Electrification Action Plan
Summary
This plan will accelerate cost-effective, system-friendly electrification to lower energy costs, boost competitiveness and cut emissions. It tackles supply and demand across industry, transport and buildings, and will run in parallel with a Heating & Cooling Strategy. Delivery focuses on reliability and flexibility, expanding and digitalising grids, scaling storage and demand response, deepening cross-border integration, and encouraging new demand near clean generation. Policy levers will improve the electricity-to-fossil price ratio (i.e. energy taxation, network tariffs, removing non-energy charges) while mobilising financing, manufacturing capacity and skills along the value chain. Progress will be tracked using KPIs, including raising electricity’s share of final energy toward 32–33% by 2030.
Action items
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An indicative electrification target of 46% by 2040 (electricity share in final energy consumption) will be subject to an impact assessment by the Commission as part of the Energy Union Package for the decade ahead (Q4 2026).
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The Commission has adopted alongside this plan
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• a legislative proposal on network charges to incentivise electrification, a flexible and system-friendly use of the grid, including storage installations and accelerating smart meter deployment, and to improve the electricity-to-gas price ratio from the network charges side.
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The Commission will
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• propose a new network code and the revision of the network codes on requirements for generators and demand connection in 2026 to facilitate demand response and the seamless integration of battery storage, thermal storage, geothermal, EVs and heat pumps into the electricity grid;
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• together with other parties to the Tripartite Agreement on Storage, and the Energy Union Task Force, ensure robust implementation of the commitments agreed in this cooperative model, covering the whole storage value chain, including long-term storage solutions;