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The episode discusses the 20th anniversary of EUSEW and its implications for EU energy policy and the energy transition.

EUSEW turns 20. To mark it, Marine Cornelis sits down at the European Sustainable Energy Week with three people who have spent two decades inside EU energy policy: Thomas Nowak (heat pumps and buildings), Dušan Jakovljević (industrial energy efficiency) and Heike Winkler (offshore wind and the North Sea). The conversation treats EUSEW as a mirror. What it foregrounds, and what it sidelines, tracks whatever the Commission has in vogue, from hydrogen to carbon capture, often at the expense of people, consumers and energy poverty. What we get into: Why a convening that reflects priorities struggles to set them, and how limited slots turn the agenda into a zero-sum game Electrification as the efficient core of the system, and the "primary energy fallacy" still used against it Re-industrialisation, green hydrogen and jobs, and where a top-down European approach might have moved faster The single market's unfinished business, and the real cost of member-state deviations Why EUSEW keeps talking to the already-convinced, and how to bring member states and silos into the same room Parallel agendas, from the New European Bauhaus to energy poverty and citizen advisory hubs, and the risk of…

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