Consumer Focus 2025

Consumer Focus 2025, co-organised by CEER, the European Commission (DG ENER), and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), took place on Monday, 31 March 2025, as a hybrid event in Brussels and online. The in-person venue was the European Economic and Social Committee, located at Rue Van Maerlant 2, 1000 Brussels.

This year, the conference explored the role of decentralised energy systems in empowering consumers. Key discussions focused on:

• Increasing affordability and resilience of consumers’ energy bills through innovative schemes (collective and individual self-consumption, demand-side response, energy communities).
• Addressing vulnerable consumers' access to energy-sharing schemes and energy communities.
• Overcoming regulatory barriers and enabling access to energy sharing and energy communities.

The event examined how consumers could actively engage in and benefit from the energy transition.