Plan. The European Commission’s Net-Zero Industry Act and Critical Raw Materials Act are part of this.  They add to the European Green Deal, the ‘Fit for 55’ package and REPowerEU to address the current energy cost and energy security concerns.

However, while improving processes and operations is a permanent endeavour, more drastic transformations are needed to achieve deep decarbonisation. At the same time, industry must remain competitive – within Europe and globally – and become leaders of developing zero-carbon technologies and techniques.

Beyond energy efficiency

Energy efficiency is key in this change, but a deep transformation goes beyond improved efficiency. Efficiency will have to be paired with new decarbonised processes, electrification, and investments in renewables to power the change in a sustainable way.

The necessary changes by industry will need to be achieved rapidly and will be highly challenging for each industrial company.  The Zero Carbon Industry event will provide insights to the way forward.

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"New ideas, new contacts, rewarding ..."

"... many thought-provoking concepts introduced and good sharing of ideas."

"Excellent training and education facility."

Participants on the previous Industrial Efficiency events.

Great for networking

In 2018, evaluation respondents said …

  • – 93% made new contacts useful in their professional life.
  • – 88% learned something new they found useful in their work.
  • – 77% said their contacts at the event will lead to new collaborations.

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